The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Power on the move
An F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off for a night mission from Joint Base Balad, Iraq, May 24, 2010. The aircraft is assigned to the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C. The 169th FW sent F-16s, pilots, maintenance specialists and support personnel overseas for its first major combat operation since 2003. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt Caycee Cook)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

06/07/2010
HISTORY'S WINGS
An F6F Hellcat flies next to an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 125 during a Battle of Midway commemoration ceremony at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, June 5, 2010. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr.

 

[OUSOONER]

Are there not enough airworthy Wildcats around? Would have seemed more appropriate..

 

[zipmartin]

Are there not enough airworthy Wildcats around? Would have seemed more appropriate..

Excellent point. The F6F didn't enter service till mid-1943. +1

 

[markkyle66]

Evidently Intruders did a little bit of everything. Never seen pictures of one showing a Tu-16 whats up! Always thought that was for the pointy nose guys.

 

[A4sForever]

Evidently Intruders did a little bit of everything. Never seen pictures of one showing a Tu-16 whats up! ...

Ive got a few (5-6?) pix of an 'UGLY' snugglin' up, to, and around a Rooskie TU-16 BADGER and exchanging some 'international good luck signs' w/ Crazy Ivan's crew ... at least the view that could be obtained from our cockpit. I think they're on slides ... need to dig 'em out. Ho-hum.

This is one that fell out of my sea chest a few years ago ... we're rollin' up over the top of IVAN and a VA-195 Fruit-Fly to snap the pix and then join up close & personal w/ extreme promiscuity on IVAN's starboard side ... ... to exchange more international good luck signs.


Image by A4sForever

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Ive got a few (5-6?) pix of an 'UGLY' snugglin' up, to, and around a Rooskie TU-16 BADGER and exchanging some 'international good luck signs' w/ Crazy Ivan's crew ... at least the view that could be obtained from our cockpit. I think they're on slides ... need to dig 'em out. Ho-hum.

This is one that fell out of my sea chest a few years ago ... we're rollin' up over the top of IVAN and a VA-195 Fruit-Fly to snap the pix and then join up close & personal w/ extreme promiscuity on IVAN's starboard side ... ... to exchange more international good luck signs.


Image by A4sForever

By any chance did that good luck sign say that IVAN was #1? :icon_wink I think I'm familiar with it.

 

[A4sForever]

By any chance did that good luck sign say that IVAN was #1? I think I'm familiar with it.

It's probably the same sign ... :icon_wink

And as 'anyone' can press a ham under glass ... my Texas-Baptist-preacher's-kid B/N, being extremely 'creative', took it up a notch ... and yes ... yes ... I said he 'took it up a notch' in a tactical jet ... so he presented the Rooskies w/ yet ANOTHER example of American ingenuity and ANOTHER 'good luck sign' that involved FULL FRONTAL NUDITY ... and in an A-6, it CAN be done if you're 'good' (wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it) ...

IVAN just sat there ... in the cockpit, observer ports, gun tubs ... and just looked, w/ mouths open ... I don't know why their mouths were open, in case you're going to ask. Very disturbing, how-some-ever ...

And then the cameras came out and they started snappin' ... and I thought we'd end up on the front page of Stars & Stripes in a day or two as something of an international 'incident' ... but it never happened.

Рад тебя видеть!

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Awesome, just awesome. Those were the days, sending out sorties to intercept IVAN and protect our freedoms, that and let them know we will always be #1! I miss the Cold War. :icon_wink

 

[HeloBubba]

I miss the Cold War. :icon_wink

Me too.

 

[chefmike]

Hospital point 2009

Nice sunset!

 

[Swanee]

Speaking of the Cold War, saw this beast loading a satellite for Serious Radio at Moffett Field. I was told it costs $100K just to fly the payload to Russia:

Best quote in the recent 2012 movie-

"Holy Crap that airplane is huge!"

(Thick Ruskie accent) "Is Russian...."

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (June 4, 2010) A French navy Rafale F-3 fighter aircraft lands aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman is deployed as part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daron Street/Released) 100604-N-2844S-096

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (June 4, 2010) A French navy Rafale F-3 fighter aircraft launches from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman is deployed as part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Dusan Ilic/Released) 100604-N-2921I-034

Edit by mod: More likely a fly by or touch and go. Not a launch.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

090610-N-0413R-153 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (June 10, 2009) Two multi-mission MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters fly in tandem during section landings at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. The new Sea Hawk variant has many improvements, such as the glass cockpit, improved mission systems, new sensors and advanced avionics. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Shannon Renfroe/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100526-N-5821P-103 MANAMA, Bahrain (May 26, 2010) Lt. Jeremy Steffen, a pilot assigned to the Desert Hawks of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26, Detachment 1, performs a pre-flight inspection on an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter in Manama, Bahrain. The MH-60S is a twin-engine helicopter used for logistics support, search and rescue, vertical replenishment and naval special warfare support. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason T. Poplin/Released)