Is the hot exhaust coming out from under the cockpit? Gives a new meaning to the term "hot seat"View attachment 199946
Polish Yak 23
Is the hot exhaust coming out from under the cockpit? Gives a new meaning to the term "hot seat"View attachment 199946
Polish Yak 23
I know lots of blokes - and me - who's kids have got dads because of quiet, calm blokes (and blokesses) sat in the back of Nimrods. They may have had pies and tea on tap, but they took big risks for us, and the kipper fleet memorials are full of their names.
Everyone on this thread wants to know!F-102 Delta Dagger. (I'm pretty sure somebody wants to know.)
Always struck me as slightly incongruous that you'd take a state of the art fighter and stick a bunch of unaimed rockets on it.
awesomeInaccurate they might be, but let's be honest, a barrage of unguided rockets being fired looks far more impressive than a (admittedly far more deadly and accurate) singled guided misile
Inaccurate they might be, but let's be honest, a barrage of unguided rockets being fired looks far more impressive than a (admittedly far more deadly and accurate) singled guided misile
are those 3 nuclear warheads?
are those 3 nuclear warheads?
are those 3 nuclear warheads?
Yes, I mean the picture might be inert drill warheads, but basically yes...
Then why don't they put us out of our misery?You know, I was just musing that I think there are three posters on this site who are/were qualified to use nukes...
Then why don't they put us out of our misery?
And was he clutching a martini in one hand at the same time?Bob Hoover's autobiography has some great yarns about the Sabre. He was the North American sales rep/test pilot who went to Korea to see the F-86 in action and ended up flying combat missions in it wearing a suit and tie.
And was he clutching a martini in one hand at the same time?
". . . and for him, that was just Wednesday"Probably. He also escaped from Stalag Luft I in WW2, stole a Fw 190 and flew it to Holland.
Could have been a good slogan for Concorde.Fly above all, further than all, faster than all. (I assume somebody wants to know.)
One flew us a SPYPLANE! Due to a treaty, it was allowed to fly out of Berlin and stooge about east Germany Chipmunk Aircraft | AlliiertenMuseum BerlinView attachment 193379 My first time in the air was in one of these as a glider tug. Still Cold War tho FTW