Thanks for the info. The photo caption says it's an "H" but I know they can be wrong sometimes and I certainly can't say for sure which one it is. Either way, it looks like a formidable aircraft.

Well. I've been told I'm pretty confident in nearly anything I do or attempt to do. But I've never been called cocky.
:hmmm:
I've been called alot worse though.
:D

Yes. I'm a ParaTrooper. I'm no longer in the Armed Forces but as We say.
"Once a ParaTrooper? Always a ParaTrooper!"

All The Way And Then Some!
:rock:

Paratroopers may go "All The Way And Then Some!" but just remember....

"Rangers Lead The Way" :up:

My father was a Ranger LRRP in Vietnam he did have some jump training but he never did any jumps in Vietnam and he left the Army after Vietnam.I think the 173rd did one airdrop in Vietnam but he was not assigned to the 173rd.I would say that his mentality spread to his children.

I have two brothers one is a Major in the Marine Infantry some people in a place called Fallujah learned not to mess with him and his fellow Marines.My other brother just retired form the US Army as a SFC he was regular infantry.I was always more into mechanical things so I joined the Air Force because I wanted to help maintain the most deadly pencil sharpeners in the world.:har: No seriously I wanted to maintain aircraft so that was my choice.Even my kid sister who was never in the military has my dads determination she is a tiny thing and teaches in one of the tougher high schools in Louisiana yet the kids respect her.Of course you can never judge a person by size my sister could easily bring down a 250 pound man and not with a gun in her hands either.i piity the man that would make the mistake of trying to mug her.

@mako88sb It is an H I mixed things up in that post.The G had the same 75mm cannon as the H but had the turret set up of the A,B,C,D Mitchel's the H was the first to have the dorsal turret moved forwards and to have a true tail turret.On the earlier models the dorsal turret was more aft to also try and cover a portion of the rear quarter.

Heres another somewhat forgotten plane of WW2
The North American T-6 Texan advanced trainer. I got to see this one at the Stuart Airshow here in Florida in 2011. This plane was one of the most popular trainers of the war, has seen service since the first prototype flew on April 1, 1935 up until as late as 1995 when it was retired by the SAAF. It has been and in some still used by over 50 nations, and has been used in movies like Tora,Tora,Tora as Japanese Zeros, in A Bridge Too Far in the guise of P-47 Thunderbolts, and even in the Dutch film Soldaat van Oranje dressed up to look like Fokker D.XXI fighters.
http://imageshack.us/a/img843/2409/s...w111311006.jpg

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...psfb199afa.jpg
Vickers Wellington

Well perhaps they should learn you how to aim better :O:
when did this spray and pray ever help you guys? :hmph:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2Q0W2V4q0

HunterICX

http://www.personal.kent.edu/%7Eccar...ages/p55-2.jpg

xp 55 swept wing design that puts somehow to question the German innovation in the field.
Not that i question German ingenuity but not everything was copied as it seems.
Same goes for some original Northrop designs.





http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...aHUhWETeQzL0MP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zANvYB93u2g

Yep. We sat in our comfy quarters eating steaks and reading all the thank-you letters from the real warriors we gave fire support to. :O:

One of my old circle of friends was a former detective. He told me once that motorcycle cops are convinced they are the best thing on earth. Then he met some fighter pilots and came to the conclusion that bike cops only think they're the best. Fighter jocks know they're the best. :dead:

I once had the job of driving some Saudi aircrew training at Hill AFB up to Jackson Hole for a rafting trip, along with a couple of US escorts. The mechanics behaved like good Muslims - refusing to eat at the diner, cooking their own food, making sure prayers were said. The pilots? They acted like fighter pilots - yelling out comments on the girls we saw, talking about how great they were and generally acting like people everywhere who are certain the world was put there just for them. :sunny:

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...ps82f27b3c.jpg
P-51 Mustang

just some nice picture
http://www.air-and-space.com/2010051...e-ioff%20l.jpg



http://www.air-and-space.com/2010051...flight%20l.jpg





http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4108/5...df222512_b.jpg

That last picture is awesome

Not WWII but a great plane of its era nonetheless

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/2602/img0829dz.jpg

OOOHHHH! I love the F-86 Sabre!

I'd love to see one of those fly one day. The early jets were pretty darn cool. I like the F-84 and the F9F too.

What about the SR-71?

Some nice footage, and sound (109)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbeRn...layer_embedded

Eh...not so much...

Spy planes never really caught my interest. Wooo...this one goes fast and high so it can take pictures.... :shifty: Kind of anticlimactic.

I like planes that carry ordnance...whether it be Paratroopers or Nuclear Weapons.

Now in the Ubisoft game HAWX....the SR-71 carries missiles...and can outrun them when you punch the throttle.

By the ring around his eyeball
You can tell a bombardier;
You can tell a bomber pilot
By the spread around his rear,
You can tell a navigator
By his sextants, maps and such
You can tell a fighter jockey
BUT YOU CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH!
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8009

:D