Fighter Jets

[scoobie1]

If you want to read a great book about the Bronco in Vietnam, check out Da Nang Diary by Tom Yarborough. SOG/MACV stuff, it was really interesting.

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[Andy Bernard]

Skyraiders doing Sandy missions, Broncos and Bird Dogs will always have a special place in my heart for their actions to save lives in Vietnam. The stories that came out of the pilots who flew those three airframes are absolutely incredible.

[tcs007]

This seems like the right place to ask - SR-72 Darkstar - real or internet rumor run amok?

[Ken-Ohki]

Originally Posted by tcs007

This seems like the right place to ask - SR-72 Darkstar - real or internet rumor run amok?

The people that know would never say.

[NutBucket]

Because they'd be in the federal slammer if they did...

EDIT: I've not stood so close to a turbo-prop before. That sucker was much louder than an F-86. One of the ground crew told us the pilot "took it easy" so to speak to keep the noise down! Obviously the video doesn't do it justice; wish I had a dB meter that day.

[Thumper23]

Originally Posted by 340Duster

That's fantastic. I learned about a new aircraft today

One of my good friends got to fly one of the NSW OV-10s in Iraq back in 2014-15 timeframe.

The deployment was super successful but afterwards they still want with a different light attack plane.

[shaw169]

Originally Posted by Thumper23

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The deployment was super successful but afterwards they still want with a different light attack plane.

The USAF denies all knowledge of a light attack plane.

[haa-yup!]

Originally Posted by shaw169

The USAf denies all knowledge of a light attack plane.

huh?
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/sk...ivery-october/

[Malfrag]

Just came back from vacation. Visited the Canadian Air Defense museum in Bagotville. I went full tourist in a CF-18 cockpit that was outside the building and snapped some pics. It looks like it sits outside full time, for visitors obviously, and it's a bit banged up. It was still a good way to see how it feels sitting in one of these beauties.

[FaastLegacy]

Looks like an old A model with the analog fuel panel and countermeasures.

Neat.

[NutBucket]

- YouTube

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[lag]

One of the those moment you, I, remember most things surrounding it. First trip and only to Disney. Staying a Ramada Inn. Being sure I'd never stay at a Ramada Inn and Florida as a whole if possible watching the debut of the B2 on the news. Amazing engineering. In the B2.

[zoltan]

For anyone interested in the OV-10 Bronco, this is well worth the read/listen:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Da-Nang-D...ook/1494548895

[motorpotor]

if you want some mid-90s F-14 Tomcat porn...PlutoTV has all the seasons of JAG

[f4phantomii]

Originally Posted by motorpotor

if you want some mid-90s F-14 Tomcat porn...PlutoTV has all the seasons of JAG

Yeah, but do they also have all the eps of Black Sheep Squadron?

[motorpotor]

Originally Posted by f4phantomii

Yeah, but do they also have all the eps of Black Sheep Squadron?

Complete Series can be had on Amazon for like $49.


Never heard of it, but looks interesting

[f4phantomii]

Originally Posted by motorpotor

Complete Series can be had on Amazon for like $49.


Never heard of it, but looks interesting

I occasionally catch an ep on MyTV or something like that.

It's a TV dramatization of Pappy Boyington and his "Black Sheep" in the Pacific theater.

Lots of footage of real F4U Corsairs and real combat camera footage thrown in.

Has a kind of McHale's Navy or MASH feel to it as well.

[samb]

It was my favorite show as a kid.

[lefty o]

Originally Posted by motorpotor

Complete Series can be had on Amazon for like $49.


Never heard of it, but looks interesting

it was a decent show back in the day. all hollywooded up, but entertaining. on every sat afternoon on one of the me tv channels.

[motorpotor]

Here you go, you maniacs...

- YouTube

- YouTube

This might be a little longer, but def different for her channel

[FaastLegacy]

Yeah, Luftwaffe also conducts basic flight training out here in the Phoenix area in conjunction with Lufthansa's flight school. One of their students had a pretty impressive dead stick into the airport not too long ago.

They put on a pretty bitching Octoberfest every year using their hangar as the beer hall.

[motorpotor]

^ We just get Blackhawks and Ospreys flying over the lake.

[Furiousd1983]

Sitting at an intersection on my way to work earlier, suddenly the sun is blocked out...

A C130 rumbles about 200ft over my head on its way to Ft. Jackson, I was a 6 year old boy again for a split second

[Andy Bernard]

F-35 crash at Eielson Alaska. Total loss.
Pilot got out ok.
According to a few comments it happened during an attempted landing after a declared IFE. The plane was rolling and the pilot ejected while partially inverted.
There's video on Reddit of the plane tumbling to the ground with gear down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/co...ng_crashed_at/

[orndog]

Damn.