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Flying on a "wing and a prayer", and for the Israeli pilots, their prayers are a local call.

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Back in '79-'80 my younger brother was the crew chief for the first F-16 officially put into service for the Air Force up at Hill AFB in Ogden Utah. His planes tail number was 001 for all us number freaks, they referred to it as balls one! I got to ride out to the plane with the pilots and crew in the van to the flight line, cool stuff. The first Israeli pilot to train and fly the B model (two seater) was Ilan Ramon. I just remember thinking this guy is the same age as me at the time, 22 and he was flying F-16's. Wow! Bad Ass. And my 20 year old brother was in charge of the plane. Amazing!



http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...el_030201.html

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Last year, the International Space Station was orbiting over the east coast when the shuttle was launched.
They were in the right position to capture these amazing photos: https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...d_image001.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...d_image002.jpg
What I wouldn't give to be there! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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NEAT photos but it looks like they were shot from within our atmosphere and not above it. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif Still very cool shots.
Rick

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maybe shot from 30-35000 feet ? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Shot from space. No conventional jet can climb to an altitude where the sky turns black and you can see the curvature of the earth. It's just the oblique angle of the space station as it flew from the northwest to the southeast as it passed bye. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/scholar.gif

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wow. looks so close, the intra coastal looks the same flying over in a commercial jet !! but thats true, I never saw the curvature of the earth in a 707 !

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060220.html


I think this guy took the photo. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Andy,
In no way was I trying to start a debate I was just commenting that the photo looks like it was taken from a much lower altitude. Both the SR-71, U-2 and WB-57 all are capable of flying at 100,000+ feet and at least two can fly to the upper fringes of our atmosphere where it is nearly dark. I have seen both photos and documentary's on both aircraft and I will be damned if I can find just ONE photo on the net taken from either aircraft. I did however find this link Space shuttle photo myth I promise they can take photos that appear much higher than what these photos appear to be taken from. Very neat pictures none the less. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif
Rick

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Rick, it's all good. I said no coventional airplane, but the spyplanes and research craft are far from that.
If you like to spend some days looking at really cool pics, try this: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/
I have been an airplane nut since I was just a little kid.
Anything with wings is cool for me.

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Oh no...looks like another great website to spend 'spare time' on?https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/crazy.gif.

~ Pete
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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still cleaning the office out of 20+ years of boxed photos.
I think I am through most of the cars, so here are the ships and planes !!

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0025.jpg

The USS Independence (CV62) two F14's to the left and probably a CH46 helicopter and a fixed wing P3 to the right.

close-up of the 2 F14's below

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0024.jpg

I was assigned to intel photography in the Med prior to the Beirut, Lebanon cease-fire being broken in Feb 84, this was shot with a manual Canon F1 and 1000 spd film after sunset from a moving ship.

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Chris,

I see single tails on these planes.
F-14's or possibly A-6 Intruders?

Steve

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Jet on the left, climbing, is an A-6 Intruder or its larger brother, an EA-6 Prowler. Jet on the right, low, looks like an S-3 Viking anti-sub jet.

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Good eye - Bill !

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Jet on the left, climbing, is an A-6 Intruder or its larger brother, an EA-6 Prowler. Jet on the right, low, looks like an S-3 Viking anti-sub jet.

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That Bill guy sure knows his planes... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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wow, I thought I could call those from memory without having a closer look. here's an F14. I'll bet my skivvies on that!
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0027.jpg

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ok Bill what are these pups here that insisted on buzzing the tower?
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0028.jpg

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ooooooooohh Noooooooooo

not the Admirals vintage Falcon !!!


http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...andrelease.jpg

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ok Bill what are these pups here that insisted on buzzing the tower?
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0028.jpg

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A-7 Corsair's. Air National Guard possibly?

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ooooooooohh Noooooooooo

not the Admirals vintage Falcon !!!


http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...andrelease.jpg

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Chris,

Is this for real, or a Photoshop special?

I'd like to do that to my ex-mother-in-laws car ( with her inside https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif)

Steve

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A-7 Corsair's. Air National Guard possibly?

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Not likely anything but NAVY flying off the INDY !!

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ooooooooohh Noooooooooo

not the Admirals vintage Falcon !!!


http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...andrelease.jpg

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Chris,

Is this for real, or a Photoshop special?

I'd like to do that to my ex-mother-in-laws car ( with her inside https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif)

Steve

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this is real, as you would not have those unprotected personal on the flight deck during normal ops. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/scholar.gif

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Chris,

Do you know the purpose for this demonstration? Just Ford
haters, or something more to it? I can't imaging the USN
taking a car on a carrier for this purpose unless it was
for a photo op or something.

Steve

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Steve, Ive seen this photo several times over the years with different phrases attached. I am searching the web now for the real story. I believe it may have been a burial at sea, some Sailor who went down in his car in ashes maybe.
I'll find out. That is the USS Enterprise.

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http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0031.jpg

this is what I was supposed to looking for and photographing.

USSR Russian Destroyer, Kashin Class

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Sorry again Chris - That's an Iowa class battleship.
( JUST KIDDING ) https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif

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Chris,

Do you know the purpose for this demonstration? Just Ford
haters, or something more to it? I can't imaging the USN
taking a car on a carrier for this purpose unless it was
for a photo op or something.

Steve

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I told you I would find the truth, here are three cloudy memories and photo evidence !!

I was there for that launch. From my vantage point on the front of the waist cat, I took a full series of photos, from preparation, to traveling down the catapult, to the short air flight and water impact. It was a Ford Falcon that the Enterprise Weapons Department used to drive around Olongapo. In 1978 as the ship was leaving the PI to return to the States for an extended overhaul. The vehicle was no longer needed and was given a "burial at sea".
Posted by Rick in MI

This photo is not from a TV show. It's not doctored. It really happened. It's not a "test". The US Navy may not do this any more, but they certainly did it that day!
I was stationed on the ship, and I was there on the flight deck. I took photos. The ship was the USS Enterprise, and we were leaving Subic Bay for the last time before an extended yard period. It was in late 1978.
It was a Dodge.
Posted by I was there in West Michigan'

"I was on the Cat crew that shot it. It was a '67 Plymouth Valiant. This picture is taken from the cruise book for the Enterprise WETPAC '78 cruise. I'm in a second picture in the book. The stories above are correct. It was the parts car for Heavy - 1, the Vigilante squadran. And they were being decomisioned upon return to CONUS. It was a POS so none of the other squadrans would buy it. This idea was thought up where all good ideas are thought up - in the Subic Bay O club. When this pic came out with the terrorist quote, I was able to hook up on line with the then LTJG who thought it up and sold it to the Big E skipper, after everone else in the chain of comand said no. The Skipper said do it! What Balls.
Posted by Curt in Florida

"In spite of all the "I was there" info on the type of car, none of the above is totallt correct. It was a 1963 Plymouth Savoy, as identifiable from this pic:
http://members.cox.net/dragnd/plymouth01.jpg

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Sorry again Chris - That's an Iowa class battleship.
( JUST KIDDING ) https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif

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yes, and half of those antennas are for hanging laundry and never spin !! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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wow, I thought I could call those from memory without having a closer look. here's an F14. I'll bet my skivvies on that!
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0027.jpg

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Yes, and in an unusual configuration: Wings in the full
swept position and the tail hook deployed in the down
position.

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Sorry again Chris - That's an Iowa class battleship.
( JUST KIDDING ) https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif

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yes, and half of those antennas are for hanging laundry and never spin !! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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I thought they were for satellite TV & Internet.... Aaah
yes, we're talking about the Russinas - aren't we! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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ok Bill what are these pups here that insisted on buzzing the tower?
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/scan0028.jpg

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A-7 Corsair's. Air National Guard possibly?

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Chance-Vought A-7 Corsair II's, to be exact! ("Corsair II" since the first Corsair was the F4U WWII-era bird. Actually, there was a Vought Corsair biplane in the '30s but we'll leave that for another time!)

Since he's shooting aircraft carriers they're probably Navy birds but the USAF used A-7s as well.

I got my "good eye" watching planes as a kid and it came in handy later on when I was a KC-135 tanker pilot and had to spot those dudes way out as they approached for a refill. (I wasn't a C-student for no reason! Had my nose buried in airplane books and car magazines.)

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Do you know the purpose for this demonstration? Just Ford haters, or something more to it?

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The Ford Fairlane ('64, to be exact) car-launch above was probably for morale purposes but it's been done many times before. I have a late-50s photo from Hot Rod showing the Navy catapulting a late-40s Mopar convertible off of a carrier during a post-overhaul cruise. Let me see if I can find it in Photobucket.

Looking....

Found them!

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tapult1961.jpg

Adios Mopower!!! (They never do this to Chevys....)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...apult19612.jpg

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Do you know the purpose for this demonstration? Just Ford haters, or something more to it?

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The Ford Fairlane ('64, to be exact) car-launch above was probably ..........."

was probably a 63 plymouth savoy, right?
That's what I thought you said! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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early morning visitor

https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/F-22-Feb07.JPG

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This was a great post......... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Jeff, Thanks for the hawaiian care package. Evidently your choice of picking teams isnt as good as your photography skills!!!!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif Thanks again..cant wait for the final four in march https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/shocked.gif

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and to think i was giving you 3. Glad you got it in time for the Pro Bowl. Watch for me in the stands getting a tan https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

Heres some more pics of the F-22 from this morning after the rain stopped and the <font color="yellow"> WARM </font> Hawaiian Sun came out https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/PICS_043.jpg

https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/PICS_036.jpg

https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/PICS_013.jpg

https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/PICS_041.jpg

https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/PICS_040.jpg

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FF tail code indicates the 1st FW at Langley AFB, VA. He's a long way from home. Probably on a dog-and-pony show tour with the new jet. Looks like the Wing Commander's plane with the "1st FW" code on the tail.

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The F-22s First time to be deployed outside of the USA. they are only on a stop over. Hickam will be getting them to replace its F-15s