Wow, 60s & 70s US airpower pictures

[tex-fan]

jet1
where, when, how fast, what plane?? you got pics? don't tease me that way.
i'm needy

[cadet77]

Wow!
Could it be? A Martin RB-57D with jet pods.
Some info here: http://www.spyflight.co.uk/rb57.htm

And several Lockheed HC-130H rescue and recovery aircraft with Fulton aircrew recovery systems?
Thanks for the link.

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[Ztex]

Amazing!

Yep...looks like Fukuoka to me.

[Craig59]

An amazing collection! For the SNB fans:

BuNo 39923 - pgs 24 and 51
BuNo 51248 - pg 25
BuNo 39267 - pg 65
BuNo 12386 - pg 65

[Shay]

Awesome collection. Truely the Golden Era of Jets. So many beautiful designs. Some these aircraft still exist.

F-4C 64-0673 went on to score an aerial victory against a MIG 17 as now display at PIMA.





"Triple Nickle" now on display at the NMUSAF


Shay
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Semper Fortis

[hairy]

Some questions for the collective knowledge base on WIX....................

Page 29 - US-2C Target tug - Why the offset weapon/target bay?

Page 42 - Does the star on the intake splitter plate of F-4 '699' mean that it is a Mig Killer?

Page 58 - What are the "balls" under the Skyraider?

Page 63 - The RAF C-130 with the black undersides - normal markings for the time or something a bit more nefarious?

Thanks in advance.

[Nathan]

Holy COW! I think I have seen many of those planes in D.M. in later years.

Awesome and thanks for posting!

[Shay]

Page 42 - Does the star on the intake splitter plate of F-4 '699' mean that it is a Mig Killer?

Yes, F-4C 63-7699 (Bakke/Lambert ) shot down a MIG-17 in May 14th 1967 and now is on display at Midland Air Museum in Coventry England.

Shay
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Semper Fortis

[Robbie Stuart]

Great stuff thanks for sharing that with us.
Robbie

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[JetStarMech]

That is a great site, great find!!!
Too bad more of the photos were not in color.
But the black and white photos give you kind
of a cold war era feel, like "Dr. Strangelove"
or "FailSafe" movies.
Out Here, Tom

[JetStarMech]

Ztex posted a picture of a T-39 Sabreliner
sporting the FAA colors and N#, N88.
Makes you think, why is the FAA at an
airport/airbase in Japan during the late
1960's and 1970's.
They sure can't be checking up on the
military maint. ground crews?
Any Ideas?
Out Here, Tom

[Ztex]

I was curious about that as well. I thought maybe they were certifying an airport that US carriers flew to? Do they do that?

[JetStarMech]

Great thread of pictures, thanks for sharing the site.
Very cool to see the activity at an airbase during the
highest point during the airwar in Vietnam, and early
Cold War activities.
Makes you wounder if any of these pics were seen by
the "REDS" of the time, it would have made for alot of
good intell.
I served in the Army and when I was stationed in Korea
1986, I was performing a train/cargo escort security
mission with the 260th MP Company.
When my mission was done I would catch a ride on a C-130
back to Tague.
While waiting for my "ride" at the AirForce terminal I wondered
around and saw a U-2 "Dragonlady" recon aircraft prepping
for a flight (they had crews etc. working on it), I took my
camera out and started snapping pictures, at a distance of
maybe 30 to 50 yards.
Here I am carrying a M-16 and Colt 1911-45 with my "MP"
armband/brassard, and some guy runs up in a Airforce
uniform and tells me I can't take any pictures...
Don't figure with all the pics I've just viewed from this base
in Japan.
Out Here, Tom

[P51Mstg]

For those who DONT want to right click 10,000 times. Go look for a program called NEODOWNLOADER.

You give it a web address to start on and it will download every picture on the site...... I use it all the time.....

Mark H

[P51Mstg]

For those who wonder....... There were 3677 pictures on the site at the begining of this thread...... I got them all without a single right click in less time than it took to write this


Mark H