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For those of you who've flown military aircraft, or just have an interest I thought you might enjoy looking back at these images. This young photographer did a great job saving the info of the photos he took at Davis Monthan in 1968. I was there a couple of years ago and there's nothing left of aircraft of this vintage.
It's great he at least saved them in photos.
Monthan Memories
WoW! All that aviation history. My age is showing. At 17 I jumped 5 times from a C-119 and from a CH-46 banana. Also existed a C-124 Globemaster and jumped 7 times from C-47 with the Vietnamese Airborne. Great photos.
Gone but not forgotten.
Thanks for posting them Harlan.
Wonderful pictures! Thanks for posting the link. Here's a picture of some B47s & a B52 in earlier says, 1962 at Torrejon AFB, Spain.
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unbelievable, so much history .. probably all Hyundais now though ....
very interesting post
"WoW! All that aviation history. My age is showing. At 17 I jumped 5 times from a C-119 and from a CH-46 banana. Also existed a C-124 Globemaster and jumped 7 times from C-47 with the Vietnamese Airborne. Great photos."
We had C 119s for jump school in 1968. I later made 3 jumps from a C 46 and about a dozen from C 47s. Also a few from C 123s and a bunch from C 130s - including 5 in RVN.
I've also got 3 jumps from a B 17. Then there is all the civilian puddle jumpers.
I spent 7 or 8 months as air crew on PB4Y-2 Privateers and then about 6 yrs as air crew on P2V-5 Neptunes. I also spent a little time as door gunner on Hueys in RVN.
Lot of fun years!!!
The Viet Nam Helicopter Crew Members Assoc had their convention in Tuscon about 10-12 yrs ago. We got a tour of DM, but spent most of our time going thru the helicopters looking for birds we flew on, or at least that belonged to our units. I didn't find any, unfortunately!
Sarge
Lots of old friends. I flew in a C-124 for a couple of ferry flights back around '70. KC-97s flew from my home airbase and I got to tour them. I trained at Blytheville AFB (SAC) which hosted a couple of squadrons of B-52s for Chrome Dome, and I got to tour them as well.
Bob
You know you're getting old when those new at the time ships you served on and the aircraft you flew in have all gone to the bone yard or been scrapped.
I don't think anything I started with is still in service. It's all been replaced. Much of what we replaced it with has been replaced too. Towards the end I found myself to be a living history lesson. That's how I knew it was time to go.
I'm impressed and appreciative of your long service Jim. That really must have been strange talking about planes and equipment the new recruits never heard of.
Not the B-52 though. I'm still amazed at it's longevity. They were flying long before some of this stuff came and went and they're still upgrading them. It won't be long before it's common that crew will have grandparents who flew the same aircraft.
We have a display of aircraft in Borden Ontario that includes the Voodoo and Shooting Star. At the time I stood looking at them I never really thought about it, and here they are pictured before being shipped to us. I wonder if the aircraft pictured ever did runs on me. Now the remaining ones are on pylons.
I think it's time for the Commemorative Air Force to get a B-52. :madsmile:Quote:
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Bob
You just never know, Bob. The CAF recently expanded to include all military aircraft and they've added quite a few from post WWII through Vietnam including a Huey and Cobra.
Thank you for the link. I am still looking around over there. The first plane I flew on was a Constellation. They were such elegant aircraft.
Glad to see a few Skyraiders there as well.
AZB
I see some handsome E model B-47s there, the first acft I worked on as an ECM tech starting in the summer of 64. Elegant acft, fast for their time and even today if they were still airborn. Co- pilot was copilot, gunner and ECM operator working from a swiveling ejection seat so that he could face forward, left or aft depending on his needs. A "teat-like radome" on the nose and on the tail carried the APS-54 airborne gun-laying radar receiver unit and had early diodes that had to be changed out too frequently; the fiberglas radomes had dozens of short phillips-head screws around the circumference for attachment of the radome and in 0 degree weather, up on a B-5 stand, fumbling with wool inserts in stiff leather gloves the job sometimes amounted to trying to insert a few dozen screws and sweeping up the "misses" from the ramp before engine-start. The good Sgt O'Rourke did his best to manage me but...