Forum: Modern Military Aircraft

I saw a picture of an A-10 that had a bicycle painted on the side next to a couple armored vehicles and radar dishes from Desert Storm. Any others out there?

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Here's one of a Canadian Hornet with kill markings for broken refueling probes Very Happy

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parrothead wrote:

Here's one of a Canadian Hornet with kill markings for broken refueling probes Very Happy

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That's a good one! I'm sure the pilot is quite proud.

There's a picture of an A-26 Invader in my house with a tripod camera kill marking on the side. Don't ask me where it came from.

It was probably just used in making a movie Wink

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I'll have to take a picture, but the F-16C I work has 1 LGB and 2 drop tanks painted on from the last visit to Balad last February. Actually, if you looked at the Balad report threads, there's a picture of the pilot who dropped the wing tanks (father and son in the Red Tail Flyer). I believe he mistook radio or radar signals from Balad to be an incoming threat radar, panicked, and punched the tanks into a lake after take off. Smile

I wish I could find a picture of an F-4E we used to have (sold to Turkey 1991). It had a C-130 on the veri ramp. This F-4 was at Red Flag and was (simulated) shot down by an AC-130 while goofing off. As a joke a C-130 was painted on the F-4.

This aint no BS, an EC-121 @ Korat, 3 F-4's WITHOUT vertical stabs. Right wing on the Connie took 'em off in the arm / de-arm area.

LWF wrote:

There's a picture of an A-26 Invader in my house with a tripod camera kill marking on the side. Don't ask me where it came from.

We jokingly painted a Camera Tripod and a guard shack on the side of one of our FB-111s during a TDY to RAF Waddington in '86. There was a camera crew filming the excercise and when one of our jets ran up to taxi and turned, the blast completely wiped out the camera and crew and a guard shack. Some scrapes and such on the crew, but pretty funny overall.

I've got pictures of a KC-135 with F-15 kill markings Smile

I know the story of how they got them aswell Smile

Andy

This was not a "kill" marking, but at Dyess we had a B-52H that had painted on the crew entry ladder "Warning aircraft flys nose heavy over corn fields!"

boff180 wrote:

I've got pictures of a KC-135 with F-15 kill markings

When I was going through school at Altus, I knew a kid going through Boom School at the same time out there who earned the nickname "Eagle Killer".

This was because, during a particularly bad sim for the guy, he bounced the boom off of the F-15 about 6 times, including a couple of shots off of the canopy.

We had heard about it before he came back from debrief, so later, when he walked into Val's Bar for Beer Call, I announced, quite publicly, "Do we need to put some hair around that hole for you to find it?"

TC wrote:

When I was going through school at Altus, I knew a kid going through Boom School at the same time out there who earned the nickname "Eagle Killer".

This was because, during a particularly bad sim for the guy, he bounced the boom off of the F-15 about 6 times, including a couple of shots off of the canopy.

We had heard about it before he came back from debrief, so later, when he walked into Val's Bar for Beer Call, I announced, quite publicly, "Do we need to put some hair around that hole for you to find it?"

Scorpion1alpha wrote:

TC wrote:

When I was going through school at Altus, I knew a kid going through Boom School at the same time out there who earned the nickname "Eagle Killer".

This was because, during a particularly bad sim for the guy, he bounced the boom off of the F-15 about 6 times, including a couple of shots off of the canopy.

We had heard about it before he came back from debrief, so later, when he walked into Val's Bar for Beer Call, I announced, quite publicly, "Do we need to put some hair around that hole for you to find it?"

I don't get it.

TC wrote:

boff180 wrote:

I've got pictures of a KC-135 with F-15 kill markings

When I was going through school at Altus, I knew a kid going through Boom School at the same time out there who earned the nickname "Eagle Killer".

This was because, during a particularly bad sim for the guy, he bounced the boom off of the F-15 about 6 times, including a couple of shots off of the canopy.

We had heard about it before he came back from debrief, so later, when he walked into Val's Bar for Beer Call, I announced, quite publicly, "Do we need to put some hair around that hole for you to find it?"

Thats a classic!

These kill markings came from an exercise; the 135 was filling a pair of 15's when their RWR spiked up that there were Red-Air assets closing on them. They got on the comms of the 135 and they hid in the radar shadow (is that what you call it) of the 135 until the Red-Air F-15's passed; they then broke cover and took them out with Sparrow kills. They attributed the kills to the 135 crew to say thankyou.
Source: The Pilot of the 135!

Andy

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When I was going through school at Altus, I knew a kid going through Boom School at the same time out there who earned the nickname "Eagle Killer".

This was because, during a particularly bad sim for the guy, he bounced the boom off of the F-15 about 6 times, including a couple of shots off of the canopy.

We had heard about it before he came back from debrief, so later, when he walked into Val's Bar for Beer Call, I announced, quite publicly, "Do we need to put some hair around that hole for you to find it?"

Forum: Modern Military Aircraft

Funny "kill" marks seen on the side of aircraft.