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ITT: military aircraft
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US Grumman X-47B Pegasus Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bomber.
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Make that the Northrop-Grumman X-47B J-UCAS
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The Devil's Cross
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hi-res Ernie Pyle pics, please?
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The US A-5 Vigilante, a very large carrier plane, designed for the nuclear strike role, but ended up mostly serving in the reconnaissance role (and designated as the RA-5C).
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A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River (Maryland, USA), on 19 December 1962 at the NASA Flight Research Center (now Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California). The Center flew the A-5A in a year-long series of flights in support of the U.S. supersonic transport program. The Center flew the aircraft to determine the let-down and approach conditions of a supersonic transport flying into a dense air traffic network. These flights followed two flight plans that were based upon earlier NASA Flight Research Center studies, one for a variable-sweep wing configuration and the other for a delta-wing configuration. NASA Flight Research Center test pilot William H. Dana made approximately 21 flights along federal airways that entered Los Angeles. With the completion of the research flights, the Center sent the A-5A back to the Navy on 20 December 1963. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-5_Vigilante
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An overhead aerial view of an RA-5C Vigilante aircraft, Reconnaissance Attack Squadron 7 (RVAH-7) known as the "Peacemakers of the Fleet" and was assigned to the USS RANGER (CV 61) from February 21 to September 22, 1979. This photograph may show the Vigilante's last flight, since all Vigilante aircraft were officially retired in September 1979 and the RVAH-7 was officially decommissioned in October 1979. The exact date photo taken is unknown.
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A North American RA-5C Vigilante reconnaissance plane (BuNo 149295) of heavy reconnaissance squadron RVAH-11 Checkertails on the carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) during a deployment to Vietnam in 1968. A Douglas KA-3B Skywarrior (BuNo 138971) of VAH-4 Det. 63 Fourrunners is parked behind the Vigilante. Both squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11). The radar mast located aft of the carrier's island carries the SPS-30 radar.
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RA-5C BuNo 151629 on display at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado.
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RA-5C BuNo 156632 on display at Orlando Sanford International Airport (former NAS Sanford) in May 2005.
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A three-quarter portside aerial view of an RA-5C Vigilante aircraft (b/n 156608), Reconnaissance Attack Squadron 7 (RVAH-7) known as the "Peacemakers of the Fleet" and was assigned to the USS RANGER (CV 61) from February 21 to September 22, 1979. This photograph may show the Vigilante's last flight, since all Vigilante aircraft were officially retired in September 1979 and the RVAH-7 was officially decommissioned in October 1979.
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An air-to-air right side view of a Heavy Attack Reconnaissance Squadron 3 (RVAH-3) North American RA-5C Vigilante aircraft (BuNo 156640).
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When flying at her top speed (Mach 2.0 (1,320 mph, 2,123 km/h) at altitude) do the photos come out blurry?
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North American A-5A Vigilante cockpit control panel.

A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD, on December 19, 1962, at the NASA Flight Research Center (now, Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA). The Center flew the A-5A in a year-long series of flights in support of the U.S. supersonic transport program. The Center flew the aircraft to determine the let-down and approach conditions of a supersonic transport flying into a dense air traffic network. These flights followed two flight plans that were based upon earlier NASA Flight Research Center studies, one for a variable-sweep wing configuration and the other for a delta-wing configuration. NASA Flight Research Center test pilot William H. Dana made approximately 21 flights along federal airways that entered Los Angeles. With the completion of the research flights, the Center sent the A-5A back to the Navy on December 20, 1963. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/A-5A/HTML/E63-10338.html
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A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD, on December 19, 1962, at the NASA Flight Research Center (now, Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA). The Center flew the A-5A in a year-long series of flights in support of the U.S. supersonic transport program. The Center flew the aircraft to determine the let-down and approach conditions of a supersonic transport flying into a dense air traffic network. With the completion of the research flights, the Center sent the A-5A back to the Navy on December 20, 1963.

This North American Aviation, Inc. A-5A Vigilante jet aircraft was used for simulation studies of the supersonic transport in 1963. These flights followed two flight plans that were based upon earlier NASA Flight Research Center studies, one for a variable-sweep wing configuration and the other for a delta-wing configuration. NASA Flight Research Center test pilot William H. Dana made approximately 21 flights along federal airways that entered Los Angeles.
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>>450028
Looks like I did not attach my image.
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>>450243
BLACK BIRD!
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US WW2 DC-3, aka the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, aka the Dakota transport, here used by American Airlines.
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>>449315
ITT: ugly metal "money graveyards"
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>>450246
silly russians, trying to copy the XB-70 Valkyrie
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Zooooommmmmmm
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>>451028
Sorry, that is not a C-47, but a DC-3
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The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota is a military transport that was developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner.
As was stated above.
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C-47s in British and Commonwealth service took the name Dakota, from the acronym "DACoTA" for Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft.

Pic: A.C.-Lawson Field, Ft. Benning, Ga. August 1946. At the command of their jump leader, these twenty-one students of the Airborne School climb aboard a waiting Douglas C-47 of the 75th Troop Carrier Squadron which will take them up for a practice jump. After losing its cargo the plane will return quickly and pick up another load of jumpers without waiting long enough to turn off its motors.
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Two USAAF C-47A Skytrains (based on the Douglas DC-3) from the 12th Troop Carrier Wing, loaded with paratroopers on their way for the invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon). The aircraft in the back is a Douglas C-47A-65-DL (s/n 42-100550), the other is a C-47A-90-DL (s/n 43-15661).
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Douglas C-47B Dakota Mk4 (in RAF Transport Command colours) of the Air Atlantique Classic Flight, at the 2008 Kemble Open Day, Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire, England. RAF code KK116, civil registration G-AMPY.

Built 1943 in Oklahoma, USA, for the United States Air Force. Transferred to the RAF in 1944.
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C-47A Skytrain with open hatch, RAF.
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Soviet WW2 Li-2 (Russian built C-47) at the Belarus Minsk Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
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The Lisunov Li-2, originally designated PS-84 (NATO reporting name Cab), was a license-built version of the Douglas DC-3. It was produced by the GAZ-84 works near Moscow, and subsequently at GAZ-34 in Tashkent. The project was directed by aeronautical engineer Boris Pavlovich Lisunov. Produced from 1939 to 1952. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisunov_Li-2
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US WW2 C-47 Dakota III, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
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F/A-37 Talon, wish that shit was real - looks baaadass!!!
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xb-70 plz?
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Taken at the Red Bull Air Race in Perth Australia Nov 2006
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thnx perthfag anymore aussie f-18?
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This thread gets my seal of high quality.
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Where are you, Flight 19?
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Do you have more blackbird? She's beautiful :-(
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>>451910
OK, but this stuff is not very large.

US Lockheed SR-71 'Blackbird' 1964 high altitude reconnaissance plane; could fly 2,193 mph and attain a max altitude of 85,068 feet.
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US Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird refuels from a KC-135A.
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US Lockheed SR-71A over the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains, 1997.
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And here's the experimental US Lockheed YF-12 'Oxcart,' a 1964 high-altitude Mach 3 interceptor, forerunner of the SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft.

The concept was to have this extremely fast plane race ahead of the nuclear penetration bombers and launch her three large nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles at groups of defending fighters vectoring towards the bombers. The sky cleared of these defenders, the bombers could go in to drop their hydrogen bombs. That was the concept. Project was canceled and the plane's bomb bays was filled with fuel tanks and photography equipment for its reconnaissance role.
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This is probably the largest and fastest 'fighter' ever built.
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US YF-12 mach 3.35 (2200mph) interceptor w 3 Hughes AIM-47A air-to-air missiles.
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US YF-12 pilots.
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Correction: the US YF-12 was an interceptor variant of the A-12 Oxcart, & the precursor of the SR-71, with an advanced fire control radar & AIM-47 missiles. The YF-12 set a speed record of 2,070 mph, and an altitude record of 80,257 feet.
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YF-12A
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US YF-12A Mach 3 interceptor loading an AIM-47 Falcon missile.

These missiles had a range of 125 miles, weighed 818 lb, had a 100 lb warhead that could be conventional or a .25 kiloton version of the W42 nuclear bomb. This missile further evolved into the AIM-54 Phoenix, carried by F-14 Tomcat carrier-based interceptors.
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Another shot of the US YF-12A with an AIM-47 nuclear air-to-air missile, before loading into the weapons bay.

I believe I am pretty much spent on the SR-71 material.
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post xb-70 bat guano.
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>>452244
nice pics and good work YF 12 and its varients are great planes
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US North American XB-70A Valkyrie 1964 high altitude Mach 3 bomber.

US bombers 1918 to early WW2 (33 mb 9/14/08)
http://rapidshare.com/files/145238380/Bat_Guano_US_bombers_1918_to_early_WW2.zip.html

US WW2 B-25, B-26, and B-29 bombers (23 mb 9/15/08)
http://rapidshare.com/files/145500136/Bat_Guano_US_WW2_B-25_B-26_B-29_bombers.rar.html

US bombers WW2 to 1949 (17 mb 9/19/08)
http://rapidshare.com/files/146746983/Bat_Guano_US_bombers_WW2_to_1949.rar.html

US Bomber Development 1950-1962 (39 mb 9/20/08)
http://rapidshare.com/files/146940291/Bat_Guano_US_Bomber_Development_1950-1962.rar.html

US bomber development late 1940s (40 mb 9/22/08)
http://rapidshare.com/files/147431263/Bat_Guano_US_bombers_late_1940s.rar.html

US bombers, post 1962 B-1, B-2, FB-111 (13 mb 9/22/08)
http://rapidshare.com/files/147458141/Bat_Guano_post_1962_US_bombers.rar.html

US cargo/transport aircraft (35 mb 9/27/08):
http://rapidshare.com/files/148866044/Bat_Guano_US_cargo_transport_aircraft_1920s_to_WW2.zip.html

US fighters F-80 to F-97 (33 mb 9/28/08):
http://rapidshare.com/files/149151880/Bat_Guano_US_fighters_F-80_to_F-97.zip.html

US fighters F-100 to F-117 (53 mb 9/29/08):
http://rapidshare.com/files/149567810/Bat_Guano_US_fighters_F-100_to_F-117.rar.html

US F-4C to F-23 fighters (31 mb 10/4/08):
http://rapidshare.com/files/150854112/Bat_Guano_US_F-4C_to_F-23_fighters.zip.html

US fighters and pursuit planes WW2 (21 mb 10/5/08):
http://rapidshare.com/files/151139176/Bat_Guano_US_fighters_and_pursuit_planes_WW2.zip.html
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bLACKBIRB BOMBER/fighter?

Oh wow