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Title: Your Plane
Post by: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:15:06 PM: Post pics of your favorite plane WW2 or not
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ACE on May 31, 2011, 06:17:17 PM: Don't really have a fav here but if I had to pick its the P51 the american beast IMO :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: JOACH1M on May 31, 2011, 06:18:25 PM: Hans Joachim Marsielle

(http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/b461/snax6/1bfef67c.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:18:52 PM: (http://www.wallpaperpimper.com/wallpaper/Military/EA_6B_Prowler/EA-6B-Prowler-7-O09U5HGGXI-1024x768.jpg)EA6B PROWLER BABY
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: mbailey on May 31, 2011, 06:34:25 PM: WWII

(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/WWII%20Photo%20Collection/38.jpg)

After WWII

(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/b1b_07.jpg)

OR

(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/F4rnd-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM: Phantoms were a mistake to have been bought i guess thats what the goverment said that they were horrible planes but they look cool man nice choice!
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: iron650 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/A36_Invader.jpg)

Earliest variant of the Pony.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: StokesAk on May 31, 2011, 06:38:15 PM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/Seki_Akizashi/Woosh%20woosh%20pew%20pew/Plane-3.jpg)

I love this picture from the 475th FG
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Shifty on May 31, 2011, 06:44:53 PM: Hienz Bar's FW-190 Red-13 while flying with JG-1.

(http://homepage.mac.com/raul.corral/1webmodelismocom/page50/page23/files/page23_1.jpg)

(http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/foto/bar3.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Reaper90 on May 31, 2011, 08:16:25 PM: Quote from: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM
Phantoms were a mistake to have been bought i guess thats what the goverment said that they were horrible planes but they look cool man nice choice!

:huh :headscratch:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: flatiron1 on May 31, 2011, 08:33:39 PM: (http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj310/dmanuhone/flatirn3.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: curry1 on May 31, 2011, 08:40:49 PM: Quote from: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM
Phantoms were a mistake to have been bought i guess thats what the goverment said that they were horrible planes but they look cool man nice choice!

Yeah having better planes than the soviets is a mistake. Wait I don't get it? Maybe I misread your post becasue of the spelling errors, which I hear are great for gaining credibility(so is this http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,33.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,33.0.html) :rolleyes:). F4s are great planes in fact we still get use out of them now as target drones.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Spikes on May 31, 2011, 08:44:10 PM: (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~yg155202/images/f14.jpg)
Sexiest bird ever to take flight.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: redman555 on May 31, 2011, 08:52:19 PM: My WWII baby:
(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee239/bigbobCH/p47-11.jpg)

My Current day Baby:
(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee239/bigbobCH/1_FA-22_Raptor2.jpg)

-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rob52240 on May 31, 2011, 08:58:25 PM: (http://www.easyonlinestudy.com/images/topten/aeroplaneimage/sukhoi33.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: JOACH1M on May 31, 2011, 09:01:52 PM: Quote from: Rob52240 on May 31, 2011, 08:58:25 PM
(http://www.easyonlinestudy.com/images/topten/aeroplaneimage/sukhoi33.jpg)

That one of my favorites as well
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 31, 2011, 09:10:11 PM: (http://einhornpress.com/images/AIR-2%20FINI.BMP)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: TUK on May 31, 2011, 09:17:54 PM: (http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/US-F16-aircrafts.jpg)

(http://www.photozo.com/album/data/4698/IMG_19111.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Wolfala on May 31, 2011, 09:21:47 PM: My plane

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/46007_464639816213_656951213_6520809_7917109_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on May 31, 2011, 10:03:24 PM: Quote from: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM
Phantoms were a mistake to have been bought i guess thats what the goverment said that they were horrible planes but they look cool man nice choice!

Spoken straight from the bottom of an empty clue bag. :huh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on May 31, 2011, 10:12:49 PM: (http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/225461_1715354404180_1247804014_31442057_5459517_n.jpg)

My favorite
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: B-17 on May 31, 2011, 10:15:38 PM: WWII

YB-40

Modern-ish

B-36

Modern

B-52G
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rob52240 on May 31, 2011, 10:19:10 PM: (http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/PHO2307.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: CAP1 on May 31, 2011, 10:21:14 PM: Quote from: Rob52240 on May 31, 2011, 10:19:10 PM
(http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/PHO2307.jpg)

you realize you're gonna confuse a few with that, right? :devil :rofl
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Seanaldinho on May 31, 2011, 10:35:03 PM: WW2- P-38

Modern- F-35 JSF

Fun- SAILPLANES :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on May 31, 2011, 11:20:59 PM: Quote from: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM
Phantoms were a mistake to have been bought i guess thats what the goverment said that they were horrible planes but they look cool man nice choice!

Yes, you know more than everyone involved in the development and implementation of the various versions of the F-4 Phantom. It was used from Viet-Nam to Desert storm, because it had no purpose? What a dufus. :ahand Now, looking back, we're all geniuses. Of course it had it's short comings & so did every other fighter of it's time. It was and is a very capable bird in certain rolls. :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: redman555 on May 31, 2011, 11:21:09 PM: You know what, I forgot about the most beautiful bomber ever made.

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee239/bigbobCH/b47-625x450.jpg)

-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on May 31, 2011, 11:29:22 PM: Quote from: B-17 on May 31, 2011, 10:15:38 PM
WWII

YB-40

Modern-ish

B-36

Modern

B-52G

You realize the B36 and B52 were only 6 years apart, right?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on May 31, 2011, 11:34:36 PM: Quote from: Spikes on May 31, 2011, 08:44:10 PM
(http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~yg155202/images/f14.jpg)
Sexiest bird ever to take flight.
:aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ACE on May 31, 2011, 11:37:54 PM: Quote from: Spikes on May 31, 2011, 08:44:10 PM
(http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~yg155202/images/f14.jpg)
Sexiest bird ever to take flight.
Sexy
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab110/jojopowers21/F-35.jpg)
Only reason I like it is because my brother helped test it :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: GNucks on May 31, 2011, 11:38:28 PM: The trifecta!

(http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/F-22-Raptor-F-15-Eagle-and-P-51-Mustang%20Wallpaper__yvt2.jpg)

The beautiful blue-nosed Pony, the 'ol top-dog Eagle, and the new hotness for decades to come!
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Raphael on June 01, 2011, 12:16:28 AM: (http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/albums/other/IAR_80s_nearest_to_and_farthest_from_camera_and_IAR_80Bs_somewhere_over_either_a_Romania_or_b_the_Soviet_Union_in_1942.sized.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2212/2146468135_37b4154628.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Latrobe on June 01, 2011, 12:22:38 AM: WWII: Spitfire or Me-109, both are beautiful fighters

Modern Day: Any of the SU's, Su-33 and Su-37 are my top 2 favorites out of the series.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ACE on June 01, 2011, 12:27:22 AM: Quote from: GNucks on May 31, 2011, 11:38:28 PM
The trifecta!

(http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/F-22-Raptor-F-15-Eagle-and-P-51-Mustang%20Wallpaper__yvt2.jpg)

The beautiful blue-nosed Pony, the 'ol top-dog Eagle, and the new hotness for decades to come!
Sir that is absolutly beautiful.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on June 01, 2011, 12:30:59 AM: You would think those stubby wings and big top end would require a long runway but they get up in pretty short order.

Stops and backs up nicely but unbelievably loud to anybody standing line of sight to the compressor...which is screaming away just a few inches inside the opening.

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/1/0/8/0760801.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Guppy35 on June 01, 2011, 12:44:48 AM: The OP comment on the F4 Phantom was beyond ridiculous.

That being said. Historically nothing will top the Spitfire XII for me. P51B and P38F/G/H are tied for second.
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/41SpitXIIs.jpg)

In game, it's the 38G
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/CorkyJr.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Debrody on June 01, 2011, 01:05:58 AM: Debrődy György's F-4, 1943
(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m601/Debrody/tumblr_ky2uy32bU21qb4tmlo2_500.jpg)
And almost forgot this one: Horthy's MÁVAG Héja
(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m601/Debrody/fot017.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cut67 on June 01, 2011, 02:24:52 AM: I was told that they were really crappy and had alot of problems eh stupid friends i guess
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Guppy35 on June 01, 2011, 02:28:19 AM: Quote from: cut67 on June 01, 2011, 02:24:52 AM
I was told that they were really crappy and had alot of problems eh stupid friends i guess

Books can be a really good friend to you when researching a particular plane. The history of the Phantom is well documented as is it's combat career that continues to this day. They still serve as front line birds in a number of countries.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: clerick on June 01, 2011, 02:30:04 AM: S.A.P.P. landing...
(http://p38assn.org/images/p38s/feathered.jpg)

For those times when piston-driven blenders just wont cut it...
(http://brianchaney.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/500x_lockheed_sr-71_blackbird2.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: SilverZ06 on June 01, 2011, 03:49:24 AM: the two birds cleric posted above plus this....
(http://webspace.webring.com/people/dt/tomcatter_lu/aircraft/a10a2.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Karnak on June 01, 2011, 04:26:29 AM: Shocking, I know, but:

Mosquito FB.Mk VI:
(http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/watermark.php?file=5134)

Spitfire F.Mk XIV:
(http://spitfiresite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sptfire-717507.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: CAP1 on June 01, 2011, 07:47:18 AM: Quote from: cut67 on June 01, 2011, 02:24:52 AM
I was told that they were really crappy and had alot of problems eh stupid friends i guess

the only thing wrong with the phantoms(besides the splitting fuel tank problem) was the early ones, which lacked a gun. the govt. fixed that.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: MachFly on June 01, 2011, 07:54:30 AM: Not in order.

Spitfire mk XIV

(http://www.spitfireperformance.com/610sqdn-spit14.jpg)

MXS-R

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4528076644_aaeda69f1c.jpg)

DA42

(http://www.diamondstar.flyer.co.uk/da42_9.jpeg)

C-17

(http://www.insidesocal.com/presscorps/c17-canada.jpg)

F-22 (ones they fix the damn oxygen system)

(http://sp5.fotolog.com/photo/37/50/83/rac_02/1233428997922_f.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: jollyFE on June 01, 2011, 08:08:57 AM: (http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww318/eddiechip_2009/110207-F-3301S-386.jpg)

Work
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: thndregg on June 01, 2011, 08:13:07 AM: Need you ask?

(http://www.collingsfoundation.org/media/press_images/b-17ggate.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Shane on June 01, 2011, 08:14:06 AM: FYI mach and karnak posted a different shot of the same spit xiv (from diff angles, but probably same roll of film + photographer.)

So.... has that spit been skinned in game? :noid
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: tmetal on June 01, 2011, 08:56:00 AM: <-- See profile picture for #1
#2 B17
#3 F14
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LCADolby on June 01, 2011, 08:57:49 AM: (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/17/article-1387958-0ADD9365000005DC-523_634x347.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slate on June 01, 2011, 09:22:48 AM: Quote from: GNucks on May 31, 2011, 11:38:28 PM
The trifecta!

(http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/F-22-Raptor-F-15-Eagle-and-P-51-Mustang%20Wallpaper__yvt2.jpg)

The beautiful blue-nosed Pony, the 'ol top-dog Eagle, and the new hotness for decades to come!

Interesting how similar the F-15 is to the Raptor. An Improvement on a great design.
I concur on the the best looking and effective Prop driven fighter ever.
(http://i376.photobucket.com/albums/oo204/Ridgerunner85/RR.jpg)(http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae144/workky/054.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Vinkman on June 01, 2011, 09:32:00 AM: Still waiting for AcesHigh to get mine in the game :salute

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/5786151809_70a0c91edc_m.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/5786253545_c0ff0c7d12_m.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: MachFly on June 01, 2011, 09:33:20 AM: Quote from: Slate on June 01, 2011, 09:22:48 AM
I concur on the the best looking and effective Prop driven fighter ever.

You do know that you posted a picture of a P-51, right? :devil :bolt:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slate on June 01, 2011, 09:36:01 AM: Quote from: MachFly on June 01, 2011, 09:33:20 AM
You do know that you posted a picture of a P-51, right? :devil :bolt:
Yes and the spitfire though effective is quite ugly. :bolt:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: curry1 on June 01, 2011, 09:47:44 AM: Quote from: Slate on June 01, 2011, 09:36:01 AM
Yes and the spitfire though effective is quite ugly. :bolt:

That is a lie :lol. The spitfire is easily one of the top 3 good looking aircraft in any list.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on June 01, 2011, 09:50:05 AM: Quote from: cut67 on June 01, 2011, 02:24:52 AM
I was told that they were really crappy and had alot of problems eh stupid friends i guess

Now, that you've got correct (about your friends). It's a good idea to research from a reliable source before making a statement that makes you look, ah, your word. How many hours have any of your "friends" logged flying the Phantom?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Oldman731 on June 01, 2011, 10:17:54 AM: Favorite fighter (and fighter pilot, Robert S. Johnson) (the plane and pilot in foreground, for those who may not be familiar with the incident):

(http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff406/Oldman731/NOTMYTUR.jpg)

Favorite bomber. To me this plane symbolizes the pinnacle of American 20th Century air power:

(http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff406/Oldman731/RB36.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: MachFly on June 01, 2011, 10:49:12 AM: Quote from: Slate on June 01, 2011, 09:36:01 AM
Yes and the spitfire though effective is quite ugly. :bolt:

:lol
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: B-17 on June 01, 2011, 10:58:51 AM: Quote from: Tupac on May 31, 2011, 11:29:22 PM
You realize the B36 and B52 were only 6 years apart, right?
\

yeah, i do, but the B-52 is still in service. which makes it modern (or at least moreso than the B-36) by my standards
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: MachFly on June 01, 2011, 11:08:37 AM: Quote from: B-17 on June 01, 2011, 10:58:51 AM
\

yeah, i do, but the B-52 is still in service. which makes it modern (or at least moreso than the B-36) by my standards

If something is still in service does not mean it's modern, it means it's still useful & good. It also means that it's replacement is not worth the money.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ink on June 01, 2011, 11:15:19 AM: thats easy in RL
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/P40.jpg)
in game
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/killin_38_edited.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Butcher on June 01, 2011, 11:22:09 AM: (http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Displays/CombatFoes/RiversideZeroF6f.jpg)

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Displays/CombatFoes/MigChasingF86.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/f4u-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Shuffler on June 01, 2011, 11:23:19 AM: My favorite is... it's umm ... oh what's it called... hold on.............

:uhoh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ink on June 01, 2011, 11:45:36 AM: Quote from: Shuffler on June 01, 2011, 11:23:19 AM
My favorite is... it's umm ... oh what's it called... hold on.............

:uhoh

:rofl
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Torcher on June 01, 2011, 12:56:29 PM: A-10 Warthog. Any thing with a gun like this has to be good.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/TonyRockyhorror/GAU.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on June 01, 2011, 01:06:45 PM: Quote from: ink on June 01, 2011, 11:15:19 AM
thats easy in RL
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/P40.jpg)
in game
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/killin_38_edited.jpg)
I always liked you best. :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ink on June 01, 2011, 01:43:22 PM: Quote from: Slash27 on June 01, 2011, 01:06:45 PM
I always liked you best. :D

:D

at least someone does...I guess I am blocked and even hated by a few :uhoh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cut67 on June 01, 2011, 02:00:49 PM: Quote from: jollyFE on June 01, 2011, 08:08:57 AM
(http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww318/eddiechip_2009/110207-F-3301S-386.jpg)

Work
thats what ima fly when i get into the army flight warrant officer program UH60s FTW HOOAH
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on June 01, 2011, 02:04:59 PM: Quote from: ink on June 01, 2011, 01:43:22 PM

:D

at least someone does...I guess I am blocked and even hated by a few :uhoh

Well, I would consider one you are blocked by to be a compliment.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ink on June 01, 2011, 02:17:16 PM: Quote from: Slash27 on June 01, 2011, 02:04:59 PM
Well, I would consider one you are blocked by to be a compliment.

very true :cheers:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Zoney on June 01, 2011, 02:24:53 PM: Quote from: ink on June 01, 2011, 02:17:16 PM
very true :cheers:

INK, that just makes them weak, afraid your opinions will lead them down the dark path because they have none of their own.

My favorite plane, ever, P38.

I suck in it on AH though. Oh wait, thats no different than any other aircraft I crash.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: boingg on June 01, 2011, 03:56:26 PM: Always been fond of the Super Sabre
(http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u352/trackpad/DSC_0156.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: dhyran on June 01, 2011, 04:10:35 PM: my beloved ride is the Pony, as long as you treat her right she brings you home save, the most alcohol friendly bird in all sims :cheers:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5462487325_aaf2fa066d.jpg)

from the point my shooting abilities this one is my ride, i can kill up to 600 yards with a hit ratio of 10%, love it :)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3869980904_281c4790fd.jpg)

from my engineering standpoint this one would make it through :rock

(http://www.world-war-2-planes.com/images/Fw190_infl_550_flat.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 01, 2011, 05:39:08 PM: Quote from: icepac on June 01, 2011, 12:30:59 AM
You would think those stubby wings and big top end would require a long runway but they get up in pretty short order.

Stops and backs up nicely but unbelievably loud to anybody standing line of sight to the compressor...which is screaming away just a few inches inside the opening.

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/1/0/8/0760801.jpg)

I am truly amazed that anyone would pick an MU-2.

I would have piled on with the rest of the Phantom crowd, but that horse has been well and truly beaten.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: IrishOne on June 01, 2011, 06:01:31 PM: (http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af263/irishone920/Fw_190As_in_flight.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ElectricOne on June 01, 2011, 06:39:25 PM: Ah... let the dreaming begin:

Fun to fly machine #1:

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1172/4601997232_e8a44f643f_o.jpg)

Family / all around airplane:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TIbnqGXEMYw/TS9ATtIy9mI/AAAAAAAAEdM/OkPG4PJcg4I/s1600/FEBE+F-GETJ_BeechKingAir90_tof_1_g.jpg)

Land anywhere airplane:

(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2011/05/supercub5.jpg)

Stick and rudder machine:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rmSZ9e0J5yI/TStIAxUgbhI/AAAAAAAAALk/UHDP-ZJL7xc/s1600/MXS-R+1.jpg)

Jet stick and rudder:

(http://migluver.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/mig17picdetail.jpg)

Mach 2+ plus one passenger:

(http://indexofwallpapers.com/wallpapers/f-15-eagle-wallpapers/f-15-eagle-wallpaper-11-11187.jpg)

I just got to have one: (Spitfire would also be nice, but I have to pick one of the same type)

(http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51registry/images/p51-4463864-main.jpg)

This one: (No reason, a pure and simple open cockpit radial engine machine that's all about good old days)

(http://www.air-and-space.com/20040813%20Hawthorne/DSC_2266%20Stearman%20PT-17%20N79997%20left%20front%20landing%20l.jpg)

But in reality, I'd be really happy if I will ever be able to own one of these:

(http://www.beechcraft.org/vtail/p911eza/N911eza.jpg)

Or at least one of these:

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/5189306663_4b923f977b_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: rayace1 on June 01, 2011, 06:50:48 PM: HERE'S A REAL BAD BOY :t :t
:(http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Convair-B-36J-Peacemaker/1923878/L/)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: GNucks on June 01, 2011, 06:52:14 PM: Quote from: rayace1 on June 01, 2011, 06:50:48 PM
HERE'S A REAL BAD BOY :t :t
:(http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Convair-B-36J-Peacemaker/1923878/L/)

You need to copy the image URL, not the page URL.

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/8/7/8/1923878.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 01, 2011, 07:14:25 PM: Quote from: redman555 on May 31, 2011, 11:21:09 PM
You know what, I forgot about the most beautiful bomber ever made.

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee239/bigbobCH/b47-625x450.jpg)

-BigBOBCH

B-47-Stratojet-Great bird for early cold war balance of power...very short lived. Did it ever drop bombs in action?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 01, 2011, 07:16:11 PM: Quote from: GNucks on May 31, 2011, 11:38:28 PM
The trifecta!

(http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/F-22-Raptor-F-15-Eagle-and-P-51-Mustang%20Wallpaper__yvt2.jpg)

The beautiful blue-nosed Pony, the 'ol top-dog Eagle, and the new hotness for decades to come!

All best of their times. :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: B4Buster on June 01, 2011, 07:18:00 PM: The bird I solo'd in

(http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp278/B4B/sport020.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 01, 2011, 07:26:33 PM: (http://www.aviationexplorer.com/Commercial_Airliners-Military_Aircraft_Pictures/North_American_XB-70_in_Flight.jpg)

very short lived, but very cool at the time, very expensive when it crashed, & it did. The Look made us young guys go ape just like you youngsters do now over the F-35 types.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: B-17 on June 01, 2011, 07:27:56 PM: Quote from: W7LPNRICK on June 01, 2011, 07:26:33 PM
(http://www.aviationexplorer.com/Commercial_Airliners-Military_Aircraft_Pictures/North_American_XB-70_in_Flight.jpg)

what is that??
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 01, 2011, 07:32:36 PM: Quote from: GNucks on June 01, 2011, 06:52:14 PM
You need to copy the image URL, not the page URL.

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/8/7/8/1923878.jpg)

Just an in-between bomber to make the Russians think we were keeping ahead of them, It was really loud! And sucked fuel like a sieve.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Vinkman on June 01, 2011, 07:56:40 PM: Quote from: B-17 on June 01, 2011, 07:27:56 PM
what is that??

North American Aviation B-70 Valkyrie. Mach 3.0 Strategic Bomber.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: olds442 on June 01, 2011, 08:19:07 PM: WW2(you know)

(http://www.panzergeneral.de/images/he177.jpg)
HE177 :O
after WW2

(http://www.vliegtuigen.net/pictures/f86.jpg)

F86!
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: B-17 on June 01, 2011, 08:21:51 PM: Quote from: Vinkman on June 01, 2011, 07:56:40 PM
North American Aviation B-70 Valkyrie. Mach 3.0 Strategic Bomber.

thank you. never heard of it. i thought it was the B-1 for a second, but the wings are different, and it has the canards on the nose.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 01, 2011, 11:38:54 PM: They have one at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio. It's one of the few bombers I know of that looks like
it should get a speeding ticket for standing still :D

(http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dscn1587.jpg?w=655&h=368)

The B-58 would be the other one with a citation, even with that butt-ugly fuel/bomb pod on it :aok

(http://www.tacomaworld.com/gallery/data/500/b-58hustler-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: curry1 on June 01, 2011, 11:47:26 PM: Quote from: W7LPNRICK on June 01, 2011, 07:14:25 PM
B-47-Stratojet-Great bird for early cold war balance of power...very short lived. Did it ever drop bombs in action?

Nope.

Was talking to a crew Member in the B-29 FiFi of the CAF said he was a engineer on the 29 and the 47. Once the 47 got to altitude the Sabres couldn't keep up.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: kilo2 on June 01, 2011, 11:47:53 PM: After WW2
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g256/BloodyBandage/mig-25r002.jpg)

WW2

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g256/BloodyBandage/152jg301.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Raphael on June 02, 2011, 02:10:44 AM: well the unefective ninja turtle mobile is really cool too
(http://ram-home.com/ram-old/hurricane-2d.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on June 02, 2011, 09:24:12 AM: 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.

(http://midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/va25specbomb-010b.jpg)

In response to the mig 17 picture......

(http://www.midwaysailor.com/midway1960/va25ne577-001b.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Seanaldinho on June 02, 2011, 02:30:40 PM: Quote from: Rino on June 01, 2011, 11:38:54 PM
They have one at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio. It's one of the few bombers I know of that looks like
it should get a speeding ticket for standing still :D

(http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dscn1587.jpg?w=655&h=368)

Yea that F-23 is pretty sexy :D :banana: :banana:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 02, 2011, 03:00:42 PM: Quote from: CAP1 on June 01, 2011, 07:47:18 AM
the only thing wrong with the phantoms(besides the splitting fuel tank problem) was the early ones, which lacked a gun. the govt. fixed that.

Technically the government <US Navy> broke it in the first place :D The original design was supposed to
mount 4 20mm cannon, but the squids decided to go all missile instead. To give them their due, they stuck to
their no gun policy, even after the E model became available in 1967 :lol
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: iron650 on June 02, 2011, 03:06:49 PM: Quote from: Rino on June 02, 2011, 03:00:42 PM
Technically the government <US Navy> broke it in the first place :D The original design was supposed to
mount 4 20mm cannon, but the squids decided to go all missile instead. To give them their due, they stuck to
their no gun policy, even after the E model became available in 1967 :lol

Didn't they give the R model a single 20mm vulcan gatling?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: hitech on June 02, 2011, 03:08:08 PM: In case anyone had any doubt.

(http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/322/322876.jpg)

HiTech
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: The Fugitive on June 02, 2011, 03:21:00 PM: You could have at least done a knife edge for the photo! :devil
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Nr_RaVeN on June 02, 2011, 03:24:16 PM: Quote from: hitech on June 02, 2011, 03:08:08 PM
In case anyone had any doubt.

(http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/322/322876.jpg)

HiTech

Glad we could help
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Guppy35 on June 02, 2011, 03:57:59 PM: Quote from: iron650 on June 02, 2011, 03:06:49 PM
Didn't they give the R model a single 20mm vulcan gatling?

What R Model?

US Navy/US Marine Phantoms
F4B
F4J
F4N (updated B)
F4S (Updated J)
RF4B

USAF Phantoms
F4C
F4D
F4E Internal cannon
F4G
RF4C

British Phantoms with Rolls Royce Spey engines
F4K (Royal Navy)
F4M (Royal Air Force)

Japanese Phantoms
F4EJ Internal cannon
RF4EJ

German Phantoms
F4F Internal cannon
RF4F

Isreal has/Had
F4E Internal cannon
RF4E

RAAF had RF4E

No F4R that I ever heard of.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 02, 2011, 05:43:49 PM: Quote from: iron650 on June 02, 2011, 03:06:49 PM
Didn't they give the R model a single 20mm vulcan gatling?

You must be thinking of the E, the Germans used an F that was basically an improved E.

The improvements to the E model included the AN/APQ-120 fire control radar and an internal M-61A1 Vulcan
cannon. They also improved the fuel tankage and goosed the engines a tad.

(http://www.zootoyz.jp/media/60310-4.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 02, 2011, 05:48:05 PM: Look guys, the Avro Vulcan just launched a bunch of cruise missiles! Ok, ok they're BAE Hawks, but they COULD be
cruise missiles :D

(http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/assets_c/2010/07/_DSC2574-1_edited-1-thumb-560x371-83006.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 02, 2011, 05:51:10 PM: You forgot the QF-4E Gupster, much as it kills me to see it :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 02, 2011, 05:58:05 PM: The King of Suck....Squeeze, Bang and Blow :rofl

(http://cdn.globalaircraft.org/media/img/planes/lowres/f-4_5.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: StabOps on June 02, 2011, 07:27:20 PM: I'm thinkin the OP wanted a really nice aviation wallpaper collection....Thats what im doin with this thread.

Thanks guys,

Stab
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cactuskooler on June 02, 2011, 07:39:21 PM: (http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/image012-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: StokesAk on June 02, 2011, 08:52:38 PM: :Drool

P38 porn.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LCADolby on June 03, 2011, 08:54:27 AM: Quote from: icepac on June 02, 2011, 09:24:12 AM
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.

(http://midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/va25specbomb-010b.jpg)

There is a Toilet Bomb on that wing :O
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Seanaldinho on June 03, 2011, 11:30:54 AM: Quote from: StokesAk on June 02, 2011, 08:52:38 PM
:Drool

P38 porn.

:rofl :rofl :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on June 03, 2011, 11:48:39 AM: Quote from: Rino on June 02, 2011, 05:58:05 PM
The King of Suck....Squeeze, Bang and Blow :rofl

(http://cdn.globalaircraft.org/media/img/planes/lowres/f-4_5.jpg)

Ya baby! Stroke it Double Ugly! :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: gpwurzel on June 03, 2011, 11:54:45 AM: Quote from: cactuskooler on June 02, 2011, 07:39:21 PM
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/image012-1.jpg)

Excellent pic Cactus, stolen for my desktop (if you dont mind)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Soulyss on June 03, 2011, 12:47:26 PM: I don't have a plane, but here's what was left of the plane my uncle flew after he was finished with it.
(http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq209/Soulyss/Uncle%20Roy/1AAC447thBS_LovelyLady.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Wildcat1 on June 03, 2011, 02:08:16 PM: Quote from: cactuskooler on June 02, 2011, 07:39:21 PM
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/image012-1.jpg)

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

i gotta cheer for the underdog:
(http://www.warbirddepot.com/dbimages/1/1-a-1280.jpg)

postwar?
(http://www.fbhsli.org/Grumman_F-14.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on June 04, 2011, 11:07:26 AM: Quote from: LCADolby on June 03, 2011, 08:54:27 AM
There is a Toilet Bomb on that wing :O

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

577 also flew the toilet drop mission.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LLogann on June 04, 2011, 11:35:51 AM: (http://www.livingwarbirds.com/images/fighter-aircraft-pics/boeing-p-26-peashooter.jpg)

(http://www.timemoneyandblood.com/images/aircraftBritish/swordfish.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: mthrockmor on June 04, 2011, 12:13:21 PM: 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
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on June 04, 2011, 04:02:04 PM: F15 is the king of all plane vs plane stats.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Sunka on June 04, 2011, 07:01:48 PM: Quote from: icepac on June 04, 2011, 04:02:04 PM
F15 is the king of all plane vs plane stats.

eaa , :old:

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.

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/P_Faust69/P-51.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on June 04, 2011, 07:14:51 PM: "Hamburger is still hamburger, no matter what you wrap it in" sayeth the underdog. :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Seanaldinho on June 05, 2011, 03:27:42 PM: Quote from: Puma44 on June 04, 2011, 07:14:51 PM
"Hamburger is still hamburger, no matter what you wrap it in" sayeth the underdog. :D

Yea but sometimes if "it just doesn't taste the same" you end up augering. :devil
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 05, 2011, 08:49:12 PM: 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 :salute, 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.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/F-111A-366th-tfw-mountain-home-AFB.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LLogann on June 05, 2011, 11:55:28 PM: Eat Me
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: rayace1 on June 06, 2011, 10:28:13 AM: (http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Boeing-B-52H-Stratofortress/1928128/&sid=4793c6268db7b70b98ccadc890fa6b1b/image.gif)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on June 06, 2011, 11:58:00 AM: Ah.....the "X-plane"
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cut67 on June 14, 2011, 12:18:23 AM: B-17 were legit
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: fwav8or on June 14, 2011, 01:06:31 AM: RC-12N Guardrail
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/9/1/7/1045719.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Gaboon on June 14, 2011, 01:15:48 AM: My all time favori(http://)te Jet fighter
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on June 14, 2011, 02:27:52 AM: My friend took a really good one, and its too late to edit my last past so........

(http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/249778_2080413776153_1419322240_32376966_3073570_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on June 14, 2011, 02:47:45 AM: (http://www.kilroywashere.org/09-Images/Woody/Ki-84-1.jpg)
AH
(http://www.rb-29.net/html/04.paavtnart/PAShowScans/LateAdditions3/BlackWidow1.jpg)
AH wishlist
(http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/f14_tomcat.jpg)
And when I win the Mega-Millions I'm getting two of these in VF-84 colors.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ozrocker on June 14, 2011, 08:04:56 PM: Quote from: cut67 on May 31, 2011, 06:35:37 PM
Phantoms were a mistake to have been bought i guess thats what the goverment said that they were horrible planes but they look cool man nice choice!
Where on Earth did you get this? Phantoms were MIG killers in Vietnam, with an extreme K/D for :aok
Tell that to Duke Cunningham.
<S> Oz
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: fbEagle on June 15, 2011, 10:13:54 AM: AH
(http://www.p40warhawk.com/Models/Builds/RodneyWilliams/P-40E_1/P40E_1_11.jpg)
Modern day
(http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/7/4/501ad292-fb77-46c9-a279-ebec39a18d01.jpg)
Fantasy Plane
(http://www.megafortress.com/newsletter/mega32.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on June 15, 2011, 10:28:21 AM: Quote from: fbEagle on June 15, 2011, 10:13:54 AM
AH
(http://www.p40warhawk.com/Models/Builds/RodneyWilliams/P-40E_1/P40E_1_11.jpg)
Modern day
(http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/7/4/501ad292-fb77-46c9-a279-ebec39a18d01.jpg)
Fantasy Plane
(http://www.megafortress.com/newsletter/mega32.jpg)

wtf is the third plane?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on June 15, 2011, 10:52:23 AM: ]
Quote from: ozrocker on June 14, 2011, 08:04:56 PM
Where on Earth did you get this? Phantoms were MIG killers in Vietnam, with an extreme K/D for :aok
Tell that to Duke Cunningham.
<S> Oz

He is just another ignorant comment from an empty clue bag, Oz. :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Reaper90 on June 15, 2011, 12:12:13 PM: Hmmmmm..... the plane as Sexxay you say?

WWII.... there is no doubt where my heart is....

(http://www.world-war-2-planes.com/images/tempestflying_550.jpg)

and her older sister

(http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter2/hawker_typhoons/typhoon_z-z.jpg)

(http://images.rcuniverse.com/forum/upfiles/313566/Ay75835.jpg)

Jets? The Aardvark owns all for being daownright gorgeous...

(http://www.aviationearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/f111_11.jpg)

but the Phantom is all kind of awesome as well...

(http://www.collingsfoundation.org/images/f4%201.gif)

General aviation.. well.... there are a lot that make my pulse quicken....

(http://www.iflyez.com/N961EZ.jpg)

Long EZ

(http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Proshold.JPG)

I'm a big fan of the Bowers Fly Baby and would love to build one some day.....

(http://www.airmuseumsuk.org/airshow/2004/Shut040704/800/images/269%20Chilton%20DW.1.jpg)

But then again the Chilton DH1 is a gorgeous little pre-war art deco bird, and I already have a set of plans for her.....
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: xbrit on June 15, 2011, 08:27:47 PM: Quote from: Noir on June 15, 2011, 10:28:21 AM
wtf is the third plane?
Read "Flight of the Old Dog" by Dale Brown.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: DERK13 on June 15, 2011, 09:29:48 PM: 303rd Bomber Group all the way!!!! gotta love the B17s(http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k568/DERK13/imagesCA9D1I4Z.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 15, 2011, 09:46:10 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvObtxH2EY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvObtxH2EY)

When ya have no internal guns.... :x
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 15, 2011, 09:54:55 PM: Quote from: Reaper90 on June 15, 2011, 12:12:13 PM
Hmmmmm..... the plane as Sexxay you say?
But then again the Chilton DH1 is a gorgeous little pre-war art deco bird, and I already have a set of plans for her.....

At Mt Home AFB I saw a Photo of an Ardvark (F-111) with 5 M-61 Vulcan gun pods mounted. It was of course a photo op only. The ammo guys said it would tear off the mounts to fire them all at once from vibration. When it was first deployed with the Ardvarks, a rear mount broke tipping the barrel up & shot the nose off the bird. :confused:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 15, 2011, 10:12:31 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PSOoaPVeE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PSOoaPVeE) Very good video about Ardvarks. It shows the cockpit separation I spoke of earlier in another thread. :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Shuffler on June 16, 2011, 02:22:46 PM: (http://www.plumcreekmarketing.com/03flyinstuff/images/fullsize/020005.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: STEELE on June 16, 2011, 03:02:52 PM: Sweet ship, Shuffler! I see she's Allison powered, hey?
:D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 16, 2011, 03:25:10 PM: I think that is a little too much bird for Shuffler :lol
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Devil 505 on June 16, 2011, 04:38:11 PM: I dont think so, only one prop.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on June 16, 2011, 05:05:25 PM: Quote from: W7LPNRICK on June 15, 2011, 10:12:31 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PSOoaPVeE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PSOoaPVeE) Very good video about Ardvarks. It shows the cockpit separation I spoke of earlier in another thread. :salute
SAM footage is pretty spooky. :(
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on June 16, 2011, 07:01:09 PM: Quote from: Slash27 on June 16, 2011, 05:05:25 PM
SAM footage is pretty spooky. :(

Yup, what I was thinking. Bet that pilot had some serious pucker power goin' on. :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: WYOKIDIII on June 16, 2011, 08:05:06 PM: I'm too stupid to post a picture here. If I could it would be The absolutely most beautifull aircraft ever built .
The Lockheed Constellation.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on June 16, 2011, 08:06:49 PM: (http://www.air-and-space.com/nellis97/C121A%20N494TW%20right%20side%20in%20flight%20l.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on June 16, 2011, 08:39:56 PM: Makes a nice diner too :D
Greenwood Lake Airport, NY.

(http://www.experimentalairplane.com/quebec/connie-mustang.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Oldman731 on June 16, 2011, 09:03:45 PM: Quote from: Rino on June 16, 2011, 08:39:56 PM
Makes a nice diner too
Greenwood Lake Airport, NY.

One of my favorite approaches, right over that hotel. Often wondered what it must be like to be in a room on the top floor on the south side.

- oldman
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: WYOKIDIII on June 17, 2011, 10:19:24 AM: Quote from: Slash27 on June 16, 2011, 08:06:49 PM
(http://www.air-and-space.com/nellis97/C121A%20N494TW%20right%20side%20in%20flight%20l.jpg)

Thanks Slash...gorgeous aint she's not a combat aircraft but iirc she did do a bit of troop hauling at the end of the war.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Slash27 on June 17, 2011, 09:51:18 PM: (http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/lockheed-constellation_2.jpg)

I read today that Ike's Constellation might be restored. :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Hap on June 18, 2011, 07:21:07 AM: Quote from: Slash27 on June 17, 2011, 09:51:18 PM
(http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/lockheed-constellation_2.jpg)

I read today that Ike's Constellation might be restored. :aok
pretty airplane. was inside MacArthur's Connie . . . forget where it was now.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Volron on June 18, 2011, 03:45:55 PM: Quote from: Oldman731 on June 01, 2011, 10:17:54 AM

Favorite fighter (and fighter pilot, Robert S. Johnson) (the plane and pilot in foreground, for those who may not be familiar with the incident):

(http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff406/Oldman731/NOTMYTUR.jpg)

Favorite bomber. To me this plane symbolizes the pinnacle of American 20th Century air power:

(http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff406/Oldman731/RB36.jpg)

Mind telling me the story behind that first picture?

I've seen many photos of planes, and I have to say....I like them all. :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: beau32 on June 26, 2011, 10:00:01 AM: (http://sitelife.aviationweek.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/3/5/33a641ec-2a60-47eb-8511-3c7f29255a71.Full.jpg)

Just joined Lockheed Martin in April, and I am assigned as a mechanic on F-35 Lightning II known as AF-7. Above is a picture of it. Deffently a fun plane to work on.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: fwav8or on November 20, 2012, 09:46:29 PM: HC-144A Ocean Sentry
(http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n486/fwav8or/2301.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: save on November 21, 2012, 07:29:41 AM: (http://i42.servimg.com/u/f42/14/22/55/57/fw190-10.jpg)

(http://air-attack.com/images/single/829/Gripen-NG-Demonstrator-with-Iris-T-Meteor-and-GBU10.html)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: caldera on November 21, 2012, 08:12:40 AM: (http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/f6f-hellcat-920-27.jpg)

(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/jug.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ink on November 21, 2012, 09:19:52 AM: (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/AH_stuff/C_M1_zps8bca5a92.jpg)

(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/deathheadstrikesagain-1.jpg)

(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/ScreenHunter_01Dec030546.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Nath[BDP] on November 22, 2012, 12:49:54 AM: I've always had a fetish for the Foxbat/Foxhound. Like some F15 on 'roids.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-31_inflight_Pichugin.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/MiG-31_Foxhound.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-25.jpg)

MiG 21 too

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Misc/VietnameseAirForce/VietnameseMig21Taxying.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Debrody on November 22, 2012, 01:27:35 AM: I belive the F-15 was designed after the Foxbat. Have you heard about Victor Belanko's story?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: bozon on November 22, 2012, 12:31:31 PM: Quote from: Nath[BDP] on November 22, 2012, 12:49:54 AM
I've always had a fetish for the Foxbat/Foxhound. Like some F15 on 'roids.
...
MiG 21 too
...
Mig 25 is and was poop for anything except photo-rec, unless it is going against airliners that is.

Mig 21 was a very effective plane. Not because it was so good, it was only decent vs. the western opposition, but it was very cheap and extremely low maintenance. If your plan is to overwhelm the enemy with numbers - make it cheap. As much as I like the 21, it is but a firefly next to a searchlight when compared to the glory of its classic opponent - the Mirage III.

Besides, everyone knows that the coolest man made machine to ever to get off the ground is the de Havilland Mosquito
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz8vJoC8Oqc/T9ajdJQmKcI/AAAAAAAADas/gjHrcjUzCyg/s1600/DeHavillandMosquito.jpg)

(http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/de_Havilland_Mosquito_Wallpaper_iqy73.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on November 22, 2012, 04:24:31 PM: Quote from: Nath[BDP] on November 22, 2012, 12:49:54 AM
I've always had a fetish for the Foxbat/Foxhound. Like some F15 on 'roids.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-31_inflight_Pichugin.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/MiG-31_Foxhound.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-25.jpg)

MiG 21 too

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Misc/VietnameseAirForce/VietnameseMig21Taxying.jpg)

that first picture made me drool, there is something mean, bulky and soviet about this machine :rock

As a kid I've always liked black proto Rafales

(http://www.seekcodes.com/backgrounds/AirCraft/dassault-rafale.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: titanic3 on November 22, 2012, 05:06:14 PM: (http://images.wikia.com/acecombat/images/5/51/Dlc03_su-47-raz_03.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uFlMHt8O5pY/TsE344VDhyI/AAAAAAAAAyU/uKyajoKQ2qw/s1600/su47cv6.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Stellaris on November 22, 2012, 09:52:53 PM: The legendary Avro Arrow. I got my lovely bride a desk model of this for her birthday. I'm lucky enough to have a woman who thinks this is the coolest gift she could have gotten. Well, except maybe her dress sword...

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o9F_8SfiYCE/TfKqqiphvgI/AAAAAAAAAGY/oY1gdRh8cZc/s640/1.JPG)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: RedBull1 on November 22, 2012, 10:08:31 PM: Quote from: titanic3 on November 22, 2012, 05:06:14 PM
(http://images.wikia.com/acecombat/images/5/51/Dlc03_su-47-raz_03.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uFlMHt8O5pY/TsE344VDhyI/AAAAAAAAAyU/uKyajoKQ2qw/s1600/su47cv6.jpg)
Well someone tell those damn Russian's they put the wings on backwords :old:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Pongo on November 23, 2012, 12:46:47 AM: Hard to go wrong with the plane that freed 4 generations of Asians.
(http://imgc.artprintimages.com/images/art-print/j-r-eyerman-us-navy-sbd-dauntless-in-flight-during-palau-islands-air-raid-attack_i-G-27-2700-6HQUD00Z.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: BaldEagl on November 23, 2012, 01:38:33 AM: (http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/491405-bigthumbnail.jpg)

(http://hsfeatures.com/features04/images/Fw190A8_ICR02.jpg)

(http://www.pilotfriend.com/photo_albums/images14/100.jpg)

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Chino2008/Highlights/Mig15Chino08.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: nrshida on November 23, 2012, 08:40:45 AM: In game the Ki-84, OVT variant:-

(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k526/rwrk2/Ki-84OVT.jpg)

Hoping (forlornly at this point) to one day be added to the game:-

(http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6057/fa18181s.jpg)

Pre-war:-

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/DH.88_Comet_Racer_2010.jpg)

Civilian:-

(http://media.kansas.com/smedia/2012/05/03/16/49/1lcCtA.SlMa.80.jpg)

Interesting concept:-

(http://hsfeatures.com/features04/images/xf5u1ah_6.jpg)

British aircraft engineering at its finest:-

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/3/1/0568130.jpg)

(http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/vulcan1.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/De_Havilland_Hornet_F1.jpg)

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/8/1/9/0979918.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Concorde_on_Bristol.jpg)

Interesting jets:-

(http://cs969.vkontakte.ru/u16600561/101038160/x_0f1b4baa.jpg)

(http://home.windstream.net/jmustain/x-31.jpg)

(http://www.desktop.aero/appliedaero/potential3d/images/x29.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LCADolby on November 23, 2012, 08:45:03 AM: DeHavilland Comet, nice choise Shida. :aok I went to uni where that was built.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: GScholz on November 24, 2012, 11:38:08 AM: (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26232318/bf110.jpg)
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26232318/da42-1.jpg)
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26232318/da42-2.jpg)

What can I say... I like twins.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LilMak on November 24, 2012, 06:05:30 PM: My 170...
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/34587_1422851264168_833331_n.jpg)

P-40s just look bad ass!
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/6496_1136715830961_5208138_n.jpg)

LilMak
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Zodiac on November 25, 2012, 11:46:24 AM: Shocked that no one has mentioned it before. :confused:

(http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2010/04/634020764851639790-ac130gunship.jpg)

About the best description I have seen of the AC-130 :aok

(http://chivethebrigade.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ac-130-spooky-920-16.jpg)

(http://defenceanalyst.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/pic_ac-130specs.gif)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on November 25, 2012, 01:48:08 PM: the AC130 does have its thing
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: CZCH64 on November 25, 2012, 02:44:28 PM: (http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW11/Hs129A-0f-s.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW11/Hs129_09f-s.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW6/Hs129-25f.jpg)

Always liked ground attack aircraft, even as a kid. This was my favorite. Hs 129. Just looks nasty. With the Whirlwind a close second.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Karnak on November 25, 2012, 03:33:37 PM: Quote from: CZCH64 on November 25, 2012, 02:44:28 PM
(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW11/Hs129A-0f-s.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW11/Hs129_09f-s.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW6/Hs129-25f.jpg)

Always liked ground attack aircraft, even as a kid. This was my favorite. Hs 129. Just looks nasty. With the Whirlwind a close second.

My condolences. :p
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Seanaldinho on November 25, 2012, 05:01:13 PM: Quote from: CZCH64 on November 25, 2012, 02:44:28 PM
(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW11/Hs129A-0f-s.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW11/Hs129_09f-s.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW6/Hs129-25f.jpg)

Always liked ground attack aircraft, even as a kid. This was my favorite. Hs 129. Just looks nasty. With the Whirlwind a close second.

Thats a face only an engineer could love.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on November 25, 2012, 06:14:37 PM: (http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz138/dcwdavid/80C433CD-AFC8-46CB-836E-F7D1A4DD099D-4672-0000066CD07B1567.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: GScholz on November 25, 2012, 06:41:30 PM: Don't know why, but I can't get comfortable with the look of that forward-swept vert stab...
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on November 25, 2012, 06:52:54 PM: Quote from: GScholz on November 25, 2012, 06:41:30 PM
Don't know why, but I can't get comfortable with the look of that forward-swept vert stab...

The horizontal is swept forward too. It has a laminar flow wing - sometimes I like to pretend I'm flying a P51. I only go about 1/2 as fast but I only burn 1/6th the gas so I can't complain much.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on November 25, 2012, 07:49:16 PM: If I had unlimited monies, I would have one of these

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Lockheed_R7V-2_turboprop_Connie_in_flight_c1953.jpeg/800px-Lockheed_R7V-2_turboprop_Connie_in_flight_c1953.jpeg)

or one of these

(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/tu114/tu114_06.jpg)

I'd have one of these too

(http://www.cessna.com/MungoBlobs/492/617/cit_sov_ban.jpg)

Citation Sovereign, best looking bizjet IMO.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on November 26, 2012, 11:42:18 AM: F-4G WildWzl

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Misc/F4dAirToAir/F4PeelingOff.jpg)

They call me weasel!

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AcBUSVxs82w/TPvIxa1YDoI/AAAAAAAAjnQ/tpIZFy8r_7Y/s1600/I-Am-Weasel-Cartoon-Photos.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on November 26, 2012, 04:39:38 PM: Quote from: W7LPNRICK on November 26, 2012, 11:42:18 AM
F-4G WildWzl

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Misc/F4dAirToAir/F4PeelingOff.jpg)

They call me weasel!

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AcBUSVxs82w/TPvIxa1YDoI/AAAAAAAAjnQ/tpIZFy8r_7Y/s1600/I-Am-Weasel-Cartoon-Photos.jpg)

Actually, it's the Collings Foundation's F-4D.

Here's what the F-4E/G Wild Weasel looks like:

(http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/4230d6c9d78495b3a93b72ef84aa4a69.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Banshee7 on November 26, 2012, 05:07:16 PM: Forever and always...
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/lockheed-p38-lightning-georgia-peach.jpg)

As for the jet age, it's a close tie for these...

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/f-16-falcon-wallpaper-10-11197.jpg)

(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/A10.jpg)

and for some unknown reason my photobucket will not upload the F-14 pics :headscratch:

#S#

Josh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on November 27, 2012, 10:33:49 AM: Ooops my bad I didn't look closely. Caption said Wild Weasel. The "D" models I worked on had larger radomes with the black paint covering most of the nose because of the large radar fitted during Nam. The pic I chose looked much smaller to me like the E/RF4C
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on November 27, 2012, 11:10:51 AM: Wild Weasel is actually a mission description rather than a plane. True both E and G model Phantoms flew WW missions, but
the E model carried the nose mounted 20mm and the G carried a radar receiver in place of the gun and alot more SAM warning
antenna. Sorry to be anal, but my job in the air force was limited to E and G model Phantoms.

Not sure what they call the F-16s that fly SEAD <Suppression of Enemy Air Defences>, but I bet they are called Weasels too.
Kind of like why Hollywood picks handles like Maverick and Iceman instead of Stinkbutt or Petunia :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on November 27, 2012, 11:11:59 AM: Quote from: Puma44 on November 26, 2012, 04:39:38 PM
Actually, it's the Collings Foundation's F-4D.

Here's what the F-4E/G Wild Weasel looks like:

(http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/4230d6c9d78495b3a93b72ef84aa4a69.jpg)

I think that guy is lost, no SAMs in orbit yet :D
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Vinkman on November 27, 2012, 12:41:31 PM: Quote from: Rino on November 27, 2012, 11:10:51 AM
Not sure what they call the F-16s that fly SEAD <Suppression of Enemy Air Defences>, but I bet they are called Weasels too.
Kind of like why Hollywood picks handles like Maverick and Iceman instead of Stinkbutt or Petunia :D

Any nickname worth it's salt is given to you by someone else. If you see a guy with a nickname like "Iceman" or "Maverick" it's sure bet he named himself. :lol
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: nrshida on November 27, 2012, 01:54:12 PM: That top one is a great picture Banshee7, I'm kind of warming up to this aircraft in AH, just got to get used to the guns :mad:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Banshee7 on November 27, 2012, 03:17:20 PM: Quote from: nrshida on November 27, 2012, 01:54:12 PM
That top one is a great picture Banshee7, I'm kind of warming up to this aircraft in AH, just got to get used to the guns :mad:

It's always been my favorite plane. Usually after I take long breaks I use the Pony to get myself back into shape (because it's something I know I can get kills in). Once I gain my muscle memory and sensitivity on the joystick I start flying the 38 more.

#S#

Josh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Oldman731 on November 27, 2012, 04:42:48 PM: Quote from: Vinkman on November 27, 2012, 12:41:31 PM
Any nickname worth it's salt is given to you by someone else. If you see a guy with a nickname like "Iceman" or "Maverick" it's sure bet he named himself.

I kind of like Rino's picks: Stinkbutt and Petunia. Will have to remember those if I ever lose the Oldman handle.

- oldman
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on November 27, 2012, 06:23:54 PM: Quote from: Rino on November 27, 2012, 11:11:59 AM
I think that guy is lost, no SAMs in orbit yet :D
Oh, he's just pitching up for altitude and a vertical kill shot. :O
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on November 27, 2012, 07:05:08 PM: Quote from: Vinkman on November 27, 2012, 12:41:31 PM
Any nickname worth it's salt is given to you by someone else. If you see a guy with a nickname like "Iceman" or "Maverick" it's sure bet he named himself. :lol
Oh, so true.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Latrobe on November 28, 2012, 07:23:10 AM: The P38, such a beautiful looking plane, just as deadly too!
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/P-38_Lightning_head-on-1.jpg)

But we all know the 109 is the best! :devil
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/0R50GG7-0-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Nath[BDP] on December 01, 2012, 10:05:40 AM: Quote from: bozon on November 22, 2012, 12:31:31 PM
Mig 25 is and was poop for anything except photo-rec, unless it is going against airliners that is.

[/img]

i am an extremely vain person. i only like looks.

but im curious why did it suck?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on December 01, 2012, 10:16:18 AM: Quote from: Latrobe on November 28, 2012, 07:23:10 AM
But we all know the 109 is the best! :devil

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SZ60aMNpGb0/Trm9J1b5nTI/AAAAAAAAFG8/0-ZVXOXHOko/s1024/IMG_20111105_113833.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Karnak on December 01, 2012, 11:49:51 AM: Quote from: Noir on December 01, 2012, 10:16:18 AM
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SZ60aMNpGb0/Trm9J1b5nTI/AAAAAAAAFG8/0-ZVXOXHOko/s1024/IMG_20111105_113833.jpg)
Do you mean the Mosquito or the Meteor? :p
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: nrshida on December 01, 2012, 12:14:01 PM: Did you make that picture Nuke? Where did they put my Ki-100? It was right where the Meteor is now :mad:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on December 01, 2012, 01:29:15 PM: Quote from: nrshida on December 01, 2012, 12:14:01 PM
Did you make that picture Nuke? Where did they put my Ki-100? It was right where the Meteor is now :mad:

Yep I took this picture, I was looking for the ki100 for you but as you can see it wasn't there :cry
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LCADolby on December 01, 2012, 01:38:39 PM: "IT'S BEHIND YOU!"
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Eric19 on December 01, 2012, 04:33:09 PM: P40C/N modles best looking fighters ever
(http://P40c.jpg)
(http://P40N.jpg)
I cna never get the dang pics to load :cry
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: nrshida on December 01, 2012, 04:48:08 PM: Eric you need to upload your pictures to Photo Bucket say and then paste here the link it gives you for the picture.

Wonder where the Ki-100 went? When were you there Nuke? Me three years ago now.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: W7LPNRICK on December 01, 2012, 09:38:45 PM: Quote from: Rino on November 27, 2012, 11:10:51 AM
Wild Weasel is actually a mission description rather than a plane. True both E and G model Phantoms flew WW missions, but
the E model carried the nose mounted 20mm and the G carried a radar receiver in place of the gun and alot more SAM warning
antenna. Sorry to be anal, but my job in the air force was limited to E and G model Phantoms.

Not sure what they call the F-16s that fly SEAD <Suppression of Enemy Air Defences>, but I bet they are called Weasels too.
Kind of like why Hollywood picks handles like Maverick and Iceman instead of Stinkbutt or Petunia :D

Right, & before F-4E/G they were using F-105 Thuds. I was a rigger, so climbing in the aircraft was rare unless something came loose from the ejection seat pack before take-off. Lots of drag chutes...we called them wild weasels because that was there job, regardless of designation. We didn't call the weasels Phantoms or vice versa. Even in Desert Storm the 4G's were called weasels.... :salute
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Mus51 on December 01, 2012, 11:05:56 PM: What nobody?? Really??

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/6/6/0/1028066.jpg)
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/6/1/1014162.jpg)
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/1/5/8/1014851.jpg)
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/7/3/3/1143337.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on December 02, 2012, 05:21:07 AM: Quote from: nrshida on December 01, 2012, 04:48:08 PM
When were you there Nuke?

about a year ago, I uploaded the pictures on the 5 nov. 2011
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: nrshida on December 02, 2012, 05:45:09 AM: Quote from: Noir on December 02, 2012, 05:21:07 AM
about a year ago, I uploaded the pictures on the 5 nov. 2011

Found it. They've moved it to Cosford.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Nath[BDP] on December 02, 2012, 06:57:48 AM: Quote from: Mus51 on December 01, 2012, 11:05:56 PM
What nobody?? Really??
[/img]

(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070526081822/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/1/15/CaptainobviousChooseOption.jpg/200px-CaptainobviousChooseOption.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Stellaris on December 02, 2012, 10:05:22 AM: Hah - love your signature line Nuke.

I know where the f****** 51 came from...

Stellar
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Banshee7 on December 03, 2012, 04:32:11 PM: Quote from: Mus51 on December 01, 2012, 11:05:56 PM
What nobody?? Really??

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/6/6/0/1028066.jpg)
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/6/1/1014162.jpg)
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/1/5/8/1014851.jpg)
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/7/3/3/1143337.jpg)

I mentioned it, I just couldn't get the pics to upload for some reason :headscratch:

#S#

Josh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: AirLynx on December 03, 2012, 04:35:47 PM: World War 2 Favorites:
(http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k595/Dodondingo/109G14.png)

(http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k595/Dodondingo/B-17F.jpg)

Modern day favorite:
(http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k595/Dodondingo/F-14_Tomcat.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: nrshida on December 03, 2012, 08:55:21 PM: That F-14 had better move it, he's got a pair of supersonic commie attack sharks on his six :old:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: AirLynx on December 04, 2012, 12:51:36 AM: Quote from: nrshida on December 03, 2012, 08:55:21 PM
That F-14 had better move it, he's got a pair of supersonic commie attack sharks on his six :old:

:rofl
That's funny!
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Debrody on December 04, 2012, 03:03:03 AM: haha :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: B4Buster on December 04, 2012, 03:00:13 PM: I've always thought the Boeing E75/Stearman to be one of the most handsome aircraft ever built - especially with the engine cowling.

(http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp278/B4B/stearman011-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Banshee7 on December 04, 2012, 08:42:45 PM: Quote from: B4Buster on December 04, 2012, 03:00:13 PM
I've always thought the Boeing E75/Stearman to be one of the most handsome aircraft ever built - especially with the engine cowling.

(http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp278/B4B/stearman011-1.jpg)

That is pretty handsome! :rock

#S#

Josh
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rino on December 04, 2012, 08:42:53 PM: Quote from: W7LPNRICK on December 01, 2012, 09:38:45 PM
Right, & before F-4E/G they were using F-105 Thuds. I was a rigger, so climbing in the aircraft was rare unless something came loose from the ejection seat pack before take-off. Lots of drag chutes...we called them wild weasels because that was there job, regardless of designation. We didn't call the weasels Phantoms or vice versa. Even in Desert Storm the 4G's were called weasels.... :salute

I saw one of the last 2 seater Thuds come through Moody in 1983. Thing had the world's biggest sharkmouth on it :) The pics I found
on Google don't do it justice, had to be about 10 foot long. Pretty sure it was a G model.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Ardy123 on December 05, 2012, 05:53:03 PM: I always liked the look of the F-23
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110207165055/military/images/6/67/YF-23_Black_Widow_II_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Bruv119 on December 05, 2012, 06:04:08 PM: Quote from: B4Buster on December 04, 2012, 03:00:13 PM
I've always thought the Boeing E75/Stearman to be one of the most handsome aircraft ever built - especially with the engine cowling.

(http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp278/B4B/stearman011-1.jpg)

what game has those graphics?? awesome!
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Babalonian on December 05, 2012, 06:05:30 PM: Quote from: Ardy123 on December 05, 2012, 05:53:03 PM
I always liked the look of the F-23
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110207165055/military/images/6/67/YF-23_Black_Widow_II_2.jpg)

I honestly liked the F-22's looks better... of the two, the F-23 just looked like it had a pair of testicles strapped to the top of its head or back (in a wrong place).
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Seanaldinho on December 05, 2012, 06:09:25 PM: Quote from: Babalonian on December 05, 2012, 06:05:30 PM
I honestly liked the F-22's looks better... of the two, the F-23 just looked like it had a pair of testicles strapped to the top of its head or back (in a wrong place).

Its sexy in a uniquely, oddly futuristic way in my opinion.

I personally don't like the look of the stearman... :headscratch: :bolt:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: diaster on December 09, 2012, 12:42:30 PM: Quote from: curry1 on May 31, 2011, 08:40:49 PM
Yeah having better planes than the soviets is a mistake. Wait I don't get it? Maybe I misread your post becasue of the spelling errors, which I hear are great for gaining credibility(so is this http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,33.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,33.0.html) :rolleyes:). F4s are great planes in fact we still get use out of them now as target drones.
lol Curry, they are a B n Z 'r and a great attack platform... They look wicked and once they put the cannon in it, they were wicked. But most of all, they were tangible proof that a brick could fly when you bolt enough thrust on it!
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: mbailey on December 10, 2012, 08:49:41 AM: Quote from: B4Buster on December 04, 2012, 03:00:13 PM
I've always thought the Boeing E75/Stearman to be one of the most handsome aircraft ever built - especially with the engine cowling.

(http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp278/B4B/stearman011-1.jpg)

Agreed....thats a beautiful aircraft.

I always liked the Texan as well....they look like the "brick Poophouse" of aircraft.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: ReVo on January 14, 2013, 05:33:15 PM: Post WWII it would have to be the Hawker Hunter. (This one is Rhodesian, which is a plus.)
(http://i46.tinypic.com/10zzbkw.jpg)

But of course the 109 is my true love.
(http://i45.tinypic.com/3538rw2.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Volron on January 14, 2013, 06:57:32 PM: Quote from: Soulyss on June 03, 2011, 12:47:26 PM
I don't have a plane, but here's what was left of the plane my uncle flew after he was finished with it.
(http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq209/Soulyss/Uncle%20Roy/1AAC447thBS_LovelyLady.jpg)

Wonder if we'd get that skinned. Greebo, Cactus? :headscratch:

Quote from: nrshida on December 03, 2012, 08:55:21 PM
That F-14 had better move it, he's got a pair of supersonic commie attack sharks on his six :old:

:lol
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: cactuskooler on January 15, 2013, 04:46:06 PM: Quote from: Volron on January 14, 2013, 06:57:32 PM
Wonder if we'd get that skinned. Greebo, Cactus? :headscratch:

Get us a J model B-25 and I'll get it skinned :)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on January 15, 2013, 06:37:56 PM: (http://www.fightin79th.com/images/jack7.jpg)

(http://www.planethoustonamx.com/stuff/texas_terror.jpg)

(http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p38registry/images/p38-4267543-1.jpg)

(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x77/jeptoncook/Blumersp-38J2.jpg)

(http://www.oocities.org/capecanaveral/launchpad/4481/Blumer.jpg)

(http://www.oldgloryprints.com/Scat_Attack.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UIclUja48Y4/SEP_YaEBn_I/AAAAAAAAA88/BhgJJV91o4M/s400/P38+Lightning+California+Cutie+1995+.jpg)

(http://www.ausairpower.net/HISTORICAL/P-38J-Lucky-Lady-Lt-A.W.Heiden-1944-1S.jpg)

(http://www.sr71.us/sr71-4.jpg)

(http://www.airplanedriver.net/acpix/f104a.jpg)

Cause you can't have enough Skunkworks rides.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tupac on January 15, 2013, 11:16:19 PM: Jack Ilfrey (pilot of Happy Jacks Go Buggy) used to work for Frost bank (where my dad works) they have a cool little bit about him in his honor in the lobby of the San Antonio building. The P51 painted like his also lives in San Antonio.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Nathan60 on January 16, 2013, 12:38:33 PM: I know it was a test bed and all but

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3riY6XYxFU/TdMhRUfZ0UI/AAAAAAAAAEM/2R-tyf9CzXQ/s1600/ActiveF15Climbing.jpg)
And becaus eit just looks like it would be fun to fly
(http://www.airpowerworld.info/other-military-aircraft/douglas-a-4-skyhawk.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Halo46 on January 16, 2013, 01:26:46 PM: Hard to argue anything with wings is not purty...

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/jonjdoe/Catalina_zpsc7fabc18.jpg)

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/jonjdoe/Albatros_zps19aaf218.jpg)

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/jonjdoe/1225869_zps2dcf98d5.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Noir on January 19, 2013, 04:58:06 PM: Quote from: Nathan60 on January 16, 2013, 12:38:33 PM
I know it was a test bed and all but

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3riY6XYxFU/TdMhRUfZ0UI/AAAAAAAAAEM/2R-tyf9CzXQ/s1600/ActiveF15Climbing.jpg)
And becaus eit just looks like it would be fun to fly
(http://www.airpowerworld.info/other-military-aircraft/douglas-a-4-skyhawk.jpg)

Ive seen that testbed fly I've never heard something this loud before, even at idle the high pitched wistle was unsettling.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Hazard69 on January 22, 2013, 08:05:32 AM: WW-II and in game : The beautiful, elegant and deadly....P38.

(http://www.tillamookair.com/assets/images/P-38-02-28-10.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/P-38_Lightning_head-on.jpg)

Cold war Era: A fusion of elegance, raw power and technology that the world has rarely seen. The SR-71
(yes, yes the first image is not a SR-71 but meh!).

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Lockheed_SR-71_landing_with_drag_chute_%28SN_61-7972%29_061122-F-1234P-050.jpg)

(http://www.cnw.mk.ua/weapons/airforce/razv/sr71/image/sr71ff.jpg)

"They are called missiles cause they always miss"! :lol :lol

What I'm still geeking out about after all these years is that they were both designed by the same man: Kelly Johnson! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_%28engineer%29) :salute :salute

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/ClarenceLeonardKellyJohnson.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on January 27, 2013, 11:51:40 PM: (http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/fd667d2883e8def121c15e899a1ec4b1.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: JVboob on February 21, 2013, 09:06:52 PM: Present day F16Cs from my unit
(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/513/138fwf161.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/441/138fwf161.jpg/)

Vietnam era The F104 just scream awesome to me

(http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7122/lukeafbf104starfighters.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/lukeafbf104starfighters.jpg/)

Korean era the F9F just has that awesome early jet look
(http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1070/f9f4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/f9f4.jpg/)

WW2 era All time most effective and sexy plane The P38L
(http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/8052/49thfg9thfsp38l.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/49thfg9thfsp38l.jpg/)

Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on February 23, 2013, 08:27:33 AM: Present day F104.

(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/wp-content/gallery/ford-gt-world-record-283mph/74g9621.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Gixer on February 24, 2013, 04:02:22 PM: Concord still the most beautiful plane to ever fly. I would like one as a Private Jet. :D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/davest/Concord_zpsec3b77da.jpg)

<S>...-Gixer
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: MK-84 on February 28, 2013, 06:34:10 PM: Quote from: Gixer on February 24, 2013, 04:02:22 PM
Concord still the most beautiful plane to ever fly. I would like one as a Private Jet. :D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/davest/Concord_zpsec3b77da.jpg)

<S>...-Gixer

No. No. No. Slow down and enjoy the ride instead :)
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-120504-hindenburg-09.photoblog900.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: DMVIAGRA on March 02, 2013, 07:25:32 PM: The A-7
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jqy_N_FcPDI/UEDNvshsW7I/AAAAAAAAAn8/wSpNpI1nPr0/s1600/A-7%2B12.jpg)

The Tornado
(http://www.holloman.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/010101-A-0000A-007.jpg)

The B-47
(http://www.307bwassoc.org/images/B-47ATO.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Megalodon on February 01, 2014, 11:53:40 AM: (http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/great_P40.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: SilverZ06 on February 01, 2014, 01:14:07 PM: (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/Beautiful_Disgrace_1987/gravedigger.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Saxman on February 01, 2014, 05:31:02 PM: (http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/7347/necrothread.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on February 01, 2014, 06:33:16 PM: WWII:

(http://sandyparks.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/b-17.jpg)

and

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zwR3kK1ZpGM/T4frFbxHI0I/AAAAAAAAB3Y/69epH05blpI/s1600/BF109F4_1-JG26_Priller_wSW.png)

CW:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/B-52H_static_display_arms_06.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Blinder on February 05, 2014, 04:19:08 PM: My name on the board here and in the game gives it away to everyone who is familiar with the NATO identification system.

I have the Virtavia modeled Blinder for use in FSX and VATSIM. When I'm not in AH I am usually on the VAT network catching all kinds of hell from the air traffic controller for coming too close to transonic speeds over the CONUS. .... It's what I do. :rock

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WmHZUpwhI3E/T0wWCyzdsNI/AAAAAAAAG1w/KAHv8ATM52E/s1600/Tu-22RM+%2528Blinder-E%2529+9.jpg)

You can see the Tu-22 I fly by clicking here: http://www.fspilotshop.com/virtavia-tupolev-blinder-p-2908.html (http://www.fspilotshop.com/virtavia-tupolev-blinder-p-2908.html)

:airplane:

My second favorite plane is the North American A3J Vigilante. I also have one of these for FSX.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wI-DdPSXymk/TPvdjEvUgiI/AAAAAAAAA9A/wXwHmjyF290/s1600/a-5a-vah-1-1963%2BCropped.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Widewing on February 05, 2014, 06:22:53 PM: My airplane.... Or, at least it was mine for a while. Over 200 traps in BuNo 136759..

(https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1497251_10202986156280243_13239840_n.jpg)

(https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1544983_10202986155480223_847906243_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t31/1492443_10202988261052861_1282986312_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on February 05, 2014, 07:32:00 PM: (http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/I-153/I-153.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Blinder on February 05, 2014, 08:41:33 PM: Quote from: icepac on February 05, 2014, 07:32:00 PM
(http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/I-153/I-153.jpg)

Now THAT .... is a sharp looking machine. :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: GScholz on February 06, 2014, 07:55:57 AM: The Tu-22 Blinder is a sexy beast, but I've always thought her younger sister was even more attractive...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/twin_tupolev_tu22m_backfire.jpg)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/tu-22m3_backfire.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Arlo on February 06, 2014, 08:52:19 AM: Quote from: Widewing on February 05, 2014, 06:22:53 PM
My airplane.... Or, at least it was mine for a while. Over 200 traps in BuNo 136759..

(https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1497251_10202986156280243_13239840_n.jpg)

(https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1544983_10202986155480223_847906243_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t31/1492443_10202988261052861_1282986312_o.jpg)

Dad was aircrew in Trackers.

VRC-40 Norfolk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRC-40

VT-31 Corpus Christi
(http://www.cloud9photography.us/Military-Aviation-10/Grumman-S-2-Tracker-Military/i-8vwjCG9/0/O/DG%2000104%20Grumman%20TS-2A%20Tracker%20US%20Navy%20136553%20VT-31%20by%20Clay%20Jansson.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rich46yo on February 06, 2014, 01:45:49 PM: The airplane of my youth. (http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/Rich46yo/F4_zps2eb1caf1.jpg)

This photo was take after Terrorists over ran our embassy in Tehran and we were at the end of the run way watching Phantoms from Germany fly in to Incirlick. (http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/Rich46yo/Misc/img001-b-1.jpg)

I had hundreds of pictures of my USAF days but I let a guy take them home on leave and he ended up going AWOL. :mad: Four years of my life and I have very few pictures.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on February 09, 2014, 08:21:00 PM: Quote from: Rich46yo on February 06, 2014, 01:45:49 PM
The airplane of my youth. (http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/Rich46yo/F4_zps2eb1caf1.jpg)

This photo was take after Terrorists over ran our embassy in Tehran and we were at the end of the run way watching Phantoms from Germany fly in to Incirlick. (http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/Rich46yo/Misc/img001-b-1.jpg)

I had hundreds of pictures of my USAF days but I let a guy take them home on leave and he ended up going AWOL. :mad: Four years of my life and I have very few pictures.
Oh yeah, nothing like a Rhino at full grunt! :aok
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Rich46yo on February 10, 2014, 02:43:50 PM: Quote from: Puma44 on February 09, 2014, 08:21:00 PM
Oh yeah, nothing like a Rhino at full grunt! :aok

Ive seen out Pilots do incredible things with them. Ive seen them do, pre-F15, a vertical, or as near a vertical as you can get without being 100% vertical, burners on right over the freaking base. Waking up every poor schmuck who was working mids. Normally they would pull their stunts at the end of their rotations but once when they got a bunch of complaints about noise and they rattled that air base for a week until they were asked nicely to stop. It was a different era, mess with one Phantom jock and you were messing with them all. And they didnt like being messed with. Back then USAF Leadership was still very much all fighter jocks.

They were mostly all 'nam vets, a few were aces, were at the end of their careers cause they were to old to start with 15s or 16s ; Also, They were tasked with "special delivery" missions into the Soviet Union so they were always one phone call away from big Bada-Boom.

They started with their beloved Phantoms and they ended their careers with them. They loved us Sky Cops cause we protected them like they were our own babies too and we never ratted them out when the 0530 step van reeked of Johnny Walker Red from the night before. They were the last of a breed and they were damn good in a damn fine fighter bomber.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on February 10, 2014, 04:25:58 PM: Another of "my planes"/

(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w126/warbirdmech/800px-A-26K_609SOS_NakhonPhanom_eng.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Puma44 on February 10, 2014, 07:31:10 PM: (http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/37d5525fdc9b32c609eacc65a1acd237_zps8fe8708c.jpg)

(http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/32ffde8c3144aa56d5fac46a2b9c3b41_zpse6b31511.jpg)

(http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/c523dfce2a6aa94917337995bc436aba_zpsaf45c60a.jpg)

(http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/puma44/2cc9aaf510dd21cbbb3ccfc669a97a8b_zpsa101cc5a.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: TOMCAT21 on February 11, 2014, 09:50:46 AM: http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-photo-vf101-18.htm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hellcats_F6F-3,_May_1943.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: TOMCAT21 on February 11, 2014, 09:53:52 AM: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Hellcats_F6F-3%2C_May_1943.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on February 11, 2014, 02:52:16 PM: This plane got dad safely home.

They painted the one at the midway museum in the same numbers but I believe this one was claimed by a SAM sometime later as #572 was.

#572 dropped the toilet.

(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w126/warbirdmech/SKYRAIDER/A-1H_on_cat_USS_Midway_CVA-41_1965.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Arlo on February 11, 2014, 03:06:03 PM: That catapult officer is one disco dancin' fool.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: LCADolby on February 11, 2014, 03:49:50 PM: What was the pilot's name again?
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: icepac on February 12, 2014, 09:39:40 AM: That would be either Robin Bacon or Clint Johnson.

I just noticed the plane had no ord so it's probably being flown from the ship to Lemoore right before the ship arrived from a long cruise.

They usually fly the planes off to the land base and helicopter back to the ship for the formal arrival and walk down the gangplank.

The plane on the USS midway museum is painted up with the 577 numbers but it is not the same plane.

The name on that plane is not my dad but another skyraider pilot who also had some well known missions.
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: Tinkles on February 16, 2014, 01:36:56 AM: For outside Aces High

The A10 Warthog

(http://i60.tinypic.com/23vkvv9.jpg)

For planes inside Aces High

109-F

(http://i62.tinypic.com/2ze9zpk.jpg)

109K-4

(http://i61.tinypic.com/2py9n2r.jpg)

:airplane:
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on February 16, 2014, 09:29:10 AM: Quote from: Tinkles on February 16, 2014, 01:36:56 AM
For outside Aces High

The A10 Warthog

(http://i60.tinypic.com/23vkvv9.jpg)

For planes inside Aces High

109-F

(http://i62.tinypic.com/2ze9zpk.jpg)

109K-4

(http://i61.tinypic.com/2py9n2r.jpg)

:airplane:
:aok Ride on
Title: Re: Your Plane
Post by: AH_WOODY on March 02, 2014, 01:40:51 PM: MH-53J Pavelow, A10 Thunderbolt II, and in game, the P-47D11 from the 56th FG

(http://usafhpa.org/21stsos/21stH53Pics_html_m1e43abc6.jpg)
(http://www.learning-to-fly.com/images/A10-Warthog.jpg)
(http://www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/aircraft-page/56th%20FG%20P47B.jpg)