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They fly them out of Ft Rich here in Alaska. Army I presume. We gave them our hand me downs. 10th MAS at Zweibrucken was the only Active USAF squadron to to ever fly them. Yes, I see them flying over the Glenn Highway all the time.
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Weren't they a Polish made aircraft and wasn't the manufacturer called Short? A number of local cargo haulers used them as well as commuter airlines. When I was taking flying lessons I saw them critters all the time. Ireland.
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Can't take credit. Snagged that off of Yahoo, but that is Hohenzollern castle in the background, which I do have several shots of with RF-4C's from my personal collection. Love to see those. The Phantom was an awesome looking fighter. I have boxes of photos. I've put up some series before, but I'll try to put some more up as these aircraft threads are great.
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Damn Foxbat, I thought the Irish were better engineers than that! 
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Right it's P75 Fisher Eagle. I mistook it with XF88B
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FB that would be awesome!
When I was kid I spent part of my summers down in Tucson with my retired USAF uncle. We would always get to drive around AMARC, and I will never forget seeing all of those Phantoms. Just rows and rows of them everywhere. They just looked wicked, and fast sitting there mothballed even.
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Damn Foxbat, I thought the Irish were better engineers than that! Hey, they were as tough as a cockroach. We never lost one during my time there. We did have an engine burn up a wing right in front of me once but it wasn't moving at the time. But slowwwwww. Spent 10+- hours in one once going from Zwei to Rota, Spain. We had a head wind and the cars on the French highways below us were going the same speed. 
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SMRick, Thanks for the pics and additional info on the Tigercat! Good lookin' aircraft!
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![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/muddler/Funnies/myassamdragon2.jpg) Okinawa during the Korean War. Nuke in the belly.
I am..........disturbed.
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Damn Foxbat, I thought the Irish were better engineers than that! Hey, they were as tough as a cockroach. We never lost one during my time there. We did have an engine burn up a wing right in front of me once but it wasn't moving at the time. But slowwwwww. Spent 10+- hours in one once going from Zwei to Rota, Spain. We had a head wind and the cars on the French highways below us were going the same speed. I understand sloooooooow. I took lessons using a Cessna 152. Many a time I looked out a window and saw the cars on the ground going faster than I was. Ireland is a little bigger than the state of Maine about the size of Michigan. I suppose slow is okay on the island.
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That was one the DOE?? was using as a flying nuclear reactor test bed-they were actually thinking of trying to power aircraft with a nuclear reactor somehow?
Yep. Just imagine a having a whole fleet of nuclear reactors flying around overhead.  [/quote] Especially with the questionable reliability of the B-36. Lots of crashes and IIRC at least one "broken arrow" from the B-36 fleet, although it's still one of my favorite plans of all time.
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Here's a little tougher one. From my personal collection. ![[Linked Image]](http://canesmutiny.com/images/misc_images/ftd1.jpg)
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Apologies for the fuzz, the I-Phone zoom is not all that great. Picture was taken today about 12:15 just west of Ocala, Fl. The writing on the side says...... US NAVYFaster we go the behinder we get sometimes. ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/muddler/Funnies/IMG_1746-2.jpg)
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I wonder what they use the blimp for.
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Navy used to have quite a few blimps down in the keys, but IIRC they were smaller than this one and unmanned.
Also used to be a USN blimp station at Opa Locka, but that's long closed.
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Okinawa during the Korean War. Nuke in the belly. B-29, my dad was a BB Stacker on those back in the day.
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How about this softball?... ![[Linked Image]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/X-29_in_Banked_Flight.jpg/220px-X-29_in_Banked_Flight.jpg)
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Here, I'll make the last one I put up a little easier. Extra points if someone can also name the aircraft it's sitting on. ![[Linked Image]](http://canesmutiny.com/images/misc_images/ftd2.jpg)
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Okay, how about this one. ![[Linked Image]](http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j303/Scoutmaster_Rick/xyzzy.jpg) SAC B-36 with the added jets. Used em in the Jimmy Stewart movie about SAC.
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