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Came across a box of old photos. Thought I'd throw some up since we have a lot of people that dig aircraft/history.

F-111 tail #LN442. Just over a week before this picture was taken, this 'vark and the pilot in the lower left dropped some ordnance in Ghadafi's bedroom. Late April 1986.




Hellinikon AB summer of 1987. An RC-135 and some Navy P-3's.




TR-1 @ Ramstein AB summer 1987.




Italian F-104 refueling @ Zweibrucken AB Summer of 1986.




AN-124 @ Paris Air Show 1987.




F-5 Aggressor @ Zweibrucken AB 1986. These aircraft were painted like Warsaw pact fighters and the pilots were some of the best we had. Rather than send pilots to be trained as the Navy does with Topgun, the Air Force sent the Aggressors to the pilots from base to base to train USAF pilots in the same manner.




Canadian F-18 @ Zweibrucken AB 1986.

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Canadian F-5's @ Zweibrucken AB 1986.

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EF-111 @ Ramstein AB 1987.

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One of our RF-4C's in front of her TabV @ Zweibrucken AB. These were tac recce birds I worked with.

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Checkpoint Charlie a few years before the wall came down. 1986.




Brandenburg gate from behind the wall. Not something many Westerners would see for a few more years. 1986. There are manned machine guns in each of those openings on either side.

Very nice.
I used to have F111s fly over my area quite often, I miss those days.

cool stuff....almost make you nostalgic for when we had sane enemies like the Warsaw Pact and the Russkis, instead of the gang of disorganized psychopaths we're dealing with now

I agree, we were in many ways safer in the 70s and 80s than we are now.

Yeah, I was going to say something along those lines, Steve. Like back when our enemies were easily known.

yeah, and, like wore uniforms....and flew their own planes instead of hijacking ours

Great stuff Sir, thanks for putting them up.

thanks for sharing- great photos!

What sort of plane is this?

enjoyed. A very good web site is air vectors. has a lot of great info on planes from all over the world. pics too.

I think the blurrly plane is a Tupolev TU-16 Badger

TU-16 engines are in the wing root. With those big ol turbofans sitting forward mount out on the wings, I'm going to go with 767.

TU -16 was my first impression also. To bad I didn't take/keep some pictures of aircraft from my early days: B-58, A7D, F4C/D/E, F-106, F-104, F105, A1E, O-1, 0-2, OV-10, B52, etc.

I never did get to see a B-58, that would have been a sight to see, that and a XB-70!

Nothing to do with aircraft but I take it you were stationed at Tempelhof? I was in Berlin from 1972-1975. This picture was snapped at the changing of the guard at Spandau Prison in 1973. The guard rotated between the four powers - American, Russian, British and French, we just happened to rotate to the Russians. The guy shaking hands was a lieutenant, a platoon leader from one of our our rifle companies.

I was the "official" US Army photographer that day and got to run around behind the Russian platoon taking pictures of the proceedings. They didn't like me doing that. Interesting day.

Rudolph Hess was somewhere in the prison at the time but I never met him.



After the official ceremony the Russian soldiers were milling around outside near their trucks, smoking and joking, and we were milling around near ours doing the same. We looked at them, they looked at us, just a bunch of pimply faced 19 year old kids on both sides. Take off the uniforms and you couldn't tell the difference (except they didn't have any black soldiers). You could see they wanted to come over and trade stuff and try to talk to us and we were real curious to go talk to them but the officers on both sides were scowling at us so that never happened.

Go to Wright Patterson sometime, the last XB-70 is there on display. It is truly one of the most beautiful and awe inspiring aircraft ever designed.

What's this one?

Great pics.

I would love to see that.

I watched some documentary on the XB-70 some years ago, and I recall one of the project engineers saying that it looked like a "Cobra sitting on top of an orange crate."
A great description, IMO.