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another cool ADC Bird of the time period...
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"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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or a Rougher Challenge... except for those that really know their A/C of the late 40s, early 1950s...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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or for the Navy Buff's...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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From the Bush Family Album: Oh hell, the Air Force is going to kill me for this!!!
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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or a Rougher Challenge... except for those that really know their A/C of the late 40s, early 1950s... XF-85 Goblin. One of several attempts at the parasite fighter concept. Here's a picture with the trapeze slung under a B-36.
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another cool ADC Bird of the time period... F-89 Scorpion or variant thereof.
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yeah, dos sum Pimpin 20's!
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From the Bush Family Album: Oh hell, the Air Force is going to kill me for this!!! And now for the rest of the story: In one of the more bizarre stories about the F-106 ... on 2 February 1970, four F-106As flew out of Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to "mix it up" among themselves as an air combat training exercise. One had to abort when its drag chute opened before takeoff. During the resulting sequence of dogfights, one of the F-106As, piloted by First Lieutenant Gary Foust, went into a flat spin at altitude. It wasn't easy to get the Dart out of a flat spin; Foust stayed with the machine, trying everything he could, but finally decided he was getting too low and ejected.
However, the ejection knocked the F-106 out of the spin and it took off towards the horizon. Major Jim Lowe, who had been following Foust in one of the other two Darts and giving him suggestions, had to shout out: "Gary, you better get back in it!"
Of course, even though Montana contains a great deal of uninhabited land, it was worrisome to think about where the aircraft might come down. However, Foust had set the machine to takeoff trim in one of his attempts to get it out of the spin, and takeoff trim was similar to landing trim. It descended gradually and performed a very neat belly landing in a snow-covered field near the town of Big Sandy, missing a rockpile before it slid to a halt. A local law enforcement officer called Malmstrom and asked how to turn off its turbojet engine; he was told to just let it run out of fuel, which it did less than two hours later.
The F-106 had an ugly gash in its belly but otherwise was structurally intact. The aircraft was disassembled, trucked to a railroad flatcar, and sent to California to be repaired and reassembled. It went back into operation and in fact was one of the last Darts in ADC service.
===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
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How's about these two for all of you.
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From the Bush Family Album: Oh hell, the Air Force is going to kill me for this!!! I forget the details, but the pilot bailed out and the plane just glided to a wheel-up landing. It was repaired and flew again in the Texas ANG.
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Close? B25 with an RF 4 in the background... I think this photo was taken at the 8th AF Museum in Savannah GA. Excellent museum, visit it if you can.
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Fixed again... AN-24. Used to intercept the ones in UN markings flying over Southern Iraq during OSW
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The F2Y Sea Dart built by Convair One more reason to visit the Air and Space Museum at Balboa Park in San Diego. Theirs is the second of four Sea Darts constructed and the oldest surviving example . According to WikiPedia: All four remaining Sea Darts survive to this day. XF2Y-1 Sea Dart, Bureau Number 137634, is in bad shape and is awaiting restoration for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.. YF2Y-1 Sea Dart, Bureau Number 135763, is on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum in the Balboa Park area of San Diego, California. It is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola. YF2Y-1 Sea Dart, Bureau Number 135764, is on display at the Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum at NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. It is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola. YF2Y-1 Sea Dart, Bureau Number 135765, is on display at the Florida Air Museum that is part of the Sun 'n Fun complex at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Florida. It is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola.
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How's about these two for all of you. I didn't even recognize those as having Aussie markings. Learn something new everyday!
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How's about these two for all of you. Harvard, or T6 Texan Boomerangdon't know about the rifle...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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Bonus points for the variant. Hint: While working in the Lockheed Skunk Works, my father designed the racks that held much of the electronic surveillance equipment. Navy Neptune, or USAF RB69... Lockheed P2v
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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How's about these two for all of you. Wirraway
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Hi Seafire,
Think it's North American Fury FJ1 of the navy, the FJ2 that came later was developped from the F86 Sabre but the FJ1 was built before the 86.
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