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My bad. I posted a picture of a Mig ground nail. Below is the Suhkoi version of the ground nail...



"What's this button do, comrade Yuri? Yuri??"

Maybe this one will stump you guys.

Jeff

Just wondering (seriously) , does it fulfil a similar role to one of these???

Rivet Joint

Yep.

I'm impressed! USAF RC-135. Many versions out there, to include Rivet Joint.

Jeff

That link is to an amazing set of photos.

Don't know Aussie...is the a recon plane? That is the RC-135's role.

Jeff

A friend of mine flew the P/F 51 in the late 40's then transitioned to the F-82 for the Korean war. He's now gone but IIRC he really preferred the P51. He bought a surplus P51 which he flew for a number of years.
One interesting piece of info that he told me was that he would have the engine serviced and the people could never get the timing right. He finally tracked down all the manuals on the aircraft - about a three to four foot stack of them- since he figured that a combat aircraft ought to be readily serviceable in a forward base area and he found that in one manual the timing was clearly spelled out -- by aligning-something- and some marks through the engine area and the timing was perfect.

Hey Jeff, It's a BAE (formerly Hawker Siddeley) Nimrod, more akin to your P3 Orion.
Ie. Maritime patrol/surveillance and ASW.

A good friend of mine has a couple of tours under his belt in the 'Stan on board the P-3. Apparently the platform performs just as well over the desert as it does over water.

So I suppose yes, similar roles (surveillance) for your Nimrod, P-3 & "rivet Joint".

Troy

Small 10 picture B 70 Gallery...

[img]http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/xb-70/[/img]

Not rare, but one of my favorite Century Series and 1950s jet fighters... the Super Sabre...just a clean good looking A/C..

Explain the tail modification in the bottom photo.

Alright, somebody else that likes the really old warbirds.

Hi plinker,

If you like airshow crashes you can go to You Tube you have some with Martin Baker ejection seats: Blue Angels (april 2007), Thunderbirds (the one of sepember 2003 is rather nice), and one of the nicest but not for the poor guys looking at: the Ramstein accident.
If i recall well these aircrafts were not russians and pilots too...

Accidents are what they are accidents. No need to mock the pilots or technics. Russians crafts are not so bad. Your aggressors teams use some of them with success. During these show pilots push the craft to their limits and above to impress most and sometimes it fails...[b][/b]

It was an attempt to get rid of compression issues and tail buffetting that the p-38 experienced at high speeds. it wasn't successful, and they went to compressions flaps under the wing that would deploy, usually in a dive and restore control usability.

Here is an earlier RC-135 Rivet Joint that I took at Hellenikon AB in Greece in 1987.

The Ramstein Flug Tag disaster involved Italian aircraft and pilots though, even if it was an American military air show. However, your point is well taken.

Another Ghost of the Great War. I could see Ingwe flying this paint scheme.

And no fair peeking at the link.