Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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See that's how the video should end. It's not just the jump. It's not just the landing. It's what happens after that.

It's too bad the driver didn't whip out a couple of donuts. He had the momentum, but I don't think the control was there, or the horsepower.
 
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See that's how the video should end. It's not just the jump. It's not just the landing. It's what happens after that.

It's too bad the driver didn't whip out a couple of donuts. He had the momentum, but I don't think the control was there, or the horsepower.
It looked to me like he was losing a lot of fluids after the landing.
 
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Difficult to see on my phone/old eyes. The Shrike is of the same generation as the F4.

From what I can see those are mockups...or maybe captives.

It’s hard to tell because that’s an old photo, late 80’s, and even the old cameras didn’t have the best resolution.

When I started flying the G model in 1985 they were already starting to phase out the Shrike. The shrikes all have rectangular sensors on the sides of the nose. IMG_7866.jpeg

When they were making publicity photos they would load up live ordinance to make it look good. They even have CBU on they last one.

They are carrying the ALQ-184 ECM pods so that photo would have been from the 1988 - 1989 time frame out near George AFB.
 
It was always some higher AF approval for a photo shoot, I really don’t remember from were.

We carried and dropped live all the time. No one cared about that.

At one time flying live tac missiles was common place. I don't remember when it ended, but there was something about an inadvertent launch. IDK. Memory is too fuzzy.

Gunships never carried anything with blue markings.
 
Other than the photo shoots, we only carried live when we were going to drop / fire them. We had captive versions of the missiles for training.

I still remember the shit I caught for jettisoning a TER with a live hung CBU. I can only imagine what they would’ve said if I had to eject a HARM.
 
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