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

[hlg6016]

Good thing I didn't call it the "gun aiming thingy", Otherwise I would have caught some abuse.

 

[zipmartin]

Good thing I didn't call it the "gun aiming thingy", Otherwise I would have caught some abuse.

Callsign for one of my squadronmates was "FAT". While going through the A-7E RAG, he was asking a question one day in class and couldn't remember the terminology for the Flight Path Marker on the HUD, so he called it that"F#&%ing Airplane There". FAT stayed with him after that.

 

[KODAK]

Is that the JS-1 with the jet engine sustainer? Sweet sailplane!

Sharp eye! A friend and I got that photo out the window of a C-150M last week in the frigid air, good times..

 

[KODAK]

 

[HueyCobra8151]

Uhhh... gee Daddy, what's a HUD? I'm afraid in my era (late middle ages), bogie targeting/tracking was accomplished with a MK-53 Mod II grease pencil mark on the "gun glass". Hmmpf, spoiled young "WhupperSnippers"!
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BzB

Black Electrical Tape works well too

 

[Swanee]

Sharp eye! A friend and I got that photo out the window of a C-150M last week in the frigid air, good times..

You should consider submitting that pic to Soaring Magazine. It's a great photo. It's a good bet that it would be published!

 

[Rocketman]

You should consider submitting that pic to Soaring Magazine. It's a great photo. It's a good bet that it would be published!

That is a very expensive chunk of carbon fiber.........big boy toys. Hell all I want for Christmas is a PW-5

 

[Catmando]

Made little difference to me... MiG-15 Faggot, MiG-17 Fresco, MiG-19 Farmer, or MiG-21 Fishbed.

If it is in strange colors and is shooting at you and/or turning on you, it is probably hostile, I think.
So shoot and kill it!

Hard to tell for sure from the pictures (and without another one next to it), but if the wing has one sweep angle (the same from root to tip) and anhedral, then it's probably a MiG 15. If the wing has two sweep angles (more sweepback from the root to about half span, then less sweep for the rest) and no dihedral, then it's probably a MiG 17. The MiG 15 had a thicker wing too, but that difference can be subtle.

/nerd

 

[Malo83]

Carriers, vintage shots of the Grand Ladies
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51297

 

[Homer J]

An F-4 Phantom II of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111 off the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) drops bombs over Vietnam on November 25, 1972, forty-one years ago today.

 

[BusyBee604]

An F-4 Phantom II of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111 off the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) drops bombs over Vietnam on November 25, 1972, forty-one years ago today.

Ahh yes, LINEBACKER II, our resident Phantum Dude Catmando, was there at the same time, with VF-151 off USS Midway, Coral Sea's sister ship, and has interesting TINs to spin!

BzB

 

[Homer J]

Carrier Air Group (CVG) 7 aircraft pictured on the flight deck of the carrier Bon Homme Richard (CVA 31) being readied for a strike against targets in Korea on November 27, 1952, sixty-one years ago today.

 

[Rocketman]

My old man. Whiting Field 1952. His grandson soloed soloed off the same runway 50 some years later.

 

[BusyBee604]

My old man. Whiting Field 1952. His grandson soloed soloed off the same runway 50 some years later.

Yo Rocketman, love those Grandpa/GrandSon/G'Daughter Naval Aviator stories! I have 9 G'Kids... maybe someday..... ?
Da "JOPA Bee"

 

[Renegade One]

My old man. Whiting Field 1952. His grandson soloed soloed off the same runway 50 some years later.
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Nice post and photo. Did grandson attempt to "re-do" the original photo?