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More Cold Aircraft

Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:53 am

I know you folks up north gonna laugh :lol: but it's cold here in Atlanta 25 now, high 33 today, talking snow at the end of the week, now that's a reality call to someone that spent the last 10 day's at the BEACH. Thought some cold aircraft might be in order :)
Image NASA PHOTO
NASA/GRC/J. David Clinton
DESCRIPTION; NASA OV-1 Mohawk, built by Northrup Grumman, used for an icing test program by NASA.

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DESCRIPTION; A snow-covered U.S. Air Force Convair F-106A with a security police guard and puppy (guard dog trainee) at Osan Air Base, South Korea, in November 1969.


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DESCRIPTION; Right side view of a T-33 Shooting Star aircraft as ground crewmen clear the pilot for takeoff during Exercise Brim Frost '83. Location: ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, ALASKA (AK) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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DESCRIPTION; Nose of P2V 122466 2aMEN 4" showing penguin and route flown fro Pax River, MD. to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
Date 1956
Source Report of Operation DEEPFREEZE I 1955-56, U.S. Navy Task Force 43, Washington D.C..

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DESCRIPTION; Rough field operations caused difficult working conditions for 9th Air Force maintenance personnel. Here a crew prepares to use an external heater to warm a P-38’s frozen engine so it can be started while an armorer works on the guns in the nose while atop a makeshift stand. Date 1944.

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DESCRIPTION; Crewmen clear snow from the flight deck of the U.S. escort carrier USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116), during operations off the Korean coast on 14 November 1950. The aircraft on deck are Vought F4U-4B Corsair fighters of Marine fighter squadron VMF-323 Death Rattlers.
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Re: More Cold Aircraft

Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:21 pm

Neat! It was -12C (10F) here today with a windchill around -20C (-4F). Not really cold, but cold enough for those who have to work outside (ie: ME!).

Here's another 'cold' pic:
Harvard 4 20242 C-FWPK waiting for hangar space. December 20, 2008.
don't worry, she wasn't outside for the whole winter...
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