Friday, September 14, 2018

A three-ship formation of F-86F Sabres assigned to the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing fly over Korea in 1953.


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  1. After Korea, missiles took over. While I understand the dynamics and the reason that happened, the pilot-to-pilot, gun-on-gun action was a time and place in our history that is now lost to time.

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    1. That's what they thought when the engineered the first F4 Phantoms, LL. Air-to-Air will do, thank you. Then after a few "dust ups" with MIGs over North Vietnam they had to retrofit a 20mm Gatling under the snout.

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  2. I remember the 51st. FIS up in iceland in the 1970s. we always had a good rapport with the bug suckers. Our nasty old warning stars and their nasty old F4C's out looking at the other guys. they had some techs who could tune a vacuum tube very very nice. they still had the checkerboard tail going for them.

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  3. Probably a FOUR SHIP formation, but somebody has to take the picture. . . . .

    FormerFlyer

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