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« Reply #2575 on: April 10, 2019, 04:34:46 AM »
Dutch F-16 Hit By Own Bullet During Mission At The Firing Range.

Story: https://theaviationist.com/2019/04/09/dutch-f-16-hit-by-own-bullet-during-mission-at-the-firing-range/



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« Reply #2576 on: April 10, 2019, 12:22:19 PM »
That has to be an interesting story, much like the F11F-1 that shot itself.

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« Reply #2577 on: April 10, 2019, 08:32:44 PM »
That’s one lucky pilot! Dangerously close to the cockpit.

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« Reply #2578 on: April 11, 2019, 04:34:15 AM »
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« Reply #2579 on: April 11, 2019, 05:39:31 AM »
Beautiful shot of an Aurora.

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« Reply #2580 on: April 11, 2019, 07:17:20 AM »
Via a CAF member.

"Dusty landing" A CH-147 D Chinook on short final at a remote isolated FOB in Afghanistan 2010. Took this photo while sitting in a door-less Griffon helicopter with a small (ironically) water proof point & shoot camera. Picture shows the true effect of the powerful down wash and the very fine dust/sand of Afghanistan.

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« Reply #2581 on: April 11, 2019, 09:03:11 AM »
That explains a few things about the need for some of the R&D I was involved in on the V-22 - much improved engine inlet filtering.

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« Reply #2582 on: April 11, 2019, 09:31:53 AM »
Reminds me of the due cloud kicked up by a C-5 at Baghdad airport. It dust quite a few of us.

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« Reply #2583 on: April 11, 2019, 01:54:35 PM »
Probably wasn't that thick the time in Lebanon, when there was a chopper with some "mechanical" sitting on the elevated pad that we usually used. Needing to get some VIPs out, we got the other one on a flat pad that had not been used for a long time.

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« Reply #2584 on: April 11, 2019, 06:46:33 PM »


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« Reply #2585 on: April 11, 2019, 09:32:25 PM »


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« Reply #2586 on: April 13, 2019, 02:30:35 AM »
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« Reply #2587 on: April 15, 2019, 05:00:30 AM »


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Lightning during the wheely-flappy stage of flight.
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« Reply #2588 on: April 15, 2019, 11:29:11 PM »
Never seen this photo before.

Aerial photo of two RCAF Yukons in formation with an RCAF Comet on June 9 1962. Photo Credit Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre PL-139670.

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« Reply #2589 on: April 23, 2019, 01:41:55 AM »
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« Reply #2590 on: April 23, 2019, 02:24:00 AM »
I think that one has been posted before.  It's still a great shot though.
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« Reply #2591 on: April 23, 2019, 06:07:37 AM »
I think it was in the Griffon Spitfire Data File book, it says that the very last official use of a Spitfire in the RAF was a PR.XIX that was used in tests so the RAE could work out how the Lightnings could tackle the Malaysian Indonesian P-51's during the policing action the RAF got tangled up with.  They found that zooming up from below in the Spitfires blind spot just like that was the best way to do it, zoom up, shoot, overshoot to way up, fly away then swoop down low do it all over again using their superior vertical speed and not getting into any dogfights.
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« Reply #2592 on: April 24, 2019, 01:36:11 AM »
Errr...that would be Indonesian Mustangs given it was Malaysia they were defending.  Here are a couple of photos from the trails:


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« Reply #2593 on: April 24, 2019, 01:44:19 AM »
Thanks for the correction Greg, sort of knew it had to be one or the other  >:D  (post has been corrected)
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« Reply #2594 on: April 24, 2019, 02:23:05 AM »
 :smiley:

Mind you, the Indonesian P-51s do look cool:




On the topic of jets vs props, there was a rumour that a Royal Navy Buccaneer S.1 had what the pilot believed was a near-miss with a P-51D Mustang over the South China Sea. When the aircraft returned to the carrier a series of 50.cal bullet holes were spotted in the wing indicating that the Buccaneer had in fact been attacked but no critical systems were hit.
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« Reply #2595 on: April 25, 2019, 06:33:10 AM »




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« Reply #2596 on: April 27, 2019, 07:59:46 AM »
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« Reply #2597 on: April 28, 2019, 04:57:12 AM »


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« Reply #2598 on: April 28, 2019, 04:40:55 PM »
There's just something cool about Indonesian air force markings full stop. Every time I see something in their markings and schemes I start thinking about what else would look cool in the same.

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« Reply #2599 on: May 03, 2019, 06:49:50 PM »


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Holy mooncakes. Still researching Apollo photos for the next (slightly delayed, nbd..I hope) @AstroSocietyPac's Mercury magazine and LOOK AT THIS. I'm a sucker for earthrise imagery, but this one, with Apollo 16's CSM "Casper" just above the lunar horizon, is divine. #Apollo50th
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