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Hey! That's a MiG, not a Sukhoi in that picture!!
Hehehehe....

I'm wondering of that gun-equipped(!) Oscar Douche is Panamanian. As of about two years ago, the PAF was still using them as light counter-insurgency birds.

Websterparish, my time at Columbus was '72-76. I went back two years ago to witness that last Tweet flight. I hardly recognized the base it had changed so much.

I'm offended as I'm a Tweedie.

When I was in the Navy there was a fellow sailor stationed alongside me with the last name of Sylvester.

I've heard all the Tweety Bird/Sylvester jokes.

deHaviland... thought it was a DH 4, but your pic ID said a DH2... not much diffference in the 4 and the 2 evidently.. probably more powerful engine on the 4..

earlier in the War before the Sopwith Camel.. the Strutter...

I always was paritial to the SE5A....and my favorite allied A/C of WW 1 being the Spad 7 thru 13...

It just occurred to me that the T-37 was the only "Tweeting" I've ever done!

What was the answer, Aussielad? Or or you waiting for more than one guess?

Poking around on You Tube, I found this vid. I think airshows aren't as fun as they used to be

It's been more than a couple years since the EA-6A's were gone. VMAQ-4 transitioned to the EA-6B in 91, VAQ-309 and VAQ-209 right after. They are down to about 5 active squadrons flying the Prowler and they'll finish the transition to the F/A-18G by 2013.

Here is an interesting plane (in the foreground) that was state of the art, but killed by political jealousy. It never made it to production. Most Canadians on here will know it right away, because its death was so controversial.

Avro Arrow - probably the most advanced aircraft of its time.

Mig-29 at Paris Air show. The pilot ejected just before crashing and landed safely. The Russian ejection seats are probably the best in the world, even better than the Martin Baker's.

Lawn Dart...

"Lawn Darts"

That's what we called the Hunter drones, before sorting out the Cyl Head problems.

This ain't rare, just very COOL.

Now that would have been fun.

Hey Rocky, seems no-one is taking any guesses on my last question about the aircraft designation. It is a Cessna 337, but no takers on the conflict, operating air force, and their designation for the aircraft.




Sorry for tardiness on reply, time differences and all. A man's got to sleep.

As others noted, it's a Fulcrum that played lawn dart at the 1989 Paris Air Show.

The picture is actually a still from a video that was being shot at the time. The video is permanently ingrained into my brain as me and another analyst sat there an entire day (at FTD) playing the video (over and over) for engineers and systems analysts. It was a big deal at the time because it hadn't yet been determined what caused the failure. Turned out an engine ate a seagull or two.

I have a couple of the stills from before the crash and as it crashes, I'll see if I can find one to scan.

LOVE the Warthog, big flying gun!

Here is the Fulcrum earlier in the day before it crashed.
There were two there IIRC and you can see the vert stab of the 2nd to the right, but I believe this one on the left was the one that crashed later in the show.

I'll take the Martin Baker NACES over anything Russian. Have you seen the pics of the Canadian F-18 that lost a motor during an airshow and the guy punched out? The seat has even righted itself within feet of leaving the jet. The parachute then is shot uo via a rocket so you don't have to fall to fill the chute.

Here's a link. Link