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A few pics of the F22's as a group this morning at Hickam.
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Well now - you could buy a couple of
Yenko's & COPO's with the money tied up in that that air wing. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif |
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Bill, Does this view look familiar?
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Sure does! That's a KC-10 boom but the mission's the same--I was a 135 driver. Refueled many a B-1 in my day too.
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More cool stuff...It looks like the gear failed.
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If anyone has seen this site in the air, it's an amazing vision. I felt so proud the first time I saw this.
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Oh boy! That's a problem.. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/megavin/tb.jpg [/ QUOTE ] That sure looks like Edwards AFB and your right thats NOT GOOD at all!!! Heres some neat pics from Edwards. sorry they are locked and cant be linked without the guys website. check out the red/white/blue bottom of the F117 and the next to last picture of the group picture http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircra...05/Highlights/ |
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Great shots, I love the B-1 shot with the B-52. Very cool.
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Here are a few for 427TJ...the gas man!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...vin/119130.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...vin/112595.jpg I'm so sorry, did I spill on you? http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...vin/110592.jpg |
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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/megavin/tb.jpg [/ QUOTE ] The story I heard on this one was that the pilot had set his altimeter for Nellis AFB, the Thunderbirds' home base, instead of Mountain Home AFB, ID, where this crash occurred. The difference in airfield elevation between Nellis and Mountain Home is significant and by the time the pilot realized his error he was about to hit the ground. He was performing the back-half of a low-altitude loop (basically) and he rolled-over and pulled toward the ground at too low an altitude. He realized he did not have sufficient altitude to complete the loop and correctly ejected about two seconds before the jet hit the ground. The photo shows the jet with its nose "up" but it's actually "mushing" toward the ground in a near-stalled condition. The pilot tried to pull hard enough to avoid impact but saw that it was hopeless. I have the cockpit video and I'll try to attach it--it's pretty spectacular. Oh, and his 'chute deployed just before he hit the ground and he jumped up and made a "touchdown" gesture to the crowd, who all cheered at his survival. Needless to say, he was removed from the Thunderbirds and put on ground duty at the Pentagon--I think I had heard he was a general's son but I'm not sure. As British pilots would say in the old days: bad show! |
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OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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I can't figure out how to attach the Thunderbird cockpit video here. Somebody walk me through it! (Bruce?)
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Going up? This Really is a neat shot.
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Hey buddy! that was close.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...vin/113508.jpg I'm busted here.. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...vin/119857.jpg I'm out of here... http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...vin/118488.jpg |
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Here's a note to all the guys and gals in New York.
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Yes, he did get punished but the Navy is much more tolerant about such things than the USAF is. Pull that kind of stunt in the Air Force and you're out the door.
Bart, you are out of control with all these great pics! Great stuff! I might have to dig through my archives and post a few. Oh, and I sent the Thunderbird mishap video to Bruce for him to post. Stay tuned. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif x 100 |
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That's it, thanks Sam. (I forgot about YouTube--duh!)
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Forget the wrecked 737--look at those gas prices!!!
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Sunrise, December 1944, somewhere in England. Crews look eastward at the contrails from the bomber stream and its escort fighters as they head east to bomb Germany. Try to imagine what all those piston engines sounded like up high heading for Germany. Few of those boys were older than 25. That's a P-51D Mustang.
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Here's what some 23 year-olds were doing in 1945. That's Major Pierce McKennon warming up his P-51D "Ridge Runner" at Debden air base in England, March 1945. McKennon was KIA soon after this photo was taken. Mirrors atop windscreen were "borrowed" from an RAF Spitfire.
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Back in the 1969-70 period this P-51D used to buzz the east bay (San Francisco) hills where I grew up. We called it the "maroon and gold" Mustang. My dad's buddy took these photos at the 1970 Watsonville (California) airshow. The airplane was owned by George Perez and I think he still has it.
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Another common site in the SF east bay in the 1960s and early 70s were fire supression airplanes like this Grumman F7F Tigercat. Summer always brought with it the sound of rumbling radial engines and the F7F was the hottest hot rod in the air tanker fleet. I would blow the screen door off its hinges when a Tigercat went over the house. They were based at Santa Rosa and a few other bases in California. One of the surviving F7Fs participates at the Reno Air Races and it's a real crowd pleaser.
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I love this photo because it looks like a herd of cows heading for the barn. These are USAF C-119 "Flying Boxcars" enroute to Japan from Okinawa in 1955. Photo was taken from the open aft cargo door of a leading C-119. Imagine what that sounded like!
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Another SF bay area aviation landmark in the old days was Hamilton AFB in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Hamilton was the first base to operate the Lockheed F-104A "Starfighter" interceptor and it too was the hottest of the hot rods. It was called "the missile with a man in it." Hamilton's 83rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron flew the 104 between late 1957 and mid 1960. My buddy George Davis flew 104s in the 83rd and sent me this photo of four 83rd 104s over the Golden Gate in 1958.
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I believe this was not the first mishap like this. Didn't the T-Birds lose all 4 guys in a diamond formation back roll when they all followed the leader into the ground, killing all involved? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif
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Correct Andy. The Thunderbird four-ship main formation flew their T-38 Talons into the ground during a practice in January of 1982, killing all four pilots. The skinny on that one was that the formation leader initiated the loop with insufficient altitude to pull out at the bottom and they all went in. The USAF concocted a story about a system malfuncion in the leader's T-38 but it has been soundly refuted, unofficially. The reason the other three followed their leader into the ground is because they keep their eyes glued on lead's airplane and they're used to ground rush so they dutifully followed him in. The leader didn't make a warning radio call to his formation probably because he had both hands on the stick and was pulling with all his might to avoid ground impact. The other three probably felt the G-load build up over what they were used to (as lead pulled for his life) and probably saw the impact coming at the last second but it was too late.
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