Cold War Aviation Porn
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Into the late 1950s, yes, although air raids on major cities in China (Shanghai!) ceased after the first Straits Crisis (1955 IIRC?) - The second Straits Crisis (1958) included air raids on lesser/more military targets on the coast but after that it was mostly cross-staits artillery, which eventually ended-up with them firing shells full of propaganda leaflets rather than charges, which continued well into the 1970s
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Seems there is only one complete one left but recently it has been saved and properly restored:
Restoration Photo's of Supermarine Swift WK275
The other survivors are either a prototype with significant differences or varying degrees of cut-n-shunts.
Cross Classic Century, it just needs two fucking massive jet engines strapped to either side.
T & P
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ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
A couple of images of F15s covering Shuttle launches, they flew the air support out of Seymore Johnson AFB to enforce a no fly zone during the launch.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
13 September 1985, an F15 succesfully engaging and destroying a satellite. Solwind P78-1. The weapon was later shelved but it was an era when fighting a war in space was taken seriously by the two superpowers.
Puts some countries recent efforts of having to wait for launch windows with orbital class vehicles into perspective.
It was not even the first aircraft to be able to take out a satellite. In terms of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut....
This is Bold Orion, an early anti satellite weapon that made a near intercept of Explorer 6 when launched from a B47, the test had no warhead but the theory was they could get close enough to detonate a thermonuclear warhead and kill a few hundred kgs of metal and solar cells.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
Robert Goddard's widow successfully sued the US government for patent violation on some of that tech. Goddard had been communicating with Obreth and the Germans had someone reading his mail for a while. Most of the technology was theirs and their rocket was an incredible achievement. But on a vastly smaller scale, the core ideas were worked out by someone who was never funded much beyond a garden shed hobbyist.
Cross Classic Century, it just needs two fucking massive jet engines strapped to either side.
Or six underneath.
Flying well under the radar!
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Meh. A Bucc would have been doing 600kts at that altitude...
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I don't think a Buccaneer has ever been past 550 at low level. It will do it for a very long time though!
It's also the only tactical fast jet (I can think of) that won't loop.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
That's actually a Russian fighter that the Yanks stole. The Focksiizs Wingzavpdroptov blueprints we stolen during an Avon meeting in California in May 1984.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
The Boneyard mentioned in that article has some great photos
Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ, largest aircraft boneyard in the world, at the 309th AMARG facility, tours, location, maps, history, photographs and access
Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ, largest aircraft boneyard in the world, at the 309th AMARG facility, tours, location, maps, history, photographs and access
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