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re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:33 am to FightinTigersDammit
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:33 am to FightinTigersDammit
Just from looking at it, that GeeBee had to be the most unstable plane ever flown.
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Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:35 am to Spaceman Spiff
McDonnell Banshee?
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:36 am to MountainTiger
Overpowered and short...only about 18 feet long, if I remember correctly...
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:36 am to Spaceman Spiff
McDonnell Phantom.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:38 am to JustGetItRight
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McDonnell Phantom.
This. McDonnell FH-1 Phantom.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:39 am to Spaceman Spiff
A footnote in history compared to the Phantom II
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:40 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Looks so much like an F-86, so unless the Navy operated Sabres, that had to be it.
That's because it is a navalized F-86 - or more specifically the F-86 is a swept wing FJ-1.
North American started with the straight winged USN FJ-1 as the basis for the land based F-86 and then used the F-86's improvements to create the FJ-2.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:43 am to JustGetItRight
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That's because it is a navalized F-86 - or more specifically the F-86 is a swept wing FJ-1.
North American started with the straight winged USN FJ-1 as the basis for the land based F-86 and then used the F-86's improvements to create the FJ-2.
Lot of crossover, to be sure.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:47 am to FightinTigersDammit
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A footnote in history compared to the Phantom II
One of my favorite planes of all time.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:49 am to Spaceman Spiff
Among other accomplishments, the Phantom II settled the debate on whether a fighter needs a gun.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:51 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Among other accomplishments, the Phantom II settled the debate on whether a fighter needs a gun.
Exactly. Read where the likes of Olds talked about how many kills they could have had if the plane had a gun.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:51 am to Spaceman Spiff
Olds wrote a poem about the F-4
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:54 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Lot of crossover, to be sure.
It's more than crossover - there's an extremely high degree of commonality. The paint scheme, canopy position, and photo angle of the posted aircraft make it look different than the image most people have of the F-86.
Here are two aircraft in flight. The top one's an FJ-3 Fury. The bottom's a F-86.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:55 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Among other accomplishments, the Phantom II settled the debate on whether a fighter needs a gun.
And whether or not pilots need to be trained in the art of dog fighting!
I'm digging pretty deep here....
Name
Country of Origin
Historic Significance
This post was edited on 7/24/14 at 9:56 am
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:56 am to Spaceman Spiff
My favorite Phantom paint scheme of all-time.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:58 am to Darth_Vader
Damn, Darth. What in the hell is that thing? I say French, but I am only WAGing...
Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:00 am to JustGetItRight
I have a large photo of one of the Skyblazers above me as I type this...
Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:01 am to FightinTigersDammit
Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:02 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Damn, Darth. What in the hell is that thing? I say French, but I am only WAGing...
She is a brutish thing, isn't she? But no, she's not French.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:02 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Among other accomplishments, the Phantom II settled the debate on whether a fighter needs a gun.
That's a fact. It also proved that a brick can fly if it has a big enough engine.
Awesome looking plane though. There's never been anything else like it as far as I know.
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