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

[Sapper!]

that Fury and the -86 are both sexy looking airplanes.

 

[jmcquate]

Yup, this was one of our 'versions' in my first fleet Squadron, the swift & nimble FJ-4 Fury. More fun to fly than any other in my log book, but as an attack aircraft, couldn't hold a candle to my trusty Scooter!
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*"Enswine" BusyBee flying wing over San Joacquin Valley - circa. 1959 ​

BzB

Always have been amazed at how few designs were share by the Navy and USAF. F-86/FJ-4, AD-1, A-3/B-66, F-4, A-7, not counting rotery wing and transport/training aircraft.

 

[flaps]

 

[Fog]

Always have been amazed at how few designs were share by the Navy and USAF. F-86/FJ-4, AD-1, A-3/B-66, F-4, A-7, not counting rotery wing and transport/training aircraft.

The F-86 was a rare situation where the Navy copied an AF a/c & put a tailhook on it. All the others represent programs where the AF was forced to use a Navy aircraft. They would rather do most anything than accept a Navy a/c & design. Except for the F-4 (and small buy of B-66s) they stuck the A-7 & A-1 in the backwaters of the AF (ANG/SOC). Everyone remember about 20 years ago when the AF put F-16s in the old ADC (Air Defense Command) rather than take the F-14 which Congress strongly recommended? The F-16 is a great a/c, but interceptor it ain't.

 

[Pugs]

small buy of B-66s\.

And the B-66 had little in common with the A3-D when they were done. Different engines, different cockpit and seats.

 

[Catmando]

FCLPs @ NAS Miramar, 1954 with an F9F
{and well before my time, thank you}

 

[BusyBee604]

FCLPs @ NAS Miramar, 1954 with an F9F
{and well before my time, thank you}

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Or was it a young RecoveringLSO screaming at a young BzB... "Power, power", way back when?
BzB

 

[hscs]

That black ~60 looks really good. I always thought they dropped the ball on the TH-57 painted grey for the Centennial.

Actually a dark green - in the colors of HAL-3

 

[FLYMARINES]

Took this at SFO a while back:

I probably know who that was. We send Cobras up that way all the time for CCXs. Haven't been myself, but that's probably because Vegas is so enticing.

 

[Catmando]

Behold and beware of my colorful friends .... those Huns in the sun flying colorful Fox Fours and a 104:

 

[Recovering LSO]

Or was it a young RecoveringLSO screaming at a young BzB... "Power, power", way back when?
BzB

nah - that guy's got way better hair than me

 

[BusyBee604]

Behold and beware of my colorful friends .... those Huns in the sun flying colorful Fox Fours and a 104:
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Ach du lieber ...der krauten Luftwaffe definitely not colorfully challenged!

Pfantum/Starfighter Carnivale!
BzB

 

[flaps]

was a RIO in 314 forty some years ago

 

[jmcquate]

was a RIO in 314 forty some years ago

NICE! Saw a BONE demo at an Otis AFB show in 2000........God Damn inpressive.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

07/25/2012
MEDICAL EVACUATION
A UH-60 Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter lands as U.S. Army paratroopers secure the area in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, July 23, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and the helicopter crew is assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade. The soldiers evacuated a wounded insurgent. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Thomas Cieslak