All of these shots save the Spookies were from US Naval museum and the Spookies were from the Air Force museum at Eglin AFB.
F4 Corsair, one of the, if not the premium fighter aircraft of WWII. Corsairs were still in frontline duty 10 years later after all the others were long retired.
A F18 F/A retired from the Blue Angels
Another view of the F4 Corsair
A US Marine Corps Vertical take off and landing Harrier. This was originally a pure British design and produced (and used) aircraft. Falkland Islands, remember? When the US Marines thought the Harrier was spot on, it was injected with some US DNA and produced by McDonald Douglas in the US.
2 views of the original Spooky Gunship made famous in the VietNam era. It was based on the WWII era C47 AKA, DC3 & and was armed with .308 (7.62×51 NATO designation) miniguns and could put on quite a night time display, filling the sky with tracers. The gunship concept was considered to be highly successful and has since evolved considerably, currently C130 based and with a variety of types of lethal weapons of various calibers up to and including 105mm howitzers of (ironically) also of Viet Nam vintage.
Tom’s World – 09SEP2024 – Museum Aircraft – 1
Tom’s World – 18SEP2024 – Museum Aircraft – 2
Tom’s World – 25SEP2024 – Museum Aircraft – 3
Tom’s World – 02OCT2024 – Museum Aircraft – 4
Tom’s World – 10OCT2024 – Museum Aircraft – 5
I really like the Harrier shot.
Loved the Puffs! Proof that the old Gooney Bird could do damn near ANYTHING!