Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)

[Eric Mc]

I hope you pointed out to her that it wasn't, in fact, a V1 but more likely a Ford Loon.

Edited by Eric Mc on Tuesday 7th July 07:26

[Hammerwerfer]

Funny how the Yanks knock the Japs for their copycat engineering. The yellow one was indeed a knockoff.

[anonymous-user]

Blib said:

HereBeMonsters said:

I hope I don't have stupid kids.

She's just about to start her degree at University College London.

[Eric Mc]

el stovey said:

Blib said:

HereBeMonsters said:

I hope I don't have stupid kids.

She's just about to start her degree at University College London.

I take it that it's not in aeronautical engineering.

[Blib]

Eric Mc said:

el stovey said:

Blib said:

HereBeMonsters said:

I hope I don't have stupid kids.

She's just about to start her degree at University College London.

I take it that it's not in aeronautical engineering.

[spitfire-ian]

Hammerwerfer said:

No photographs, but just a heads up to those of you who may be traveling to the USA: By all means visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museums, both at Dulles and the Mall.

Absolutely fantastic.

Indeed, they have the original Wright Flyer there. A fact I didn't realise at the time so walked straight past it thinking it was a replica!

[lemz]

Some photos from the last week.

[tmk2]

lemz said:

The Typhoon is a stunning aircraft

[D-Angle]

lemz said:

What are the markings on that Typhoon?

[perdu]

The Smithsonian MUST be amazing

Even good old Cosford sometimes makes me catch my breath when I wander round it.

[dougc]

D-Angle said:

lemz said:

What are the markings on that Typhoon?

3 Squadron RAF

[AstonZagato]

lemz said:

I was lucky enough to win a flight in the back seat of the Breitling Fighters. Awesome. Didn't vom either...

[D-Angle]

dougc said:

D-Angle said:

lemz said:

What are the markings on that Typhoon?

3 Squadron RAF

Aahh right. The green and yellow markings on the roundel made me think it was from some foreign air force.

[Blib]

AstonZagato said:

lemz said:

I was lucky enough to win a flight in the back seat of the Breitling Fighters. Awesome. Didn't vom either...

Ooh! Did you get to fly in formation? How close together do they fly? Did you scream like a girl?

[AstonZagato]

Blib said:

AstonZagato said:

lemz said:

I was lucky enough to win a flight in the back seat of the Breitling Fighters. Awesome. Didn't vom either...

Ooh! Did you get to fly in formation? How close together do they fly? Did you scream like a girl?

Yes, flew in formation - it was a training flight, so we did lots of formation manoeuvres. They fly very close - it felt like you could have jumped the gap from one wing to another - I'd have put the gap at less than 6ft.

Didn't scream like a girl (honest) - it feels much like a giant roller-coaster but with more G. I didn't get to wear a G suit but the pilot does (and I felt rather envious as the mechanism pumped away and I was feeling a decided lack of blood to the brain). I can't remember what G we hit - 4 or 5 I think.

Nice bunch of guys too - we went for lunch afterwards.

[Blib]

AstonZagato said:

Nice bunch of guys too - we went for lunch afterwards.

Do they queue for lunch in formation too?

[rhinochopig]

Blib said:

AstonZagato said:

Nice bunch of guys too - we went for lunch afterwards.

Do they queue for lunch in formation too?

You should see them standing at the urinals. "Stream on" "Stream off"

[Jonny671]

rhinochopig said:

Blib said:

AstonZagato said:

Nice bunch of guys too - we went for lunch afterwards.

Do they queue for lunch in formation too?

You should see them standing at the urinals. "Stream on" "Stream off"

[erolb]

Was one of the reasons it didn't fly due to the fact that the propeller shaft would have had to run through the cockpit? How would they have got around that?

dr_gn said:

A favourite of mine (even though it never flew!) The Bugatti 100P:





More here:

http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/plane.htm

Cheers,

[Eric Mc]

I presume it went under the cockpit floor somehow. That's what happened with the similarly configured Bell P-39 and P-63.

I think the real reason it didn't fly is that WW2 intervened.