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Outside on top of the canopy is to see the periscope for watching what is happening behind the fighter.
Once this fighter flew for the Finnish Air Force, "puolustusvoimat".
The F4 Phantom wreck in Subic Bay at 43 meters, shot with an f4 aperture on the way back up from a great dive.
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Air intake of the F4 Phantom fighter jet in Subic Bay. Note teh abundant fish life on this wreck.
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"Detroit Miss", flown by First Lieutenant Urban L. Drew, in which he scored six aerial victories and one strafing kill in a single tour of duty. On October 7, 1944, Lieutenant Drew became the first Allied pilot to shoot down two Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe aircraft. This feat earned him a much belated Air Force Cross, awarded on May 12, 1983. He is one of only two men to receive the Air Force Cross for actions performed during World War II.
Gulf war era plane...F15
TRIVIA: Royal Saudi Air Force F-15C pilots shot down two F-4E Phantom IIs flown by the Iranian Air Force in a skirmish in June 1984, and shot down two Iraqi Mirage F1s during the Gulf War
In the F4 Phantom in Subic Bay at 43 meters. Tom Cruise here we come, Top Gun II!
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P40 Warhawk on display at Wright Patterson Air Force Museum,
Dayton, Ohio.
Camera: Nikon D5100
Photo by: D Kacir
U.S. NAVY F4U-1A "CORSAIR" OF FIGHTER SQUADRON VF-17
FLOWN BY COMMANDER JOHN T. BLACKBURN
Fighter squadron VF-17 was lead by Lt. Commander(later Commander) John T. Blackburn and adopted the pirate "Jolly Roger" as their squadron symbol. VF-17 was to become known as the "Skull and Crossbones Squadron" and as "Blackburn's Irregulars". VF-17 served two tours of duty commencing combat operation on 27 October 1943 from their base on Ondonga,New Georgia Island. This tour of duty lasted until 01 December 1943. Their second tour of duty was from 25 January 1944 until 04 March 1944 from their base at Piva Yoke, Bougainville Island. During their 79 days in combat, VF-17 was credited with 154 1/2 victories and created 13 aces
……for the Vickers Vimy. Even a Sopwith Camel showed up.
IT'S HARD to believe, but I did see a former high school teacher (Streetsville Secondary School) at this event.
Not right away……but later, when I was looking over my photos!
Ain't life strange~
The A-10 Warthog of the USAF A-10 East Demo Team at the ESL Air Show at the Rochester International Airport, 07.16.2011.
The Supermarine Spitfire, bred from the Schneider Trophy winning seaplane racers of the 30s, an incredibly elegant, agile and fast fighter, triumph of design and engineering. But oh so much more than that in the collective psyche of these islands, the Spit is forever associated with that moment when the history of the free world balanced on a knife edge, the Battle of Britain, and remains for many of us a supreme symbol of defiance against the odds in the face of overwhelming evil which had swallowed so much else but found the RAF more than they could chew...
This Spit was constructed late in the war, 1944, so long after that watershed air battle, although in the 1960s she would be taking to the air for part of the movie Battle of Britain. She's been the 'gate guard' at various RAF bases, including Leuchars, over the years and was eventually donated to the city of Glasgow (she had once been part of the City of Glasgow auxiliary RAF squadron in her history), refurbished at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune and when the magnificent Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum re-opened after a huge redevelopment she was on display, hanging there amid the early 1900s architecture, rather delightfully right over the head of a stuffed giraffe on display with other animals below! There's something quite magical about turning into a wing of this huge, historic edifice and coming face to face with a real Spitfire just hanging there, the lines so elegant and aerodynamic she still looks fast even when hanging still...
The HAL Tejas is a lightweight multirole jet fighter developed by India. It is a tailless, compound delta wing design powered by a single engine. It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which was begun in the 1980s to replace India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. Later the LCA was officially named "Tejas" by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
"Penrod and Sam" - Major Robert S. Johnson, 62nd FS, 56th FG
Robert S. Johnson decided to become an Army pilot at age 8, when he saw "The Three Musketeers" perform at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. An interesting side note to that story is that the Musketeers were formed and led by Captain Claire Chennault, later of Flying Tiger fame. Not only did Johnson decide that day to be an Army pilot, he decided he would be the best Army pilot; when he returned to the United States from England on June 6, 1944, he was the top-scoring USAAF pilot in the ETO, and tied at the time with Dick Bong with 27 victories. His score was later revised to 28, making him the fourth-ranking USAAF ace after Bong, Tommy McGuire, and Johnson's squadron commander, Francis Gabreski. In a group filled with aggressive aces Johnson was a standout on that score. Most of his career with the 56th saw him flying with the 61st Fighter Squadron, but when he was promoted to Major in May 1944, he moved to the 62nd FS, as Operations Officer. His autobiography, "Thunderbolt!" is highly-recommended reading.