Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

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Ginetta G15 Girl

3,220 posts

190 months

Sunday 15th August 2010
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The Jaguar was XZ118 which was at St Athan for spares/disposal in 2005.

During Operation Granby (Gulf war I) the a/c wore the nose art of the Viz comic character 'Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles':




FourWheelDrift

89,523 posts

290 months

Sunday 15th August 2010
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perdu said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Must be an ex-Omani Jaguar. It's too bling for the RAF.
not so sadly
I said Omani because it's all polished chrome-like just like the Bentley's, Mercedes and Porsches seen in the Middle East. wink I would like to have said Saudi but they never had Jags. smile

dr_gn

16,379 posts

190 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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Ginetta G15 Girl said:
The Jaguar was XZ118 which was at St Athan for spares/disposal in 2005.

During Operation Granby (Gulf war I) the a/c wore the nose art of the Viz comic character 'Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles':

So why didn't they just take the painted panel off and keep it, and replace it with a plain one?

Or did they?

EDITED to add: Nice panel line weathering reference for any modellers: they are very obviously visible there!

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 16th August 09:27

Ayahuasca

27,428 posts

285 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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dr_gn said:
Nice panel line weathering reference for any modellers: they are very obviously visible there!
I was in Peru the other day and thought of this discussion - at Lima airport there are some old C130s that have obviously been there a while and every single panel line and rivet is enhanced as if someone had marked them out in black ink. Must be a desert thing.




Tango13

8,878 posts

182 months

Tuesday 17th August 2010
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As some one mentioned the MB5 on another thread I thought I'd post these...


P51H

CA-15

MB5

All using the same engine IIRC yet designed many miles apart!

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

267 months

Tuesday 17th August 2010
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The Mustang shown had a Merlin, the other two had Griffons.

Tango13

8,878 posts

182 months

Tuesday 17th August 2010
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Dr Jekyll said:
The Mustang shown had a Merlin, the other two had Griffons.
That'll teach me to post without getting off my a**e to double check biggrin But the post was more about how they resemble each other physically

Ginetta G15 Girl

3,220 posts

190 months

Tuesday 17th August 2010
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I always liked this, the Miles M20. Built in a period of 9 weeks in 1940 to Air Ministry design specification F19/40.

Almost all wood construction, fixed spatted u/c, teardrop canopy, Merlin XX powerplant and 8x .303 Brownings, it had a performance comparable with the Spitfire Mk1a.


dr_gn

16,379 posts

190 months

Tuesday 17th August 2010
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Tango13 said:
As some one mentioned the MB5 on another thread I thought I'd post these...


P51H

CA-15

MB5

All using the same engine IIRC yet designed many miles apart!
Don't forget the Fisher Eagle:


perdu

4,884 posts

205 months

Tuesday 17th August 2010
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dr_gn said:
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
The Jaguar was XZ118 which was at St Athan for spares/disposal in 2005.

During Operation Granby (Gulf war I) the a/c wore the nose art of the Viz comic character 'Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles':

So why didn't they just take the painted panel off and keep it, and replace it with a plain one?

Or did they?

EDITED to add: Nice panel line weathering reference for any modellers: they are very obviously visible there!

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 16th August 09:27
I think the most obvious thing about the paintjobby on the Jag is the way that ALL the "patinated lines on the fuselage run down and up rather than front to back.

Looks almost like corrugated cardboard the way all the stripes go up and down (except smoother smile )

Doesn't high speed flight affect modern paints? Is it all down to REAL weather when standing around?

Well you have to wonder don't ya?

tossbag

1,590 posts

212 months

Wednesday 18th August 2010
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Mojocvh

16,837 posts

268 months

Wednesday 18th August 2010
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Vader ballon is excellent! clap

Tango13

8,878 posts

182 months

Wednesday 18th August 2010
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dr_gn said:
Tango13 said:
As some one mentioned the MB5 on another thread I thought I'd post these...


P51H

CA-15

MB5

All using the same engine IIRC yet designed many miles apart!
Don't forget the Fisher Eagle:

I imagine syncronising the four guns through the contra-rotating prop was a challenge.

chuntington101

5,733 posts

242 months

Thursday 19th August 2010
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dr_gn said:
Don't forget the Fisher Eagle:

What are the advantages to Mid engined aircraft like this?....

Chris.

dr_gn

16,379 posts

190 months

Thursday 19th August 2010
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chuntington101 said:
dr_gn said:
Don't forget the Fisher Eagle:

What are the advantages to Mid engined aircraft like this?....

Chris.
Not many apparently.

With the Bell Airacobra it was mainly to accomodate a large cannon in the nose, and I suppose it might give lower inertia for better handling. No idea what the idea was with the Eagle.

RosscoPCole

3,412 posts

180 months

Thursday 19th August 2010
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From Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport today. Just driving past and stopped on the verge when I saw the Lancaster at then end of the runway.




The rest are a bit small as everything was landing at the other end of the runway so not worth posting.

Eric Mc

122,789 posts

271 months

Thursday 19th August 2010
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That's a bit sad. There can't be too many of those around.

tossbag

1,590 posts

212 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Eric Mc said:


That's a bit sad. There can't be too many of those around.
Two I think.
That one is being restord iirc.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

267 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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tossbag said:
Eric Mc said:


That's a bit sad. There can't be too many of those around.
Two I think.
That one is being restord iirc.
What is it?

Eric Mc

122,789 posts

271 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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It's a Canadair C-4M North Star/Argonaut. Thwey were a licensed version of the Douglas DC-4/C-54. They differed from the original in being powered by Rolls Royce Merlins rather than Pratt and Whitney radials. They were also pressurised.
North Star



Argonaut




Douglas DC-4


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