We want to see the missiles too!Quote:
I also left out my prior career of missiles because they're not technically "aircraft"
ABATTBQ11 said:
ETA It's also kind of hilarious top see how dirty the exhaust from that B-52 is compared to the others. Makes me think of a POS minivan pissing oil behind it driving next to a Ferrari.
Ok...dubi said:We want to see the missiles too!Quote:
I also left out my prior career of missiles because they're not technically "aircraft"
I worked the actual PAC-3 production version.Ag with kids said:Ok...dubi said:We want to see the missiles too!Quote:
I also left out my prior career of missiles because they're not technically "aircraft"
MLRS
ATACMS
This was ERINT, the precursor to the MIM-104 PAC-3
LOSAT (it was launched from a Bradley when I worked on it)
Video of the LOSAT (turn down volume, music is pretty loud). I got to work on this one out at WSMR. Fun times.
yes it was. The GTSi's from the 80-82 burned oil. The early carb cars (76-79) and QV cars (83-85) did not burn oil. FTR I had a '77 and it did not burn any oil.TX AG 88 said:ABATTBQ11 said:
ETA It's also kind of hilarious top see how dirty the exhaust from that B-52 is compared to the others. Makes me think of a POS minivan pissing oil behind it driving next to a Ferrari.
LOL. Just FYI, I have owned a minivan AND a Ferrari 308GTSi. The Ferrari was the one that burned oil! (I carried a case of oil in the trunk. Every time i filled the tank with gas, I poured in a quart of oil. It was embarrassing whenever I'd get on it a little bit, I'd leave a cloud of black smoke. It wasn't unique to the particular one I had, they pretty much all did that, unless someone completely rebuilt the engine.) Sorry to detract from the aerial vehicle conversation!
I was on the program when the DOD announced the downselect award of the ERINT to the PAC-3.wbt5845 said:I worked the actual PAC-3 production version.Ag with kids said:Ok...dubi said:We want to see the missiles too!Quote:
I also left out my prior career of missiles because they're not technically "aircraft"
MLRS
ATACMS
This was ERINT, the precursor to the MIM-104 PAC-3
LOSAT (it was launched from a Bradley when I worked on it)
Video of the LOSAT (turn down volume, music is pretty loud). I got to work on this one out at WSMR. Fun times.
Goose said:
Whoever tested this atrocity either had a death wish or nuts the size of cantaloupes.
Goose83 said:
Convair B-58 Hustler
No, that was the F4F Wildcat, which started out on the drawing board as a biplane fighter similar in design to its predecessor, the F3F.JB!98 said:Didn't they just chop the top wing off of it and call it the first monoplane "fighter"? A few Marines lost their live in Midway taking that crate up against zeros.Goose83 said:Ugh, Brewster Buffalo. Neither it, nor the company that produced it, should ever be mentioned again.BBRex said:
Ok, thanks! I had forgotten about the origins of the Wildcat.Goose83 said:No, that was the F4F Wildcat, which started out on the drawing board as a biplane fighter similar in design to its predecessor, the F3F.JB!98 said:Didn't they just chop the top wing off of it and call it the first monoplane "fighter"? A few Marines lost their live in Midway taking that crate up against zeros.Goose83 said:Ugh, Brewster Buffalo. Neither it, nor the company that produced it, should ever be mentioned again.BBRex said:
Join the Facebook "DFW Spotters" and they post up all the good pics.AggieMPH2005 said:
I don't have a picture to post but coming in to work on Thursday I thought I saw the AN 225 landing at DFW.
If so it's the second time I have seen it as it was in IAH several years ago when I was driving by.
AggieMPH2005 said:
I don't have a picture to post but coming in to work on Thursday I thought I saw the AN 225 landing at DFW.
If so it's the second time I have seen it as it was in IAH several years ago when I was driving by.
Unavailable means some other problem. If it was flagged, it says flagged.aggieforester05 said:Somebody flagged my pictures of the blackbird. I took them, so no copyright issue and it was the only flagged photos in a big group of pictures. They weren't even consecutive, so I doubt it was accidental.JB!98 said:Seriously? Pics of a damn P-40 are now filtered????JB!98 said:
Cool shot of a Warhawk.
Watch the video, it's not constant. It's the -52 pilot goosing all 8 throttles to maintain formation.Quote:
ETA It's also kind of hilarious top see how dirty the exhaust from that B-52 is compared to the others
I've done inflight fueling in the V-22 simulator. It's HARD with the wake vortices of the fueling aircraft beating the crap out of the aircraft.jkag89 said:
Was told that a squadron of F-16s was doing a tanker drag across the Atlantic, and several spouses were catching a ride on the tanker for the short deployment.GAC06 said:
A KC-10 boom operator taped some centerfolds to his window while my wingman and I got some gas one day in Afghanistan. No picture but definitely qualifies as airplane porn.
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On this day in 1943, the first trainees of what would become the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) arrived at Sweetwater Army Airfield (better known as Avenger Field). Organized the previous year as the Womens Flying Training Detachment and the Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the organizations were consolidated as the WASPs in August 1943.
Under the direction of famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, experienced women pilots in civil-service status were trained to fly army planes to relieve men for World War II combat duty. For a brief period, Avenger Field trained both men and women, but in April 1943 it became the "only all-female air base in history," except for the male instructors and support crews. Fourteen classes, totaling 1,074 pilots, earned their wings in every type of army plane before the WASPs were disbanded on December 20, 1944.The WASPs flew sixty million miles for the AAF and received high praises from their commanders; thirty-eight pilots died in service.