<font color="336633">How about a nice small air craft..... A C-17A [ 24 June 2001: Message edited by: StickyMonk ]
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by fitz: Stickymonk, good stuff. Here's one not many people get to see. One of the B-1's bomb bays, taken at an open house at USAF Plant 42 in California in 1992. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <font color="336633">What sort of tonnage can they take? are they nuke bomb carriers?</font>
Matt, from - http://members.nbci.com/matabase/aircraft/usaf/b1_b.html "84 x Mk-82 (500lb) conventional bombs and 30 x GBU-15 (edit). Can be reconfigured to carry wide range of nuclear weapons" Gary.
Thanks for getting that info Gary. I didn't know the answer. I was a Lockheed guy, not Rockwell, and speaking of which, that "big" airplane is a Lockheed C-141, not a M-D C-17.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by fitz: Thanks for getting that info Gary. I didn't know the answer. I was a Lockheed guy, not Rockwell, and speaking of which, that "big" airplane is a Lockheed C-141, not a M-D C-17. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <font color="336633" size="+3">WHOOPS</font><font color="336633"> I posted the wrong pic I got a couple of choppers that I dont know what they are, anyone know?? Here is a MH-53M Pave Low IV (thats what it said on the side when it landed )</font> [ 25 June 2001: Message edited by: StickyMonk ]
<font color="336633">Anyone fancy a bit of Sweedish???? SAAB JAS-39 Grippen Or how about a bit of French? Mirage 2000
StickyMonk, if man had been meant to fly in helicopters, he would have been born with little rotor blades on his head. I don't do helos. Here are some oldies but goodies, Lockheed F-104s. Slick, even today. First flight 1954. [ 28 June 2001: Message edited by: fitz ] [ 28 June 2001: Message edited by: fitz ]
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> F-111 starting a vertical climb in afterburner, then dumping fuel right into the middle of it. Talk about a blowtorch. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I was a GI cameraman and almost got arrested for trying to take shots up the tailpipe of a parked F-111b. But I did get some great shots as it did what you mentioned. In fact the shot I took made AF Times in the late '60s
<font color="336633">Heres a couple more of the B1b, i just got the film back oh and another little one. </font>
Matthew, nice shots! That first one especially is what the designers intended the B-1 to look like. Looks great with the wings swept back. Why do I think they should have named it "Cormorant" when I see a side view? And a "little one?" What part of BUFF don't you understand?
