BAD ASS Military PICS (No gore please)

[ffRich54]

Couple of pics taken of an in-flight emergency that were caught by one of the photographers that takes pics from the fence line...





I'm in the last pic lifting the tail hook.

[DieselSmoke]

hey DieselSmoke, we're you the one that posted the damage to the longeron from shrapnel damage in afganistan?

Yes, my plane. Same as the one above.

[helosailor]

Couple of pics taken of an in-flight emergency that were caught by one of the photographers that takes pics from the fence line...





I'm in the last pic lifting the tail hook.

Cool action sequence. I worked arresting gear/salvage at NAS Pensacola. Unfortunately, we stayed relatively busy.

[pHILSANITY07]

Yes, my plane. Same as the one above.

okay, took a while for me put two and two together. thats cool

[cobrajet69]

Outstanding thread!

Couple vids I took (cheesy iPhone) of a MIG 23-FLogger out at Lancaster A/P.







And a MI-24 HIND firing up.





David

[RWhite]

anyone have any photos from the old Dallas NAS?

These pics bring back old memories of the start of my engineering career. In the late 60's , when I worked for LTV Electrosystems in Garland, we occasionally would fly on the company mail plane (a twin engine Aero Commander) to get to the Grand Prairie LTV plant (or LTV Greenville plant or Carswell AFB). Back in those days, the Grand Prairie plant was busily making the A-7 Corsair II for the Navy.

As a young 23 year old engineer just starting my professional career in 1967, I would usually be picked to fly in the mail plane from the Garland plant (now Raytheon and, yes, there was a runway just off Jupiter Road we took off from !) to carry various hardware and other stuff to the GP plant (inter-plant mail, computer tapes or original artwork of antenna designs). We used the plants HUGE numerically controlled drafting tables to help in our design layouts. While I would wait for the slow computers to do their stuff, I would go outside the room and walk over to the assembly line. Quite a view, while not as big as the then General Dynamics AFP 4, it was still impressive to see the planes start out as a bunch of parts at one end and end up as a plane at the other end of the building.

We rode a company bus to get from the Dallas NAS flight line to the main LTV building. When we left, if we were lucky, as we traveled by the jet engine stands, they would be testing the A-7's engines. What a noise and we did not have ear plugs. It rattled our innards!

On watching the jets do touch and go at Dallas NAS, I do remember being able to sit on an elevated railroad track just north of the runway and watch the jets go overhead when they landed to the south. What a thrill……! On occasion, the pilots would wave at us fool hardy people only feet from them! BTW, that is when I saw the then very active Yellow Belly Dragstrip. Never went to it and kind of glad I never did!

Thanks for letting me relate some memories. I have a bunch more related to military hardware I was involved with working for over 40 years here in the Dallas area!

[ZYouL8R]

Definitely not as cool as most in this thread, but I took these last weekend. The prop does weird shit with my phone's camera.

[Denny]

That is weird. What is your shutter speed?

[pHILSANITY07]

These pics bring back old memories of the start of my engineering career. In the late 60's , when I worked for LTV Electrosystems in Garland, we occasionally would fly on the company mail plane (a twin engine Aero Commander) to get to the Grand Prairie LTV plant (or LTV Greenville plant or Carswell AFB). Back in those days, the Grand Prairie plant was busily making the A-7 Corsair II for the Navy.

As a young 23 year old engineer just starting my professional career in 1967, I would usually be picked to fly in the mail plane from the Garland plant (now Raytheon and, yes, there was a runway just off Jupiter Road we took off from !) to carry various hardware and other stuff to the GP plant (inter-plant mail, computer tapes or original artwork of antenna designs). We used the plants HUGE numerically controlled drafting tables to help in our design layouts. While I would wait for the slow computers to do their stuff, I would go outside the room and walk over to the assembly line. Quite a view, while not as big as the then General Dynamics AFP 4, it was still impressive to see the planes start out as a bunch of parts at one end and end up as a plane at the other end of the building.

We rode a company bus to get from the Dallas NAS flight line to the main LTV building. When we left, if we were lucky, as we traveled by the jet engine stands, they would be testing the A-7's engines. What a noise and we did not have ear plugs. It rattled our innards!

On watching the jets do touch and go at Dallas NAS, I do remember being able to sit on an elevated railroad track just north of the runway and watch the jets go overhead when they landed to the south. What a thrill……! On occasion, the pilots would wave at us fool hardy people only feet from them! BTW, that is when I saw the then very active Yellow Belly Dragstrip. Never went to it and kind of glad I never did!

Thanks for letting me relate some memories. I have a bunch more related to military hardware I was involved with working for over 40 years here in the Dallas area!

I miss that place when it was open for business. My grandparents said that when they lived there like in the 80's that they lived near the base. I remember F-14's, P-3 Orions, C-130's, and maybe F/A-18's taking off from there. Looking at the photos I can see that they had F-4's and A-4's. I love hearing stories, you got any more?

[cbrjames]

Definitely not as cool as most in this thread, but I took these last weekend. The prop does weird shit with my phone's camera.

Dude whatever, you have a bad ass job. I remember that pic you posted a while back with you solo over the runway.

[RWhite]

..............I love hearing stories, you got any more?

The Aero Commander flew daily flights from Greenville to Garland to Grand Prairie (making stops at Love Field or Carswell as needed). It crashed in September 1967 on approach to Love Field. See this article describing the event. This article brings up old, sad memories. I did not remember so many had been killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradfield_Elementary_School

On the flights I use to take, there was no co-pilot. If I were the only passenger, I would sometimes sit in the co-pilots seat. We had a number of hairy approaches to Love Field. We would usually wait until the last minute and then literally dive down to get a place in line to land. I distinctly remember hearing the tower saying one day…..”See that Delta flight in front of you, get in behind him…… NOW !” I never threw up, but came damn close a few times!

These planes flew continually during the day as you might expect and were in pretty tough condition. The co-pilots instrument panel had a couple of empty slots for gauges not working, etc. Even one time, one gauge was dangling by a wire as it looked like it had not been fully installed!

They stopped the flights for a number of months until the investigation was complete and then a new plane was purchased. Well, no one wanted to fly on it and guess who was elected to make the first flight out of Garland to Grand Prairie………Me ! Well, needless to say, I was scared shitless. I remember keeping my eyes closed as we flew over Love Field (we use to fly high, directly over it, as we flew to GP). I flew a few more times after that, but was never real comfortable while I was flying in that plane.

The runway at LTV in Garland was just east of the main plant building (it is still there off Jupiter Road). It was a N/S runway. When we took off to the north, you would get airborne just before Forest Lane and then pull a hard left to get away from the apartments located below east of Jupiter Road and north of Forest Lane. For a year I lived in one of those apartment buildings.

Since a lot of the work we did there in Garland was supporting the Vietnam War effort, we had a number of Army Programs in the Electronic Warfare department. One of the programs had a very large DF pod strung under the wing of an Army Mohawk OV-1.

See http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/ov-1.htm

Now this was a man’s aircraft...…twin 1400 HP turbo props. We had a few employees in the department certified to fly in this plane, but not many signed up. The pilots, experienced Army pilots, would always sense if you were new at flying with them. This plane, once it lifted off the runway, could literally stand on its tail and pull sharply up and I mean up ! I saw it take off too many times to ever want to sign that list!

[pHILSANITY07]

The Aero Commander flew daily flights from Greenville to Garland to Grand Prairie (making stops at Love Field or Carswell as needed). It crashed in September 1967 on approach to Love Field. See this article describing the event. This article brings up old, sad memories. I did not remember so many had been killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradfield_Elementary_School

On the flights I use to take, there was no co-pilot. If I were the only passenger, I would sometimes sit in the co-pilots seat. We had a number of hairy approaches to Love Field. We would usually wait until the last minute and then literally dive down to get a place in line to land. I distinctly remember hearing the tower saying one day…..”See that Delta flight in front of you, get in behind him…… NOW !” I never threw up, but came damn close a few times!

These planes flew continually during the day as you might expect and were in pretty tough condition. The co-pilots instrument panel had a couple of empty slots for gauges not working, etc. Even one time, one gauge was dangling by a wire as it looked like it had not been fully installed!

They stopped the flights for a number of months until the investigation was complete and then a new plane was purchased. Well, no one wanted to fly on it and guess who was elected to make the first flight out of Garland to Grand Prairie………Me ! Well, needless to say, I was scared shitless. I remember keeping my eyes closed as we flew over Love Field (we use to fly high, directly over it, as we flew to GP). I flew a few more times after that, but was never real comfortable while I was flying in that plane.

The runway at LTV in Garland was just east of the main plant building (it is still there off Jupiter Road). It was a N/S runway. When we took off to the north, you would get airborne just before Forest Lane and then pull a hard left to get away from the apartments located below east of Jupiter Road and north of Forest Lane. For a year I lived in one of those apartment buildings.

Since a lot of the work we did there in Garland was supporting the Vietnam War effort, we had a number of Army Programs in the Electronic Warfare department. One of the programs had a very large DF pod strung under the wing of an Army Mohawk OV-1.

See http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/ov-1.htm

Now this was a man’s aircraft...…twin 1400 HP turbo props. We had a few employees in the department certified to fly in this plane, but not many signed up. The pilots, experienced Army pilots, would always sense if you were new at flying with them. This plane, once it lifted off the runway, could literally stand on its tail and pull sharply up and I mean up ! I saw it take off too many times to ever want to sign that list!

well the approach to love field is still not easy when landing to the south. they look like they basically follow 635 then turn sharp left and then straighten up right about where Speed Zone is at. Thanks for the stories

[jason07]

awesome thread!

[Strychnine]

[aggie97]

I love F4U's!!!

rumors the CAF air show in Midland will have one second weekend in October....I am thinking of taking my dad out there for the show. Supposed to be HUGE and the B29 is coming back home along with several others.