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Some brilliant pics in here

http://www.tom-phillips.info/images/coo ... litary.htm

http://www.tom-phillips.info/images/coo ... tary.2.htm

http://www.tom-phillips.info/images/coo ... tary.3.htm

TSC.

Great shots. It's cool to see what the smoke effects are as the missiles or whatever are being fired out

Awesome! Thanks! Really liked the first pic in set #3.

Thanks for the pictures TSC...excellent...

Very disappointed though...did not see one nope not one United States Military or Canadian Military DHC-3 "Otter"...humbug...greatest aeroplane ever built and not one shot...I am devastated.

Nice to see the RAF making an appearance in two of them; the C-130 close formation, and the vertical Chinook.

Very nice find! Thanks for that.






Pic #5 in set 3 is cool.

Great pictures. Some I have never seen before.

Amazing. I love the one's with some kind of gun firing some kind of thing that will go BOOM.

8-)

Some really amazing captures here  8-)

On that 'Accidents Happen' photo... Did the aircraft accidently launch a missile or something?

Rest are also very good captures.

On that 'Accidents Happen' photo... Did the aircraft accidently launch a missile or something?

Rest are also very good captures.

I would guess it dislodged itself upon a harder than normal landing. It happens once in a while.

i like the USS Iowa one. Makes me woner why we didnt keep them. to expensive or just to big of a target?

i like the USS Iowa one. Makes me woner why we didnt keep them. to expensive or just to big of a target?

Considering she (and most other battleships) were laid down in the early 40's, they were vastly expensive to maintain and quickly becoming obsolete. With the air superiority the US Navy has these days, battleship shelling has been replaced with a four-ship of Hornets brimmed with 500-pound bombs.

However, the USS New Jersey (an Iowa-class) was taken in and out of commission several times since WWII, most recently having her last cruise in the late 80's.

On that 'Accidents Happen' photo... Did the aircraft accidently launch a missile or something?

Rest are also very good captures.

I would guess it dislodged itself upon a harder than normal landing. It happens once in a while.

I didn't think carrier birds landed with live ordinance?

On that 'Accidents Happen' photo... Did the aircraft accidently launch a missile or something?

Rest are also very good captures.

I would guess it dislodged itself upon a harder than normal landing. It happens once in a while.

I didn't think carrier birds landed with live ordinance?

I can't speak about now but there are videos going back to at least the Vietnam war showing similar happenings. I surely wouldn't think they would just dump their cache of unused Sidewinders, Sparrows, Phoenix, and Amraams on every landing.
The missile in the photo is a sidewinder, looks to be an older model, and the picture itself looks to be dated.
Maybe I should ask my brother that recently retired from the Navy.
There have also been accidents that have caused missiles to be realeased, but I don't believe this is the case as there doesn't seem to be any rocket plume.