This one dedicated to JimG's Nam stuff :)

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Add one toy.
I still remember the first few missons in his Nam stuffs started with 102!

[colonel tomb]

lol can't wait to shoot down Bush!

[Tazz]

Bush Junior didn't even know how to spell Nam or find it on the map. He has never been there, not as a F-102 fighterpilot anyway.

Didn't he 'sat out' the war with the Texas ANG?

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Check the pic, may be you can find something new

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Now its totally 12 jets.
the pic is changed
some of you probably didnt notice what i added in past days. .

F100
F102
RF101

[172ndhamm]

ohhh ohhh ohhh! When can we fly them mr kotter?

[Widowmaker]

RF 101 VooDoo thank you very much CCC

Widowmaker aka whatever

[brewskie]

Not too many war stories about the Voodoo's but now I curious.

[172ndhamm]

I think Chuck Yeager said it was the only jet he didn't really like to fly. He felt it was very unstable and unforgiving. There's one on a stick, at the Edmonton City Center Airport a few miles from here. That's one damn big bird to have such relatvely tiny wings... It sounds challanging.

[brewskie]

yeah, the pilots hated the voodoo, because it could easily get out of control with it's pitch up problems.

[JimG]

They used to have RF-101s at Shaw AFB back in the '60s, and they have one out front by the main gate next to a RF-4C and a RB-66. The 363rd TRW flew some historic missions over Cuba back during the Cuban missile crisis (1962). They flew low and very fast! This was because the Cubans could shoot down the U-2 with the SA-2.

[colonel tomb]

Seem to recall at least on Voodoo was lost over SE Asia. Fast bird, though not like the Vigilante. The F-100 reportedly was used in the first Iron Hand strikes up north, can't remember if any were lost but probably so. Yeah that Bush thing was just fantasy, or perhaps "historical novel/magical-realism" material. The question is, can he NOW spell Nam or find it on the map? The F-102 was tasked with airbase defence. Reportedly the one lost to a MiG-21 fell in the DMZ. Why would an F-102 be so far north or a MiG-21 so far south?

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Update that pic again

[172ndhamm]

AN A-1!! Cool!

[172ndhamm]

I think more than a few RF-101 Voodoos were lost up north. I also remember reading something similar about an F102(106?) shoot-down.

[Tazz]

I can look that up if someone really wants to know but only when time allows that

[172ndhamm]

Now that you've done the obvious recon plane, (the RF-101 Voodoo,) I'd like to point out that we have a carrier group in the Tonkin gulf. I don't want to seem ungrateful, but How about the RA-5C Vigilante?

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Hamm,

Obviously you are a Vnam hard-core too
I used to build plastic models, surely RA5C IS included.
I'll go vacation in next few weeks, so wont do any modeling for a while.
Hehe, for Vnam, I got a loooooong list,
Since you point out this one, how about
A3/B66, F111B, A37, O1, O2, E1, S2, firebee UAV?

[JimG]

quote:Originally posted by 172ndhamm:

RA-5...known as the "Viggie"...pronounced like "vidgie"..and they flew "reccee" missions...pronounced like "wrecky".

[172ndhamm]

wellllll... I wanted to ask if WE could get the atc features to function as FAC's (forward air controllers) for strike packages... until then, I don't think there's much point in the bird-dogs and broncos...