Gate Guards and Base Displays (not museums)

[Mickey]

Great collection of pictures, Jan! I thought they were more at their place in this thread than in warbirds, as warbirds to me are still flying, not preserved.

Keep them coming

Mickey

[M.F.C]

bridgeport airport in  CT, it was given to them by the bolivian airforce i think,its due to be restored soon

[Vikingnav]

A couple more. . notice a small problem with the installation of the tail on the F-4 ?? 

Tom P.

The reason for the anhedral horizontal stab is to keep the tail from being blanked by the wing at high angles of attack (AOA).  The F-101 suffered from having it's T-tail blanked at high AOA so it was limited to approximately 10 units AOA where the Phantom was optimum at 19.2 units of AOA.

Gary
Cottage Grove, MN, USA

[Jake Gibson]

bridgeport airport in  CT, it was given to them by the bolivian airforce i think,its due to be restored soon

do you mean, taken off the stick and returned to flight statues, or just new paint?

[M.F.C]

yeah they going to give it a new paint job

[mycole]

t-39 at the ANG at Mitchell Field, Milwaukee

[Steve Rice]

Sign of things to come for gate guards - no cockpit, no glamour, and no sex appeal.

RQ-7 Shadow at Redstone Arsenal, AL.

[Sagar Pathak]

Sadly, that's not fog in the background, but rather all the haze and soot from the fires in California.

T-38 at Beale....

[F16NJ]

 The F-16, F106, and F-100 on display at the NJ ANG at Atlantic City.

J.  

[mycole]

On static display outside the Montana ANG base in Great Falls. 

Sabre as a wind sock. 


F-89 Scorpion




T-33


nose gear door art from the t-33

[Steve Rice]

On static display outside the Montana ANG base in Great Falls. 

Let's see.  They put their statics on stilts so they'll still be visible above the snow accumulation during their long winters.   Good idea.

[mycole]

Let's see.  They put their statics on stilts so they'll still be visible above the snow accumulation during their long winters.   Good idea.

I wondered why they did that!  HAHA!! 

[KevinJackson]

Nice, love the artwork on the T-33s nwd. Did you see any of their new Eagles whilst you were there?

[mycole]

Nice, love the artwork on the T-33s nwd. Did you see any of their new Eagles whilst you were there?

I saw one Eagle there and it was hard to see from my vantage point.  It was between some hangars.  Are their F-16s gone now? 

[Vikingnav]

I am glad to get to see the Great Falls airplanes posted here.  I had a few overnight trips there but we always arrived late at night and left early in the morning.

Gary
Cottage Grove, MN, USA