The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

[rondebmar]

Don't remember if I ever carried any of those flares. But I will never forget trying to do 40 degree night bombing with those "flickering, shadow-producing, vertigo-generators" allegedly trying to illuminate the target... either in training around the Salton Sea, or for real around the Mu Ghia Pass.

As a newly winged nugget and fresh caught F-4 driver, I couldn't believe anybody could night bomb with those damn things. It was f'n crazy! As the flares swung back and forth in their chutes as you know, the shadows danced, ebbed and flowed. Terrible vertigo inducing! It was like a horror movie on Halloween. It was worse than a night trap in bad weather!

Most of my "flare" flyin' was done in the Med flying the Spad ...bombing smoke lights, sometimes under flares ...at night. Nothing like eight 45* runs down the chute, under a flare throwing those shadows around the cockpit ...high speed 4 G pullup, rejoin the racetrack pattern, do it again. It WILL make a very damn good instrument pilot out of ya ...if you survive! LOL!!

 

[Swanee]

My buddy got a shot of me from vulture row just as my hook was catching the 3 wire.

 

[BusyBee604]

...just as my hook was catching the 3 wire.

Uh...er, watchya' trying to SAY?
BzB

 

[707guy]

Very cool shot - what a great pic to have!

 

[KiowaDriver]

1/6 CAV over AFG somewhere....

 

[SeaHawk2011]

Sorry it's a little blurry. But, I thought this was a nice display of history.

 

[scoolbubba]

Good to see the F-22 is back in combat. Or airshows. Or whatever it is it does for 300 million a pop.

 

[KBayDog]

Or whatever it is it does for 300 million a pop.

 

[Moc1Sig]

My buddy got a shot of me from vulture row just as my hook was catching the 3 wire.

The Truman? Congrats! didnt know 201 was a frankenjet C

 

[navyao]

Roman 343 making a "dirty pass" minus his hook & a Black Diamond T-33 get'n down low at Bradford Beach, Milwaukee today.

 

[flaps]

Don't remember if I ever carried any of those flares. But I will never forget trying to do 40 degree night bombing with those "flickering, shadow-producing, vertigo-generators" allegedly trying to illuminate the target... either in training around the Salton Sea, or for real around the Mu Ghia Pass.

As a newly winged nugget and fresh caught F-4 driver, I couldn't believe anybody could night bomb with those damn things. It was f'n crazy! As the flares swung back and forth in their chutes as you know, the shadows danced, ebbed and flowed. Terrible vertigo inducing! It was like a horror movie on Halloween. It was worse than a night trap in bad weather!

i used to get my ex wife flares from the flarist for her birthday. she still dumped me.
:

 

[flaps]

definetly a future fighter puke.
took my 6 year old grandson up for some glider acro.
he started laughing during the loop and didn't stop till touchdown.

i hope this is military enough. i do have a squadron tee shirt on.
also, i'm sure a lot of us remember the salty dog.

his post flight comments,
"when i grow up, i wanna be just like you, grandpa."
to which i replied,
"you can't do both, son."

 

[707guy]

T-6 that I had a flight in a few weeks ago:

 

[brownshoe]

definetly a future fighter puke.took my 6 year old grandson up for some glider acro. he started laughing during the loop and didn't stop till touchdown.

i hope this is military enough. i do have a squadron tee shirt on.
also, i'm sure a lot of us remember the salty dog.

his post flight comments,
"when i grow up, i wanna be just like you, grandpa."
to which i replied, "you can't do both, son."

Very well said, flaps.

 

[Moc1Sig]

The Truman? Congrats! didnt know 201 was a frankenjet C

Literally flew 201 the next day after I posted that... Irony