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An interesting odd aircraft Grumman’s OV-1 Mohawk. 380 made.
I remember seeing a couple of them at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in the late 80’s.

"Grumman OV-1 Mohawk. Originally to have been known as the Montauk (a location in NY state) The Vietcong supposedly knew it as Whispering Death, and Israel gave it the formal name of Atalef (Bat) Mohawks fitted with the 18ft long SLAR pod projecting from under the fuselage were considered to be the male of the species. "

 

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The USS Card (CVE-11) left San Francisco, CA, carrying a load of F-102 Delta Dagger fighters on its wooden WWII-era flight deck. The supersonic F-102 was stationed domestically and at overseas airbases in Japan, West Germany, and the Philippines. It was also deployed during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam and was exported to Greece and Turkey.

More about the USS Card:
USS Card - Wikipedia

More about the F-102 ‘The Deuce’:
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger - Wikipedia

 

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Plus brass cajones!

Retired Brigadier General Steve Ritchie, a veteran pilot ace, with five confirmed kills to his credit, all Mig21s whilst flying the F4 over Vietnam in front of a F-4 decorated with the 5 kills.

Being the only U.S. Air Force pilot ace of the Vietnam War, Steve Ritchie, then a captain, shot down his fifth MiG-21 on Aug. 28, 1972, making him the only U.S. Air Force pilot ace in the Vietnam War, but his most thrilling aerial dogfight took place nearly two months earlier, when he shot down two MiGs with three missiles in 1 minute, 29 seconds - not bad, considering a bone specialist told him as a highschooler he'd never play football nor anything else that strenuous.

 

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Turkish Air Force just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the F-4.

F-4 Phantoms Tear Through Turkey To Mark 50 Years Of Service

 

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Get some!

 

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got 20 minutes to kill if you have some time?

Most involve heavy equipment, in epic-whoops, near misses, harrowing successes ... all mixed in.

Most will have you "shakin' your head" -- unless these are NOT exceptions but commonplace out in the wild.

 

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The Farvel - A Four-Ship Diamond Formation of F-4 Phantom with the Boss Inverted by Blue Angels Association Archive

 

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Meant to push heavy metal, but alas, it was not to be.

This is the monstrous General Electric GE4 turbojet, the most powerful jet engine of its era. This beast was almost 30 feet long and had a thrust output of 63,000 lbs with after afterburner. To put that into perspective, that is three times more than the F-4 Phantom's J79s, and twice as much as the SR-71's J58s. It was meant to be the engine used on the Boeing 2707 supersonic transport, but both were cancelled in the early 1970s.

 

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Meant to push heavy metal, but alas, it was not to be.

This is the monstrous General Electric GE4 turbojet, the most powerful jet engine of its era. This beast was almost 30 feet long and had a thrust output of 63,000 lbs with after afterburner. To put that into perspective, that is three times more than the F-4 Phantom's J79s, and twice as much as the SR-71's J58s. It was meant to be the engine used on the Boeing 2707 supersonic transport, but both were cancelled in the early 1970s.

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that woulda been something ...

 

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Post in thread 'Heavy Metal' Heavy Metal.

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What’s interesting is the Trent 900 engine produces over 80,000 lbs of thrust. Progress!

Rolls-Royce Trent 900 - Wikipedia

 

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this pic illustrates without words one of the bigger innovations in jets.

the left (inlet) diameter of engine is huge. they discovered that getting big gulps of by-pass air squeezed/passed though thru the engine, plus thrust produced by the engine/fuel, made an otherwise more powerful engine that was also more fuel efficient.

DC-8 vs a 777 (explanation source: high bypass ratio)

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They’re basically making jet engines drive a giant propeller now

 

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What’s interesting is the Trent 900 engine produces over 80,000 lbs of thrust. Progress!

Rolls-Royce Trent 900 - Wikipedia

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this pic illustrates without words one of the bigger innovations in jets.

the right side (inlet side) diameter of engine is huge. Diagram is high bypass at top to basically no bypass at bottom.

Diagram above, they discovered (or maybe had to figure out how to save fuel & therefore the airlines money) that getting big gulps of by-pass air squeezed/passed though thru the engine's body.

Plus thrust produced by the engine/fuel combustion, made for an otherwise more powerful engine that was also more fuel efficient.

DC-8 vs a 777 inlet (explanation source: high bypass ratio)

 

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Regarding #2,556.

I didnt know, by the name, what "push loading a scraper" meant.

Turns out I've seen the activity/equipment dozens of times, it appears, in my seven decades on this rock. Starting young.

We have "Super 8 mm", color, home movies of me and my sister (we were 3 & 2 yrs. old, respectively, then) posing on what my Dad called a "road grader" in the early 1960's.

It was parked on a road under construction that paralleled I-70 near Kansas City, KS. Road is still there but the farm (e.g,, there were cows in the home movie right next to this grader) where this equipment was parked is LONG gone. looks like another planet

Seven minute contemporary video, interesting, but one only needs a couple minutes to get the gist of the push loading activity.

 

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In 1954, all of the Battleship New Jersey's massive 16" guns were replaced.

The nine guns had been used during World War II and the Korean War.

The guns were relined and test fired in 1969.

Three of the barrels were in storage for decades at the St. Julien's Creek Annex U.S. Naval support facility in Portsmouth, Virginia.

To save these historic barrels from being scrapped, the Battleship New Jersey and the Mahan Collection Foundation transported them for permanent display in Camden and Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Each barrel is 68 feet long and weighs 120 tons. The barrels were transported north by Norfolk Southern. To support the barrels' restoration or for more information about this project, visit www.battleshipnewjersey.org/40