Cold War Aviation Porn
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English Electric Lightning rotating.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
It was an interceptor. Nobody said anything about necessarily getting back alive. I think it had about ten minutes of contact over the North Sea. Much longer and the pilot would be in the sea!
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
Can anyone remember where was that place in Russia the Top Gear people went to where they had parked up heapsa cold war planes to just rust away?
Be good to see photos of those planes there, just the numbers. I remember being impressed when they showed it for about 30 seconds on telly
Be good to see photos of those planes there, just the numbers. I remember being impressed when they showed it for about 30 seconds on telly
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Living near Binbrook I grew up with Lightnings. I was there for the last Lighting air show, and for the last day of flying at the base. I miss them still.
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
you see them in museums now and always amaze me cause they just seem to be one large empty tube with a cockpit on top!
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
A few pilots crashed when attempting the Touch roll touch in the F104 which was a Luftwaffe plane.
F-104 Starfighter Veterans on the Ongena Touch-Roll-Touch Maneuver
(I have a feeling I may have heard this information from DownwardDog before and am just parroting it)
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The F-104G did have an appalling accident record in Luftwaffe hands including wiping out a four ship fly by meant to celebrate its entry into service. It was a combination of a lack of fast jet experience in the Luftwaffe, German weather and using it in a low level attack role. They ended up crashing over 200 of them. The RAF crashed a similar proportion of its EE Lightnings without the mitigating factors of the Luftwaffe/F-104 situation...
Other European air forces (Belgium, Italy, Netherlands) did just fine with the Starfighter - by the standards of the time.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I think I've read that the RAF has lost about five thousand aircraft in accidents since 1945 - they were getting to 300 a year in the 40's and 50's...
Even now, something like 20% of the number of a particular aircraft bought are bought as attrition replacements.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It was a flying death trap, and Lockheed were only able to flog it via massive bribery.I always loved the look of the Lookheed F-104 Starfighter - The stubby wings just make it look hard - 'wings, pah! I'm a Starfighter'
Looks straight out of Captain Scarlet:
mauvais
on reddit or something
The old joke was that if you wanted a Starfighter, you should just buy a patch of land and be patient.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Lots of hardcore Cold War aviation porn and a lot more at the Luftwaffenmuseum - the former RAF Gatow in Berlin:
Could this be the ultimate Cold War aircraft? A Luftwaffe Mig-29!
A squadron of brand new planes fell into Western hands at reunification.
And if you like missiles, you have a unique connection of NATO and Warsaw Pact systems side by side:
Part of the Eastern Side:
Part of the Western Side:
And lots and lots of F104-Gs in different configurations!
Could this be the ultimate Cold War aircraft? A Luftwaffe Mig-29!
A squadron of brand new planes fell into Western hands at reunification.
And if you like missiles, you have a unique connection of NATO and Warsaw Pact systems side by side:
Part of the Eastern Side:
Part of the Western Side:
And lots and lots of F104-Gs in different configurations!
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I was always very taken with the BS638/BS641 wraparound cammo the RAF used in the 60s and 70s. It looked particularly warry on the Jaguar.
The Wildenrath "Battle Flight" F-4s also looked great with the BS637/BS626/BS627 scheme and a dash of colour.
The Wildenrath "Battle Flight" F-4s also looked great with the BS637/BS626/BS627 scheme and a dash of colour.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Posted before but this is my favourite Starfighter. Again, from Gatow, its the F104-G ZELL (Zero Length Launch), the "We don't need runways" version!
Fuck Captain Scarlet - Captain LOCKHEED is where its at!
Cooler than the Cold War 
