She's not the prettiest girl at the ball, but she turns a lot of heads.
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She's not the prettiest girl at the ball, but she turns a lot of heads.
F-35s!
And more F-35s!
PsihoKekec
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I'm sorry if this is a moving picture, but it's too neat not to share:
I shamelessly reposted the gif on another site and one member pointed me to the video
It's a 3D video, so you can grab and rotate it.
So I flew down to Arid Zone A to make personal delivery of the new desktop PC I built for @LordSunhawk, and while I was there we also drove over to Pima where I took some pictures. Here's a few notable highlights:
The B-26K Counter-Invader here is a rare (only 40 ever existed) Vietnam War rebuilt-and-improved version of the WWII-era B-26, deleting the six wing-mounted machine guns to reduce stress and reinforcing the airframe as much as possible, as well as adding tip tanks.
Unfortunately only seen at a distance outside one of the restoration hangars, this is not just any B-52 -- it's The High And Mighty One, the first of the two B-52s converted into X-15 rocket plane motherships for NASA.
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PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Are those dots on B-26 openings for MG mounts?
Yes. If you look closer, they're actually muzzle tubes that extend through the skin and frame of the nose. The Counter-Invader "only" has eight nose mounted .50 caliber MGs, versus the original Invader which had those *plus* three in each wing root. The wing MGs were removed in order to reduce wear and tear on the airframe, because even after being rebuilt and reinforced as much as possible, these were old and heavily used airframes and the Air Force was trying to make them last as long as it could.
Honestly, I would have taken more pictures if I'd realized it was a Counter-Invader. The sign doesn't actually say so and it wasn't highlighted on the tour, so I almost missed it. Pima has 300+ aircraft and the outdoor lot portion there is ~80 acres, so I was pretty much "kid in candy store", but if I had time, I could easily spend half an hour on EACH plane.
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Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
The Xb-70 Is one of my favorite planes, it looked so futuristic for the time period it was built.
WARNING
Lots of sexy models...
Not gonna lie... kinda reminds me of that one infamous porn meme... It'd need more Blackbirds though...
Lots of sexy models...
Not gonna lie... kinda reminds me of that one infamous porn meme... It'd need more Blackbirds though...
WARNING
Lots of sexy models...
Not gonna lie... kinda reminds me of that one infamous porn meme... It'd need more Blackbirds though...
Oh, that is just so hot...
Though older ladies have their charms too.
USN McDonnell F2H-2N Banshee
A Banshee aboard an unknown American carrier during the 1950s Korean War.
F-20 Tigershark
And RC scale version of the F-20 Tigershark