Aviation thread!

[azurbanclucker]

 

[pnw_urban_chix]

Nice F-4! Where'd you get the picture? (Also, are those Shrikes or HARMS under the wings? )

 

[Evadig]

I saw a formation of fighters today but couldn’t get a picture ‘cause I was driving. They were wonderful.

I did get a USCG helicopter:

And I stopped at Gravelly Point:

 

[azurbanclucker]

Nice F-4! Where'd you get the picture? (Also, are those Shrikes or HARMS under the wings? )

CAF Museum, Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ.

They're Sparrows.

 

[pnw_urban_chix]

CAF Museum, Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ.

They're Sparrows.

OHHHHHHH. I'm embarrassed. It is sort of hard to distinguish, though, because the shrike and later missiles like the HARM were based off of the Sparrow frame.... Still embarrassed. I have been reading a bit about F-4Gs tho so maybe that's why... .

 

[pnw_urban_chix]

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On closer scrutiny it proves that I am indeed dumb; navy Phantoms never did SEAD.

 

[pnw_urban_chix]

 

[tripletfeb]

Oh Lord, an aviation thread. And I say that nicely. My son and his friend are such huge plane nerds, they can tell you everything about planes. Son's friend can even tell you what plane is flying overhead without looking at it. His dad has his pilot's license and they live next to our little county airport. They fly all the time and they will go over our house and tip their wings at us. We go to the Cleveland Air Show every year and the Blue Angels fly all the time. We've been to our fair share of museums as well. Saw the Enola Gay and the Blackbird at the Smithsonian and the Bockscar at Wright Patterson. Here are some pictures, I know I have more somewhere

 

[pnw_urban_chix]

Oh Lord, an aviation thread. And I say that nicely. My son and his friend are such huge plane nerds, they can tell you everything about planes. Son's friend can even tell you what plane is flying overhead without looking at it. His dad has his pilot's license and they live next to our little county airport. They fly all the time and they will go over our house and tip their wings at us. We go to the Cleveland Air Show every year and the Blue Angels fly all the time. We've been to our fair share of museums as well. Saw the Enola Gay and the Blackbird at the Smithsonian and the Bockscar at Wright Patterson. Here are some pictures, I know I have more somewhere
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My air museum also has a Blackbird! They're pretty cool jets... But instead of a B-29 (my museum used to have a B-17, but I didn't get a chance to see it) we just have the Spruce Goose . It towers over one entire huge building. I need to take some pictures of it, but I never do because it just feels like part of the building, not an airplane.

 

[SunriseChickers]

My husband and I had a joke about having a kiss under the Blackbird, which didn't happen, but it was an ongoing joke for the whole time we dated. And unfortunately, there isn't actually a way to stand under the Blackbird at Wright Patt, which is where we had our first date. But he ended up proposing (at Wright Patt) behind the starboard engine of of one of the Blackbird's predecessors.
We now have three different SR-71 model airplanes here. One of them I got at Wright Patt and one, a VERY nice one that I will have to share a picture of sometime, was a wedding gift.