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

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Or a DC-10 under a bridge....

 
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just amazing and sad... my dad, a ww2 vet and most of his generation had no idea. i think it was the mid '60's when the first warnings started showing up.
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Along the same lines, Tour de France in the 20s... These were athletes actually participating in the pinnacle event of their sport.

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Nicotine is an analgesic, after all.

"Relax...have a cigar!" [Notable Spruance Hall Naval War College seminar quote concerning military medicine during the Civil War...but you had to be there...];)
 
flaps said:
for the 'truder dudes

With additional ordnance pylons, more powerful engines, new radars and digital avionics. Three pre-production prototypes built at a cost of $220 million each in 1987. The third aircraft was flown for a total of 2 1/2 hours before the program was canceled.

I think the a-6f was actually intended to be an operational weapon system test bed for the A-12 system, 'stealthy power projection'.
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One of the three is now at the Grumman museum in Long Island, NY. Pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25695066@N00/3638102487/in/photostream/
 
What's funny is that every time I see one of these "old" jets, their BuNos are still younger than any P-3 I've flown. Funny in a tragic way.
 
i think the last p-3 was delivered in 1990, about the time the a-6f's were being evaluated at calverton , ny.

as an aside, there is one b-52 that was flown by a grandfather, son and grandson.
 
I saw the B-17 as it landed & later thought I saw an HU-16 (Albatross) headed 18o over the bay. Was there an event at the Pensacola Airport yesterday?
 
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