Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[TR4man]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I've just seen it on FB - what a picture!

[blueg33]

Looks like something from Star Wars

[Eric Mc]

I bet that's Lefty Gardner.

I think that P-38 is the one now operated in Red Bull colours in Europe.

[MartG]

[MartG]

A pretty impressive static display lineup

[Eric Mc]

1965?

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

1965?

Probably around then, yes. Carswell AFB apparently

[Eric Mc]

I think I can see the prototype F-111 in the line up.

[JeremyH5]

Next to the B-58 Hustler? Agreed, it does look rather like an F-111.

[MartG]

JeremyH5 said:

Next to the B-58 Hustler? Agreed, it does look rather like an F-111.

Yes, an early one in light grey

[MartG]

A couple of nice ones courtesy of RAF Photographer SAC Chris Ellis

[perdu]

Lovely

Isn't that just about half of David Cameron's Air Force?


Or half the British Wing of the European Union Air Force when he's finished with us


Seriously though, nice pictures thanks for showing them to us

[MartG]

Nene Meteor

[hidetheelephants]

It looks rather cartoonish, like someone's bodged a set of Canberra engines onto a Meteor airfix kit.

[Collectingbrass]

A couple of the Red Arrows over Heathrow taken last year from their twitter stream today



Both are MOD Copyright courtesy of one of the squadron's engineers

[Ayahuasca]

MartG said:

A couple of nice ones courtesy of RAF Photographer SAC Chris Ellis

Interesting that the grey paint is I assume meant to be low-viz, but the grey painted a/c show much sharper detail than the Battle of Britain camouflaged one.

As these are supposed to operate BVR in fighter mode(so camo doesn't matter), or low down in bomber mode (so earthy camo might be better), can they all be painted to look like Spitfires please??

[Dr Jekyll]

Ayahuasca said:

Interesting that the grey paint is I assume meant to be low-viz, but the grey painted a/c show much sharper detail than the Battle of Britain camouflaged one.

As these are supposed to operate BVR in fighter mode(so camo doesn't matter), or low down in bomber mode (so earthy camo might be better), can they all be painted to look like Spitfires please??

At a distance it would be the other way round, a dot in the sky is harder to see if it's a lighter colour.

[lloyd h]

Sjöfartsverkets Winch Operator And Swedish Navy Submarine by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

Swedish Maritime Administration/Sjöfartsverkets AW139 by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

Swedish Maritime Administration/Sjöfartsverkets AW139 by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

56th RQS HH-60G Pavehawk's by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

56th RQS HH-60G Pavehawk by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

You can see the spent brass from the .50 cal falling away on this one
56th RQS HH-60G Pavehawk by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

[Z06George]

Nice shots of the U/MH-60s. With regards to the grey paint IIRC it's to do with weight saving, hence why everything USAAF/USN is grey.

[MartG]

Interesting Trislander