Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (2 Viewers)

[Escuadrilla Azul]

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Never seen a EE Lighting with rocket launchers above the wings

 

[Viking1066]

I learn so much from you guys! Keep it up!

 

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[Viking1066]

Second YF2Y-1 Sea Dart prototype in San Diego 1953 NMNA

 

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[Viking1066]

Buccaneer XX895/B of No.15 Squadron Rheine July 1981 AIRD

 

[Viking1066]

37+54 painted in early Norm 81A camouflage RAF Guersloh April 1982 AIRD

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Correct: T-37s at Sheppard AFB in 2007 operated as part of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.

Born and lived in North Tejas, I know that prairie.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Never seen a EE Lighting with rocket launchers above the wings

I have. I always found the above-wing stores weird and creative both. I love the plane itself and it has an interesting story.

 

[Donivanp]

Born and lived in North Tejas, I know that prairie.

Last time I went up there abouts I left DFW area heading up north. It was sunny. By the time I got up there it was snowing and sleeting and raining, all at the same time! Frist time I ever went up there was snowing on the ground and it was covered in six inches of dusty dirt, I thought Pugpin from Charley Brown had rolled through. That being said the only F-101C I know left on display is on a pedestal outside a barracks and I had to see it. Not an RF-101C but a F-101C.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Last time I went up there abouts I left DFW area heading up north. It was sunny. By the time I got up there it was snowing and sleeting and raining, all at the same time! Frist time I ever went up there was snowing on the ground and it was covered in six inches of dusty dirt, I thought Pugpin from Charley Brown had rolled through. That being said the only F-101C I know left on display is on a pedestal outside a barracks and I had to see it. Not an RF-101C but a F-101C.

You gotta love the "wintry mix". I've got family from Tyler through D/FW, WF and up into Amarillo. We get five different weather reports on the family net, most days.

I really love the -101. It's a little weird-looking, but in its own way pretty. We only had a Thud on static display at Carswell, the thing looks like a pregnant cow.

 

[Donivanp]

You gotta love the "wintry mix". I've got family from Tyler through D/FW, WF and up into Amarillo. We get five different weather reports on the family net, most days.

I really love the -101. It's a little weird-looking, but in its own way pretty. We only had a Thud on static display at Carswell, the thing looks like a pregnant cow.

That Thud was a Thunderstick mod with the enlarged spine for avionics. Texas ANG was the only units to operate them. WF I had an aunt who lived just outside the base perimeter. Went up in the winter of '82, first time I went up. Folks lived in Ranger and I was home on leave from Andersen AFB Guam. Winter of '82 I got of the plane at DFW and it was like 20°. I told the to get back on the plane we were going to Guam where it was 87°. Anyway Wichita Falls has always (like Cannon AFB, Clovis NM) been a dusty dirty dust bowl town when ever I've been around it.

 

[Viking1066]

37+55 25th Anniversary of JaboG 36 September 1986 AIRD

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

That Thud was a Thunderstrek mod with the enlarged spine for avionics. Texas ANG was the only units to operate them. WF I had an aunt who lived just outside the base perimeter. Went up in the winter of '82, first time I went up. Folks lived in Ranger and I was home on leave from Andersen AFB Guam. Winter of '82 I got of the plane at DFW and it was like 20°. I told the to get back on the plane we were going to Guam where it was 87°. Anyway Wichita Falls has always (like Cannon AFB, Clovis NM) been a dusty dirty dust bowl town when ever I've been around it.

My Uncle Bob -- no kidding, you Brits! -- did a stretch up there at Cannon. We'd drive from El Paso to Clovis to Amarillo when we lived out west. God, that was a dreary drive.

 

[Donivanp]

My Uncle Bob -- no kidding, you Brits! -- did a stretch up there at Cannon. We'd drive from El Paso to Clovis to Amarillo when we lived out west. God, that was a dreary drive.

Don't I know it. My uncle Sal was stationed at Clovis Army AFB during WWII. Later it was named Cannon but the drive from here to Clovis is mind numbing at best. Ain't no better way to hit I-40 to Amarillo.

 

[Donivanp]

Probably why the home based the F-111 out there cause there ain't nobody to complain when that jet came screaming across the field at 250' to 500' off the deck at Mach.98.

 

[Glider]

I have. I always found the above-wing stores weird and creative both. I love the plane itself and it has an interesting story.

I always felt sorry for the poor groundcrew who had to put them on and take them off. You dare not let anything slip.

 

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[Donivanp]

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