 | Gotta love texas| Modern Discuss Gotta love texas in the Other Eras forums; I saw this Phantom (serial number 66-876 over the weekend when I was driving from College Station to San ... |
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01-23-2006, 01:24 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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I saw this Phantom (serial number 66-876  over the weekend when I was driving from College Station to San Antonio. It was parked at an American Legion building. It was quite a shock, seeing a well lit Phantom in the middle of nowhere at night!
There was also an 8 inch Howitzer right next to it.
(the pictures used to be huge but i resized them, that's what these few comments are about)
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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01-23-2006, 02:19 PM
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#2 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Nice pics, but it would have been nicer if you had sized them down ab it.
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01-23-2006, 03:03 PM
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#3 | | He who does not skim
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01-23-2006, 04:18 PM
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Country:  | Nice pics, although to see them best I scaled them down to 25% of their size (got to love firefox extensions  )
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01-23-2006, 11:45 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas
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Country: | Oh crap, i forget how big those are. Lemme fix thems.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group
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01-24-2006, 05:45 AM
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#6 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Country: | Much better, Aggie! Nice pics. Thanks for resizing them.
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01-24-2006, 04:50 PM
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#7 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Yeap thanks and there good pics. Good find.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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02-18-2006, 02:12 PM
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Country: | Nice!!
where are they located at, because I live here in Houston and I want to go see them if they're as good as these photos make them look.
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