MORE random pics...... - Page 186

jrdavid68 · 10-22-2005, 08:17 AM

A good self image is important.....

StevoRocket · StevoRocket's Garage

Lightning (UK) and Russian intercepted

Racerbvd · Racerbvd's Garage

Edited for content. -Z-man.

Tervuren · Tervuren's Garage

Sweet, love the plane pictures.

TRT-1 and a Ferrari 430 Spyder

996 in front of me, boxter in opposing lane, and my 944.

Porsche at night.

Carrera GT

Joeaksa · 10-22-2005, 03:08 PM

Cash,

Were you a Raven?

Regarding the F-15, believe that it was a mid-air collision. These are Israeli airplanes.

JoeA

Saintly · 10-23-2005, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by Joeaksa
And how about this -15 that made it back to base!

Goes to show that with enough thrust you can make anything fly.

URY914 · URY914's Garage

Hold on...

Jeff Higgins · 10-23-2005, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by URY914
Hold on...

Maybe he should sit on the other side of the car like the rest of us.

URY914 · URY914's Garage

New VW SUV...

bigrubberjeep · 10-23-2005, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by URY914
Hold on...

Maybe he started sitting on the other side like the rest of us.

ted · ted's Garage

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Originally posted by URY914
New VW SUV...

zero armor.
the gunner just sits on a bar stool?
Maybe it just ensures the gunner's ejection, might be more survivable in a roll over.

Tervuren · Tervuren's Garage

There IS something known as evasive action. Its the old Porsche Vs Escalade thing.

There are many scouts who prefer a Quad to a Humvee for their work, if they get into an ambush, they can instantly get the heck out of there, where as the Humvee, although armored, is going to take some serious time to turn around, especialy in a wooded envrionment.

Superman · 10-24-2005, 07:22 AM

I don't know nearly as much about aircraft as many of you, but I have a favorite fighter jet and it's the F-16. Seems to me it's the 550 Spyder of the air. I know it's engine makes more thrust than the aircraft's weight, so its center of thrust is in front of its center of gravity. In other words, it could fly without its wings. I imagine that's what got the twin-engined thing back. If necessary, I suppose you can just "throttle steer" it.

cashflyer · 10-24-2005, 08:28 AM

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Originally posted by Superman
I have a favorite fighter jet and it's the F-16. Seems to me it's the 550 Spyder of the air.

So you like F-16's, eh? Here are a few at AMARC:

Joeaksa,
My MOS was 96-H. During the Vietnam era this was called "Technical Observer", but was later renamed "Aerial Intelligence Specialist". New name, same job: Aerial recon. (the 96-H mos is now completely redesignated, as the Mohawks were all decommissioned and the specialty was reassigned to egg beaters)

I'll not bore you too much with the history of the aircraft, but will provide THIS LINK - THIS LINK - and THIS LINK.

During the Vietnam ers, satellite imagery was not as good as it it now. Probably because it was mostly non-existant. So our little birds flew around with cameras, IR, and SLAR to detect enemy movement and report it back to base. Or to take photos for planning. Some Mohawks were even fitted with ground attack weaponry, and called "Whispering Death".

The people who flew in them just called them "widowmakers." They had such a low survivability rate that were were instructed to eject at any sign of mechanical failure. (Engine out? EJECT! - Rudder malfunction? EJECT! - A/C failure? EJECT!!)

I was stationed at Fort Huachuca. The others in service were stationed in Korea and Germany. All of us had the same peacekeeping role; which was "training." (We really did have missions, but were all "classified" and so were called training missions)

Pretty much, I think our job then was what the UAVs are doing now.

Side note: Four OV-1C's were used by the US Customs Service in the '70's to mid '80's to intercept drug smuggling aircraft. The OV-1C's were modified ex-US Army machines with military equipment removed.