Aircraft Picture Thread

[MSgt46270]

Northrop F-89 Scorpion

OV10 Bronco on alert at Osan AB, Korea.

I need to scan more pictures when I can and up load them. More to come later.

 

[Grabber5.sl0w]

Bad ass pictures man! Like walking through a museum lol.

 

[MSgt46270]

Bad ass pictures man! Like walking through a museum lol.

Glad you like them. I have 21 years of taking pictures while I was in the Air Force. I just scanned a few more today and getting ready to up load them too.

 

[Grabber5.sl0w]

Glad you like them. I have 21 years of taking pictures while I was in the Air Force. I just scanned a few more today and getting ready to up load them too.

Only pictures I've taken were on a local AR from a C-5. Was pretty cool though, being a Comm AFSC detached to the OPG for support the pilots let me sit in the nav seat on the flight deck the whole flight. I was really grateful for that! I might throw them up tonight if I can find them on my computer.

 

[MSgt46270]

F111 Aardvark

A10 Warthog

Northrop YA-9 The Northrop YA-9 was a prototype attack aircraft developed for the United States Air Force A-X program. The YA-9 was passed over in preference for the Fairchild Republic YA-10 that entered production as the A-10 Thunderbolt II.

Douglas A-26 Invader

EF111

A37 Dragon Fly

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

B1B Lancer

E3A Sentry (AWACS)

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Douglas B-18 Bolo, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, North American B-25 Mitchell

Boeing B-47 Stratojet

Convair B-36 "Peacemaker"

Convair B-58 Hustler

Martin B-57 Canberra, WB-57F Air Weather Service

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

 

[MSgt46270]

Not so much pictures of aircraft, but some of the munitions I have loaded.

Load training (Load Barn), loading a AIM-7 on to a F4E.

Loading a AIM-9 missile

ICT - Live AIM-9s

CBU30

Training Nuke

AGM45

M904 nose fuse - The fuse is used in a 500lb bomb. EOR put on a demo of what just the fuse will do.

 

[ford20]

Those pictures are absolutely awesome!!

 

[Steve@Tasca]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[MSgt46270]

Those pictures are absolutely awesome!!

Thanks

Thanks for sharing.

Welcome.

I have a lot more to scan, so far I hit just one of my photo albums.

 

[ford20]

What years were you in the Air Force? I'm assuming some of those pictures were at air shows?

 

[46Tbird]

Carswell AFB, 1966

 

[46Tbird]

I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm stealing these pics from another forum. There are a few more photos in the link.

The mid '60s really was a pretty good time for aircraft technology. Here are some more pics from the same event.
http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=10009

Not one, not two, but three of the baddest mother fuckin aircraft to ever compress air molecules in the same place, at the same time.
So much awesome.

Here's the rest of the photos from the Air Force Association Airshow at Carswell AFB in March of 1966.
From what I understand it was a once in a lifetime type of show.
Here's what another guy that was at the show told me.
The USAF unbolted everything for that show...they had two of almost every aircraft type in their inventory.
The air show portion included a fly-by of the first of the same type plane with everything hanging...as slow as the plane could go...and as the plane was near the middle of its fly-by, another of the same type plane came from behind just under Mach 1.
F-86, F-89. F-94, F100, F-101, F102, F-104, F-106...
The U-2 flew real slow then in mid-runway, up came the plane into vertical flight and continued straight up and continued until I could no longer see it.
The YF-12 had its canopy open and a guy in the cockpit telling each of us..."no photos"... I obeyed.
The B-57F had all its sensitive stuff removed from the cockpit...
Thunderbirds were flying F-100s. Thanks Dave!

 

[MSgt46270]

What years were you in the Air Force? I'm assuming some of those pictures were at air shows?

I was in from Jun 1976 to 1 Oct 1997.

Some of the pictures were from air shows, aircraft museums, magazines, and what I took. The smaller frame pictures are from my real old 110 camera.

 

[MSgt46270]

BDU38 Training Nuke - The lower picture, the nuke was on the trailer and it release the chute by its self.

Suu25EA - This holds 8 flares. Lau7 - fires 2.75 rockets

AGM78 - This was a pain to load because you had to load it out of the casket it comes in.

MK82LD 500lb bombs. Live 500lb bombs (live munitions have yellow bands. BDU-33 practice bombs (I loaded a shit load of these).

GBU12 500lb Laser guided bomb. The MK-20 Rockeye is a free-fall, unguided cluster weapon designed to kill tanks and armored vehicles

MK82 500lb bomb with BSU49 fin. Lower picture - When we wanted to get out of the load barn (training), we would do loads like this to get done faster.

FJ4B Fury

B61 Training Nuke

M61A1 gun system from the F4E. Middle picture is what was left of the gun system after a F4E crash during take off (miss the fuel barn also). Lower picture - Suu23 gun pod on a F4C.

P38 Lighting

P43 Lancer

P51 Mustang

P80B Shooting Star. P63E King Cobra. X15A2

Northrop P-61 Black Widow

X13 Ryan. SA16/HU16A Albatross.

Douglas B-23 Dragon

 

[waylander]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Ztex/CAFB1966/img470.jpg

one lovely plane - shame it came to a tragic end

 

[waylander]

wrong thread

 

[waylander]

wrong thread

 

[Steve@Tasca]

Looks like Fi-Fi won't be alone much longer,

 

[ford20]

I wish I could like your post haha.

That is good news though. It is always nice to see new ones coming out and ready to fly.

 

[tjm73]

Saw this though it was cool.