Aircraft pics

[Xplantdad]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: earntaz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">TDRs work really well -- but still, the techie has to tear out the wire bundle and trace down the wire number ... remember, many of those aircraft all the wiring was white and you had to find the right number. Then there was the infamous Capton (spell) wire. OMG TAZ </div></div>

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

[mockingbird812]

Capton or more affectionately known as &quot;crapped-on&quot; wire was the cause of bringing more than one Harrier down. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

[parkbrau]

Cool pic. Phantoms Phorever!

[mockingbird812]

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img] &quot;Beast&quot; is right! Love it!!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

F-4 Phantom - proof that with enough power you can make a Coke machine fly Mach +!!!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/shocked.gif[/img]

[JRSully]

And smoke like an '85 Diesel Olds!

[earntaz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JRSully</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And smoke like an '85 Diesel Olds!</div></div>

Yep -- remember well from Nam' ... most think the gibber is a WSO, but actually he shovels coal into the engines ... TAZ

[parkbrau]

My room mate at Zweibrucken was a crew chief on the RF4Cs there. Our room smelled like JP-4, his field jacket/fatigues were soaked in that stuff. He would always have gashes/cuts and an occasional pitot tube wound. I never forget the several rolls of F-4 tape laying around either. That was some good stuff the original duct tape.

[SS427]

What a neat story about a very rare P-38F found in New Guinea and being restored to flying status. It's original pilot reunited with the aircraft. I salute you. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif[/img]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Na-IU-RM0

[olredalert]

----Just watched the entire P38 film. Amazing!!!......Bill S

[earntaz]

At the end of WWII, Japanese veterans gave grudging tribute to the P-38 as their most formidable foe ... The top American aces of the war flew the aircraft with both confidence and a certain affection which sometimes approached fanatical devotion. I think the P-38 was used to ambush and shoot down Yamamoto -- a Japanese hero.

The Germans found the P-38 to be a formidable foe as well, nicknaming it the &quot;Forktailed Devil&quot;.