Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (5 Viewers)

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[SaparotRob]

My favorite Mirage. I've always been a bomber guy.

 

[Viking1066]

Vikings at Hato, Curacao, Dutch Caribbean, 159746 is seen here with markings of VS-32 during what turned out to be the last ever Viking deployment AIRH

 

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Hawker Hunter T7 "N-303" 1960's AIRH

 

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Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Mk.5 428 Sqn Ottawa 1957 AIRH

 

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Lockheed F-104G Starfighter 322 Sqn Netherlands AF AIRH

 

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A haunting moment frozen in time... a USAF F-105D Thunderchief trailing fire and smoke just moments after being struck by an SA-2 Guideline missile south of Hanoi on 14 February 1968.

The aircraft — serial number 60-0418, from the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing — was on a mission about 23 kilometres south of Hanoi when the missile detonated nearby.

The SA-2 didn't actually hit the aircraft directly... its warhead was designed to explode by radar command or proximity fuse, scattering a storm of lethal fragments across a wide area.

The pilot, Major Robert Malcolm Elliot (1929–1968), was killed in the incident. His remains were not recovered until 1998, three decades later.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

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Hey SaparotRob , yellow wings, as you like them

 

[SaparotRob]

And on a plane from Long Island, too.