Author Topic: All Time Favorite Aircraft (Read 3141 times)

Saxman · « **Reply #90 on:** February 10, 2008, 07:43:45 PM »

Nope, Spikes had it. Talespin. GREAT show.

Jebus · « **Reply #91 on:** February 10, 2008, 07:48:42 PM »

WW2

Vietnam

Modern Day

and bomber

Jebus · « **Reply #92 on:** February 10, 2008, 07:50:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Jebus
That would be duck tails bud

I swear that looks like the plane form Duck Tail. My bad

Spikes · « **Reply #93 on:** February 10, 2008, 07:52:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Saxman
Nope, Spikes had it. Talespin. GREAT show.

Cool, I guessed.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #94 on:** February 11, 2008, 03:50:14 PM »

Denholm · « **Reply #95 on:** February 11, 2008, 04:12:22 PM »

Can't believe nobody went this route yet!

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #96 on:** February 11, 2008, 04:37:15 PM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
Anyone else have s flashback to that old TV show "Tales of the Gold Monkey" ?

LOL yep, thats the first thing I thought of. I loved that show when I was 8 or so.

MORAY37 · « **Reply #97 on:** February 11, 2008, 05:53:42 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
Mig-21 is nothing but a lame Soviet copy of an F-16. Same size, same mission, similar performance...

lol put the tackle box away. Know your game.

MORAY37 · « **Reply #98 on:** February 11, 2008, 06:20:33 PM »

Bronk · « **Reply #99 on:** February 11, 2008, 08:26:02 PM »

Shifty · « **Reply #100 on:** February 11, 2008, 08:53:42 PM »

I was crew chief on this exact bird from 1980-1983. She was a real pain in the a** to keep flying, but she was always my favorite.

RTHolmes · « **Reply #101 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:03:35 AM »

hows your hearing these days shifty?

I used to live near RAF Upper Heyford in the 80s and photos never do justice to just how big, ugly and downright mean-looking 111s are in the air

Shaky · « **Reply #102 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:07:15 AM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
Anyone else have s flashback to that old TV show "Tales of the Gold Monkey" ?

Comsidering thats what I used to search for the pic, I hope so!

BBBB · « **Reply #103 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:28:33 AM »

The "Spad". I like all the versions, but the AD-6 is my favorite.

Here is the back story about that "toilet bomb":
"In October 1965, CDR Clarence J. Stoddard, Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6 millionth pound of ordinance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!

The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965.

I was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise.

The 572 was flown by CDR C. W. "Bill" Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII).

The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC, he ended with "and one code name Sani-flush".

The FAC couldn't believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop. When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie. The FAC said that it whistled all the way down. The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard.

One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordinance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward.

Just as it was being shot off, we got a 1MC message from the bridge, "What the hell was on 572's right wing?" There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film.

CDR Stoddard was later killed while flying 572 in Oct 1966.
He was hit by three SAMs over Vinh. "

Shifty · « **Reply #104 on:** February 12, 2008, 04:33:56 PM »

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Originally posted by RTHolmes
hows your hearing these days shifty? I used to live near RAF Upper Heyford in the 80s and photos never do justice to just how big, ugly and downright mean-looking 111s are in the air

Actually not bad unless somebody is asking for money.

You're correct the F-111 is one loud monster looking aircraft. I went to A-10s once I left Upper Heyford, that's probably what saved my hearing. I'm hoping to take my wife to visit the UK and whatever is left of RAF Upper Heyford in the next year or so. I also want to visit Oxford, Bandbury, Brackley, Towceister, and some other of my old haunts. I really love your country.