Your Plane

[LCADolby]

Tthe B70 only crashed because some guy was dumb enough to let the photographers influence him to fly in the wing tip vortices of a monstrously heavy plane.

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There is a Toilet Bomb on that wing 

[Seanaldinho]

:Drool

P38 porn.

     

[Puma44]

     The King of Suck....Squeeze, Bang and Blow 

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Ya baby! Stroke it Double Ugly! 

[gpwurzel]

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Excellent pic Cactus, stolen for my desktop (if you dont mind)

[Soulyss]

I don't have a plane, but here's what was left of the plane my uncle flew after he was finished with it.

[Wildcat1]

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that's not a plane, that's pornography.

i gotta cheer for the underdog:


postwar?

[icepac]

There is a Toilet Bomb on that wing  

And the other one has a mig silhouette below the cockpit.

577 also flew the toilet drop mission.

[LLogann]

[mthrockmor]

I find epic struggles against long odds very appealing, classic underdog. Thus the F4F Wildcat during Guadalcanal days, out numbered and out matched against the Zero and Betty bombers, yet prevailing. Or the Spit during Battle of Britain days. Clearly the Me-109 and Fw-190 series against America daylight raiding during 1943 and 1944.

As for pilots and leaders, my hero is Commander (retired as a Captain) David McCampbell leading CAG-15 off the USS Essex. Highest scoring Navy ace of all time, 34 confirmed kills. In one hop he killed 9 Japanese planes. He flew the venerable F6F Hellcat and made it look easy. I loved his book, McCampbells Heros and his leadership. This was part of the great Naval raids where 200+ Hellcats would decimate a Japanese field or harbor and end all resistence within minutes. I love squad tactics.

Modern day aircraft, you have two types: The F-14D and everything else is target practice. Not the best pure dogfighter but in the hands of a skilled Division (four planes) they would trash anything that flew. Everything else is cheap theatrics.

Gauntlet thrown down...

Boo

[icepac]

F15 is the king of all plane vs plane stats.

[Sunka]

F15 is the king of all plane vs plane stats.

eaa ,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFM8FHR56PY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUlHhKvIX3w&feature=related


 O and this was and i think still is one of the most seductively dripping of sexual lustfull, not unlike a moist Augest night when the moon is full and you feel all your primal animal urges come out type of plane.

[Puma44]

"Hamburger is still hamburger, no matter what you wrap it in" sayeth the underdog.  

[Seanaldinho]

"Hamburger is still hamburger, no matter what you wrap it in" sayeth the underdog.  

Yea but sometimes if "it just doesn't taste the same" you end up augering. 

[W7LPNRICK]

B-70 was also the first US military aircraft to have an ejection capsule. When you ejected, very high hopefully, the entire cockpit lifted off the aircraft with the canards attached. It was thought that for long over ocean flights, the survivability of the pilots would be highly improved. The F-lll's incorporated it as well, much to the sad disappointment of many pilots wives & families. My Commander at Mtn Home AFB, Col Coleman  , was permanently paralyzed because the air cushion/floatation bag did not deploy and they hit the ground hard while sitting in their seats. It was found to have had a depot level maintenance error, causing the malfunction. His wife won the law suit. Little compensation. As a rigger at Mtn Home we had little to do with that bird...no drag chute and cockpit ejection chute was vacuum sealed a depot. We supported Air Rescue & Packed transient drag chutes.

[LLogann]

Eat Me