Aircraft

[litl rooster]

I fell in love with the Broncos when I was in 'Nam.

Wouldn't it be great to own one and use it to fly to your high school reunion...and other places?  Talk about one-upmanship.  

Forty I knew there was a reason I liked you


I think they are considered STOL

[Texas Lawdog]

I am hoping that the CAF gets access to a Bronco someday. We have a small collection of Vietnam era aircraft at the CAF HQ in Midland, Tx.

[Leo Tanner]

I think they are considered STOL

That would be perfect for his reunion.  He could use the football field.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Take down the goal posts at the open end of the field, though

[Texas Lawdog]

They only need a short distance to take off and land.

[Delmonico]

On my trips this year I realized something, I need to stop at a bunch of the small town airports and take pictures of the entrance, do you realize how many F-86 are sitting on poles at those? 

[litl rooster]

On my trips this year I realized something, I need to stop at a bunch of the small town airports and take pictures of the entrance, do you realize how many F-86 are sitting on poles at those? 

I remember one in front of a VFW and also a school

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I'll volunteer MY yard to put an F-86 ... or ANY airplane on a pole ... any time any towns want to "modernize" their courthouse square by getting rid of a display craft.  Heck, in one of the little towns not far from Indianapolis (Greencastle) they have a V-1 "Buzz Bomb" on the town square.  Not many of those ANYwhere! 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/13_Greencastle_V-1.JPG

[litl rooster]

They were made there? Make a hell of a cool lawn ornament. Better than a Jockey or Gnome or the the claymores I am using.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

You thinking about Alliance H.S., lR? They're the "Aviators". Know they've got a plane out front, but not sure which model now

[litl rooster]

They might also I think it was in some country school yard. I just remember my Dad stopping to look at it. Then us kids climbing up to look in the cockpit.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Alliance is on the east side of our county, lR. IIRC, there was an Aviation High School somewhere in the Cleveburg area as well. Think the one in Alliance was an F-84 or an A-8 Crusader( A-7?). Not even sure if it's still there

[Texas Lawdog]

At one time, Altus Oklahoma had a B-47 parked on their Main St. in the downtown area. There was an A-26 parked in front of the El Reno, Oklahoma VFW.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I wonder where they are now.

I've always admired the looks of the B-47.  It  LOOKS faster than it ever really was.  Looks like what happened if the engineers scaled up a sleek fighter and added a bomb bay.  I also like the Jimmy Stewart movie where he's flying a B-47 - Strategic Air Command - which he did in real life.  It has some good flying shots and more flying than the typical Hollyweird offerings, but not a great plot.  They (back then [1955], especially) had to load the story down with some romantic junk.  June Allyson is his "worrying" wife in this one.  She's pretty easy on the eyes after all ...

 

[Delmonico]

A lot of the flying stuff was stock footage from SAC.  You can reconize Offut in some of them, look for the Missourie River.

[Texas Lawdog]

They used Offutt and Carswell(Fort Worth) for the AF shots. I worked near Carswell at White Settlement PD before I went to work at Tarrant County. The movie was made about 53 and they had some B-36 shots as well.

[Arcey]

Follow up on the Memphis Belle. WWII vet takes a ride. Includes an interview.

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/08/wwii-vet-takes-flight-over-memory-lane

At the top of the page, click on the big, blue PilotOnline.com. That'll take you to the front page. Scroll down a bit and off to the right you'll see a related video. It should have been linked in the article but this is the "Pile It." The staff ain't real swift.

[Texas Lawdog]

Last year, over Labor Day, we have our annual Air Show in Lancaster, Texas. I was helping give walk-through tours of our B-24. A guy brought his father for a peel at the Bomber. His father was a tailgunner. His father, age 87, crawled through to the tailgunner position, where he flew. It was a pleasure to see this WW2 veteran, reliving his time as a crewman on a B-24.

[litl rooster]

I'll volunteer MY yard to put an F-86 ... or ANY airplane on a pole ... any time any towns want to "modernize" their courthouse square by getting rid of a display craft.  Heck, in one of the little towns not far from Indianapolis (Greencastle) they have a V-1 "Buzz Bomb" on the town square.  Not many of those ANYwhere! 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/13_Greencastle_V-1.JPG

I swear the next day on Military Channel, one of the shows had a segment featuring the V1

[Texas Lawdog]

Those German rockets were so far advanced that the techology surpassed anthing the Allies had at that time.