Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

[GTX]

And speaking of F-111s with air-to-air missiles:

 

[GTX]

Could make for an interesting diorama:

 

[Donivanp]

Yep. Though some F-111A test birds also carried:

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Initial test (captive) were on the A while awaiting the first test B's.

 

[Donivanp]

Could make for an interesting diorama:

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B models all in a row. I'll have no 100000 lbs fighter on my carries

 

[Donivanp]

F-111 always had the option of carrying Sidewinders, was not a common practice until the later years when there were winder rails added to the outboard side of the outboard swinging pylons. AIM-9L/M common mounts. The concept of them ever being used in combat extremely low as the Aardvark main line of defense was to GET DOWN AND BOOGIE!!!!!

 

[Donivanp]

All early A's always flew with the M-61 20mm cannon in the weapons bay, again no recorded incident of being used in combat. All Vietnam aircraft though did carry them.

 

[GTX]

B models all in a row. I'll have no 100000 lbs fighter on my carries

You sure? One looks like an A model

 

[Donivanp]

You sure? One looks like an A model

Furthest back is an A other two are B's don't recall but I'm thinking only three B's were made before the Navy threw in the towel. They didn't want anything to do with it to start with.

 

[SaparotRob]

"All the thrust in Christendom wouldn't make them fighters."

 

[syscom3]

The Kawasaki P-2J (originally P2V-Kai) is a maritime patrol and ASW aircraft developed for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. A turboprop-powered version of the radial-engined P-2 Neptune, the P-2J was developed as an alternative to buying the larger and more expensive P-3 Orion, which would eventually replace the P-2J in the 1980s.

 

[SaparotRob]

The P2V is a favorite. I grew up near enough to Naval Air Station New York to frequently see Neptunes, KC-97s and Skyhawks. One evening I looked up to watch a Neptune pass overhead. I could see the blue exhaust flames, just like Caidin wrote!

 

[Donivanp]

The P2V is a favorite. I grew up near enough to Naval Air Station New York to frequently see Neptunes, KC-97s and Skyhawks. One evening I looked up to watch a Neptune pass overhead. I could see the blue exhaust flames, just like Caidin wrote!

And it's also the B-69! What's not to love about that.

 

[SaparotRob]

And it's also the B-69! What's not to love about that.

I gotta' look that up. I hate getting homework.

 

[Donivanp]

I gotta' look that up. I hate getting homework.

Lockheed RB-69A Neptune

 

[Sabrejet]

And it's also the B-69! What's not to love about that.

Always RB-69A, never straight "B-69". The Air Force had a few peculiarities like this where they didn't quite know how to designate "new-but-old" types. Another example is the C-47D gunship, which initially gained the "FC-47D" designation (supposedly because they were unarmed flare ships to begin with, even though the 'F' had never been used in this way), before settling on a more sensible "AC-47D". I wonder what a USAF P4M-1Q would have become?

 

[nuuumannn]

The Kawasaki P-2J (originally P2V-Kai) is a maritime patrol and ASW aircraft developed for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. A turboprop-powered version of the radial-engined P-2 Neptune, the P-2J was developed as an alternative to buying the larger and more expensive P-3 Orion, which would eventually replace the P-2J in the 1980s.

Picture taken at the Kanoya Air Base Museum, home to the last surviving Kawanishi H8K Emily flying boat that used to sit outside the Tokyo Museum of Maritime Science and Industry. I'll be making a trip to Kanoya on my next visit to Japan...

 

[Frog]

The P2V is a favorite. I grew up near enough to Naval Air Station New York to frequently see Neptunes, KC-97s and Skyhawks. One evening I looked up to watch a Neptune pass overhead. I could see the blue exhaust flames, just like Caidin wrote!

Remember seeing a P2V7 flying over Arromanches in 1970 (althought young I was already a good spotter).
After research it was from Flotille 25F that used it from 1958 to 1983.

 

[GreenKnight121]

You sure? One looks like an A model

Furthest back is an A other two are B's don't recall but I'm thinking only three B's were made before the Navy threw in the towel. They didn't want anything to do with it to start with.

The furthest one (far left) back has the same nose painting and short nose as the front (right) one.
Plus, it has NAVY painted on the aft lower fuselage (partly obscured by the tractor) and a Navy BuNo on the tail - 152715.

More than 3 were made... BuNos 151970, 151971, and 151972 (the middle one in the pic, and the AIM-54 trials aircraft) were built with normal ejection seats, the 4th (151973) was the first -B with the crew ejection capsule, and 151974 was the 5th and last pre-production aircraft.

There were 32 production F-111Bs ordered before cancellation, of which two were built - 152714 (the right-hand one in the pic) & 152715. BuNos 152716 & 152717 were not completed, and BuNos 153623-153642 and 156971-156978 were canceled before work began.

152715 has an interesting history... while the stop-work order was issued 19 July 1968, and the formal cancellation agreement was signed in December 1968, 151715 was delivered on 28 February 1969! It spent until the Spring of 1971 being flown by the Hughes Aircraft Corp., further developing both the AWG-9 fire-control system and the AIM-54 Phoenix missile (both Hughes products) in support of the F-14 program.

If you note the image header it says bf111bhughesculvercitycacourtesygeorgemarrett, indicating that this is the flightline for Hughes Aircraft's Culver City CA facility.

Data from: General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B

 

[GTX]

 

[SaparotRob]

Still looks good.