Playing Photointerpreter

"user314" (user314) 06/09/2020 at 11:08 • Filed to: Planelopnik, SATELLITE, Spacelopnik

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From an article on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , an image of the Southern Museum of Flight in Alabama:

Some of these are immediately recognizable, even from 450km, but others less so. Here’s what I’ve got without cheating and going to their website or Wiki:

ttyymmnn > user314 06/09/2020 at 11:23

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You get a much better image on Google....

facw > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:25

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That you do:

TheRealBicycleBuck > facw 06/09/2020 at 11:28

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Enhance!

facw > user314 06/09/2020 at 11:29

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I think you did pretty well. Obviously your “T-33" should be a T-38 but I assume that was just a momentary brain miswiring and/or typo. I do think it’s a T-38 though, IIRC all F-5s have missile rails on the wingtips. Also it’s hard to tell from the planet images, but the higher res Google/Europa one makes it clear that the “S-3" is actually a C-1. Not sure about the one you have labeled F-86, I think that’s an F-84?

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 11:29

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True, but those are taken from a lot lower altitud e.

user314 > facw 06/09/2020 at 11:32

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Dammit. Yes, that was an uncaught typo.

I wasn’t 100% confident on the S-2, hence the question mark, but in my defense there’s not a noticeable difference between a Tracker and a Trader at that resolution. 

facw > TheRealBicycleBuck 06/09/2020 at 11:35

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Hmm, seems like they are better at collecting planes than restoring/preserving them...

TheRealBicycleBuck > facw 06/09/2020 at 11:38

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Yeah, that’s not camouflage. 

user314 > facw 06/09/2020 at 11:52

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A problem with many museums, unfortunately. 

CaptDale - is secretly British > user314 06/09/2020 at 12:14

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No Learjet? I am offended ;3

ClassicDatsunDebate > user314 06/09/2020 at 12:16

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I see a pair of IH-4600

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 12:56

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Even better from the street .

Looks like they’ve added an L-39 since that overhead shot was taken.

The MiG-21 needs a pain t job too:

I was today years old when I found out that an Mi-24 and a CH-54 look remarkably similar from above:

It’s an F-84, not an F-86. The yellow plane is a T-28

Huh, it was a Tracker:

Starship and the Skymaster are both in rough shape:

user314 > CaptDale - is secretly British 06/09/2020 at 13:00

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North American/Rockwell Sabreliner in Air Force dress ok?

ttyymmnn > user314 06/09/2020 at 13:29

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I was going to go with F-84.

Also:

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/09/2020 at 13:45

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I blame it on:

Iffy resolution of the pic

My crapp y eyes

F-86s that were painted in SEA camo: