Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)

[Eric Mc]

Sounds like a B1 to me.

[moleamol]

Good point, it's the square output that threw me. I suppose the B1 could look sort of stealthy when the wings are swept back, but do any of them have a square nozzle?

ETA: I guess he could just have the in and out confused.

Edited by moleamol on Sunday 25th November 18:18

[Eric Mc]

I can't think of any aircraft that have square shaped jet exhausts. The F-117's are vaguely rectangular but the F-117 has no afterburners.

[anonymous-user]

Burner shot of a B1 at RIAT 06. Engines intakes are squarish.

There was some stealthy features included in the B1B (that were not on the original B1A), such as revised engine intakes.

[moleamol]

F22 would look squarish with the burners on. Too small though and there are only 2. My money is on it being a B1 and him confusing the intake with the exhaust.

[K13 WJD]

Right, you've hit the nail with it being a B1......it trigered my memory.....boeing rockwell b1-b....right?????

it was a us air force flyby, with the others being F-16A.....they came past at low speed......maybe 1500 feet.....before doing a hard climb, on the burners, then coming past at 90 degrees......must have been just shy of mach 1.

it was sensational......but the output of the afterburners was defo sqaure...and there was defo 4 of them....i even phoned my dad to clarify this..........

i did take photo's.....but im sure it'll be on the net somewhere....

[HSVGTSCoupe]

Some awesome pix guys; well done to all!

Now I'll throw in a couple of my faves...
Firstly, being an Aussie & an ex-RAAF officer I'll have to add a few from downunder...
FA-18 & F111C snapped over the graveyard for many a pom cricket team




RAAF 77SQN flypast with the "old & new"...


ARDU Mirage (referred to by the Sqn as "the fanta can" due to the ugly test livery) doing a low level "pop up" during weapons tests late 80's...


Other faves I snapped at Red Bull Budapest last couple of years..









(full album is here if you're faced with a boring Sunday night!)

Mr Red Bull's classic DC-6 nice & LOW!

And to end on a more sombre but spectacular note with the coolest plane ever made but in pix that are only spectacular in a tragic & morbid sense...
(from Oshkosh this year during a P-51 pairs landing that went bad - esp for num 2 - RIP)

Edited by HSVGTSCoupe on Sunday 25th November 19:04

[bumblebee]

First two shots taken whilst working, the rest whilst playing (2007 Chipmeet).

[K13 WJD]

[jimmyjimjim]

anonymous said:

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The design itself was moderately stealthy...compared to a B-52. Actually a bit crap overall, seeing as the stealth fighter was coming along at the same time.

The inlets however, were a cost cutting measure over the B1A, fitted in order to reduce costs sufficently to get congess' approval - the originals were variable geometry and allowed a much higher mach number than the fixed intakes on the B1B.

[anonymous-user]

I read somewhere, years ago that the ramp & intake was redesigned to reduce radar cross section.

Not sure how true this is though.

[K13 WJD]

i just thought it was cool....i get regualar flyby's at warcop/the shap.....normally tornado's, although last week, i saw a typhoon being chased by, what i am 95% sure, was 2 mig floggers.....could have been wrong, but they sure looked like it......

[Eric Mc]

Who is using MiG 23s at the moment - the Indians?

[K13 WJD]

i wondered....but im sure thats what my eyes saw...



anyway....the coolest plane in the world....is mine.

[Nic Jones]

HSVGTSCoupe said:

And to end on a more sombre but spectacular note with the coolest plane ever made but in pix that are only spectacular in a tragic & morbid sense...
(from Oshkosh this year during a P-51 pairs landing that went bad - esp for num 2 - RIP)

Edited by HSVGTSCoupe on Sunday 25th November 19:04

The sequence didn't stop there did it? I've seen the rest of the photos very nasty.
Always a risk in formation flying I guess.

[tank slapper]

Eric Mc said:

Who is using MiG 23s at the moment - the Indians?

From another website I got this list:

Russian AirForce
Afghanistan
Algeria
Angola
Belarus
Bulgaria
Cuba
CzechRepublic
Germany
Ethiopia
Hungary
India
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Libya
NorthKorea
Poland
Romania
SouthYemen
Sudan
Syria
Ukraine
Vietnam

I don't know how many of these still operate it, but I know most of the ex Warsaw Pact countries either already have or are going to be retiring it soon.

[MikeDov]

A few that I have gathered






And a few from work



And an old JT9 smoker from a good few years back

[mybrainhurts]

Famous Graham said:

mybrainhurts said:

Famous Graham said:

mybrainhurts said:

That one's a fake, as I recall. The B1B would never had got down that low after those mountains.

Yes, 'tis a painting....if you trawl back up this thread you'll find other paintings, too.

So there...

Paintings which were either representations of photographs or imaginings of real scenarios. That one is neither. My point is, that one is unrealistic, therefore somewhat misplaced.

It flew through a tunnel, right...?

Consider yourself slapped........

[HSVGTSCoupe]

Nic Jones said:

The sequence didn't stop there did it? I've seen the rest of the photos very nasty.
Always a risk in formation flying I guess.

correctomundo... were about 8 pix in total; ends in flames sadly but these four were enough to get the gist for those who aint seen em. side-on vid is on youtube although not as clear as these stills.

always a bit "iffy" doing a pairs landing in a tail dragger... all you really see when you flare is a whole lot of engine! Would of thought they would have divided the runway line more though; go-round always has to be available. easy to judge from an armchair I guess

[D-Angle]

Eric Mc said:

Who is using MiG 23s at the moment - the Indians?

According to Wiki they had 20 but withdrew them from service last March. They are still using the 21 which they are currently upgrading, and plan to keep using them until 2015.

I've always been a bigger fan of the MiG 25 myself - a proper cold war bruiser and the victor in the first UAV vs piloted warplane dogfight in history.