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[Richard Cranium]

Awesome!

 

[Geff McCarthy]

Previous photos, mostly from Australia, show their Sabre jet, with only 2 cannon? , early F-86 and Fury had 6x50cal, later, larger Canadair Mark VI Sabre had 4x20mm cannon, same as in F-100 Super Saber that I flew for 15years. The F-4 Phantom is from Australia?? It is either an RF, or an E model with the gun.

 

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P-47 Thunderbolt piloted by Captain Raymond M. Walsh of the 406th Fighter Group is silhouetted against the exploding ammunition truck he just strafed, France, 23 June 1944

 

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Now I better understand the book I read a few years ago which mentioned a P47 pilot returning from a mission with the propeller tips bent from ground contact.

 

[Photon440]

Previous photos, mostly from Australia, show their Sabre jet, with only 2 cannon? , early F-86 and Fury had 6x50cal, later, larger Canadair Mark VI Sabre had 4x20mm cannon, same as in F-100 Super Saber that I flew for 15years. The F-4 Phantom is from Australia?? It is either an RF, or an E model with the gun.

Like Canada, Australia also built their own Sabres, with more powerful engines than the original North American F-86.

 

[Photon440]

Made in Canada.

 

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Australian Sabre armament

• Guns: 2× 30 mm ADEN cannons with 162 rounds per gun
• Rockets: 24× Hispano SURA R80 80mm rockets
• Missiles: 2× AIM-9 Sidewinder Air-to-air missiles
• Bombs: 5,300 lb (2,400 kg) of payload on four external hardpoints; bombs were usually only mounted on the inner two pylons, as the outer pair of pylons were wet-plumbed for 2× 200 imperial gallons (910 L) drop tanks to give the CAC Sabre a useful range. A wide variety of bombs could be carried with maximum standard loadout being 2 x 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs plus 2 drop tanks

 

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A view of the P&W R-2800 engine bay open for maintenance on a Fairchild C-123.

 

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[Basket case]

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Now I better understand the book I read a few years ago which mentioned a P47 pilot returning from a mission with the propeller tips bent from ground contact.

and that's how Francis Gabreski became a guest of the Germans on a mission he wasn't supposed to be on.