Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (14 Viewers)

[SaparotRob]

AIDC AT-3:

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New one for me.

 

[GTX]

Australian UH-1 Iroquios

 

[Viking1066]

Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Mk.5 432 Sqn 1958 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Sikorsky CH-124A Sea King (S-61B) on board the HMCS Assiniboine 1964 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Sikorsky H-19A Chickasaw Wing 6 Thailand the net

 

[Viking1066]

South East Asia camo on this ex German RF-4E the net

 

[Viking1066]

Special painted Pakistani F-6C over Balochistan 23rd Squadron the net

 

[Viking1066]

Sukhoi Su-22M-4 3201 (cn 30201) Siły Powietrzne 21.BLT (21nd Tactical Air Base), 40.ELT (Squadron), pictured on the flight-line at Świdwin air base the net

 

[Viking1066]

Sukhoi Su-22UM-3K Poland the net

 

[syscom3]

A right side view of a Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211) F-14A Tomcat aircraft preparing for takeoff, Naval Air Station, Fallon (Nevada), 30 July 1986.

 

[MIflyer]

Well over 50 years ago I built both the Revell and Aurora models of the Sikorsky H-55, USAF designation H-19. It seems to have been the first US helicopter to really have significant capability as well as true reliability. It was flown by the USAF, USN, USMC, and US Army.

Then, long after those model kits were built and destroyed, I graduated from college with a Mechanical Engineering degree and went on active duty in the USAF.
And at my first assignment I was assigned to "design" a part for the H-19! While the the chopper had been phased out of the Air Force many years before, we still had to supply parts to the allied nations that flew them. The copter had a 115 VAC 400 HZ electric fan that I guess was used for ventilation, and the fan had a clear plastic cover over the power terminals, consisting of an L shaped piece of plastic and a U shaped piece of plastic that went over the L shape. And they had lost the drawing for the L shaped piece, which prevented procurement of new ones. So I got one of the fans out of supply and made an official USAF drawing of the L shaped piece.

Odd, to be making a drawing for a part for a helicopter I had made models of.

By the way, in his book "War Pilot" Richard Kirkland, who flew P-38's in the Pacific including flying in formations with Charles Lindberg, went into helicopters after the war and was ordered to fly his H-19 from AK to CT for overhaul and mods. It being winter, his crew chose to fly their bird all the way down the West Coast, across the southern US, and then back up the Eastern Seaboard. Arriving at the factory in CT, they were informed they had just flown the longest flight in a helicopter ever made.

 

[MIflyer]

A right side view of a Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211) F-14A Tomcat aircraft preparing for takeoff, Naval Air Station, Fallon (Nevada), 30 July 1986.

Interestingly enough, I believe that it was two Libyan SU-22 that F-14's shot down over the Gulf of Sidra in the early 1980's.

 

[Frog]

 

[Donivanp]

Interestingly enough, I believe that it was two Libyan SU-22 that F-14's shot down over the Gulf of Sidra in the early 1980's.

It was and then again two MiG23's later. Some just don't learn.

 

[Viking1066]

B-52 with Hound Dog missiles the net

 

[Viking1066]

The first production F3H-1 Demon pictured in flight 1954 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Yakovlev Yak-18 photo 5 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Assigned to the 601st Tactical Control Wing stationed at Sembach, West Germany 1982 the net

 

[Viking1066]

An F-14A Tomcat assigned to VF-2 pictured during a flight from NAS Miramar 1973 the net

 

[Frog]

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