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We were given a tour of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam when two F-22 Raptor fighter jets took off to escort a possible hijacked airliner near Hawaii.
Really how the dirty roll kicks off the US Navy Tac Demo high show. The demo maneuver list:
1. Dirty roll to half Cuban eight
2. Flat pirouette
3. Minimum radius turn to tail stand
4. High speed pass to abrupt pull-over reversal
5. Vertical pirouette
6. Square loop to 90/40 reversal
7. Inverted whisper pass
8. High alpha pass to Split-S reversal
9. Horizontal pitch rate demonstration
10. Touch & go to low transition
11. Photo pass
12. Carrier Brake to full stop landing
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I've got a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airshow & Warrior Expo (JBLMAWE) album for you to see my other photos as I have time to develop: flic.kr/s/aHskFP6ZUh . Please check out the album for more event photos as I develop through the 2016-2017 winter!
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
703, RSAF Tornado showing its arse to me after yet another trip over to EGNO, only for me unable to see it fly! Hopefully I'll catch it fly before it returns to the land of sand.
I photographed this un-restored F-84F Thunderstreak at the North Carolina Aviation Museum in Asheboro. It is interesting to note that the faded markings are those of Strategic Air Command . I am researching the history of this airplane and will post the results as soon as possible.
The swept-wing F-84F evolved from the straight-wing F-84. The prototype first flew on June 3, 1950, and deliveries began in 1954, primarily to the Tactical Air Command as a ground support fighter bomber. The F-84F was also used by Strategic Air Command as a long range fighter escort for Boeing B-50 Superfortress and Convair B-36 Peacemaker bombers. Republic built 2,112 F-84Fs while General Motors fabricated an additional 599. Of these, 1,301 were delivered to NATO air forces. F-84Fs gradually were replaced by supersonic F-100s in the late 1950s and were turned over to Air National Guard units; however, some F-84Fs were called back to temporary USAF service in the early 1960s due to the Berlin Crisis.
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 43 ft 4¾ in (13.23 m)
Wingspan: 33 ft 7¼ in (10.25 m)
Height: 14 ft 4¾ in (4.39 m)
Wing area: 325 ft² (30 m²)
Empty weight: 13,830lb (5,200 kg)
Loaded weight: lb (kg)
Max takeoff weight: 28,000 lb (12,701 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Wright J-65-W-3 turbojet, 7,220 lbf (32.2 kN)
Maximum speed: 695 mph (604 knots, 1,119 km/h) at sea level
Range: 810 mi (704 nmi, 1,304 km) combat radius with two droptanks
Service ceiling: 46,000 ft (14,000 m)
Rate of climb: 8,200 ft/min (42 m/s)
Wing loading: 86 lb/ft² (423 kg/m²)
Armament : 6× .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning M3 machine guns,
Up to 6,000lb (2,727 kg) of rockets and bombs, including one Mark 7 nuclear bomb
Avionics: A-1CM or A-4 gunsight with APG-30 or MK-18 ranging radar
Im really looking forward to not touching my camera for the next week and a half or so. Im getting my photo database fixed, working on my part of the thomasaircraftimages website.....going to feel great to get caught up......really having fun looking and editing some old stuff I had almost forgot about tonight......here is one of he first CAGs after I got a big boy camera.....hope to run into it again one day! :)