Cold War Aviation Porn
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urbanspaceman
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Reminds me of Bruegel's Fall of Icarus, with the farmer going about his day in the foreground. Note: Icarus in the sea, bottom right
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bcuster
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The Day Soviet Aircraft Attacked American Pilots
On that April ‘Black Thursday’ over 70 years ago, the air war over Korea changed as the Allies scrambled to counter the superior MiG-15 jet fighter.
bcuster
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the Vietnam war was, perhaps, the costliest of the "Cold Wars"...
here's an anecdotal piece about the "lighter(?)" side of this horrendous, needless and futile "war":
getpocket.com
here's an anecdotal piece about the "lighter(?)" side of this horrendous, needless and futile "war":
Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens
Dubbed the Ravens, misfit American pilots in Vietnam learned they could fly, fight, and drink as they pleased in a CIA-sponsored secret war. Just one catch: They answered to General Vang Pao.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
That's really interesting.the Vietnam war was, perhaps, the costliest of the "Cold Wars"...
here's an anecdotal piece about the "lighter(?)" side of this horrendous, needless and futile "war":
Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens
Dubbed the Ravens, misfit American pilots in Vietnam learned they could fly, fight, and drink as they pleased in a CIA-sponsored secret war. Just one catch: They answered to General Vang Pao.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Fagot ?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Must be a Fresco with the burner.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Spadeadam perhaps..?
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It's "Collinski" at RAF Spadeadam. It's not mined obviously.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
The old joke, of course, is that a Buccaneer would have gone lower...
Not true of course - there's very little anyone else has anything to teach the Swedes and Finn's about gratuitously low level flying. But that doesn't stop the joke raising a smile.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
"You can only draw with the world record for low flying..."
not-bono-ever
meh
Spadenham ?
not-bono-ever
meh
ErR……A bit late. It’s Spadenham. It’s accessible but they really don’t like people in the base/ ranges. Trespassing on live MOD property is not just a telling off these days unless you are really lucky
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
From 2017:
www.derelictplaces.co.uk
RAF Spadeadam - Feb 2021
RAF Spadeadam RAF Spadeadam is an active Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, close to the border of Northumbria. Covering 9,000 acres, it is the largest RAF base in the United Kingdom. It is currently used as an Electronic Warfare Tactics Range, to train the Royal Air Force and NATO...
www.derelictplaces.co.uk
not-bono-ever
meh
Maybe not sexy but ole ikarus kurir stork lookalike in Bosnia
T & P
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Very interesting. I didn't know there were plans for the UK to have silo-based nukes (up to sixty sites according to the intro on the urban exploration report you posted)...From 2017:
RAF Spadeadam - Feb 2021
RAF Spadeadam RAF Spadeadam is an active Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, close to the border of Northumbria. Covering 9,000 acres, it is the largest RAF base in the United Kingdom. It is currently used as an Electronic Warfare Tactics Range, to train the Royal Air Force and NATO...
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
IIRC they do a handful of escorted tours each year, although they mainly focus on the rocket site remains and the core of the Electronic Warfare Range - and recently the part-built hardened rocket bunker that for years they denied having!
They also only ever posted dates on the village noticeboard at Gilsland, so you needed someone in the area with an eye-out for them to actually get on one.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
There is a joke about SAAB drivers in there too!
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
There was an interesting programme on last week about the ducking and diving that ended up with the Brits getting Polaris after being turned over by the yanks and also developing some shite that wouldn’t go bang fast enough (I think it was at the site talked about above).
I’ll dig out a link later.
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Two test silos were built but not completed before the project was abandoned. The Spadeadam one got the furthest but the other - Cosford or Duxford IIRC? Was started first but ran into all sorts of soil/geological problems that meant constant flooding and was abandoned/filled-in.
RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility, Kingwater - 1413097 | Historic England
List entry 1413097. Grade Not applicable to this List entry. Scheduled Monument: Raf Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
historicengland.org.uk
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