Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

[Sabrejet]

I like the B-52 in the background. There'll probably be one in the B-21 retirement picture.

And when the B-52 retires, there'll be a KC-135 fly-by! We had a 58- or 59-FY aircraft operating locally this last week.

 

[SaparotRob]

Gotta' love the classics. The KC-135 is aesthetically perfect. For a jet.

 

[Donivanp]

Gotta' love the classics. The KC-135 is aesthetically perfect. For a jet.

Cleanest most reliable aircraft I ever worked on. Spent twelve year directly supporting them, A, E, R and EC-135 G, L and Y. Great aircraft.

 

[special ed]

Some times I marvel over the fact as a young teen I followed the B-52 prototypes, the ones with the tandem cockpits, and can realise that today some B-52s are flown by the grandsons of some of the earliest pilots.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Some times I marvel over the fact as a young teen I followed the B-52 prototypes, the ones with the tandem cockpits, and can realise that today some B-52s are flown by the grandsons of some of the earliest pilots.

To be honest, it's a bit of a frightening thought.

 

[SaparotRob]

I watched an episode of Wings Over The Rockies about the B-52. The pilot(?) was asked about the planes age. He mentioned something about candy wrappers inside the plane being older than him.

 

[GTX]

 

[Donivanp]

Love me some Vark, well Pig southern style.

 

[MIflyer]

At Davis Monthan, a QB-47E.

 

[Wurger]

 

[MIflyer]

Fixer Upper Cutlass. And any airplane with a nose strut that long has to be a nightmare to fly.

 

[Donivanp]

Fixer Upper Cutlass. And any airplane with a nose strut that long has to be a nightmare to fly.

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Not necessarily to fly, but to get aboard a carrier much less just land.

 

[special ed]

That's why one sat up front - like a VW bus.

 

[GreenKnight121]

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What error?

 

[GreenKnight121]

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A8-277 B1-49 F-111G Delivered to RAAF 25/03/94. Former USAF FB-111A and F-111G AF68-277. Nowra Airshow 1998. In Service 6 Sqn - later attached to ARDU. Grounded from 12/02/02 to 2003 due to wing failures.

 

[SaparotRob]

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By any chance, is the SR-71 a YF12-A?