[GeronL]

I didn’t know Air Force planes had them, I thought just navy planes did

[Rockpile]

The D model F105s had tailhooks. Later F 100s also got them and F 111 s were designed from the beginning with them.

F101/F102/F106 fighters also had hooks but I don’t know if they were added after original design or not.

Better to snag the plane on the concrete and keep them out of the over run barrier———or the trees.

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Speaking of the over run barriers, there is a really cool story about instaling one and testing it at RAF Bentwaters in the early 50s. They mounted a jet engine on a deuce and a half and picked some hapless lieutenant to drive it into the barrier at like 140 MPH.

I wonder what he did to piss off the colonel.