was kind of hoping for answers from like, lay people.
Texas (SSN-775) is the second ship of the Virginia class. With improved stealth (note ducted propulsion), sophisticated surveillance capabilities and special warfare enhancements, it will provide undersea supremacy well into the 21st century. Photo by Chris Oxley, Northrop Grumman Newport News.
That is awesome. Love the F-15 segments going full burn.
2012 Armed Forces Day Andrews Air Base, DC.
Mach 3+ fighter equipped with fire and forget Mach 6 missiles.
Cancelled in 1959, many of its components were used in later planes.
B-36 next to a B-29..
That Dauntless single-handidly won the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
nice pix Legend2TL, man I would have flipped to be around all that machinery!!!!
there is an air show that goes on in Rockford IL, that I failed to visit in the past. Now I think they are not doing it anymore due to lack of funding.
Yep, for whatever reason it shows up for me just fine.
Thanks, I had the privilege to go with a few DoD friends to the Armed Forces Day on Friday which is restricted to DoD personnel and their friends. It was great since the crowd was ~1/10 of the public weekend crowd. Talked to some of the air crew and ground crew, all friendly and very knowledgable.
The AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 missile used in the F-14 were derived from the F-108 and YF-12 work.
The North American Cincinnati group which did most of the F-108 airframe design and development used alot of it's concept in the Navy A-5 attack jet which adapted into the versatile RA-5C recon jet. A-5 below, you can see alot of similarity.
So much more originality in aircraft design during the mid-century.
now it's time for one of my favorite aircraft ever, the B-1B.
That last pic Srika is amazing.
This thread is fucking full of badassness.
Same here, the Bone just looks cool.
With alot of upgrade and improvement programs it's now a excellent offensive platform. Didn't realize they got the ops cost per hour to be below even a B-52.
Saw a couple of those during my last visit to Tinker AFB. Very impressive.
B1!!! One of my favorite planes of all time.
FWIW, a writeup on both planes.