BAD ASS Military PICS (No gore please)

[Denny]

That is weird. What is your shutter speed?

[ZYouL8R]

Definitely not as cool as most in this thread, but I took these last weekend. The prop does weird shit with my phone's camera.

[RWhite]

anyone have any photos from the old Dallas NAS?

These pics bring back old memories of the start of my engineering career. In the late 60's , when I worked for LTV Electrosystems in Garland, we occasionally would fly on the company mail plane (a twin engine Aero Commander) to get to the Grand Prairie LTV plant (or LTV Greenville plant or Carswell AFB). Back in those days, the Grand Prairie plant was busily making the A-7 Corsair II for the Navy.

As a young 23 year old engineer just starting my professional career in 1967, I would usually be picked to fly in the mail plane from the Garland plant (now Raytheon and, yes, there was a runway just off Jupiter Road we took off from !) to carry various hardware and other stuff to the GP plant (inter-plant mail, computer tapes or original artwork of antenna designs). We used the plants HUGE numerically controlled drafting tables to help in our design layouts. While I would wait for the slow computers to do their stuff, I would go outside the room and walk over to the assembly line. Quite a view, while not as big as the then General Dynamics AFP 4, it was still impressive to see the planes start out as a bunch of parts at one end and end up as a plane at the other end of the building.

We rode a company bus to get from the Dallas NAS flight line to the main LTV building. When we left, if we were lucky, as we traveled by the jet engine stands, they would be testing the A-7's engines. What a noise and we did not have ear plugs. It rattled our innards!

On watching the jets do touch and go at Dallas NAS, I do remember being able to sit on an elevated railroad track just north of the runway and watch the jets go overhead when they landed to the south. What a thrill……! On occasion, the pilots would wave at us fool hardy people only feet from them! BTW, that is when I saw the then very active Yellow Belly Dragstrip. Never went to it and kind of glad I never did!

Thanks for letting me relate some memories. I have a bunch more related to military hardware I was involved with working for over 40 years here in the Dallas area!

[cobrajet69]

Outstanding thread!

Couple vids I took (cheesy iPhone) of a MIG 23-FLogger out at Lancaster A/P.







And a MI-24 HIND firing up.





David

[pHILSANITY07]

Yes, my plane. Same as the one above.

okay, took a while for me put two and two together. thats cool

[helosailor]

Couple of pics taken of an in-flight emergency that were caught by one of the photographers that takes pics from the fence line...





I'm in the last pic lifting the tail hook.

Cool action sequence. I worked arresting gear/salvage at NAS Pensacola. Unfortunately, we stayed relatively busy.

[DieselSmoke]

hey DieselSmoke, we're you the one that posted the damage to the longeron from shrapnel damage in afganistan?

Yes, my plane. Same as the one above.

[ffRich54]

Couple of pics taken of an in-flight emergency that were caught by one of the photographers that takes pics from the fence line...





I'm in the last pic lifting the tail hook.

[pHILSANITY07]

These train tracks?

yes sir, i cant remember how old I was, like maybe 5-8 but when my mom and my dad divorced his apartment was somewhat near that. So if it was a slow day on the weekend or even in the week and we saw anything going on we would go watch. I can remember when i was a kid in south grand prairie i was outside with my friends and we saw like two squadrons fly over our house. Can remember what plans they we're.

[cbrjames]

thanks man, I miss that base when it was open. me and my dad would park hear the railroad tracks and watch the Tomcats land when I was a kid in the 90's. What did they have there?

These train tracks?

[pHILSANITY07]

hey DieselSmoke, we're you the one that posted the damage to the longeron from shrapnel damage in afganistan?

[pHILSANITY07]

Ask and you shall receive:

thanks man, I miss that base when it was open. me and my dad would park hear the railroad tracks and watch the Tomcats land when I was a kid in the 90's. What did they have there?

[Mark04]

Tomcat afterburner launch during the first Gulf War (I'm the one closest to the jet).

[motoman]

Those are badass pics.

[cbrjames]

anyone have any photos from the old Dallas NAS?

Ask and you shall receive: