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I may be wrong, but I believe that's a 105 "recoil-less" rifle. As long as the crew stay out of the back-blast area they're golden, and it doesn't have a very great effect on the plane.
I've read...

Now that was a blast form my past...AND present!
I learned in the 2-32 back when I had just turned 15, long and long ago! Although, honestly, that looks more like the 126. The 2-32 was a high wing,...

Wow! Small world. My mother's name was Joan as well!

Great shots, too. Thanks!
Pat☺

I was at Yuma for a lot of my enlistment. Wound up being there almost 30 years, total.
I remember when the Harriers first arrived there. My father-in-law was a tech-rep on them. Well, my FUTURE...

Heck of a paint job, Steve. Really well done, and looks complicated!
Pat☺

It's the Killer Egg!

I actually heard a LOACH pilot call them that once.
Cracked up everyone in hearing. He just smiled and went to meet the chopper that was landing's pilot... :biggrin-new:
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I remember talking to Phantom pilot a "few" (ahem) years back who told me that, during cold war cruises, the carrier always launched them in pairs for barcap. If they encountered a Bear, as was...

I went to Red Flag in '87 with VMFAT-401, when they were Kfir's, about a year before they transitioned to F-5's.
That was a real experience, I can tell you that! Back then, food in Vegas was CHEAP....