I feel sorry for you guys. Have to endure airshows! 😉

The one – and only – military show here in Denmark was cancelled on economy grounds. (50 years of Skrydstrup Airstation – looking forward to 100 now!)

Damien B – You’ve got the magic touch. Tried for 30 years. On a good day I get one or two pictures like yours out of 200.

best regards atc pal

Where it’s gone? Yes, quite a mystery :confused:

But I’ve heard it’s not an uncommon way to repossess aircraft.

regards atc pal

up (as in low flying)

atc pal

— foot (as in Sukhoi) 😉

Nice picture yak 11 fan!

But the WHITE jet fighter type helmet is irritating with a WWII paintscheme:rolleyes: 😡

regards atc pal

sad, sad, sad 🙁

Striking that people, that usually dumps garbage at the roadside, is very careful to put it INSIDE this aircraft.

Second point. Aircraft will simply not survive in the saltladen damp climate of North Western Europe. (without proper care)

atc pal

A-1 ordnance

Phantom II.

Found some time ago two excellent Skyraider sites at

http://skyraider.org

One is very fascinating a virtual “book”: Byron E. Hukee: “The A-1 Combat Journal”

The USMC used the A-1 in Korea. A standard “Sandy” load had 720 rounds for the 4 x 20 mm M-3 cannons.

From the “book”:

“The ordnance carried for a search and rescue (SAR) mission was: 720 rounds of 20 mm for the M-3 cannons, 1,500 rounds of 7.62 ammo for the SUU-11 minigun, 4 x CBU-25 canisters with high explosive bomblets, 2 x CBU-22 canisters with smoke bomblets, 2 x AN-M47 white phosphorus smoke bombs, 2 x LAU-3 pods with 19 HE (high explosive) rockets each, 2 x LAU-59/68 pods with 7 WP (white phosphorus) marking rockets each. The four M-3 20mm cannons used percussion primed (as opposed to electric primed) ammo which had to be drawn from Korean war surplus since it was no longer produced during the Vietnam War era.

The limiting factor on the duration on a Skyraider mission was the oil supply. Despite having a 38.5 gallon oil sump, auxiliary oil tanks were fitted for long ferry missions.

The Skyraider carried sufficient ordnance to deliver ordnance on over 100 passes on a single sortie.”

Also colour pictures of standard loads. Video clips and sounds of the BIG Wright Cyclone engine. Radio transmissions from actual rescue missions. A goldmine of fascinating stuff. Enjoy!

atc pal

Just found the CFE-treaty on http://www.osce.org/docs/english/cfee.htm
In article III exemptions it states among others 1 c:”belong to historical collections”!! This is a sleep inducing document but I noticed something about unusual high numbers of exemptions being reported several years in a row. You imagine some sneaky little air chief marshal “hiding” his air force in museums!
As I said about the Woodvale Phantom, a small yellow sign is put on Danish gateguards and some museumpieces (on loan from the Air Force). Supposedly there is a list to be handed to the inspectors.
I have a feeling scrapping isn’t really mandatory. But of course it saves a little work.

The splitting of aircraft was, I’m sure, part of some nuclear treaty (soviet/russian – american) so you could verify it from sattelites.

Anyway, what’s the point of demolishing a “gate guard”. Somebody, probably the same people ? , once put it up there because they were proud of it. :rolleyes: