My favorite aircraft

I have 2,
1st C-130. That’s what my dad flew in the Air Force when I was young. I was 6 years old at Pope Air Force Base on family day watching him fly that plane about 10 feet off the ground and dumping cargo out the rear, watching it skate across the ground. I thought that was the coolest damn thing I’ve ever seen.

2nd s the A-10. One saved my friends life in Iraq.
 
I have 2,
1st C-130. That’s what my dad flew in the Air Force when I was young. I was 6 years old at Pope Air Force Base on family day watching him fly that plane about 10 feet off the ground and dumping cargo out the rear, watching it skate across the ground. I thought that was the coolest damn thing I’ve ever seen.

2nd s the A-10. One saved my friends life in Iraq.
My dad was a weight and balance tech on a C-124 in Korea in '51/52.
 
1989-1992

I det’d there twice from WestPac deployments to Diego Garcia and Misawa.

Kadena was great!


My fav bird, of course...

I flew as a sensor operator from 89-93.

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The Habu, Kadena AB Okinawa Japan I was there.View attachment 223809
I was there at the ripe old age of 9. Dad was flying refueling missions in a KC 135 out of Kadena. We lived in Ishikawa in 1970, then moved on base in '71 & came back Stateside in '73.

Probably a different kind of memory than yours... but good ones, nonetheless!

I can't say I have one favorite, but I've always like the can opener.
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The Habu, Kadena AB Okinawa Japan I was there.View attachment 223809

1979... I was 13 years old.
Sitting on our back field overlooking Beale AFB. Binoculars in hand.
The Blackbird was doing touch and goes. Amazing, watching it touch the ground then zoom off. Then hearing the thunder, seemed minutes from what I saw to what I heard.

Way in the distance I can hear it coming. Turned around to get a glimpse, it's just cruising along, probley doing 600mph, looked like it was just barely staying in flight. It got to just above my head... Again, my eyes saw before the noise, A huge flame out the engine nozzle. Bout half the length of the plane. BOOM !! Scared me , I flinched and blinked... It was gone.... Like magic... Black Magic....
 
I was offshore working on deck on the Tug Whitefoot one day, when two supersonic Navy fighters went by 1000 feet above the water, about 1/4 mile off from directly overhead, on a course for New York City. BIG BOOM!
 
I have 2,
1st C-130. That’s what my dad flew in the Air Force when I was young. I was 6 years old at Pope Air Force Base on family day watching him fly that plane about 10 feet off the ground and dumping cargo out the rear, watching it skate across the ground. I thought that was the coolest damn thing I’ve ever seen.

2nd s the A-10. One saved my friends life in Iraq.

My brother was a C-130 mechanic at Pope, from 1975 to about 1980.
He would take me down for the weekend, and I would go out to the flite line to watch them do that same thing.
 
WORLD WAR 2 II is roman numbers for 2 conmanly used when referring to World War II
Snoppy's Sopwith Camel and the Red Barron are from WWI.

You are free to rewrite your history anyway you wish, everyone else is :confused:
 
Before my time but my dad flew the H-34 a lot in Vietnam and again with air America. Love em.



So when I posted this I just watched the first couple minutes to see it was a good shot of this bird.

I went back and watched the whole thing. There’s a plaque they show which reads HMH-361 the flying tigers. That was my dads squadron.

I sent him the video to see if he recognized any of the guys and he said no because they were a lot younger when he last saw them. And, I quote......

“The guy flying was so shitty he had to be field grade.”
 
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