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The
business end of a Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, unoffically known as
the Wart Hog.
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Antonov AN-124 Ruscan in 1989. I spotted one of these
at DIA last year. You can see it's a huge airplane by the size of the
ants scurrying around the site.
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North
American B-25 City of Burlington
at an Airshow in Corvallis, Oregon in 1989. Note the lack of a dorsal
turret and other defensive armament. I think this plane had been
converted for use as an executive transport, and the current owner was
in the process of restoring it to combat configuration.
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Douglas DC-3.
Corvallis, 1989.
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Grumman F6F
Hellcat, ca. late 1980s.
If memory serves me - and it often doesn't - a few years after this
photo was taken this airplane was wrecked in a fatal crash.
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Canadair CL-13 Mk 5,
license-built Canadian
F-86A Sabre in USAF colors, nose art painted as "The Huff." This one is
now owned by the EAA Aviation Foundation.
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Boeing B-29
Superfortress Fifi, another
CAF restoration. In the 70s several B-29 hulks were discovered at China
Lake that had been used for target practice. The CAF talked the Air
Force and Navy (China Lake is a Naval installation) into letting
them have one and allowing them to rebuild it from parts of the other
planes. Polaroid.
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Junkers Ju-52
three-engine transport. I believe this one is Martin Caiden's Iron Annie. Still ca late 80s.
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The cavernous bomb bay
of an Avro Lancaster bomber. The Lancaster was able to carry a far
larger bomb and bomb load than the B-17 or B-24. One favorite weapon
was the "Block Buster," so called because the 10,000 pound monster
would obliterate an entire city block.
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Lockheed SR-71
Blackbird. The SR-71's fuel tanks leak badly on the ground. Once the
plane is cruising at mach 3+, air friction heats the surfaces and they
expand, sealing the leaks.
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