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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:28:56 PM EDT
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My oldest boy riding the dragon. Low level flight during a Mountain Home AFB detachment. VMA-542 Tigers rule.
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:30:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I never noticed that they had a hatch. Neat. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Skyraider. I got to sit in one when I was a Cub Scout on a field trip. Later I got to see them at work outside Saigon in '68. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6163/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider__AD-4NA__126965___-2064001.JPG I never noticed that they had a hatch. Neat. I've heard that some variants of the Skyraider could carry a dozen soldiers, but it seems really difficult to get good pics of the fuselage interior. It's a BIG bird so it seems plausible. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:31:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I never noticed that they had a hatch. Neat. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Skyraider. I got to sit in one when I was a Cub Scout on a field trip. Later I got to see them at work outside Saigon in '68. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6163/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider__AD-4NA__126965___-2064001.JPG I never noticed that they had a hatch. Neat.   http://www.shermanaircraft.com/douglas/1952-douglas-as4-na-skyraider-plus-spares/#prettyPhoto |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:33:45 PM EDT
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My Dad flew them.
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:34:03 PM EDT
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My old man with his Skyraider in Korea.
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:36:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Always loved the sharp shape fuselage and swept back wings. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/53/proxy-image_jpg-2064297.JPG Thankfully their engines were PoS. The only problem with the engines was the use of absolutely shit alloys because they could not get any good ones. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:38:22 PM EDT
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not a single B-17 on page 1 or 2
you fucking heathens don't deserve internet access... |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:39:26 PM EDT
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The old man in Primary with the SN-J. Pensacola. My father and my son soloed off the same runway in Pensacola 50 some years apart.
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:41:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: RA-5C Vigilante, Specifically RVaH-9 Hoot Owls https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDYqaDhemRqeKlnSxdpb_sAS6wxyFvZIQZ-A&usqp=CAU Father’s Squadron and Jet even matched his lpg book against a couple of the museum planes. Second place tie Grandfather flew PBY Catalina as a WW2 Squadron Commander. Other grandfather Bombardier on B29 then Navigator on a B36. RVAH-5 Savage Sons Of Sanford was the best. Long live Mushmouth... 
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Posted: 8/24/2021 12:51:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've always liked the plane, and used to watch "Black Sheep Squadron" when I was a kid. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Vought_F4U_Corsair_%28USMC%29.jpg Came here here to post this. The “ensign eliminator”, and “whistling death”. Like a Ferrari Dino, there is nothing else like her. I too was enamored with the Corsair and Pappy Boyington. Hard men doing hard things. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 1:35:33 PM EDT
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My favorite of all, because... BRRRT!
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Posted: 8/24/2021 1:49:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My oldest boy riding the dragon. Low level flight during a Mountain Home AFB detachment. VMA-542 Tigers rule. https://i.ibb.co/XtsZf39/Eric-09-Low-Level-Mountain-Home.jpg If your boy ever called an Inflight at Cherry Point, odds are I have watched him land. Been here in the Fire/EMS role since 95.... Rules, My favorite Bird.  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 1:53:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:03:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/F6F-5_HVAR_NOTS_NAN4-2-45.jpg F6F (specifically the F6F-5) Hellcat. Broke the back of Japanese combat aviation in the Pacific. Also displaced a bunch of dive bombers off carriers because, hey presto, it could do their job too, and tackle the fighters afterward. The Hellcat was robbed of it's due respect and glory by historians announcing that Japan could never recover from the loss of pilots at Midway. The arrival of the Hellcat followed right on the heels of Midway and ever since it's dominance has been written off as going against inferior pilots. At Midway the Japanese did lose 248 aircraft but only 110 pilots. 74 shot out of the sky and 36 in attacks on the carriers. If we go by the law of averages which had Japanese naval airgroups divided in equal thirds between fighter, torpedo bomber, and dive bomber then we can estimate somewhere around 40 fighter pilots we're lost. That's not an evisceration of their fighter pilots. In addition none of the losses involved land based fighters and Japan's land based fighter pilots had years of experience fighting over China. It's true that Midway ended Japan's ability to project power with it's carriers but for the next year when it's planes took to the skies they were still being flown by some of the most experienced pilots in the world. The next engagement after Midway was Truk lagoon and the Hellcats absolutely curb stomped the land based Zeros and Oscars they met. (Oscar's were better dogfighters than the Zero) Watch and read interviews of our surviving pilots from Truk and they describe very skilled adversaries they faced. The Hellcat was just superior.  |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:13:22 PM EDT
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F4
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:14:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://militarymachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/A-6-Intruder-in-flight.jpg Screw your defensive weapons. Give me an iron bathtub. A serious "bomb truck" right there. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:31:09 PM EDT
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Lots of great aircraft here.
I'll post this image because I'm in it...  |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:33:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Aviation_Military_plane_F-16_042824__jpg-2063983.JPG Always my favorite since I was a tiny kid. It’s still the coolest looking airplane that’s ever been made. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:36:13 PM EDT
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My podium, in order
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:41:47 PM EDT
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So many good looking planes.
This is always the first one that pops into my head though  |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:49:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The actual B-52 (in the background) that my grandpa (in the foreground) used to fly. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/515930/54E04DFB-F2CE-492A-A1F2-10448B1F4810-2050322.jpg |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 2:56:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:12:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Family member worked on this one. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/173944/CA4ADB43-6718-488F-B063-9F152D769F60-2063934.jpg There she is. I spent 23 years as an F-15 guy but the Blackbird always was and always will be my favorite. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:15:29 PM EDT
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More favs...
F-86 Sabre  P-38 Lightning  Heinkel He-111H-Z Zwilling, German Glider Tug  I got a thing for twin tail/fuselage planes. Guess it's 'cause I'm a Gemini.  And my favorite helicopter, the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane  |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:18:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:22:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:30:38 PM EDT
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F106. Still holds the world speed record for a single jet engine aircraft. Set in 1959. 62 years and no one has built a faster single engine jet.
The cool thing is they took two down there for attempt. Spent a lot of time/effort getting one ready to run for the record and had problems with it the morning of the attempt. So the pilot got in the back up, which had not been prepared for the speed record attempt and still set the record in that F106. My dad worked on them at Minot AFB from 1967 to 1970. 5th FIS. The Spittin' Kittens. Mascots were two Canadian lynxes. Another first/only is they were the only two Canadian lynxes to breed and have kittens in captivity. Dad used to say they were probably just trying to keep warm one cold ND winter night. 
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:39:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 3:46:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 4:14:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 4:14:38 PM EDT
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Republic F-105 Thunderchief
The Thud. Called that because that's the sound it makes when it hits the ground.  Was also very effective in randomn psy ops campaigns against the Viet Cong. As seen here scaring the ever loving shit out of Mama San VC. 
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Posted: 8/24/2021 4:20:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 4:37:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/171553/tweet_png-2063987.JPG My ANG unit flew these before they switched to A-10s. A tweet is about the size of a VW Bug, but with a gatling gun and a whole bunch of hardpoints! LOL that payload has to be heavier than the a/c! Are those all drop tanks? |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 4:54:17 PM EDT
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Fucking true lies has ruined me.
 Something about VTOL, it's short stubby design with down swept wings and massive central turbine. 
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Posted: 8/24/2021 5:21:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 5:34:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOnly $625k. One of Arfcom's millionaire should have that much laying around between the cushions of his living room couch. Lesser Arfcom millionaires might also have to check between the cushions on the couches in their yachts, private jets and motorcoaches. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 5:43:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 6:05:21 PM EDT
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 " />I use to see these smoking beasts flying all the time when I was young. They would make the ground tremble when the pilot would pour the fuel to them. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 6:23:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 6:27:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 6:48:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've always liked the plane, and used to watch "Black Sheep Squadron" when I was a kid. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Vought_F4U_Corsair_%28USMC%29.jpg Coolest design, awesome name. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:10:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably won't be anybody else's choice, but this platform still awes me. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/457055/RC-2064266.jpg Didn’t expect to see an RC-135 on here. I was a crew chief on one back in the 90’s. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:17:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:18:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat’s a MIG-28! |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:21:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:23:01 PM EDT
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 Reminds me of my childhood |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:25:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:30:13 PM EDT
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 My Dad's plane is the one in the back. F-4D 68-782 Kansas ANG It was named Iron Butterfly by his crew chief. |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:34:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy dad worked on the missile carried by the Valkyrie. Had a desk model given to him by North American or USAF. Used it as a toy and wrecked it.  Always loved the P-51! And A-10... And F-4... And... |
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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:38:28 PM EDT
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I'm suprised this took so long...
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