Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[MartG]

What happens when an F-18 driver isn't looking where he's going....



.... but still manages to land after a mid-air collision !

[FourWheelDrift]

Brother D said:

I'm posting this with a 75% confidence it has been posted already (sorry)

Psst. I think we're being followed.

[gwm]

Brother D said:

I'm posting this with a 75% confidence it has been posted already (sorry)

Who's going to name them all for me?

(and which country each is from)

[yellowjack]

gwm said:

Brother D said:

I'm posting this with a 75% confidence it has been posted already (sorry)

Who's going to name them all for me?

(and which country each is from)

McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II (Egyptian Air Force)


Dassault Mirage 5 (Egyptian Air Force)
General Dynamics (Lockheed Martin) F-16 Fighting Falcon (Egyptian Air Force)

MiG 19SF 'Farmer' (Egyptian Air Force)
Grumman F-14 Tomcat (US Navy)last launch from a carrier was in 2006, from CVN-71 USS Teddy Roosevelt
MiG 21 'Fishbed' (Egyptian Air Force)


Grumman A-6 Intruder (US Navy? or USMC?) retired from service 1997
Vought A-7 Corsair II (US Navy?) retired May 1991

Unless, of course, the Phantom is a 'G' from the US Air Force, and the Mirage is a '2000'. The image isn't great, too little detail for my liking, and if it's enlarged it just pixelates really badly. It has to have been taken during a visit to the Med by a US carrier. CVN-69, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower's deployment to the Med in 1983 saw joint exercises conducted with Egypt, but that 'feels' too early. Possibly a US carrier deployed for the 1991 Gulf war on a joint "show of strength" coalition forces 'photo shoot'? The "Ike" transited the Suez Canal and the Red Sea for that one.

ETA: After another look at the picture, I'm sure I can see 'AG' on the F-14's stbd inner vertical tail surface. The tail code 'AG' is Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7)'s code. CVW-7 was permanently assigned to USS 'Ike' during the early 1980s so I'm more inclined to go with the early 1980s now, with the Libya fracas and associated stuff going on at the time, too.

Edited by yellowjack on Saturday 30th May 16:09

[NM62]

Operation Bright Star 1983 - US Navy + Egyptian Air Force ( in that Photo - Believe some USAF units went down there too.)

Better picture here

Edited by NM62 on Saturday 30th May 15:59

Tomcat looks like its from VF142 ( Dwight D Eisenhower ) and the A7 seems to have AG Tail code from same ship.

Edited by NM62 on Saturday 30th May 16:02

[ChemicalChaos]

This one was taken by a friend of mine in 1993.

The caption was "only in Cambodia would they open the door for me to take a photo mid-flight!"

[FourWheelDrift]

Maybe he asked where the loo was?

[irocfan]

ChemicalChaos said:

This one was taken by a friend of mine in 1993.

The caption was "only in Cambodia would they open the door for me to take a photo mid-flight!"

brilliant!! Though it is crazy to think that these days you could (in countries like this) use a gopro for the same result and a lot less danger

[Simpo Two]

[MartG]

[irocfan]

MartG said:

could you imagine if that were real - be fking terrifying!!

[FourWheelDrift]

Not that much bigger than a Skywarrior and about 10,000lbs lighter.

[irocfan]

FourWheelDrift said:

Not that much bigger than a Skywarrior and about 10,000lbs lighter.

not according to wiki (the font of all knowledge <grin>

[james_tigerwoods]

What is the biggest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier anyway?

[MartG]

james_tigerwoods said:

What is the biggest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier anyway?

C-130 Hercules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-poc38C84

[james_tigerwoods]

MartG said:

james_tigerwoods said:

What is the biggest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier anyway?

C-130 Hercules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-poc38C84

Eeep, that must have been a "fun" landing

[CoolC]

For those interested, I've just seen on the local Facebook page that there's a practice of the Queen's flypast tomorrow at RAF Waddington.

30+ military aircraft in formation at 1pm.

[james_tigerwoods]

CoolC said:

For those interested, I've just seen on the local Facebook page that there's a practice of the Queen's flypast tomorrow at RAF Waddington.

30+ military aircraft in formation at 1pm.

Hmm. I'm not a million miles away from that. But I have work to do...

Tempting

[MartG]

A proposal that I'm sure even the designers didn't think would get off the ground - or if it did would need refuelling after 3 minutes

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

james_tigerwoods said:

Eeep, that must have been a "fun" landing

Given that one pilot had Herc experience but no carrier experience and the other had carrier exerience but no herc experience, and given that they were selecting Max Reverse about 45 feet above the deck, then yes I'd agree with you!