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USAF "Elephant Walks" (photos)
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Neat pictures. Must admit I'd never heard of that term, regarding aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_walk_(aeronautics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_walk_(aeronautics)
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That line of F-16s "only" consists of about 40 of them, and impressive as it is, it's barely a hint of this:
957 F-16s active
192 F-15s active
365 C-130s active (not including special purpose types)
Definitely a world class military power by those aircraft types alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft
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I wonder if there's any images of Aardvarks in an Elephant walk...
Looks like there's this pic and nothing else I could find... (This has to be a REALLY old pic of them... White on the underside? No tan?)
Here's a line of them though...
If you look at the 2nd in line, you can see that it has a rather large "chest" painted on the side (as does the 3rd aircraft). Those guys in the paint barn sure loved painting that profile.
Looks like there's this pic and nothing else I could find... (This has to be a REALLY old pic of them... White on the underside? No tan?)
Here's a line of them though...
If you look at the 2nd in line, you can see that it has a rather large "chest" painted on the side (as does the 3rd aircraft). Those guys in the paint barn sure loved painting that profile.
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When I was young, a long time ago, my father would take us to the end of McCord AFB and watch the B-52s take off like this. The sky turned black with smoke.
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Honestly, with the way things are now a days, I'm a little surprised that they 'let' them do that...
What if it were a female pilot?! Yikes!
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Honestly, with the way things are now a days, I'm a little surprised that they 'let' them do that...
What if it were a female pilot?! Yikes!
When I was in the USAF (1988-1990), I don't think there were any female fighter pilots. Certainly none at RAF Upper Heyford.
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I looked around for B-52, B-47, and other older aircraft elephant walks and didn't find anything other than a small F-4 one and another cool photo unrelated to elephant walks:I wonder if there's any images of Aardvarks in an Elephant walk...
Looks like there's this pic and nothing else I could find... (This has to be a REALLY old pic of them... White on the underside? No tan?)
Here's a line of them though...
If you look at the 2nd in line, you can see that it has a rather large "chest" painted on the side (as does the 3rd aircraft). Those guys in the paint barn sure loved painting that profile.
