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Just some nice photos I've found

Started by GTX, December 05, 2009, 01:26:47 PM

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Jschmus

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Stargazer

Quote from: Jschmus on April 09, 2011, 11:28:47 AM
Another one from airliners.net, this time featuring a couple of my favorite big twins:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Lockheed-P-38F-Lightning/1897978/M/

Gosh, from this angle it seems like the Lightning and Tigercat are almost brothers!!

Jschmus

There was a Centennial of Naval Aviation celebration at NAS Key West this weekend.  Here are a pair of F-5Ns from VFC-111.


I didn't realize the Sundowners were a training unit now.
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GTX

Quote from: ChernayaAkula on April 08, 2011, 09:56:15 PM

USN F-4 Phantom launching a target-drone variant of the Russian Kh-31/AS-17 Krypton!  

Kind of begs for photoshopping to show one of the rare Soviet Phantomskis doesn't it.

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Greg
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Maverick

Gotta love asymetric weapon loadouts!!  Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Mav

Jschmus

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Maverick

Nifty, although the Bugs toting the one tank take the cake out of the two.

Regards,

Mav

Jschmus

There are wildfires raging in Texas, and MSNBC had these images of aircraft fighting the blaze.

P-2 Neptune

Photo credit - Tommy Metthe / Reporter-News via AP

C-130J

Photo credit - Tom Pennington / Getty Images
"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."-Alan Moore

Jschmus

"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."-Alan Moore

Captain Canada

Pic taken by my Grandfather, Claude H. Gray, probably around Baden.



and a bit of a close up. What days those must have been....

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Maverick

A whole bunch of nice shots in this thread.  There are some red 'x's and the like but well worth a browse.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?108324-Beautiful-Aircraft-Photos(Updated-on-regular-basis)

Regards,

Mav

Jschmus

Here's another official US military set from Flickr, this time posted by the 23rd BS out of Minot AFB.  B-52 goodness:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usairforce/sets/72157626632249714/
"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."-Alan Moore

Jschmus

More official Air Force goodness, this time air refueling over Afghanistan.  I've always said that boom operators get the neatest photos.

http://bit.ly/mCQ92D
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