SLICK CHICK

SLICK CHICK: The Wild Story Of The USAF's First Top Secret Supersonic Spy Plane
Not A Pound For Air To Ground

Other posts about Kapustin Yar:

• English Electric Canberra
• Russian Missile Launch

Post about aerial photography: Lucky 666

Slick Chick

Super Sabre

North American F-100 Super Sabre, Tucson, circa 1965

The Super Sabre has appeared here before.

Blast from the Past

1958 F-100 USES SHORT "RUNWAY"
Popular Mechanics has a story about a couple Cold War era F-100 fighter jets that are for sale. The Cold War spawned all kinds of crazy ideas:

The F-100’s most dramatic trick involved taking off without an airfield. One of the most vexing problems facing the Air Force during the Cold War was getting planes off the ground during wartime, when the Soviet Union was anticipated to target NATO runways. In response, the Zero-Length Launch program sought to do away with runways altogether by installing a Rocketdyne XM-34 solid rocket booster under a F-100. In just 5 seconds, the XM-34 could boost the F-100 to an altitude of 400 feet and speed of 275 miles an hour. (How the F-100 landed on a damaged runway was never explained.)

Via FlightAware

The F-100 has appeared here before.

Update September 2021 changed link.

 

Airplanes

Flight Aware's weekly newsletter always includes a bunch of photos. Most of them are usually airliners which don't hold much interest for me, but occasionally there are other things in there as well and today we got a bunch.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The B-17 has been mentioned here before, once or twice.

C-17 at St Maarten
These kind of photos are fairly common on Flight Aware, though
 the target is usually an airliner, not a military cargo aircraft.
The C-17 has been here before.

De Havilland Canada Twin Otter at Svetlaya
Svetlaya is on east coast of Russia, equidistant from Red China & Japan

North American F-100 Super Sabre at Oshkosh
This one is a real blast from the past. I had toy model of one when I was a kid,
and it will always be my ideal of what a jet fighter should look like.

COVID-19 strikes again
Alaska airliners parked at PDX

SHINMAYWA US-2 at Iwakuni, Japan,
possibly flying in from its normal operating base in the middle of the ocean.
Iwakuni is on Honshu, the main island.

Pic of the Day

North American Super Saber, Fort Wayne Indiana - Jack Lahrman

The North American F-100 Super Sabre was the first American supersonic jet fighter aircraft. The US military used it from 1954 to 1979. The F-100 flew extensively over South Vietnam as the air force's primary close air support jet. - Paraphrased from Wikipedia

Pic of the Day

A CH-54 Flying Crane helicopter transports an F-100 Super Sabre aircraft at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Hill AFB is in Ogden, about 10 miles North of Salt Lake City. Ogden is on a flat piece of land trapped between The Great Salt Lake on the West and some big rocks to the East, as seen above.