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In May 1999 this F-16 shot down a MiG-29 above Yugoslavia.

B-52 bomber tail.

dangermoney wrote in post #19149392
They probably preferred both of those over their Grumman Tigers. That's a Thunderbird F-4 in the background.

where are all of these former demonstration team planes?

apollo 7 command module capsule at the Frontier of Flight in Dallas/Ft Worth (Love Field)

i dont remember who's uniform this is (Frontiers of Flight)

J-58 from the Lockheed Blackbird family (a-12, SR-71, yf-12-not produced)

Ltdave wrote in post #19196102
J-58 from the Lockheed Blackbird family (a-12, SR-71, yf-12-not produced)

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R-4360-35 Wasp Major used in the B50, C97 and B36

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Anyone for a plug change (56) Or tappet check

What has always fascinated me about these huge engines is the low compression ratio. Even the humble 2CV had about 8:1 hiked up to about 9 1/2:1 on the later models. But 7:1 and less on these brutes.

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J-58 from the Lockheed Blackbird family (a-12, SR-71, yf-12-not produced)

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interesting side of aviation I never get to see.
Thanks for sharing.

that top photo is something any kid would love to see fired up and sent on its way and on that trolley assembly.
Wow, she'd race across the paddocks. The mind boggles

In a similar vein, always wondered what speed you would achieve upon removing the chocks on one of these before perishing in a huge ball of flame and/or being diced into many smaller pieces!

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Probably until the fuel tube ran out

Jonzjob wrote in post #19196421
Probably until the fuel tube ran out

My mind went back about 100 years to my billycart days.
I imagined a baked bean tin full of fuel to get started, working upwards in size as I got more experience, daring, assuming all survived the first fuel load

Cygnus wrote in post #19196369
In a similar vein, always wondered what speed you would achieve upon removing the chocks on one of these before perishing in a huge ball of flame and/or being diced into many smaller pieces!

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It would certainly focus the attention of anyone around it Cygnus!

The Monarch Britannia in the background. When I was a volunteer on the Britannia, XM496, at Kemble we were invited to Duxford when they rolled it out of the hanger after a boal load of work had been done restoring it. With great cerimony it was pulled out of the hanger on route to its resting place.

If you have been to Duxford you will know that there are a load of bus stops around the display dispersal area. A new one had been put just outside the hanger, but nobody had taken the trouble to find out if the Britannia wing tip would clear it on the occasion of it being put out on display! It didn't and there was a bit of a panic when it was found that the post was a single piece of steel set into a concrete base and nobody was going to cut it in half! So the wing tip had to come off.

While that was happening we were given a VIP tour of a lot of places that were not open to the general public. I just wish that I still had the photos I took, but thy have been lost in the 4 house moves since then!

The Britannia was eventually moved on to its display bay and we were the first to be allowed on board to have a gander around it. A lot of cash had been put in to the refurbish and it looked really good both inside and out.

I've actually worked on a number of Monarch aircraft at Stansted. That was when I was still stationed at Brize Norton. I was working a very good shift system of 3 X 12 hour days, 3 X 12 hour nights and 6 days off. A few of us used to go across the Stansted doing contract work for Monarch. I used to go as a rigger as I didn't have the civvy tickets for the electrical trade. We stated 'no skin repairs' as that was a specialised job and I wasn't qualified for it. So we spent the time there doing all the mundane jobs, but 4 days earned us about £150 and that was a lot of cash then!

One trip over the foreman asked why no skin repairs? So I told him why and he said that OK, see what you can do with these water boilers. The outer aluminium skins were badly corroded away. So I set to with a pair of tin snips and pop rivet pliers and repaired them. When he saw the finished job he told me that they were better than most airframe blokes with the qualifications would have done! I was quite chuffed and it was a nice easy job to boot

Ltdave wrote in post #19196084
where are all of these former demonstration team planes?

https://pimaair.org/
They have more of them too.

Airbus A400M nr:ZM416