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TheMightyFavog

(13,770 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2015, 09:06 PM Jul 2015

Vietnam Era Jets at EAA this year... A-4, F-4 MiG 17, and an F-100 Super Sabre...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=256&v=4wzmm7nW7Zo

Wow... Sure takes a long time for that F-100 to take off... IIRC, it's the only flyable F-100 left in the world.

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Vietnam Era Jets at EAA this year... A-4, F-4 MiG 17, and an F-100 Super Sabre... (Original Post) TheMightyFavog Jul 2015 OP

If it's still flying and it's cool, it usually shows up at Oshkosh in July Major Nikon Jul 2015 #1

Last time I was there, I got to meet one of the Tuskeege Airmen. TheMightyFavog Jul 2015 #2

A few years ago I sat through one of their presentations Major Nikon Jul 2015 #3

A lot of years ago... malthaussen Jul 2015 #6

The F-100 is a very popular R/C Turbine model. MicaelS Jul 2015 #8

What is amazing to me is.. MicaelS Jul 2015 #4

In contrast, many of the WWII warbirds are much bigger than you'd imagine Major Nikon Jul 2015 #7

Any one of which could probably out-perform an F-35. n/t malthaussen Jul 2015 #5

Wild Weasel? Blue_Tires Jul 2015 #9

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

1. If it's still flying and it's cool, it usually shows up at Oshkosh in July

Reply to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 10:28 PM

Jul 2015

TheMightyFavog

(13,770 posts)

2. Last time I was there, I got to meet one of the Tuskeege Airmen.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:27 AM

Jul 2015

A great honor.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. A few years ago I sat through one of their presentations

Reply to TheMightyFavog (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:33 AM

Jul 2015

It was extremely well received.

I don't go there every year, but my favorite part is hearing all the stories from famous airmen and crewmembers who share their experiences.

malthaussen

(17,219 posts)

6. A lot of years ago...

Reply to TheMightyFavog (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 09:12 AM

Jul 2015

... probably early 90's (the memory is fuzzy), they invited some surviving members of the 332nd FG to engage in a big free-for-all on one of the big online multiplayer air combat servers. These were guys in their 70's and 80's who probably didn't even use computers much, playing an air sim against kids in their teens and twenties, some of whom were real fighter pilots in the USAF.

They owned. They remembered how to fly those P-51s, and the simulation model was close enough that they could do things with them the computer jet jocks couldn't imagine. Must have been a fun night.

-- Mal

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)

8. The F-100 is a very popular R/C Turbine model.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 01:27 PM

Jul 2015

OTOH, I think it is one ugly-ass bird.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)

4. What is amazing to me is..

Reply to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 07:59 AM

Jul 2015

Just how SMALL many of these modern warbirds really are in real life, as opposed to on film or video. We have a museum here in Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Aviation Museum and they have planes on display outside. When I drive by, they seem so small. Especially the Northrop F-5E Tiger II. And I think, "men actually flew they things for a living."

BTW, this actual F-5E was used in Top Gun. It flew in the 1986 movie as one of the black MIGs.