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oldsaw wrote:friedgreencorrado wrote:FGC, the arresting hook on the F18 is retracted; it's a pretty safe bet the shot came on take-off.Chrissy wrote:Beautiful pic, but please tell me that's somebody off the catapult, instead of someone who's missed the barricade...
DOH! I missed it. Maybe it's "touch & go" practice?
oldsaw wrote: BTW, are you getting any fly-overs from Wings Over Atlanta, today? I'm kinda bummed because the east side of town has been ignored - no activity at all, even for practice sessions. Past years have spoiled me.
I've had to work all the way through the thing. I did see the Angels practicing on Thu (couldn't really look longer than long enough to see that the Hornets were blue, I was driving ), got stuck in the traffic Fri and Sat. Never saw anything else. Not a biplane, not WW2 Warbirds (which I usually heard before I saw back when I lived in Marietta), not the Snowbirds, nuthin'. Normally, I take days off for the show, but this year I want to go to the ARRC at Road Atlanta, so I saved the vacation time for that.
In repentance, here's a shot somebody took of a P-51 escorted by a pair of F-22s (IIRC, the F-22 wing section is built here..I see 22s quite often)
oldsaw wrote:Platinum90 wrote: I live in Marietta, about a 10 blocks from Dobbins...it is a flurry of aerial activity...I have worked in the Marietta/Dobbins area and Iove seeing my tax dollars at work! First time I saw the Blue Angels at Dobbins, they were using these:Anyone who sees the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds and isn't overwhelmed, is dead or worse. That doesn't include zombies, cause even zombies know they can't compete.
The four lead Angel A4s are in the Pensecola Naval Aviation Museum, suspended from the celing in the room they use for ceremonies and stuff.
First time I ever saw them was when I was a kid in the 1970s, my mom took me to an airshow at the decommisioned SAC Chennault AFB in Lake Charles, LA. They were actually flying F4 Phantoms back then!!
F4 porn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AyRKskkpbY
Hotlink:
This guy's better:
Damn, forgot to testify for a fellow "pan-Southern" boy. Born in Texas, raised in Louisiana, Claire Chennault joined the Army Air Corps between the First and Second World War, and was pretty pissed off that they spent so much time worrying about how to use bombers (when he knew that fighters could shoot a lot of them down) that he resigned his commission in the late 1930s. He had some health problems, too..so the AAC had no problem letting him go.
He still wanted to fly (and to prove that fighter planes could intercept bombers), so he went to China in 1937 in hopes that he could help the Chinese find a way to hold off the Japanese. Long story short..he did the best he could. He ended up being Commander of the American Volunteer Group.
Most people nowdays remember the AVG as the "Flying Tigers".
Chennault in early 1942, after the US had joined the war, and "re-activated" the man.
A dear friend's dad got a ride-along with the Angels. Here's the vid:
wrong thread. That belongs over here in the "what's the ugliest car ever" discussion.
friedgreencorrado wrote: In repentance, here's a shot somebody took of a P-51 escorted by a pair of F-22s (IIRC, the F-22 wing section is built here..I see 22s quite often)
FYI- Top = F-22 Middle = P51D Bottom= F15
Rules are rules- a plane that doesn't seem to get much air time...
alfadriver wrote: Rules are rules- a plane that doesn't seem to get much air time...
The P-38 sure worked for this guy:
Major Richard Bong, highest scoring US ace in WWII - over 40 confirmed kills.
He died testing one of these - Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star:
I sat in one like this when I was a kid:
Though this one seems to have an atrociously bad paint job, it has the same-shaped nose (there is another, prettier glassnose variant) as the one I sat in. It sat under a shed at Lex DuPont's Toughkennamon airport in Chester County, PA. for many many years and I used to play on/in/around it for hours.
Some rich guy bought it, rebuilt one of the Allisons, replaced the other, and flew it out of there... from a scary short runway, too. Having lent a few small hands in the refurbishment, we went up to see it go. That thing sounded utterly indescribable at full howl when he made a few passes. This was in the late '70s. After flying it somewhere with a longer strip, he thoroughly renovated it. Unfortunately I heard he and his wife got killed flying it a few years later. Dunno what happened.
oldsaw wrote:alfadriver wrote: Rules are rules- a plane that doesn't seem to get much air time...The P-38 sure worked for this guy:
Wow- didn't know anyone knew of Bong- Richard Bong was my dad's hero when he was a kid. Every time we drove from Idaho to Michigan's UP, we'd stop here- http://www.bvhcenter.org/index.php?id=95
I always loved seeing this
alfadriver wrote: Wow- didn't know anyone knew of Bong...
Oh, yeah, I knew all about Richard Ira Bong as a kid. Even though I could never stop giggling about a guy named "Dick Bong", I thought he was badass.
Tom Heath wrote:
No, not a Barn Find, a Bog Find.
triumph5 wrote:Tom Heath wrote:No, not a Barn Find, a Bog Find.
What's the story behind that one?
alfadriver wrote: Wow- didn't know anyone knew of Bong- Richard Bong was my dad's hero when he was a kid.
Gabby Gabreski:
Highest scoring ace in the European theater (34 1/2 kills) and also an ace in Korea.
He used one of these:
Much of my (mis-spent) youth was spent pouring over historical acounts/books of a lot of stuff. Things with wings and sails occupied much of that time.
I blame my Dad and some interesting educators.....
From this:
To this:
Glacier Girl is the sexiest air plane I've ever seen. She also has all of her original armament intact. I own a small piece of her. (1 sq. inch)
Tom Heath wrote:
Has to be a Porsche 178, cause at least half of it is gone.
Gimp wrote: What's the story behind that one?
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/28/lake-find-of-the-day-porsche-356/
It makes me sad.
oldsaw wrote:alfadriver wrote: Wow- didn't know anyone knew of Bong- Richard Bong was my dad's hero when he was a kid.Gabby Gabreski:Much of my (mis-spent) youth was spent pouring over historical acounts/books of a lot of stuff. Things with wings and sails occupied much of that time.
Thunderbolts are awesome.
Thunderbolt and a pair of Thunderbolt II's
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