For today's quickie we bring you a 'purty one... 'tis a silhouette snap from the early-mid '80s showing an F-4S Phantom II from VF-202 'Superheats', one of the fighter RONs from CVWR-20, the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet Reserve Carrier Air Wing.
Enjoy...
For today's installment we bring you a pretty cool if crapola quality AP wirephoto showing an RVNAF (Republic of Vietnam Air Force) A-37 Dragonfly over the lush jungle greenery of South Vietnam, dropping things that go boom (in this case, a couple'a 500 lb 'snake eyes') on their commie brethren. Oh, and this photo is stamped with the date March 13th, 1972, though y'all should keep in mind that sometimes those stamps were a bit late.
Enjoy, and remember: when in doubt, lay some iron...
With today's quickie we bring you a real beaut... an A-10A from the 81st TFW snapped from a tanker over the North Sea on February 1st, 1988. This jet spent a bit-o-time at the boneyard beginning in 2006, was returned to service and updated to A-10C standards. Your blogmeister isn't sure if she's still flying today, but he'd like to think so.
Enjoy, and go ugly early...
Today's quickie is a screengrab from the opening credits of the film 'Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'. That sequence is composed of official USAF footage showing B-52s doin' the aerial refueling thang, and is one of a few treats for the wingnut to be found in the film.
Enjoy, and remember - if we was flyin' any lower, why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing...
For today's installment, we have an atmospheric and just plain cool-lookin shot from 1947 or thereabouts that shows a couple'a P-51 Mustangs (later F-51) from the 113th Fighter Squadron, an Indiana Guard outfit. This was the early days of the Air Guard, when the lines were still a bit blurred between the 'ole National Guard aviation outfits and the new organization called the Air National Guard, hence the 'NG' on the fuselages and tails instead of the eventually-adopted 'ANG'.
Enjoy, and remember - The Air National Guard Protects America...
Okay, your blogmeister has to clear that one up right outta the gate - no, the YB-49 was not a 'stealth' aircraft. The technology, and even the notion simply did not exist back then, except maybe in the minds of a few overly forward-thinking aeronautical engineers (somewhat doubtful) and one or three pulp rag and/or radio science fiction writers (much more likely).
Nonetheless, it would seem that the YB-49 did indeed possess certain qualities that fit in with the idea of 'stealth', most notably its reputed small-ish radar cross section (RCS). Your blogmeister has no data, hard or otherwise, to support this, just anecdotal schtuff. But, given what little he knows of such matters, the idea that the YB-49 was kinda-semi-sorta 'stealthy' and had a small-ish RCS is plausible in his mind.
Okay, 'nuffa-dat-schtuff. UFOs? Well, to some, or even many back then, yeah... this thing definitely would'a brought UFO vibes, especially if viewed from the angle at which the photo below was snapped. And people's imaginations... well, this is neither the time, nor the blog. So let's just say that the YB-49 was undoubtedly futuristic for the time, no matter how you looked at it. And maybe a little otherworldly-lookin' as well. But it certainly wasn't flown by little green men of any description, unless the pilot had scarfed down a bad breakfast burrito the morning of a test-flight, but... I don't think breakfast burritos were a thing back then either, so... just forget it.
Come to think of it, forget all'a what you just read, cuz' it was a pretty long-winded way of saying "your blogmeister was just being funny with the title of this-here installment of TWW".
Enjoy, don't take yourselves too seriously, and remember that lead is better for hats than tin foil, but it'll kill you much morely...
