Who Likes Aircraft ?

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Col Gabby Gabreski

 

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Lt Col Robert John Thunderbolt ace

 

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Robert Johnson

 

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Col Neal Kerby, Pacific Thunderbolt ace.
P-47 at The US Air Force Museum restored to look like Col Kerby's Thunderbolt, and the tail section of his actual P-47 recovered from the crash site.

 

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Hellcat meets Hellcat

 

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Always liked the look and sound of the Corsair.
Who remembers this show?

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Grew up on Pappy and the misfits.. Loved the show I have a ton of airshow pictures. Everything from A-10's to Zeppelins.. Ok i was kidding about the zeppelin. But everything in between.

 

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it's moving Ski...

 

[Richard Cranium]

I drove by the Mojave Airport Thursday 01 June 2017 and guess what I saw?

Yup, the World's Biggest Airplane

Strato-Launcher

And let me tell you: It is HUGE!

I'm getting a "Tour" of it soon from one of my Bud's who is a pilot for the program
I'll post a selfie with me at the Jet.
I'll post MORE pics soon!
(This is a "File" photo from Friday morning June 02)



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Launching space missions. Another milestone from the genius of Burt Rutan.

 

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Robert Johnson of the Army Aircorps over Europe. After being in a fight his P-47 the aircraft was hit and losing power, he was alone trying to return to base when he was jumped any a FW190. Unable to manuver due to reduced power, the German repeatedly shot up the Jug from the rear. Realizing he had a pigeon, he kept flying up next to check on Johnson, again the German dropped back a fired bursts into the crippled army fighter. Johnson's only defencewas to make himself as small as he could by tucking himself behind the armor plate that was behind his seat of his fighter. If I recall he was injured by scrapneland and bits off metal from the cockpit. After repeated trys to knock down the big fighter, the German gave up, and waved to Johnson as he flew off. Robert Johnson is one of my favorite pilots of all time. He wrote about his career in the Army years later in the book "Thunderbolt." I have a second addition and two other latter copies on my book shelf. Bob died sometime in the past couple of years.

 

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