Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (55 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

F-86 Sabre the net

 

[special ed]

Max Holste MH.1521M Broussard 301M the net
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It appears the tail of a Martin 404 is in the salvage stach.

 

[Frog]

It appears the tail of a Martin 404 is in the salvage stach.

And a Miles Master in the background.

 

[Viking1066]

'68-304' from the 35th TFW bristling with stencils the post

 

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Lockheed SP-2H Neptune 12S Tahiti 198os the net

 

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Lockheed SP-2H Neptune Paris the net

 

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Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter "5951" Greek AF the net

 

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Banshee the net

 

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F9F Cougar of VX-3 during steam catapult test at Naval Air Material Center Philadelphia 1953 the net

 

[Viking1066]

pair of A-4B Skyhawks of U.S. Marine Attack Squadron 311 (VMA-311) fly in formation over the Republic of Vietnam in March 1971. They were based at Da Nang Air Base the net

 

[Viking1066]

Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter CAV Conversie Afdeling Volkel 1982 the net

 

[Viking1066]

USN F-14A Tomcat and British Sea Harrier fly formation with a Russian Tu-95 Bear the net

 

[c1951]

F9F Cougar of VX-3 during steam catapult test at Naval Air Material Center Philadelphia 1953 the net
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Where's Eric Brown? He was deemed expendable by the Royal Navy

 

[c1951]

The Hawker Sea Hawk was a British carrier-based jet fighter that entered Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm service in the early 1950s the net
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Sea Hawk FGA.6 WV854/146/J (a former FGA.4) belonging to 803 NAS totes a mixed underwing weapons load. This aircraft was lost on 25 September 1957 when its pilot ejected due to flames from a jet pipe and smoke coming into the cockpit. He was rescued by a Whirlwind helicopter (, I think "J" is HMS EAGLE)

 

[OldGeezer]

Sept 6 1976.

A Soviet Air Forces pilot, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, broke away from a routine training flight from the Chuguyevka Air Base in the far southeastern portion of the Soviet Union, and flew to Japanese airspace with the USSR's newest warplane, the MiG-25 "Foxbat" fighter. Intending to find the Chitose Air Base near Sapporo and land the new MiG-25 jet fighter there, Belenko ran out of fuel and landed at 1:57 PM at a civilian airport at Hakodate, where he over ran the short runway. He requested political asylum in the United States. In that the MiG-25 was new and had never been seen close enough for an inspection, American and Japanese experts gradually disassembled what was, at the time, "considered the world's most advanced fighter," which included defusing self-destruct devices that had been wired into the sensitive electronic equipment. The U.S. granted Belenko's request for asylum the day after his defection.

The fighter would turn out to be much less impressive than its reputation.

Belenko made the rounds of US defense contractors and was shown pretty much everything. He came to our place and addressed a smallish room jammed with interested listeners, but didn't really say anything that wasn't in the book. He kept dismissively referring to people he didn't like as "weak wimps" in a heavy Russian accent.
One minor correction, the MiG wasn't "gradually disassembled." It landed on 6 September and was shipped back (in crates) beginning 11 November on trucks to the cargo ship and then back to Vladivostok. There was a lot more that people wanted to do to/with it but politically it was a 3-way struggle between Japan, the US, and the USSR that superseded technical intelligence considerations.
Belenko died a few years ago not 60 miles from where I'm sitting right now, and I had no idea he was living there.

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman S2F-1 Tracker VS-12 1977 the net

 

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Javelins on the flightline the net

 

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Lockheed C-130H Hercules Venezuela AF 1979 the net

 

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Lockheed CP-140 Aurora in foreground and a Canadair CP-107 Argus the net

 

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Lockheed F-104G Starfighter "R-754" Aalborg 1986 the net