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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:06:31 PM EDT
Not a combat aircraft or multi engined transport.
For me, it's gotta be the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch. It just looks cool. Has a pretty good service history as well.  |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:08:14 PM EDT
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OV-10.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:08:20 PM EDT
[#2]
SR-71.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:09:28 PM EDT
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AC-130, because nothing says fuck you quite like it.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:13:09 PM EDT
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OV-10. Verily, I say thee yea! The Filipinos are still using them to send various Hajji troublemakers to Hell.  I also can't wait to get the chance to jump one.
ETA: You'll notice about a ton of Mk82 hate and discontent dispensers beneath the sponsons  :
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:13:28 PM EDT
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O-1.
ETA: If I was allowed to vote for a rotary wing, it'd be a LOACH. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:15:58 PM EDT
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Partial to the OV-1 Mohawk...
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:16:52 PM EDT
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FW 189 " flying eye" was pretty cool.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:18:45 PM EDT
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Not in the categories you mentioned, but I guess this shows my age - I will always lovingly adore the F-14 as a bad ass American icon of air superiority. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:18:53 PM EDT
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edit can't read, delete
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:19:13 PM EDT
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Verily, I say thee yea! The Filipinos are still using them to send various Hajji troublemakers to Hell. I also can't wait to get the chance to jump one.
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OV-10. Verily, I say thee yea! The Filipinos are still using them to send various Hajji troublemakers to Hell. I also can't wait to get the chance to jump one.
Technically, it's a jump. Realistically, the pilot goes nose-up, the first guy at the rear releases the safety strap, and then all five jumpers are overcome by gravity and fall out. 
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:22:43 PM EDT
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I do like a Storch or a Wilga. I'm trying to track down a L-2 for a fit check, I think I'm going to buy one if the legroom and headroom work for me. I found one that is local today but I haven't contacted the owner.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:25:31 PM EDT
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SR-71. That's a strategic reconnaissance aircraft, not observation. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:25:53 PM EDT
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SR-71. This 
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:35:36 PM EDT
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I've always liked the storch too, but this one is another of my favorites:
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:37:07 PM EDT
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Nice, neat, and cool beans. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Partial to the OV-1 Mohawk... |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:37:45 PM EDT
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OV-10. This or its Grumman Forbear the OV-1 |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:40:24 PM EDT
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Westland Lysander was cool.
Looked neat in the camo top/black underside scheme too. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:41:56 PM EDT
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I'm partial to the Westland Lysander: low flying, night flying, spy dropping FTW ragwing! It was good enough for Rudolph Hess, it's good enough for me.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:42:21 PM EDT
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I've always liked the storch too, but this one is another of my favorites: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Cessna_Skymaster_O-2_3.jpg The O2 Birddog, the Bronco, and the Sandy are my favorite prop planes |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:44:14 PM EDT
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This one:
In all seriousness, the OV-10 gets my vote. 
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:46:42 PM EDT
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SR-71. /thread |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:54:32 PM EDT
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 http://www.airpowerworld.info/bombers/boeing-b-52-stratofortress.jpg
Spent my AF career in one of these, Navigator-Bombardier |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:55:11 PM EDT
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SAAB Safari Its predecessor, Malmö MFI-9, was used by Carl Gustaf von Rosen's mercenary airforce in Biafra: "Von Rosen had the planes painted in camouflage colours and fitted with rockets from Matra, and proceeded with a band of friends to form a squadron called Biafra Babies to strike at the airfields from which the federal Nigerian Air Force launched their attacks against the civilian population in Biafra. On May 22, 1969, and over the next few days, Von Rosen and his five aircraft launched attacks against Nigerian airfields at Port Harcourt, Enugu, Benin and other small airports. The Nigerians were taken by surprise and a number of expensive jets, including a few MiG-17 fighters and three out of Nigeria's six Ilyushin Il-28 bombers, were destroyed on the ground.[2]" |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 8:58:48 PM EDT
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I've always liked the storch too, but this one is another of my favorites: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Cessna_Skymaster_O-2_3.jpg Pretty damned noisy for a small twin engine. You can hear them from pretty far away. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:02:50 PM EDT
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C-12R Not sexy, but helped catch a lot of bad guys.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:06:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: /thread Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: SR-71. /thread Recon is not observation. Two different missions. As noted above. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:07:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: http://www.airpowerworld.info/bombers/boeing-b-52-stratofortress.jpghttp://www.airpowerworld.info/bombers/boeing-b-52-stratofortress.jpg Spent my AF career in one of these, Navigator-Bombardier That would be a combat aircraft.  |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:09:00 PM EDT
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Recon is not observation. Two different missions. As noted above. Well there goes my answer too. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:09:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've always liked the storch too, but this one is another of my favorites: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Cessna_Skymaster_O-2_3.jpg   |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:11:07 PM EDT
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No love for the L5 in this thread. Surprising.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:12:05 PM EDT
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C-12R Not sexy, but helped catch a lot of bad guys. http://ep.yimg.com/ay/rickbroomeonlinestore/odin-cr-12-baghdad-pre-publication-ordering-8.jpg MC-12W FTW! |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:12:51 PM EDT
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Blohm & Voss BV 141
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:13:44 PM EDT
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350 hours flying the O-2A
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:14:03 PM EDT
[#34]
OV-10 hands down. The observation role has been replaced by drones; but put a gun package in the cargo bay of an OV - 10 and now the attack helicopters have a formidable competitor.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:23:08 PM EDT
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I have to say the L-4 Grasshopper. My grandfather flew one as an artillery observer in CBI. I have a lot of his stuff including a prop he mailed home and a shell casing from a Jap artillery battery he helped destroy (as the story goes but its worth what it cost ya'
 ). He is the guy in the upper left in the pic.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:31:03 PM EDT
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Taken at an airshow in the late 70's. Pilot took off across the runway after pointing it into the wind, going full power and releasing the brakes.
He also got out run by a gal on a paint pony in a 100 yard dash from takeoff. 
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:32:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Taken at an airshow in the late 70's. Pilot took off across the runway after pointing it into the wind, going full power and releasing the brakes. https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10376262_788082437898840_4539980262747223476_n.jpg?oh=2e69563ed669a037684ced24608ab247&oe=553D6D35&__gda__=1430365581_dc63ec869076b0931d26f7f6678f9b03 He also got out run by a gal on a paint pony in a 100 yard dash from takeoff. Awesome! Thanks for sharing. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:38:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Nice, neat, and cool beans. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Nice, neat, and cool beans. Quoted:
Partial to the OV-1 Mohawk... http://planesoffame.org/uploads/images/Collection_Images/OV-1_event_post.jpg Those were built a few miles from me. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:49:54 PM EDT
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I've always been fond of the Guardrail
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Posted: 12/20/2014 9:51:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhy not a Reaper while you're at it? 
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:00:43 PM EDT
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O-1. http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t457/dead-drop/O1WithHill_zps06a666aa.jpg ETA: If I was allowed to vote for a rotary wing, it'd be a LOACH. The local shop at the airport builds these. They get crates of them in poor shape that have New Zealand markings then refurbish them. They used to do stearmans but got out of that business. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:04:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryCentra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:24:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Centra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" Quote HistoryQuoted:
Centra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" That's just creepy.... I like it |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:27:32 PM EDT
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OP and FP nailed the shit out of it!
Two of my favorites.
However I did get to go to Oshkosh (twice) in an O-2.
Got to fly it most of the way back, too.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:39:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/MFI-17_Supporter%2C_Radom_Air_Show_2007.jpg/1280px-MFI-17_Supporter%2C_Radom_Air_Show_2007.jpg SAAB Safari Its predecessor, Malmö MFI-9, was used by Carl Gustaf von Rosen's mercenary airforce in Biafra: "Von Rosen had the planes painted in camouflage colours and fitted with rockets from Matra, and proceeded with a band of friends to form a squadron called Biafra Babies to strike at the airfields from which the federal Nigerian Air Force launched their attacks against the civilian population in Biafra. On May 22, 1969, and over the next few days, Von Rosen and his five aircraft launched attacks against Nigerian airfields at Port Harcourt, Enugu, Benin and other small airports. The Nigerians were taken by surprise and a number of expensive jets, including a few MiG-17 fighters and three out of Nigeria's six Ilyushin Il-28 bombers, were destroyed on the ground.[2]" Those are good airplanes, but they should have been wider and a tad longer in the cockpit for full size pilots. Bjorn Andreasson was an excellent world class airplane designer and engineer. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:42:43 PM EDT
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That's just creepy.... I like it Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Centra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" That's just creepy.... I like it I saw one parked at Stennis this past summer. Reminded me of a CVE Troopers Crown Vic- nine thousand antennae on the trunk.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:55:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Centra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" Quote HistoryQuoted:
Centra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" Awesome. I remember when it was just FOG. But I've never been anywhere and I've never done anything. |
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Posted: 12/20/2014 10:58:07 PM EDT
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FPNI... Although the O-1 has a special place in my heart as well.
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Posted: 12/20/2014 11:03:12 PM EDT
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Awesome. I remember when it was just FOG. But I've never been anywhere and I've never done anything. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Centra Spike, anyone?
I think their callsign now is "Cemetery Wind" Awesome. I remember when it was just FOG. But I've never been anywhere and I've never done anything. I'm not even .mil, I'm a filthy civvi pilot
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Posted: 12/20/2014 11:07:25 PM EDT
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Ryan Fucking Navion.
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