Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[tdm34]

roadman said:

Im sure its been here before

Handley Page K2 XL231 "Lucky Lindy" by pistonsandcogs, on Flickr

Darth Vaders Aircraft has arrived, awesome pic.

[RedLeicester]

Fantastic.

[jonny142]

C-5 Galaxy departing Fairford 4-6-14 by jonnyweb142, on Flickr

[MattyTPhotos]

We Will Remember Them by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Refill and Away at RAF East Kirkby by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Lancaster Just Jane, ready for the next mission by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Just Jane by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

All the best
Matt

[tdm34]

MattyTPhotos said:

We Will Remember Them by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Refill and Away at RAF East Kirkby by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Lancaster Just Jane, ready for the next mission by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Just Jane by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

All the best
Matt

Gorgeous pics mate,
Just Jane looks so much more authentic in a Matt/Eggshell finish, than PA474s Gloss finish

[Eric Mc]

Lovely pictures.

I didn't think that PA474 was that glossy these days.

[MattyTPhotos]

Cheers Lads, and hadn't noticed the other lanc was that Glassy, but havent seen it in over a year, so maybe my mind is playing tricks on me

[Eric Mc]

Back in the 70s and early 80s, the BBMF aircraft tended to carry quite a high gloss finish. This was purely to keep cleaning and maintenance costs down. Matt paints used to wear horrendously. You should see the state wartime Lancasters used to get into - if they lasted more than a handful of missions.

Since the 80s, paint technology has come on in leaps and bounds and now it is possible to have hard wearing and easily cleaned matt finishes on aircraft.

[perdu]

Matt those are wonderful photographs

Thanks for letting us enjoy them

[eccles]

Eric Mc said:

Since the 80s, paint technology has come on in leaps and bounds and now it is possible to have hard wearing and easily cleaned matt finishes on aircraft.

I've yet to come across a matt finish that is easily cleanable, going back to the 80's right up the aircraft I'm currently working on! I's fine when it comes out of the paint shop, and it starts going down hill from day one!

[Eric Mc]

OK, maybe not that easy to clean - but they don't wear like they used to.

Have a look at some genuine wartime Lancaster pictures to see how tired they could become - often after only a few months of operations.

[Voldemort]

Helicopter footage of a US 3 ship P51 formation for D-day commemorations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1oJhfNKGOA#t=130

[hidetheelephants]

perdu said:

The 188 was a gorgeous beast, here she is at Cosford.



crap picture though, she is so big my little flash wouldn't have filled the picture if I'd gone out away from her

Lovely; shame the engines were so guzzly she never really fulfilled her objectives, if the budget had been there to swap to something more economic(or even fit a IFR probe) the heat soak tests would have helped a lot with TSR2 and Concorde.

The Lanc pictures are great too.

[james_tigerwoods]

Not to Lloyds standard, but the best I can manage with my 55-200mm

[Collectingbrass]

And now I am 7 again



Would that this was my work, full story and photo credit here: http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Red-Arrows-set-r...

[Rouleur]

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress from the US Air Force Museum collection is being moved over the Mad River Bridge, Ohio from Patterson Field to Wright Field, 1957.

Dozens of aircraft were moved simultaneously on public roads for a towing distance of about six miles; it was accomplished on a Sunday morning to avoid high traffic.





F-82 Twin Mustang

[jimmyjimjim]

eccles said:

Blib said:

It's an awful lot of work to get a C-130 that small!

If that's the one that landed in an un-notified hole in a runway in Iraq, then once they'd pulled it out, there probably wasn't a great deal of work needed.

[h0b0]

[ceebmoj]

Saw this pic on the building Thor thread and thought it was cool.

[Ayahuasca]

ceebmoj said:

Saw this pic on the building Thor thread and thought it was cool.

Did his wife try to back it into the garage?