How bout a few Vintage aircraft photos?

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Convair F-102 Delta Daggers at their home base of Paine AFB, WA, now home to Boeing's large aircraft assembly line. Photo c1960.



Two Blue Angels F-4J Phantoms join up with two civilian-owned Grumman F8F-2 Bearcats in 1969. The "Blues" flew the F8F-1 in the latter '40s and the two Bearcats here were owned by Bill and Corky Fornoff and they flew an exciting aerobatic demo with both planes. Sadly, the elder Fornoff's Bearcat shed a wing during a performance and crashed fatally. The other Fornoff Bearcat, I believe, is with the collection at Palm Springs today.



MATS C-121 Constellation cruises over the Golden Gate in about 1959.



One-armed crop duster pilot (whose name eludes me at the moment) performs for the airshow crowd at Concord, CA in 1947.



Prototype YF-100 over Muroc dry lake near Edwards AFB in 1953. Famed Pearl Harbor hero George Welch, who got airborne in his P-40 during the raid, was killed in an F-100 prototype at Edwards on October 12, 1954 when the airplane broke apart during a high-G dive recovery at Mach 1.5. Welch was the first pilot to exceed Mach 1 in level flight and he did so in a prototype F-100.