Aircraft pics

[PeteLeathersac]

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Check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSbssO2DR7A

Mike

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Cool clip but off the hop I don't have much faith in it being real?.
Just the way it hangs w/ the revs seemingly having such an instant reaction makes me think it's a radio contolled unit...a real one to do that would probably need to do like 20,000 RPM or better?.
Also the final landing looks too much for a real fuselage to handle without damage?.
Maybe I'm wrong?.


~ Pete

[1967 Impala]

I didnt think it was real either until I saw the cockpit open up.. I think a stunt plane like that has enough HP to act like a helicopter which he did right before he put it on the ground. The air craft looks similar to the ones they use in the red bull air racing and they just scream when the coal is poured to them

[1967 Impala]

Never mind what I wrote up there Look Here

[Dog427435]

Don't know if this is true or not - but I liked it!

Iranian Airspace Violation -[b] This will put a smile on your face


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Sent by a Marine Pilot

In addition to communicating with the local air traffic control facility, aircraft are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' that they will be transiting Iranian airspace.
This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination.

I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai . It's too good not to pass along. The conversation went something like this...

Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.'

Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.'

Air Defense Radar: 'You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!'

Aircraft: 'This is a United States FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up!'

Air Defense Radar: (no response ... total silence)

[427TJ]

Back in 1993 I was an aircraft commander in the KC-135R Stratotanker. We were enroute to Saudi from England with four F-15C Eagles based at Bitburg AB, Germany. Radio communications were always spotty in the Mediterranean--the Italians won't talk to you, the Greeks won't talk to you, the Egyptians won't, etc., etc. BUT, we had to make periodic position reports so we'd transmit our call sign and wait for a reply which often never came. If we didn't transmit "in the blind" and at least try then 'whoever' would come up on frequency and ball us out for not trying to get "clearance" to transit their airspace. Yeah, a real pain in the rear and it was even worse if your tanker was a UHF-only airplane (VHF worked a lot better--no one was ever on UHF). Anyway, this day in '93 we're getting ready to coast-in near Cairo, Egypt and the Egyptians won't talk to us. My copilot, Steve, a real pro and one who made my job very easy, was getting antsy because the Egyptians would not reply. Okay, I said, let's press on and just keep trying. It's probaly prayer time or something. More tries, more silence. Finally I said f-it, stop trying, we'll be over the Red Sea pretty soon and if they don't want to talk to us then f-them. (Lots of f-this and f-that in military flying. Commercial flying too, come to think of it.) After several more minutes an Egyptian air traffic controller, and I use that term loosely, starts screaming at us because we had "no clarance" to transit his airspace and blah, blah, blah, and he said we would be intercepted if we do not immediately turn back and blah, blah, blah. I looked at Steve and just gave him that f-it shrug and said don't answer him. More Egyptian hollering followed and Steve fnally said our flight plan clearance number (international flight clearance worked out in advance--standard ops) but the "controller" would have none of it. The F-15s we were "dragging" also monitor the frequencies as we fly along and the F-15 flight leader chimed-in on our interplane frequecy (a discreet separate frequency used just by our formation) and he said, "Let them try and intercept us. We'll light them up with our radar and they'll run home to momma." I had kind of forgotten that I had four F-15Cs with me so I laughed and said, "Okay, we're not going to talk to him (the Egyptian) any more and we'll see what happenes." Pretty soon we were over the Red Sea headed toward Jeddah and we never heard another word or saw any attempt at interception. Nice to have our "big stick" F-15s with us that day!

[m22mike]

Goodyear built Corsair's Akron Ohio. Some 4000 built by Goodyear Aircraft ( This is back when Goodyear was a real Company )



Inside Plant D, next to the Akron airdock



Mike

[Dog427435]

Pretty cool link to some old B-17 training films!


B-17

[Ngtflyr]

Travis Air Force Base is only a little over an hours' drive from the Bay Area. Travis AFB is home to the 349th Air Mobility Wing, 615th Air Mobility Operations Group, 60th Air Mobility Wing, and 15th Air Force. The 60th Air Mobility Wing flies the C-5 Galaxy, KC-10 Extender, and C-17 Globemaster III. Air show attendees were treated to all 3 flying at the show.

Saturday's show also marked the occasion of the last flight of a C-133A Cargomaster. The C-133A flew into Travis, and will be put on display at the base museum. That aircraft had operated at Travis from 1958 till it departed in 1971. In addition to the heavy transports, there were demonstration flights from a F-18 and A-10, along with flights from an F-86, Corsair, P-51 Mustang, B-25s, T-28, and various civilian aerobatic teams. The main event was the Air Force Thunderbirds, which flew a very impressive routine!



Travis Air Show

[427TJ]

I grew up west of Travis in the S.F. east bay hills and remember the loud hum of C-133s climbing out of Travis westbound for Hawaii and probably Vietnam. C-130s make a different, softer turbo-prop hum but the louder C-133s would rattle the front windows of our house. I also remember the C-124 Globemasters with their four 28-cylinder R-4360 piston engines. Those also rattled our front windows!

[Dicky]

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Speaking of bikini clad girls and military go-fasts....







One (3) bad hombre.....
My son was an aviator in this Marine Squadron in Yuma,AZ. VMA 211 "Wake Island Avengers" (note tail marking CF aka Chicken F'rs.)


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