Aircraft pics

[427TJ]

Changing the subject here. One of my favorite photos of the Thunderbirds: two F-105B Thunderchiefs cavort over their home base at Nellis AFB, NV in early 1964. Those were the days when jets had great names: Thunderchief, Sabre, Voodoo, Delta Dagger and Delta Dart, Starfighter, etc.



The T-birds only flew a few shows in the "Thud" before one crashed at Hamilton AFB north of San Francisco in May '64. The Thud had to be heavily modified for the Thunderbirds maneuvers and one of them broke apart during the arrival show at Hamilton and the pilot was killed.

[nuch_ss396]

Bill,

Makes you wonder why the Air Force would modify a
THUD for acrobatic service. Not my first choice

Didn't the Thunderbirds use F-100 Super Sabres for a while?

Steve

[SS427]

Yes they did. See attached.
Rick

[PeteLeathersac]

I don't know much on the US aerobatic teams but do remember the forerunners to the Canadian Snowbirds group used the older F86 Sabres...the GoldenBirds or whatever they were called?.

An F-86 sits on a cement stand near our local zoo here in Peterboro' Canada also I looked and saw the F-80 Silver Star is still there on it's post in Collingwood as I went through last weekend..

There's still quite a few old aircraft stuck on posts here in Canada, mostly ex-RCAF jets left but I expect they'll soon start disappearing too as the Stormbird groups get going more and resto costs seem more feasible compared to the escalating values of prop-job airframes and parts?.

They pulled the Lancaster off it's Toronto waterfront post after 40 or so years a couple years back and it's being put through a resto although I believe to be a Museum display w/ an operating engine or more...similar to the Canadian Halifax that was completed as a static display piece here a year or so ago?.

Back to the aerobatic teams, what's the other US group called...the Blue Angels?. Here in Canada a 'Blue Angel' always referred to something completely different! .

~ Pete

[1967 Impala]

"don't know much on the US aerobatic teams but do remember the forerunners to the Canadian Snowbirds group used the older F86 Sabres...the GoldenBirds or whatever they were called?."


The Goldenhawks

[1967 Impala]

just as a triva question does anyone know where this pic was taken?

[ANDY M]

Somewhere near Niagra Falls?
BTW Say a prayer for the fallen Blue Angel who died at the Cherry Point Marine Air Station in South Carolina today.
Too early to say why he crashed.

[427TJ]

Australian air force F-111 makes a surprise high-speed pass over an airfield building during an airshow. The guy at upper-right appears to be in the shadow of the jet's nose.