Planelopnik #TBT 1995 Edition

"Jcarr" (jcarr)
08/20/2015 at 16:07 • Filed to: Planelopnik

Early C-17 on the ramp at Edwards AFB in 1995

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NB-52B, 52-0008 was equipped with with a pair of J85 jet engines attached to a pallet in the bomb bay on June 30, 1995.

The NB-52B launched the X-15 #1 twenty-six times, the X-15 #2 fourteen times in its original configuration and fifteen times as the X-15A-2, and the X-15 #3 thirty four times. It launched the M2-F2 twelve times in its original configuration and twenty-seven times as the M2-F3. It launched the HL-10 thirty four times, the X-24A twenty-six times and the X-24B thirty-six times.

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From NASA:

After being flown in the Paris Air Show in June 1995, the X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Technology Demonstrator Aircraft, based at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, is off-loaded from an Air Force Reserve C-5 transport after the ferry flight back to Edwards. At the air show, the X-31 demonstrated the value of using thrust vectoring (directing engine exhaust flow) coupled with advanced flight control systems to provide controlled flight at very high angles of attack.

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From Wikipedia:

A formation of NATO fighters on 1 May 1995:

- two U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon s of the 31st Fighter Wing from Aviano air base, Italy;

- two Italian Air Force Lockeed/Fiat F-104S Starfighter s;

- two German Luftwaffe McDonell Douglas F-4F Phantom II s of the “Jagdgeschwader 73 (JG 73)“ (73rd Fighter Wing), based at Laage, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany;

- two German Luftwaffe Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29A Fulcrum s, also from JG 73.

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RIAT 1995 VE Day Celebration

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Paris Air Show 1995. Bonus points if you can identify the aircraft.

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Rare Bear at the 1995 Reno Air Races

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MAKS 1995:

The second prototype of the Tu-160 (70-03) for the air show MAKS-1995, Zhukovsky, 08/27/1995

DISCUSSION (17)

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jcarr
08/20/2015 at 16:12

That C17

Jcarr > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
08/20/2015 at 16:13

Thanks. I didn’t even have to click the video and now I have that song drilling into my brain.

Spaceball-Two > Jcarr
08/20/2015 at 16:29

Kifir

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Jcarr
08/20/2015 at 16:44

Kinja'd!!!

Looks like an IAI Kfir, but I don’t think they made a two seat version. The nose looks wrong too.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
08/20/2015 at 16:50

After guessing I went to Wikipedia. Looks like they made a TC.2 two seat training version that had a longer and lower nose. It is probably the TC.7 which was the other training variant that was developed from the C.7 which had inflight refueling capabilities. Curiously all the Kfir photos show a dorsal intake on the bottom of the vertical stabilizer and that isn’t present on this aircraft.

Jcarr > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
08/20/2015 at 17:01

Close, it’s a South African Atlas Cheetah, which was based on the Mirage III. I believe the Kfir was based on the Mirage 5.

Jcarr > Spaceball-Two
08/20/2015 at 17:01

Close. It’s a South African Atlas Cheetah which was based on the Mirage III.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr
08/20/2015 at 17:30

Yes, it is. Although there’s some Mirage III baked in there as well. Both the III and the 5 share some pretty tight lineage.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Jcarr
08/20/2015 at 19:56

Interesting, I haven’t read it but the opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article says it was developed from the Kfir.

The Atlas Cheetah is a South African fighter aircraft , developed for the South African Air Force (SAAF) and currently operated by the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE). It was developed as a major upgrade of the Dassault Mirage III by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation (later Denel Aviation ) in South Africa and is based on the IAI Kfir . [2]