Krztalizer
February 3rd 04, 07:36 AM
>
>One B-52, possibly the G version. Painted green camo, foreground.
>
>Two Tu-95 Bear Bombers (Recon versions?) Ones with 4 turboprop engines and
>silver and white paint.
Looks like Bear G or Hs to me.
>
>One An-124 Transport (In back, painted white in blue trim. 4 engines.)
>
>One C-130 Hercules transport (I think it is behind the first row of planes.
>Painted green.)
KC-10 as the other poster identified.
>
>The thing with the An-124 is, if it has four engines it is the An-124. If it
>has six, it is the An-225. I think there are only a couple of those big boys
>flying around.
Twin tail on the 225, and noticeably larger than the single tailed 24 and 124.
>(When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.... and is
>massive....)
And those 124s are literally acrobatic! I watched a very low altitude demo
over the rusting junkyards of Otay Mesa at the US/Mexican border during the
1988 Brown Field airshow - the Soviet crew tossed that giant thing around to
the point that the C-5 crew literally looked shocked. I mean stunned into
disbelief. I was waiting for the unbelievable air demonstration to end in a
spectacular crash, but the Antonov smoothly carved its way around the sky like
you would expect a T-6 Texan - just amazing to see something that size doing
HUGE wingovers and 180-degree course reversals in what seemed like the distance
of its own length. I've never witnessed finer, or scarier, airmanship in
reference to a cargo aircraft..
v/r
Gordon
<====(A+C====>
USN SAR
Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a
reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.
>One B-52, possibly the G version. Painted green camo, foreground.
>
>Two Tu-95 Bear Bombers (Recon versions?) Ones with 4 turboprop engines and
>silver and white paint.
Looks like Bear G or Hs to me.
>
>One An-124 Transport (In back, painted white in blue trim. 4 engines.)
>
>One C-130 Hercules transport (I think it is behind the first row of planes.
>Painted green.)
KC-10 as the other poster identified.
>
>The thing with the An-124 is, if it has four engines it is the An-124. If it
>has six, it is the An-225. I think there are only a couple of those big boys
>flying around.
Twin tail on the 225, and noticeably larger than the single tailed 24 and 124.
>(When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.... and is
>massive....)
And those 124s are literally acrobatic! I watched a very low altitude demo
over the rusting junkyards of Otay Mesa at the US/Mexican border during the
1988 Brown Field airshow - the Soviet crew tossed that giant thing around to
the point that the C-5 crew literally looked shocked. I mean stunned into
disbelief. I was waiting for the unbelievable air demonstration to end in a
spectacular crash, but the Antonov smoothly carved its way around the sky like
you would expect a T-6 Texan - just amazing to see something that size doing
HUGE wingovers and 180-degree course reversals in what seemed like the distance
of its own length. I've never witnessed finer, or scarier, airmanship in
reference to a cargo aircraft..
v/r
Gordon
<====(A+C====>
USN SAR
Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a
reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.