Military Hardware

One more of the Skyraider. This is an AD-4 at NAS Oceana in 2006.

 

I wish i did...right now im a slick guy...but maybe in the future sometime...
Ive gotten to see those guys rain fire over iraq though......while i was flying over there....It was an AWESOME display!!!

 

Sweet, next time your flying over Jacksonville, stop in and give me a ride! We have a fighter support C-130 and both pilots are ex F-15 pilots. They fly that like its still an F-15!!!

 

F-16C ThunderChicken high speed pass!

For anybody who cares!!

 

Just happen to have an Aviation Trade Show at Anchorage International Airport today.

C-17 (You Call We Haul!!!!) T-6 Texan I also like the old Warbirds. Thanks for the pics of the P-51. Great Plane. Another of a F22.

 

I have a niece that is flying these small planes.

 

The famous red rope around the F-22! To keep all the bad people away from it.

 

Almost as much fun as the red line around an AWACS. They tend to be serious about that one.

 

Back a few years ago, an F-117 came to the air guard base for an open house. The Monday after the 117 was still there. They let us walk around it and look in the cockpit. As I was walking under it I put my hand up and touched the leading edge of the wing. The security cop approached me and told me not to touch the aircraft!! I still don't understand why!

 

A FANG

$34 F-106 Engine Oil Drain Valve

F-106 in 1984.

 

This is/was my favorite jet to work on. We should have modded them or made new ones. http://www.c141heaven.com/ I turn wrenches on the C-17 now.

 

Would you still rather be working on C-141s or C-17s?

 

That is a hard question to answer. After 14 years on the 141, I new it like the back of my hand. I gettin there with the 17. One thing for sure, I hate working C-5's.

 

That's funny. I have a friend that was a loadmaster on C-5s. He loved that jet but hates the 17.

 

Think of the 17 as a flying computer...a 1980's computer. On a C-5 or 141 a lot of the work, requardless of career field, is in your hands not a computer. Plus the C-5 is know as a Per Diem hunter.

 

Blue Angels today!! F-18C going transonic and Fat Albert flying realllllly low!

 

close up

 

I think Fat Albert reallllllllllllllllllllly should have the wheels down

 

Thanks for posting those Luke Field F-16s, 4x4x4trd!
Here's two more Blue Angels. An F/A-18 and an A-4F Skyhawk.

 

I get ya. "Honey, the plane broke in Nellis AFB (Vegas). Were gonna be here for a day or two".