Aircraft pics

[MikeA]

How about the F4U Corsair!

[SS427]

Even better, the F2G Super Corsair from Bob Odegaard's collection.

Super Corsair

[427TJ]

This B-25, registered N86427, used to buzz the east bay (San Francisco) hills where I grew up back in the late 60s and early 70s. Man, there was no mistaking the sound of those two Wright R-2600s and often this airplane would roar right over the house. The owner, Ralph Johnson, was involved with several old airplanes out at Oakland back in those days and this photo was taken at an impromptu display at Oakland in 1967. That's me in the shorts under the nose. This B-25 is now in Spain in an air museum.

[427TJ]

A buddy e-mailed this photo to me from 2005. It's a Lockheed P2H Neptune (former Navy sub hunter) now used as a fire bomber. Note the shadow of the airplane on the fence! That's pretty low! Hot day and a heavy load means she'll use up all the runway she can before getting airborne!

[427TJ]

I love the contrast seen in this picture. A circa-1910 Curtiss pusher chugs past a supersonic B-1 bomber. (The pusher is flying along about 100 yards beyond the B-1.) And to think we made that technoligical leap in just about 65 years.

[427TJ]

My navigtor (we flew the KC-135 tanker) took this photo one evening as we headed north during the '91 Gulf War. Two F-117 Stelath Fighters loaded with radar guided bombs inside their weapons bays. One the way back about an hour later the lead F-117 pilot told us that they'd bombed Saddam's "CIA building" that had a glass-walled exterior. The pilot said, "They're gonna' be pulling glass shards out of their asses for a long time."

[427TJ]

My dream airplane, the Pitts Model 12. I want on orange one just like that.

[427TJ]

How's this for a death-defying stunt? If your engine quits just climb out and hand-prop it! Looks to be about 10,000 feet up. Looks like Huntington Beach down in SoCal.

[427TJ]

The recently retired Concorde, "in the cons" (contrails) at 2,100 mph.

[JChlupsa]

Heres one not many have seen before unless you worked for NASA. This is the X-31 test plane that they had when i was there. Nice thing about working there is you get to know people who let you fly the simulators as well. my wife got to spend 30 mins in the X-31 Sim and almost fainted when she was told what other countries pay to fly just 10 mins in one!!!!!!