O/T Count to Infinity using Pictures: The Next 500 Edition

[wolves71]

[Woking88]

English Electric Canberra PR3 of 540 Squadron.



Exactly the same mark that I flew on at the PR Canberra Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Bassingbourn in 1966.

[wolves71]

Norway antique vehicle series E-541

[Woking88]

Two F-4B Phantoms of VMFA-542 over Vietnam in January 1969

[wolves71]

Two F-4B Phantoms of VMFA-542 over Vietnam in January 1969

That's Noomi Rapace

[Woking88]

Two F-4B Phantoms of VMFA-542 over Vietnam in January 1969

That's Noomi Rapace [/quote]

What was she doing over Vietnam in 1969 before she was born?

[TundraWolf]

Something to do with the Indian Air Force, otherwise...(I have no idea)!?

[Woking88]

Tundra, the pictures relate to the Rescue Mission to Tsangdhar (20 Oct 1962).

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[Woking88]

Anyone order a gunboat?

[Robus]

Two F-4B Phantoms of VMFA-542 over Vietnam in January 1969

Brings back memories. Growing up around Navy bases in the 60s, 70s, early 80s I saw the Marine and Navy F-4 Phantoms overhead day in, day out. One of the most beautiful planes of all time, IMO.

Around 1977-1979 I was living in Virginia Beach near Naval Air Station Oceana. Waiting for the bus to school one morning, we saw one of them come overhead smoking from its engine. It went on a little ways and crashed in a fireball beyond the housing subdivision. The pilot was killed, we heard he delayed ejecting to steer the plane away from the residential areas.

Heard the same after military crashes, which happened often. That was the code those aviators lived and died by.

By the late 1970s the F-14 Tomcat was becoming a more common sight than the F-4. Impressive plane but nowhere near as beautiful. Its wings extended out fo