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« Reply #2250 on: September 20, 2018, 09:47:25 AM »


A RCAF CH-147F Chinook helicopter crew prepares a load to resupply UN forces from Camp Castor in Gao, Mali during Operation PRESENCE on September 11, 2018.

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« Reply #2251 on: September 21, 2018, 06:18:39 AM »


F-16 Tiger Demo Team Poland
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« Reply #2252 on: September 21, 2018, 06:20:40 AM »


I love these birds! ❤🇵🇱💪
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« Reply #2253 on: September 21, 2018, 06:53:27 AM »


F-16 Tiger Demo Team Poland
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« Reply #2254 on: September 21, 2018, 08:10:43 AM »
I wonder if that was taken at Hurlburt Field? I spent about ten weeks there back in the day.
That would definitely fit for a CV-22B.

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« Reply #2255 on: September 22, 2018, 09:20:12 AM »
Or Eglin AFB, it’s right next door!

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« Reply #2256 on: September 24, 2018, 05:37:41 AM »
Remember when a CF-188 went in from a very low altitude (200 ft). Well I just found this photo taken by William Gilson of Capt. Brian Bews ejecting from the same CF-188 in Lethbridge in 2010. It is a screen shot so there are a few artifacts.


CF-188-Ejection-2010-v2
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« Reply #2257 on: September 24, 2018, 08:23:24 AM »
WOW - thatz wild photo op moment catch on CF-18.

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« Reply #2258 on: September 24, 2018, 10:13:27 AM »
 :smiley:
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« Reply #2259 on: September 26, 2018, 07:15:40 PM »


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« Reply #2260 on: September 29, 2018, 09:06:00 AM »
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« Reply #2261 on: September 29, 2018, 09:25:27 AM »
What you lookin' at?

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« Reply #2262 on: September 29, 2018, 02:26:35 PM »
So Gerry Anderson's mate Derek Meddings is now building real Thunderbirds/Captain Scarlet/UFO aircraft  8) 8)
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« Reply #2263 on: September 30, 2018, 04:52:44 AM »


Avro Arrow mock-up for the 1997 Arrow movie (starring Dan Aykroyd) and CF-188 744 on the ramp at CFB Trenton (photo credit RCAF WG96-457-15).
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« Reply #2264 on: September 30, 2018, 05:25:06 AM »


A grainy image but still cool.
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« Reply #2265 on: October 01, 2018, 08:13:07 AM »
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« Reply #2266 on: October 01, 2018, 10:55:47 AM »
Variant of Sikorsky S-92?

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« Reply #2267 on: October 01, 2018, 11:04:17 AM »
Variant of Sikorsky S-92?


Yes. RCAF CH-148 Cyclone.

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« Reply #2268 on: October 01, 2018, 05:36:11 PM »
Very nice! I can’t get over how small the engines appear compared to the fuselage

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« Reply #2269 on: October 01, 2018, 08:16:35 PM »
I would love a 1/48 kit of this - so many possibilities for WhIffery...

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« Reply #2270 on: October 01, 2018, 11:11:40 PM »
I would love a 1/48 kit of this - so many possibilities for WhIffery...

You could try getting one of these and modifying:  https://www.pilotmall.com/products/sikorsky-h-92-military-version-of-s-92
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« Reply #2271 on: October 02, 2018, 01:59:37 AM »
Very nice! I can’t get over how small the engines appear compared to the fuselage
New transmission, but the engine installation and upper fuselage contours are very close to the S-70/H-60 which it pretty much shares engines with.

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« Reply #2272 on: October 02, 2018, 06:49:37 AM »


Flight crews of Doc and Fifi at Great Bend, KS.
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« Reply #2273 on: October 02, 2018, 08:40:12 PM »


@MbKS15
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« Reply #2274 on: October 03, 2018, 04:24:16 AM »

F-35Bs Aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
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F-35Bs Aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
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V-35B operations on @HMSQnlz taken on September 29, four days after the first landing. Spectacular image, not sure who took it but from @LockheedMartin Flickr.

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