Not A Pound For Air To Ground – The Slick Chick
An evening pause: How about some Cold War military aviation history to take us into the weekend?
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
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Alone
Unarmed
Unafraid
The irony regarding the title is that the F-100 was used almost exclusively as a ground attack aircraft when it saw combat in Vietnam “Every pound just for ground”
1) Trabzon is the ancient Trebizon
2) Photo recon Canberras were used by the RAF into this century – “The PR.9 variant remained in service with No. 39 (1 PRU) Squadron until July 2006 for strategic reconnaissance and photographic mapping, seeing service in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and up to June 2006, in Afghanistan. During a ceremony to mark the standing down of 39 (1 PRU) Squadron at RAF Marham on 28 July 2006, a flypast by a Canberra PR.9 on its last ever sortie was conducted”
Very interesting.
That channel will be going into my subscriptions. Great find!
tangentially related…
Why NASA Relied On A 1950’s Aircraft Design To Track 21st Century Spacecraft
Scott Manley (11-15-23)
https://youtu.be/kFUc0GAg9iE
13:21
“Why is a 70-year-old British Nuclear Bomber parked in California?”
Take a look.
50k ft.
Golf ball on the green.
Pebble Beach.
Well, it should be a picture in the club house anyway.
Great history – Thanks