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B36 with F84
pics from WPAFB Museum
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B36 with F84
pics from WPAFB Museum
Last edited by oldsman496; March 15, 2012, 10:06 PM.Mike in Southwest Ohio -
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My current students are two brand spanking new butter bars out of a little school up on the Hudson called..... West Point...
If you hear noise about the current generation being worthless... trust me when i say these two are not part of that Horseshit.... they truly represent everything right about our society... our country and our Army...
K
( butter bar, refers to the gold Lieutenant insignia that resembles a stick of butter )Comment
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Needs a paint job and some BS stickers Keith. Good news on the FNG's having the Right Stuff.Originally posted by KeithTurk View Postmy current ride....
Phil / OmahaComment
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An F-18 landed @ nearby Burbank Airport yesterday after flying over the Dodger game. A few of us went to look at it closer up, and got to meet the young pilot. Looks about mid 20's and one of an elite group of BADASSES that gets to fly one of those incredible aircraft. He invited us out onto the tarmac for a closer look, and answer a few questions. Terrific guy. I'm 56 (on the right), and to think what I was doing at that same age, I'd like to smack myself.
. I offered him the Vette in my avatar for a ride. He said that jet's kinda on "loan" to him (and no back seat). LOL. Oh, BTW, I just got back from watching him take off to go back to his base. Did I mention he's a BADASS? For one man to control that kind of power is simply IMPRESSIVE!
Last edited by groucho; April 11, 2012, 10:51 AM.STUGOTSComment
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that was a great vid.Originally posted by ls7gto View Post
alot of details to dig up.
I am going to dig up my own photos..20 this year.
the pose with crew is like today and a small class.
I am glad there is at least some documentation.Previously boxer3main
the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.Comment
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wright brother's glider flying at Dayton Ohio, in 1911Mike in Southwest OhioComment
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Us both being NY boys, I gotta post a pic of Glenn Curtis : )
Jeremy George in Windsor NYComment
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Jeremy George in Windsor NYComment
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today the shuttle discovery (i think) is heading to a museum on the east coast...so........
it amazes me how far we have come in a hundred yrs...!
XC-99 circa 1952
Mike in Southwest OhioComment
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Originally posted by ls7gto View PostThis is a well done video, and if your a military airplane fan, ( B29 s) you need to watch this. Not a short one.
Man, thanks so much for that video. That was just plain awe-inspiring. You better believe I watched every minute of it.
Caught a few long shows on History or Discovery recently that included the B-29, learned a lot from those. My daddy trained on a B-17 as a gunner but got moved to B-29's shortly before the war got over - he didn't see combat.
Being a man of not many words, all he said was he didn't like the 29 as well as the 17. I couldn't imagine why, pressurized cabin and high tech and all on the 29. But Daddy didn't mention they might just catch fire on takeoff. He kinda left that detail out. No, I wouldn't like that prospect a whole lot, either.Last edited by pdub; April 16, 2012, 01:49 PM.Charter member of the Turd NuggetsComment
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there was an airshow here this weekend but I really was not up to walking around and taking pictures...
there was a Super Guppy on the ramp, pretty wild airplane...and an Ofsprey...that thing is a marvle of engineering.If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark DonohueComment
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How you access the GAU 8 on an A-10
this is the business end of the plane
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark DonohueComment
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The A10 is one SCARY plane... a real bada$$.Mike in Southwest OhioComment
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Many years ago, I was at the Kershaw SC air strip ready to fly RC planes with a couple of flying buddies. All the guys from Shaw AFB were working a site a couple miles away, on big exercise. Helicopters, A-10's a Cargo plane circling around.Originally posted by oldsman496 View Post
What the heck, they're way off on the horizon, let's fly. As soon as, I mean, the instant we turned on our radio transmitters a couple of the A-10's broke off from the exercise and came to "strafe" us. Anybody else who has ever had that good of a look at the front of an A-10 on an attack run....they're probably dead in some other country. They let us know in no uncertain terms they didn't want us flying our models that day.
Here's a real neat technical summary. Look at the shell casing comparison, that gun and some others:
Last edited by pdub; April 17, 2012, 01:16 PM.Charter member of the Turd NuggetsComment
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