Re: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope

I have one important bit of advice for the new owners: Avoid change for the sake of change. I know it is tempting to leave your scent on the forums, but understand and respect the the experience and desires of the long-time members.

Re: New Members Posting For First Time

As someone who had been reading the site for what feels like forever, but only joined when the big doors opened, I think the moderating team is on the right track. This is an approach used by many other forums, with differing degrees of success. Like others, I do have a suggestion: in order to reduc...

AC-130 Laser effort struggles forward

US Special Operations Command has formally requested funding from the Defense Department for fiscal year 2018 budget to begin modifying an AC-130 gunship for a high energy laser capability -- resistance immediately met. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/afsoc-shoots-for-ac-130-laser-gunship...

Re: Flight MH370 was flown into water, says expert...

Not worth opening a new topic on this. I was reading a story in Airwise on the search for MH370. http://news.airwise.com/story/mh370-search-looking-in-the-wrong-place The director of the Dutch company leading the search, which could be called off in three months, was quoted as saying: "If it's ...

Re: AS Innagurates SEA-BNA-SEA Today Sep 23

AS739x wrote: Not going to happen my friend

Care to share your thoughts on why not?

Re: CEB sells A319's to AAY

This is yet another argument for PI-based airlines to move more flights to CRK (the old Clark Airbase) as there is plenty of capacity there and a huge benefit to not dumping passengers in the middle of Manila.

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

Spacepope wrote:

NamGunner wrote:

Here is a load crew hanging the last of the 750 pound bombs off of the wing-mounted ejection rack.

Those look like MK-82s (500 lb). The MK-117 has a completely different lesss\ streamlined shape.

D B Cooper -- FBI Gives Up

The FBI today announced that it is giving up the search for D B Cooper, the famous hijacker from the 1970's who bailed out the rear boarding ladder of a Northwest 727 somewhere over Oregon. No trace of hiw was ever found, but a tiny bit of decomposed money was found about a decade ago. My personal o...

Re: Yellow Line on C-17?

I first saw these on F-4D Phantom jets in Vietnam. They were installed in the field, not at a depot.

USAF funding possible laser weapon for the AC-130 gunship

According to the Motley Fool (yeah, I know, consider the source) the USAF is pouring $120 million into developing a laser weapon for the AC-130 gunship. http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/07/10/air-force-targets-120-million-investment-laser-gu.aspx Now, this is interesting because it is not a target...

Re: Farnborough Air Show 2016 - Boeing Orders

Love the video of the "Boeing A350" Guess they got that one to the market in a hurry!
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Yeah, I know it was a mistake, but, gotta have some fun!

Re: Janes reports: Small Glide Munition selected for AC-130J/W CAS Gunships

Even in VN, the use of caves by the bad guys was problematic. Then, we (the E-models) could act as a stable laser platform for the fast movers to use when dropping smart munitions. This development now means there is a good single-aircraft solution with minimal loiter time.

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

Thx. After all these years the brain cells that remind me of the differences between MERs and TERs have been lost. The pic I loaded of the MJ-1 bomb lift truck sure brought back some memories.

Janes reports: Small Glide Munition selected for AC-130J/W CAS Gunships

Janes reoirts: The Rapid Acquisition Cell at Eglin Air Force Base has awarded Dynetics a USD11.65 million sole-source contract to support ongoing integration, qualification, and test activities of the Small Glide Munition (SGM) for US Special Operations Forces (SOF) AC-130J Ghostrider and AC-130W Sc...

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

Here is an overhead view showing the trailered bomb racks. Two are full and about to be loaded, one is empty, havnng been removed from the bomb bay to facilitate loading the first rack/clip.

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

Here is a load crew hanging the last of the 750 pound bombs off of the wing-mounted ejection rack.

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

For those of you who have never seen a B-52 bomb drop up close and personal, here is a USAF official Photo taken alongside a B-52D during a bomb drop. It is not clear if this is a combat or test drop, but you can see the stream of 500lb bombs coming out of the bomb bay and the 750lb bombs coming off...

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

mmo wrote:

Only D F and G models were used in Vietnam. The D was the only model which had the "Big Belly" mod and the Fs were used while the Ds were modded.

Re: RE: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

Only the B-52D, with the 'Big Belly' mod could carry 80 Mk. 84s 500 lb bombs in clips in the internal bomb bay. They also carried an additional 24 bombs on the wing pylons, 12 on each side. If memory serves (and often it does not -- and I certainly don't want to start an argument or a pi**ing conte...

Re: B52 Question About Bomb Loads During Vietnam

If necessary could the B52s that flew missions over Vietnam be quickly converted back to carrying nuclear weapons or would this have a been a long complicated process? it was reasonably quick. Many birds were actually US-based nuclear deterrent birds that did six months tours flying out of Guam and...

Re: What's the biggest airport that is either all-Boeing or all-Airbus?

I'm not sure this is a valid question. Firstly, no airport controls the type or manufacturer of aircraft that use its facilities. Either the aircraft's operating parameters align with the airport or not. i.e. You cannot schedule a 747 or 380 operations onto a dirt strip. Secondly, even if by some wi...

Re: RE: Thunderbird Crashes At Usaf Academy Graduation