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This is a playlist of 14 films comprising the "Pictures of Us…—The China Lake That Was" series, courtesy of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division.
Nothing I can say will convey how awsome this series is.
Just see for yourself.
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F-102A had a three-segment internal weapons bay for three pairs of GAR-1/2/3/4 (AIM-4) Falcon missiles. The center bay could alternatively carry two GAR-11/AIM-26 Nuclear Falcon missiles. Some doors had tubes for FFARs (initially 2 in; later 2.75 in).
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Just for kicks, can guess why this was called the 'High-Impulse Weapon System' ? »
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The The Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 was a tiltwing experimental aircraft. First flight in 1964.
"F 2567 Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 Operation Suitability Tests"
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@SDASM
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"Instructors from Sheppard AFB demonstrate what Crew Chiefs, POL, Ammo, Armament, and Pilots do to prepare an aircraft for launch. …" 07.19.2024
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@DVIDSHub
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"“Black Crow” sensor on Thor, an AC-130A. This sensor detected and tracked vehicles by the electrical impulses of their spark plugs. Thor was shot down by antiaircraft fire in December 1972, […] (U.S. Air Force photo)"
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@AFmuseum
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B-52 naked look. I like it.
This is ‘Ghost Rider’, the first B-52H Stratofortress to be restored in flying condition after being mothballed for a few years. In this and the next photo, it is still in the process of being restored.
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@DLAMIL
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AMX-10RC with its 3-axis (tilt forward/backwards, tilt left/right, raise/lower hull) hydro-pneumatic suspension, & skid-steering (vehicle turns obtained by difference in speeds of left & right wheels) is surely an interesting platform.
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@armeedeterre
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@nicholadrummond
@2805662
<joke> IMHO, the real question should be if the Boxer brakes as spectacularly as Wiesel does. Why bother with it otherwise? </joke>
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Douglas C-124 Globemaster II using its elevator well to hoist cargo into its cargo bay.
🎞️ 👁🗨 AIRAILIMAGES ( )
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This (supposedly) is video from the recent (?) raising of what is believed to be the P-40E of Flying Tigers pilot John Blackburn from lake Dianchi (lake Kunming) in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, into which it crashed on April 28, 1942.
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F-104G Starfighter duct diving.
How to enter the Starfighter air inlet duct to check for FOD damage.
The full video, explaining standard Starfighter maintenance tasks (in Greek) is golden.
🎞️📖 👁🗨 tasoscorsair
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The M47 Dragon anti-tank missile had one of the most unusual rocket propulsion/steering systems ever:
"sixty small thruster rockets mounted diagonally, facing the rear of the missile, in six rows with five pairs per row. »
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A closeup of a B-52H photo, showing the two blisters that house the sensors of the AN/ASQ-151 Electro-Optical Viewing System (EVS).
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@DVIDSHub
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Mega-formation. Original images (available at included links) are huge in size.
"B-26, B-47, C-97, RC-121, B-57, B-45, B-66, B-52, C-131, C-119, C-124, F-86, F-86F, F-102, F-94C, F-89, T-33, F-80, and RF-84F in Formation"
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@USNatArchives
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Imagine an airplane doing an on-pylon turn relative to a vertex point on the ground.
Combine that with the circling-line phenomena, where a long line towed behind the airplane will—under certain conditions—assume a spiraling Inverted cone path with the free end at the vertex.
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"Extremely rare footage of Boeing JB-52E (serial number 56-0636) used as a testbed for Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines, which would be used in the Boeing 747-100, which was in final stages of development."
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Grumman S-2E Tracker flies through a rogue wave. 1971
According to YT comments, this is USS Ticonderoga (CVS -14), S-2E pilot/trainee was Charlie Patak, co-pilot was Guy Wilcox.
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Alternative:
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Now, that's an interesting bird!
This is F-5G (former reconnaissance aircraft converted from P-38L) Lighting N57496 (44-53242) belonging of the California Electric Power Company.
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@SDASM
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A model tested in an Onera wind tunnel in Lille, France as part of the SuperMan (Super Maneuverability) project on fighter maneuverability. Notice LEVCON (Leading-Edge Vortex CONtroller) devices.
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@OBergervdn
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@RealAirPower1
Such accidents can happen:
Minigun bullet traps to handle such cases (hot-gun clearing, gun maintenance, etc):
📷 👁🗨 Dillon Aero Inc.
Preventing barrel rotation on idle minigun:
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The 30,000 ton Schloemann closed die press set up in 1943 at the Bitterfeld plant was intended for the production of forged parts for the (failed) Ju 288 fighter bomber. Notice men at its base for scale.
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@googlebooks
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Under Project Pave Gat one B-57G Tropic Moon III was turned into a gunship. The main change was replacing its revolving bomb bay door with a pallet equipped with an Emerson TAT-161 (or TAT-157) turret armed with a M61 Vulcan 20mm Guttling gun.
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The next photos show the Concorde 001 prototype as it was slowly moved towards a specially crafted barricade. Toulouse. 1968.
All information comes from
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Slightly psychedelic thread: artist's concepts of various Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) proposals.
"A hand-sketched illustration. The official image of the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) aircraft (artist's conception)"
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@USNatArchives
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AN/APQ-180 radar (a derivative of the AN/APG-70 radar) on a AC-130U Spooky gunship.
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@RobinsAFB_GA
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A beautifully restored and airworthy Avro Anson Mk.I
📷. 👁🗨 Photo by Gavin Conroy / Classic Wings Magazine ( )
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MK82 500lb bombs with M1A1 36-inch "Daisy Cutter" Fuse Extenders. This fuze extender consists of an explosive filled length of steel tubing, with an instantaneous fuse installed in the forward end of the extender.
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Oopsy! 🙄
"Moving Static Aircraft from Naval Air Station Dallas to Naval Air Station Fort Worth Texas."
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Sometimes the nose radome of a Panther would be separated from the aircraft during arrested landing.
"VF-91 F9F-2 lands aboard the USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) in 1953."
📖📷 👁🗨 Mike's Research
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"This is an actual photo of a [FIM-43] Redeye missile (arrow) entering the jet exhaust of a drone airplane. Immediately after this photograph was taken, the plane exploded"
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@googlebooks
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Dramatic demonstration of the dangers of wake turbulence.
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Four Thunderchief F-105 aircraft parked nose to nose.
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AGM-109H/L Medium Range Air-to-Surface Missile (MRASM) was a shorter-range, turbojet powered air-launched cruise missile with cluster munitions. A variant of Tomahawk.
"General Dynamics F-16 with MRASM"
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@SDASM
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The Goodyear Inflatoplane was an inflatable experimental aircraft made by the Goodyear Aircraft Company.
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Much has been written about it, but the most interesting aspect—in my opinion—is 'Airmat', the structural material.
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Diamondback: the nuclear-armed, liquid-fueled, variable-thrust, 'Super Sidewinder'.
"Pictures of Us - Episode 8 / China Lake, Way Off Boresight - HAP, Diamondback, AGILE, ACIMD, RARE …"
🎞️📖 👁🗨 China Lake Alumni
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@DrNWillburger
This tomb was found during during works to extend the Corinth-Patras national road.
🎞️: Here is a video about how the tomb was relocated to the Ancient Corinth Archeological Site & Museum.
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Scale model of B-52 showing some of its electronics.
"IBM On Guard - The Story of SAGE - 1956 Computer Documentary"
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The unusual canards of the Mitsubishi AAM-3 (Type 90 / 90式空対空誘導弾) short-range all-aspect air-to-air missile.
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'The War Lover' was a 1962 British war film. These are parts of the buzzing scene, stitched together.
John Crewdson reportedly flew the airplane solo for this sequence.
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Convair F-106 Delta Dart using an experimental Honeywell Helmet-Mounted Sight (HMS) to launch an AIM-4 against an aerial target.
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@Saturnax1
@CovertShores
@Capt_Navy
@RSS_40
@KrastavacKonst1
@Aeroengineer1
@TayfunOzberk
@FORONAVAL
"Japan Coast Guard releases video showing Chinese intrusions into waters near Senkakus"
"Around 200 to 300 Chinese fishing boats, accompanied by several Chinese coast guard ships, were spotted just outside Japanese territorial waters from Aug 5-9 [2016]"
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A demonstration of the adjustable hydro-pneumatic suspension of AMX-10RC.
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"A U.S. Air Force Convair F-106A-105-CO Delta Dart aircraft (s/n 59-0027) from the 119th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, […], shortly before firing an AIM-4 Falcon missile during the air-to-air weapons meet "William Tell '84" in October 1984."
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This was the AN/ASD-5 "Black Crow" Direction Finder (Truck Ignition Sensor)
It was designed to detect the electronic "noise" generated by the ignition system of a spark-ignition gasoline engine.
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The sole Lockheed EC-121L (WV-2E) Warning Star with a rotating radar dome housing an AN/APS-70 radar.
"Super Constellation "Flying Saucer" Radar Airplane with a crew of 31 members taxis and takes off from runway in California"
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@CriticalPast
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The Hirsch H-100 experimental aircraft as exhibited at the Air & Space Museum at Le Bourget, France. Strikingly beautiful.
Hirsch H-100 was an experimental aircraft designed to test a "gust absorption system". The system was pneumatically powered and could be switched on and off in flight to test its effectiveness.
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XAIM-95 Agile: vectored thrust, and advanced high off-boresight seeker that could be cued by the pilot's HMS-equipped helmet.
"Pictures of Us - Episode 8 / China Lake, Way Off Boresight - HAP, Diamondback, AGILE, ACIMD, RARE …"
🎞️📖 👁🗨 China Lake Alumni
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SAB A.B.21 French four-engine night bomber. One built.
It was a refined version of the SAB A.B.20 (also built in one unit) with cantilever wings, most struts removed, cleaner undercarriage, etc
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@BritishPathe
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NASA F-106B N816 (F-106B 57-2516, NASA NF-106B N816NA) in flight with the vortex-flap modification.
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@internetarchive
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I had never seen this method of aerial refueling before.
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Better version here:
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Perhaps you have seen JMSDF events like this one (JMSDF Shimofusa Air Base, 2014) before.
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The F-104 was the first production aircraft to be quipped with a BLCS (Boundary Layer Control System) of blown flaps to improve effectiveness of its stubby, highly-loaded wings during approach and landing.
👁🗨 Burkhard Domke ( )
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"THE BATTLE OF CAPORETTO, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1917 / Austro-Hungarian soldiers admiring a captured Italian Obice da 305/17 modello 16 self-propelled heavy howitzer in a village near Udine."
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@I_W_M
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Brass model of an Iowa class battleship at Ship Antenna Model Range of NELC—the San Diego Laboratory of NEL (Navy Electronics Laboratory) at Point Loma, CA.
The model will be placed at the center of the range (the barely visible circle behind the men).
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"A C-130 Hercules aircraft is inverted on a pedestal at the Rome Air Development Center's Irish Hill test site" 1986
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@USNatArchives
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@TrentTelenko
It may be the case that this route had been used again or was deemed probable enough to warrant what seems as a well placed ambush. In this case, kudos to the one who planned it.
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Typical Eastern block built trucks used by the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh trail were strong EMI/RFI emitters and "Black Crow" was developed to exploit this fact.
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@cslegiongames
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This vintage Northrop F-5 advertisement emphasizes an important point: fast turnaround with little infrastructure.
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Footage from a remarkable film that documents the role of Air Force combat camera photography during the Vietnam War, and is packed with brief but stunning scenes.
"United States Air Force (USAF) Combat Photography: Southeast Asia
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@USNatArchives
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This is James Drake—the program manager of the Maverick missile at Hughes—and this is the first photo of the full-scale mockup of Maverick that the USAF released. 1970
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@googlebooks
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Goodyear Radoflector.
A concept for a radar antenna that could operate after a nuclear blast.
The antenna was normally housed in a hardened shelter, with the sphere deflated. After the blast, it would pop out of the shelter »
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@internetarchive
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Bellanca Aircruiser
Two dozen Aircruisers (or "Flying Ws", for obvious reasons) were built in the 1930s. This (CF-BTW) is the last one flying, and is on display at the Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon.
📷 👁🗨 Erickson Aircraft Collection
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Color photo of the huge, prototype only, Raytheon AN/FPS-28 UHF-band long-range surveillance radar, that was designed to succeed existing Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar systems.
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Steerable onboard illuminator on loading ramp of Lockheed AC-130A Spectre gunship.
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@ARCHAEOL0GY
"Zeugma Mosaic Museum [… is] the world’s largest mosaic museum." "The museum's Hellenistic Greek and Roman mosaics are focused on Zeugma, which is said to have been founded as Seleucia […]"
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Only in Japan
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Initially "Black Crow" was a very effective at detecting trucks—and especially convoys—from considerable distances and vectoring the gunship to their vicinity.
"Lockheed AC-130A (S/N 56-0490). (U.S. Air Force photo)"
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@AFmuseum
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The ignition system of a spark-ignition engine uses an ignition coil to transform battery voltage to much higher voltage required to operate the spark plugs. The spark plugs use this burst of high-voltage electricity to ignite the air-fuel mixture.
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Watch this video to the end. It's worth it.
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@DarthPutinKGB
He risked his life while having a wife, son, and daughter.
His daughter talks about her father in an interview:
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1970s concept of defending US ICBM sites against a Soviet ICBM attack.
1) Safeguard's Spartan missile intercepts the majority of the incoming warheads, while Sprint missile defends the Safeguard radar sites.
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@googlebooks
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"This photograph would be interesting enough just for showing details of the [C-46] cargo door interior, but what is particularly fascinating is what is being loaded – the nose section of a Sikorsky R-4 helicopter. …"
📷📖 by Jeff Groves
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@USAS_WW1
@JGrunsell
@GavicWayne
@templefugate
@majestic_air
@clark_aviation
@fran962zgz
@MartinKoenigsb2
@LatinMilitaryAv
@amtrackmacon3
@AvHistoryOgre
I still find it hard to believe that the Bird of Prey could actually fly.
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"Les avions du Groupe Air France, Tome 1, 1914-1964. [Dessin de Philippe Mitschké] : [Affiche] / Philippe Mitschké"
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@GallicaBnF
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This is the Long-line Loiter concept and it has been studied as a means to pickup personnel from the ground by attaching an extraction harness to the weighted, free-end of the line (tether) at the vertex of the imaginary cone.
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@internetarchive
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An interesting Mig-23 piece of info.
It is not hydraulically actuated, but moves freely according to the pressure difference between the exhaust gas and outer air stream. You can see it being pre-flight checked on this Syrian MiG-23ML (product 23-12B) No. 2750.
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Not just "downward-firing ejection seats" but elevator seats too!
And here you can see the downward-firing ejection seats of an AVMF (Naval Aviation) Tu-22R.
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A Grumman JRF-5G Goose, loaned to the Navy by the Coast Guard, with a hydraulically-retracted Grunberg supercaptivating hydro-ski (hydrofoil) system developed by the EDO Corporation.
🎞️ 👁🗨 David Quam
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