Philippine Military Aircrafts

[Deadstring67]

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before we have the Blue Diamond, the Philippine Air Force Aerobatic Team.

before their retirement

F-5s

[elvandesantos]

PAF C-47



C-47 in gunship coniguration... our very own AC130 spooky gunship version. hehehe




photo are from the timawans

[rodsky]

Here is something FAR older...

The PAF Boing P-26 "Peashooter"


For the record,this is the ONLY Philippine combat airplane that has SHOT DOWN an invading enemy (Japanese G4M Betty Bombers and A6M Zeros and Ki-27 Nates) during a MAJOR world war. So, you can imagine why I admire such a simple little airplane--it's very symbolic of the Filipino fighter--small, but terrible.

We don't have any surviving ones, but I still fly them in flight sims





In one of the last pictures to leave the Philippines before Manila fell to the Japs, General Douglas MacArthur (left) is shown pinning a Distinguished Service Cross on Captain Jesus A. Villamor, PAF P-26 Pilot, of the Philippine Air Force, for heroism in the air (shooting down Japanese Zeros and Nates). In the center background is Lieutenant Jack Dale, of the U.S. Army.

-RODION

[elvandesantos]

this is one of my favorites.. i think during the time of president ramon magsaysay.











and this one to...

[elvandesantos]

Here is something FAR older...

The PAF Boing P-26 "Peashooter"


For the record,this is the ONLY Philippine combat airplane that has SHOT DOWN an invading enemy (Japanese G4M Betty Bombers and A6M Zeros and Ki-27 Nates) during a MAJOR world war. So, you can imagine why I admire such a simple little airplane--it's very symbolic of the Filipino fighter--small, but terrible.

We don't have any surviving ones, but I still fly them in flight sims





In one of the last pictures to leave the Philippines before Manila fell to the Japs, General Douglas MacArthur (left) is shown pinning a Distinguished Service Cross on Captain Jesus A. Villamor, PAF P-26 Pilot, of the Philippine Air Force, for heroism in the air (shooting down Japanese Zeros and Nates). In the center background is Lieutenant Jack Dale, of the U.S. Army.

-RODION

closely related to T34's we had before too

[rodsky]

closely related to T34's we had before too

I'm sorry but they are NOT related.

a) the T-34 Mentor is made by Beechcraft, and the P-26 is made by Boeing.

b) the Mentor is a TRAINING aircraft--it was never intended for combat (the one that LOOKS like a Mentor, but is designed for COIN ops is actually the North American T-28 Trojan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), while the P-26 while starting out as a training aircraft, was later outfitted with two .30 cal (7.62 mm) M1919 Browning machine guns and can carry one 200 lb (90 kg) bomb, in preparation for war in the Pacific theater.

-RODION

[elvandesantos]

I'm sorry but they are NOT related.

a) the T-34 Mentor is made by Beechcraft, and the P-26 is made by Boeing.

b) the Mentor is a TRAINING aircraft--it was never intended for combat (the one that LOOKS like a Mentor, but is designed for COIN ops is actually the North American T-28 Trojan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), while the P-26 while starting out as a training aircraft, was later outfitted with two .30 cal (7.62 mm) M1919 Browning machine guns and can carry one 200 lb (90 kg) bomb, in preparation for war in the Pacific theater.

-RODION

okay my bad.. abit similar lng ang form hehehe. tnx fo the correction.

[Deadstring67]

Here is something FAR older...

The PAF Boing P-26 "Peashooter"


For the record,this is the ONLY Philippine combat airplane that has SHOT DOWN an invading enemy (Japanese G4M Betty Bombers and A6M Zeros and Ki-27 Nates) during a MAJOR world war. So, you can imagine why I admire such a simple little airplane--it's very symbolic of the Filipino fighter--small, but terrible.

We don't have any surviving ones, but I still fly them in flight sims





In one of the last pictures to leave the Philippines before Manila fell to the Japs, General Douglas MacArthur (left) is shown pinning a Distinguished Service Cross on Captain Jesus A. Villamor, PAF P-26 Pilot, of the Philippine Air Force, for heroism in the air (shooting down Japanese Zeros and Nates). In the center background is Lieutenant Jack Dale, of the U.S. Army.

-RODION

naa ang akong idol nga c douglas...
na unhan jd ko post nimo ani bro. hehe.. thanks


Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila. Captain Jesus Villamor, commanding officer of the 6th Pursuit Squadron, Philippine Army Corps, is pictured getting out of plane after returning from a flight to Batangas Field.
The youth, who leads a daredevil squadron of six Filipino pilots in erstwhile training planes who took on fifty-four Japanese air raider over Batangas and shot down two,said "got so mad" he forgot to be scared.
One of the Filipino pilots was wounded and parachuted to safety and another was killed, Captain Villamor said, when seven Japanese planes "rode him down." He is the son of the late associate justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and trained as a pilot at Randolph and Kelly Fields.

[higanstolsdawen]

before their retirement

F-5s

who would have thought we had this airplane before. btw, gen. yap the former gm of mactan airport was once a member of the blue diamond.

[elvandesantos]

who would have thought we had this airplane before. btw, gen. yap the former gm of mactan airport was once a member of the blue diamond.

the f86d sabres was the most advance plane we got. sayang lng gyd.