Just Passing Through: Dirty Birds from VT-27

[Old Viper Tester]

These T-28Bs were on the transient ramp at Nellis AFB in March 1981...

 

BuNo 140046

 

BuNo 137641

 

BuNo 138122

 

BuNo 138247, note the Rear Admiral's one-star flag beneath the cockpit

 

 

They certainly made a different kind of roar in the overhead pattern when you were used to A-10s, F-4s, F-15s, and F-16s!

 

Thanks for looking,

Sven

[stevehnz]

Nice photos Keith, there is nothing like good old tetra ethyl lead to put a haze along the side of the fuselage.

Steve.

[RidgeRunner]

Very nice

[Mike]

There's something about the Trojan - thanks for sharing

[Blackfordhibby]

Excellent photographs of an aircraft that i've always meant to model. Like a lot of other things I still haven't got around to it yet.

 

Peter

[bootneck]

Looking at the state of those aircraft, did they drive there??

[modelling minion]

Another great set of pictures Keith.

Those T-28's have certainly seen some use!

Would make for a great model.

[Snitok1983]

Wow! I do wanna to build the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Red Dot]

On 06/12/2017 at 5:45 PM, modelling minion said:

Another great set of pictures Keith.

Those T-28's have certainly seen some use!

Would make for a great model.

uh oh, You've set Minon off on another track. Now he will never finish his F-104!

 

Great photos by the way

 

Andy

[Eric Mc]

I hate excessive weathering

 

I visited NAS Corpus Christi in 1981 and there dozens of those sitting on the ramp. I don't remember them being as dirty as these ones.