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August 26, 2006 at 12:00 am in reply to: Best Shot of your Favorite Fighter! #2580850

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No… GR is Ground attack, Reconnaisance… just as FGR is Fighter, Ground attack, Reconnaisance… TSR was Tactical, Strike, Reconnaisance… FRS was Fighter, Reconnaisance, Strike… etc.

And all of the Buccs were designated S for Strike… (at least when dark blue and on carriers).

August 25, 2006 at 11:45 pm in reply to: I need a battleship picture #2042839

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And earlier in the day, as we passed from the Bering Sea to the Gulf of Alaska through a pass between two of the Aleutian Islands:

August 25, 2006 at 11:43 pm in reply to: I need a battleship picture #2042841

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The excercise was part of NORPAC ’86

BB-62 New Jersey with close-ups:
CV-64 Constellation, CGN-9 Long Beach, CG-33 Fox, unknown Adams class DDG, FFG-43 Thach, & FF-1083 Cook

August 24, 2006 at 1:32 am in reply to: 72 Typhoons to Saudi-Arabia – confirmed by Saudi MoD #2581831

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“Neither industry nor the air forces have released a specific, accurate empty weight figure for in service Tranche 1 production aircraft.”

Did they give one to those nations evaluating it? If not, then no wonder they chose something else, if EADS won’t even give out such basic info!

August 24, 2006 at 12:42 am in reply to: I need a battleship picture #2043067

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Terran, no… my name is in the text of the post, Bager is just a board-name.
No, ~3/4 Scot, a touch Irish (yes, I am “touched”), a little Dutch (very little), & 1/32 whatever else snuck in!

EMGY… those fins are from an F-14A of VF-2 (Navy Fighter Squadron) [Bounty Hunters].
And I agree about the names, although Forrestal CV-59 was named for Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal 😉

August 23, 2006 at 7:46 pm in reply to: I need a battleship picture #2043093

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Here are a couple of shots I took in Nov. 1986 from the flight deck of the USS Ranger CV-61 just south of the Aleutian Islands of the BB-62 New Jersey:

I also have some without the guns firing, including one with the CV-64 Constellation crossing her wake.

I give you permission to use them if they are suitable.
Jon Alexander, former SGT., USMC

The originals are 3″ x 5″ prints, but I do have the negatives….

August 23, 2006 at 5:28 am in reply to: Best Shot of your Favorite Fighter! #2582322

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“Since when was the SR-71 a fighter?”

P.L., that info is right here: Lockheed YF-12A
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f12.html
Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse Doppler fire control radar
four Hughes AIM-47A Falcon air-to-air missiles (250-kiloton nuclear warhead) housed internally
Three YF-12As were built. Serials were 60-6934/6936.

August 19, 2006 at 1:11 am in reply to: Hawkins and Powers auction soon 22Aug #1334863

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Especially the two PB4Ys!!

August 19, 2006 at 12:54 am in reply to: KC-767 Roadshow #2585416

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H$ll, why don’t we just take every Boeing employee out and shoot them in the head, eh? That’ll show those warmongering, mopolizing, bribing b#$tards!!!

Oh yes, destroy an American company in favor of a European one that does the same dirty tricks to get contracts and is trying its best to get its own monopoly that it can misuse for maximum profit… you make so much sense!

August 17, 2006 at 3:50 am in reply to: Question re: strange light beam on typhoon #2586615

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I think he is confusing the chaff/flare dispensers as being weapons stations.

August 17, 2006 at 3:36 am in reply to: Which fighter as the best carrier based plane? #2043927

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Well, the F-16 has been built (assembled) in several European countries… with major parts built in those and other countries. (as were the F-104, F-4, etc.)

However, those agreements were reached after it entered service in the USAF… those other nations had no say or participation in the specifications, design, or development of the F-16 (or the other aircraft mentioned).

August 17, 2006 at 3:13 am in reply to: The 8000t "harrier carrier" concept? #2043929

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Shiplover, there is the same pic at:
http://www.geocities.com/o0o0ocat/
labelled: “A model of simplified Invincible design in 1983 RNEE”.

In addition, the pic in your post #116 (page 4 of this thread) is also there, labelled “Japanese 10,000t standard displacement CVH approved in July 1960”.

August 16, 2006 at 3:42 am in reply to: Boston or Buchon? #1251378

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Of course, the C-1 Trader will allow you to take the family, luggage, camping gear, etc. with you!

Get that and the B-25!

Of course, the left-over will be for that twin-engine rating, inspections, etc.

August 12, 2006 at 1:32 am in reply to: SU-30MKP (Persian) ???????! #2589751

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I have been aboard a CV (CV-61 USS Ranger) within striking range of Iran (northern Gulf of Arabia, fall of 1987)… and I can tell you, we were ready for a possible Iranian air strike, even though all we were doing was providing air cover for the tanker convoys (and blowing up the occasional Iranian “oil platform” that was being used to launch Silkworm missiles at random passing tankers)!

The chances of a CVNBG being in the Persian Gulf is laughable… the only reason the CV-62 Independance was in the Gulf of Oman (between the P. Gulf & the A. Gulf) in GW1 was to try to lure Saddam into attacking it, not for any legit operational reason! She was even in the P. G. in 1992, but that was after the end of GW1!

Notice that no other CV/CVN was there in either GW1 or GW2. Why the h@ll would any US CV/CVN be there anyway? The Arabian Gulf is just fine for launching attacks against nearly all Iranian targets.

August 10, 2006 at 3:12 am in reply to: German Fleet Air Arm in WW2. #1259373

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Post #28 here:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60098

has some nice photos of the navalised Ju-87 with wings folded.

Is that a cheesy grin or what? 😀
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