The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

[Lovebug201]

^^
No doubt A4's would say the same thing, but you have got to take a shot when the moment presents itself - All in good fun

 

[A4sForever]

^^
No doubt A4's would say the same thing, but you have got to take a shot when the moment presents itself - All in good fun

Roger that: you ALWAYS take the snap shot.

 

[Old R.O.]

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 6 Dec 2008

The F-4 was a warhorse no doubt about it, and I loved working around them. But my heart belongs to the "Tinker Toy."

Steve

How's about both in one pic?
VF-126 A-4E, VF-301 F-4S

 

[Piperdriver]

At an airshow about a month back.....

 

[Gatordev]

That's pretty funny. I'll have to remember that one.

 

[brownshoe]

How's about both in one pic?
VF-126 A-4E, VF-301 F-4S

That's a great photo! Did you take it?

Steve

 

[GroundPounder]

This afternoon @ KAGS

Taken when I should have been working.

 

[Old R.O.]

That's a great photo! Did you take it?

Steve

Unless I say differently in my posts, I took all of the photos that I put up.

 

[Old R.O.]

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 7 December 2008

VF-21 F-4J and VA-145 KA-6D in the NAS Cubi Point hot fuel pits, summer 1974.

 

[HeyJoe]

Cold War encounter

Soviet Bear searching for USS America off coast of Norway in 1985

HJ Photo

 

[Mumbles]

HJ....was that shot during Ocean Safari??
That's an ELINT bird....Bear D...correct?? Not a missile shooter.

 

[HeyJoe]

Ocean Safari 85

HJ....was that shot during Ocean Safari??
That's an ELINT bird....Bear D...correct?? Not a missile shooter.

Yep. Ocean Safari '85 it was. Bear D was the targeting platform that had to be intercepted at NLT 200 nm and held at risk. They operated in pairs. Dedicatede ELINT was handled by other platforms. These guys came later in cells of three and were the shooters:

HJ Photo (also Ocean Safari 85)

 

[Mumbles]

I remember reading Red Storm Rising and the chapter about the outer air battle 20 years ago ....and being utterly fascinated. I couldn't believe that the Tomcats were duped by the drones thinking they were the Badgers and Backfires.....and let the "Vampire" AS-4 and AS-6 get through. The Tomkittys redeem themselves later in the novel.

 

[Gatordev]

Were the Badgers significantly faster, in terms of an intercept, or was their cruise roughly the same? Definitely interesting snapshots of a different era.

 

[HeyJoe]

Were the Badgers significantly faster, in terms of an intercept, or was their cruise roughly the same? Definitely interesting snapshots of a different era.

The Badger supposedly had 100 knots on the Bear, but they all were operating at max range speeds. Our wings never programmed aft so it wasn't any sweat in either case. The Bears were no slouches as they came in pretty high. You could hear the drone of their counter-rotating props over the sound of our ECS. Can't imagine what it was like to be inside that beast.

Another Bear caught during Ocean Safari (we were hit daily once USS America started operating inside Vestfjord and the Bear D couldn't "see" us with their radar. Lots of action for the fighters and tankers.

HJ Photo