Clark Griswold Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 This could also go in the WTF? thread... Giant Soviet six rotor SA-2 launching helicopter... https://medium.com/war-is-boring/this-monstrous-soviet-missile-helicopter-would-have-been-a-flying-nightmare-1693f03369be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HU&W Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, Clark Griswold said: This could also go in the WTF? thread... Giant Soviet six rotor SA-2 launching helicopter... https://medium.com/war-is-boring/this-monstrous-soviet-missile-helicopter-would-have-been-a-flying-nightmare-1693f03369be Edited June 27, 2017 by HU&W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 17 hours ago, HU&W said: About as practical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 707 Tanker Transport from back in the day: https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1983/1983 - 1054.PDF http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Visschedijk/7288.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbit Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Still more capable than the kc-46 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 (edited) History of towing aircraft: http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2017/04/history-airborne-aircraft-towing/ B-29 B-50 on a rigid tow boom Edited December 27, 2017 by Clark Griswold correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breckey Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 That’s a B-50 as evidenced by the wing tank outboard of the engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 25 minutes ago, Breckey said: That’s a B-50 as evidenced by the wing tank outboard of the engines. Yup - I am corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoopyeast Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 "Jul. 4 1989 was a hell of an Independence Day for the 32nd TFS (Tactical Fighter Squadron) “Wolfhounds”, a unit of the USAFE based at Soesterberg AB (Air Base), in Netherlands. In fact when Captains J.D. “JD” Martin and Bill “Turf” Murphy were scrambled with their F-15C Eagle fighter jets, they could not imagine that their mission was to intercept a very strange MiG." With audio from the F-15s https://theaviationist.com/2012/10/03/mig23-belgium/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgian_MiG-23_crash 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majestik Møøse Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 On 6/26/2017 at 7:29 PM, Clark Griswold said: This could also go in the WTF? thread... Giant Soviet six rotor SA-2 launching helicopter... https://medium.com/war-is-boring/this-monstrous-soviet-missile-helicopter-would-have-been-a-flying-nightmare-1693f03369be War is Boring are such fools. Flying Nightmare, GMAFB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFM this Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Majestik Møøse said: War is Boring are such fools. Flying Nightmare, GMAFB. I don’t know, I think it’s a fitting description. If the thing actually flew, it looks like it would be a horrible nightmare for both the flyers and maintainers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17D_guy Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Operation Bolo details being declassified - https://warisboring.com/spies-helped-the-usaf-shoot-down-a-third-of-north-vietnam-s-mig-21s/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Carrier Hangar Catapults... http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11821/the-crazy-aircraft-carrier-hangar-catapults-of-world-war-ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 What a great story! Here's Taffy (as mentioned in the video, he passed in 2016), and his account of the incident... http://www.danrostron.com/2013/10/14/wing-commander-taffy-holdens-inadvertant-flight-in-lightning-xm135/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I was sent this by a U-2 guy and figured I'd post it here. Interesting look back at Patton. Today, December 16, is the 74th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. Here is a link to a related story of leadership and prayer. Enjoy. http://myvfw.org/va/dist10/uncategor...s-prayer-1944/ My uncle was caught behind lines in the Battle of the Bulge and fought his way out. Harrowing story. The era of "iron men and wooden ships". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herkbum Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I have 2 great uncles that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. 1 is still alive. I went to Bastogne 10 years or so ago and took a bunch of pictures for him. Amazing to have him tell stories when he saw the pics. He heard his brother was there as well and went to find him. Found each other, shared a frozen K ration for Christmas dinner, and then went back to their units. One uncle was riding on a tank the next day and they came under German artillery fire, knocking him off the tank and unconscious. Woke up and only heard German voices. Played dead until he heard English voices again. Not sure how long he was out there. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynhigh Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 (edited) From the collection of Lt. Col. Roy L. Scott. Instrument Pilot on Flickr The Cavemen's Bomber, B-1 on Flickr Edited December 28, 2018 by flynhigh 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I have several of Bob Stevens' There I Was... books around here, great cartoons from the good ol' days! 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlbs Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) http://militaryhonors.sid-hill.us/history/rescue.htm Rescue From the Heart of a Typhoon Crewmen of a downed bomber are saved from a raging sea in a daring feat by nuclear subs fighting 40-foot waves. by Capt. Charles Barton, USN (Ret.) POPULAR MECHANICS January 1977 Edited October 1, 2019 by jonlbs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickhistory Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Recommend the book "The Escape Artists" by Neil Bascomb Essentially the World War I version of the The Great Escape. Which I also recommend that book if you haven't read it. Author was Paul Brickhill, a RAF Spitfire pilot who was in the POW camp at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlbs Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Firebirds... U call - we kill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Interested story from the good old days https://theaviationgeekclub.com/foxhound-vs-blackbird-former-mig-31-pilot-explains-how-to-intercept-and-shoot-down-an-sr-71-mach-3-spy-plane/amp/Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Sixty-three years ago today... the first of seven U-2's was shotdown. It's the most well-known of the 7. https://coldwar.org/default.asp?pid=15587&d=y&subid=6191 (Today is Monday... so wait 4 days if you are offended by my post). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearedHot Posted May 1, 2023 Author Share Posted May 1, 2023 50 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said: Sixty-three years ago today... the first of seven U-2's was shotdown. It's the most well-known of the 7. https://coldwar.org/default.asp?pid=15587&d=y&subid=6191 (Today is Monday... so wait 4 days if you are offended by my post). Years ago I was a guest of the FSB (former KGB), on a formal senior military exchange and had several official meetings (and an epic lunch meeting which included shots of vodka and cognac), at their headquarters in Moscow. They have what was at the time a classified museum in the headquarters and I was given a private tour. I asked and was allowed to take this picture. In the case is wreckage from Francis Gary Powers U-2, his pressure suit, items he was carrying and a portion of his parachute. 5 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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