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Another aircraft I have a special place for. I actually have 1.1 hours of F100F time in one my log books.

http://www.navyair.com/Videos/TheHunRememberedMovie.wmv

OC

Great tribute to a real workhorse of a bird. They had them at Buckley ANG before I'd gotten there. They then went to the A-7D, and then the F-16. They still have a couple of F-100's on static display there.

Thanks Chief.

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About 2:54, they show some with a few other planes. Are the cargo planes in the back C-27s, or something else?

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Those are C-123 Providers built by Fairchild. Big in the early days of VN and like the C-130, could land just about anywhere and carry a farely good load.

Thanks again Chief for this video link. I passed it on to a friend here at work. Just so happens he's a former AF Pilot. His first fighter was the F100. He asked me to pass on his thanks to you as well. It brought back some great memories for him.

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Didn't almost every one of those ever built get shot down?

Sure did Snipe. Like the 102, the 106 and a lot of F-4's, they turned them into drones.

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I was actually thinking of the F-105 fleet which was utterly wiped out almost to the last plane over the skies of Vietnam.

The F-100 had nowhere near the same loss rate afaik.

The Hun actually flew more combat sorties than any other jet in the inventory during Vietnam. I wish I had it to scan, but I sent Dice a cool pic of one of our Huns in formation with one of our new A-10's back in '79 or '80. That was back when we were cool. Now we suck.

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