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Military aircraft
- Wrenchbender1
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Re: Military aircraft
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- Demosthenes
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Re: Military aircraft
Gotta be A-10s and any C-130 (which has been in the inventory as long as I have). AC's are seriously cool, but any 4-engine cargo ship that can land on a carrier is tops!
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- Cybrludite
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Re: Military aircraft
Gotta break it down by category...
WWII: P-38, Mosquito, & the FW190D
Still trucking: B-52, C-130 Both look set to outlast multiple replacements
Mud-Movers: A-10 Warthog, the only plane the US Air Force can't kill no matter how hard they try...
Mach 2+ SAM Sites (aka: fighters): F-22. I got to see one running through its paces at the last NAS New Orleans air show. Bloody thing manuvers like a goddamn UFO. Seriously. I watched this thing do a bootlegger turn. Not an Immellman, not a Split-S, but a flat 180 degree skid and acceleration back the way it came. At a fairly decent subsonic speed. What it did at low aerobatic speeds defy description. Iranian & Russian fighter pilots should just save themselves a bunch of trouble & hit the silk as soon as they hear that hostilities have commenced.
WWII: P-38, Mosquito, & the FW190D
Still trucking: B-52, C-130 Both look set to outlast multiple replacements
Mud-Movers: A-10 Warthog, the only plane the US Air Force can't kill no matter how hard they try...
Mach 2+ SAM Sites (aka: fighters): F-22. I got to see one running through its paces at the last NAS New Orleans air show. Bloody thing manuvers like a goddamn UFO. Seriously. I watched this thing do a bootlegger turn. Not an Immellman, not a Split-S, but a flat 180 degree skid and acceleration back the way it came. At a fairly decent subsonic speed. What it did at low aerobatic speeds defy description. Iranian & Russian fighter pilots should just save themselves a bunch of trouble & hit the silk as soon as they hear that hostilities have commenced.
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- Darrell
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Re: Military aircraft
I recently saw a cool video of Jimmy Stewart flying and landing a B58 Hustler. That was a heckuva plane back in the day. Ah, here it is:
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos. ... ent=172859
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos. ... ent=172859
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Re: Military aircraft
Sweet video. I seem to remember, back in the days before the B-1, they was some talk about pulling the B-58 out of mothballs, and rebuilding them to be a low altitude penetrator.Darrell wrote:I recently saw a cool video of Jimmy Stewart flying and landing a B58 Hustler. That was a heckuva plane back in the day. Ah, here it is:
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos. ... ent=172859
Too late, they were already scrapped, IIRC, because they were built with some precious metals.
- mekender
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wiki article said that at one point they actually cost more than their weight in gold!sam wrote:Sweet video. I seem to remember, back in the days before the B-1, they was some talk about pulling the B-58 out of mothballs, and rebuilding them to be a low altitude penetrator.Darrell wrote:I recently saw a cool video of Jimmy Stewart flying and landing a B58 Hustler. That was a heckuva plane back in the day. Ah, here it is:
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos. ... ent=172859
Too late, they were already scrapped, IIRC, because they were built with some precious metals.
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- 308Mike
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Re: Military aircraft
Depends on the time period - I like WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too many, but I'd have to say my ALL TIME favorite is the SR-71.
Although this one looks like its got some damage to its nose.
Unlike this one:
Although this one looks like its got some damage to its nose.
Unlike this one:
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Re: Military aircraft
Mike, that is heat distortion. Upon returning from a mission ground crewmen used a sledge hammer to reshape the nose.308Mike wrote: Although this one looks like its got some damage to its nose.
- dfwmtx
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Re: Military aircraft
God owes me a flight in an A-10. If it wasn't for Him, I'd probably be flying one of those in Iraq right now.
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- AZMARK
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Re: Military aircraft
I have a particular fondness for big round motors, so F4U Corsair, A-1 Skyraider, and P-47 Thunderbolt.
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