Plane Pr0n – Joint Services Edition
Showing some “Joint” love today…(also gives us a chance to flight test a new feature)
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Showing some “Joint” love today…(also gives us a chance to flight test a new feature)
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11,000 tons gross displacement. 622.5 ft long. 45 aircraft – that was the USS San Jacinto (CVL 30). Sixty-five years ago, on a September morning, a young naval aviator launched his Grumman TBF Avenger from her deck on a mission to strike facilities at Chi Chi Jima. Forty-five years later he was raising his hand,…
Keep your friends close and your tigers closer…? OK – ‘fess up out there, who else has can relate to this?
Hitting the Big Silver-Winged bird for a part of the country without ready access to the UNCLAS ‘net. Fear not – we’ve some articles queued up for the next few days, including a Flightdeck Friday, until we return a few days hence. …and no, sigh, not *that* kind of silver-winged bird, alas…
“245 PM EST WED FEB 3 2010 .WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRI MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN STERLING VA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH.WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRI MORNING THROUGH SAT EVENING. * PRECIPITATION TYPE.SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS.THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE 12 OR MORE INCHES OF…
Little steps… • 2004 – meet and fight (under albeit very favorable terms for the home team) “vanilla” USAF F-15’s (non-AESA birds) with your new SU-30’s; • 2006 – do it again, but this time against F-16’s; • 2008 - Join up in RED FLAG flying with 4th and 5th gen fighters against adversary air (but never going beak-to-beak…
Ever wonder what “they” meant when talking about a painted sky? Wonder no more: PERSIAN GULF (Dec. 22, 2008) The guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) transits through the Persian Gulf. Ramage is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of…
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Very, very cool. I saw a B1-B do a Monday Night Football game in Jacksonville, a pair of them, and they tapped burner over the stadium. We were working about a half mile away, and the whole building shook. Helluva sight, that’s for sure.
Airliners.net much? 😉
I think I have about a quarter of those pictures on my hard drive. Definitely a lot of cool ones. I particularly liked the Chinook standing on its nose.