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United State WAR BIRDS... Honoring The Warriors!
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Boeing B-52H
General Dynamics F-111
Boeing B-29
FYI, This is theTo honor those that fly and fight carrying the US Flag on its tail! Post your BIRD!
Boeing AH-64 Apache
JAPANESE MILITARY (Self Defense Force)
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, called "Jugs". I met a Jugs pilot years back when he was commander of KAFB. During WWII he flew them in Europe he took one out and when it came back it has so many bullet holes in it they didn't bother to count them. It was a tank was the heaviest fighter on take off (8 tons) in the entire USAAF inventory. Started out with a three blade propeller and then when it went to 4 blade was the fastest diving fighter around. A real beast. The pilot? Colonel Paul Gabreski.
Beautiful bomber. Pressurized crew cabin. The B-29 production program was actually larger and cost more than Project Manhattan. Bell made B-29s at AF Plant 6 in Marietta during WWII.....
They flew these out of RAF Upper Heyford in the early 70s when I was stationed there.
Somewhere I heard that when the first arrived in England and the English heard they were nicknamed the "Jug", they assumed it was short for "Juggernaut" (like they would do).
They were told that it was instead because it was difficult to handle, and rookie pilots would often wind up with on its nose after landing.
And that plane, sitting nose down looks like a milk jug.
