One for the PPRuNe detectives!
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One for the PPRuNe detectives!
I have no idea where this is or even what country it is, the photo could be backwards as it is scanned from a slide so I don't know what way round it is. No idea when it was taken either!
Any help gratefully appreciated
I have posted it on AiX as well:
Another one for the AiX detectives!!
Any help gratefully appreciated
I have posted it on AiX as well:
Another one for the AiX detectives!!
It is almost certainly a USAF Strategic Air Command base of mid to late 1950s.
If you look closely in off the taxiway that bisects the picture top to bottom there are a number of large swept wing (but not that swept) aircraft which probably are B36s. There are a few others dotted around. That fits in with the more obvious straight winged, silvery aircraft being Stratotankers (can't remember proper designation)
If you look closely in off the taxiway that bisects the picture top to bottom there are a number of large swept wing (but not that swept) aircraft which probably are B36s. There are a few others dotted around. That fits in with the more obvious straight winged, silvery aircraft being Stratotankers (can't remember proper designation)
Last edited by oncemorealoft; 13th Dec 2012 at 21:47.
Not my scene, and the resolution is disappointing (as usual), but are we looking almost head-on at about six U2s in pairs line-abreast in the fore-to-middle ground, plus a similar number a bit further away?
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I think it could be Travis AFB? Taken from the west. Staggered runways look right.
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Looking at it more closely this morning, B-36s head on and perhaps C-124s side on?
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Flew into Travis as a pax on a C-97 one December night in '67. The drive from the BOQ to the flight line to catch a C-130 the next morning was a mind blowing sight of wing tip to wing tip C-141 and C-130. Seemed like the entire US inventory. This Aussie country boy was over whelmed.
