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Mar 5, 2024 14:42:14 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Sylvias wrote:

Little and large, excellent shot Keith.

Thank you once again, Sylvia! I do appreciate it! Back home or still in AFRICA?

Mar 5, 2024 14:57:09 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

black mamba wrote:

Nice one, Chief.

I seriously doubt you can buy a flyable P-51 for less then 1 million bucks. The best ones sell for a lot more than that. The total number of these planes...either air worthy or can be restored to that status...is slightly more than 100. A nice guy in Jacksonville has one of the best out there and I have been fortunate enough to have been taken up for a ride in it. That was surely the most visceral experience I've ever had in an airplane.

That must have been an incredible experience, Tom! My most memorable experience in an aircraft was a catapult launch from the USS Enterprise. It was in an EA-3B Electronic Warfare A/C so backseat. Not as exciting as an F-14 cat, but still pretty amazing! And I did get a few cats and traps in C-1 and C-2 A/C. Pretty tame, comparatively speaking, but still fun!

Mar 5, 2024 14:58:55 #

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Retired CPO wrote:

Thank you once again, Sylvia! I do appreciate it! Back home or still in AFRICA?

Still in Africa for 8 more days.

Mar 5, 2024 15:00:57 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Sylvias wrote:

Still in Africa for 8 more days.

I can't tell you how envious I am!!

Mar 5, 2024 16:18:09 #

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

Great capture. Two classics.

Mar 5, 2024 17:19:48 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

topcat wrote:

Great capture. Two classics.

Thank you topcat! Yeah, I think that F-35 will eventually be a classic, the P-51 definitely is! But the F-35 proves that saying that they used with the F-4 Phantom. Even a brick will fly given enough thrust! That thing has zero streamlined beauty!! Whatever happened to the beautifully designed F-14 Tomcat??!! And the F-4 Phantom was a beautiful aircraft too, I don't care what people say about it!
The F-35 is an incredible aircraft, but just plain UGLY!!

Mar 5, 2024 19:09:49 #

therwol Loc: USA

Retired CPO wrote:

Thank you topcat! Yeah, I think that F-35 will eve... (show quote)

Both the F-4 and F-14 were designed in the 1960s and saw service in the Gulf War. They were expensive to maintain. They would need to have the avionics and weapons systems upgraded in the 21st century at considerable cost. The F-15 (I believe) is the only fighter still operational from that era. The newer fighters such as the F-16 and FA-18 Superhornet are smaller and more nimble, but more importantly cheaper to fly. I'm no military expert, but it seems to me that in this day and age with drones and missiles dominating the battlefield in Ukraine, the future may not be in expensive fighters such as the F-35. If you knock out air defenses, then any plane will do. Time will tell.

Mar 5, 2024 21:56:20 #

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

The F4 will always be beautiful. I'll take the F22 for the more modern fighters.

Mar 5, 2024 23:44:22 #

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Retired CPO wrote:

I can't tell you how envious I am!!

Mar 6, 2024 00:45:30 #

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

therwol wrote:

Both the F-4 and F-14 were designed in the 1960s a... (show quote)

When I joined the Navy, my first squadron was F-4's. I loved them! I worked in the fire control RADAR shop. They could track and process twelve targets simultaneously. In 1972!! Of course they couldn't carry the munition load to terminate all the targets, but still!
My point is that "they" could design beautiful, very capable aircraft, I don't see why "they" can't do the same now!

Mar 6, 2024 13:00:00 #