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Originally Posted by Lucky13  Nice to know FB, thanks a bunch! Any recommendations for Intruder and Wild Weasel books? From Vietnam that is.... | I have a trilogy fictional but very Clancy like the call signs ,routes are I believe are correct .Its about the 105's flying out of Thailand the author is Tom Wilson who has over 3000hrs of fighter time with 4 silver stars and 3 DFC's so I'm going to assume its fairly accurate . The books are Termite Hill, Tango Uniform and Luckys Bridge and each one is about 700 pages. Great reads
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Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ | Joe you posted this earlier. Great site! There is a cyclic montage of photos on their home page. For a brief period I managed to 'capture' this image... 
It LOOKS like a Yak-30 'Magnum'... 
..yet I can find no mention of it in their aircraft listings.
Do you know if it's flying in America? It would be an extremely rare aircraft now, and spares would be a problem?
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01-04-2008, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Graeme Joe you posted this earlier. Great site! There is a cyclic montage of photos on their home page. For a brief period I managed to 'capture' this image...
It LOOKS like a Yak-30 'Magnum'...
..yet I can find no mention of it in their aircraft listings.
Do you know if it's flying in America? It would be an extremely rare aircraft now, and spares would be a problem?
(Or I have completely misidentified it.) | I think the top image is an Impala but the one on the bottom is new to me. I haven't been back there in over a year but am planning a trip there the first week of April. I'll try to find out more.
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Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ I think the top image is an Impala | That makes a LOT more sense, and it is listed in their inventory. Thanks. | |
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Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ From everything I gathered it seems about right. That calculator you showed is measuring airspeed at standard no wind conditions, sure the aircraft is going to exceed Mach 1. Here's something else to look at - the U-2 flies at 60,000 feet - it had about a 10 knot window where it could start exceeding the speed of sound or stall - all at about 400 mph indicated airspeed. Certainly the U-2 is not a supersonic aircraft. | My reference shows that the FJ-4 had a top speed of 680 mph at SL, and 631 mph at 35K. The F-86H could do 680 at SL and 613 at 35k which is interesting since the F-86H has about 1000 lbs more thrust. In either the AF version or the Naval version, the F-86 is a great looking aircraft and a true classic. | |
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