Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[perdu]

Wondered where you'd got to Lloyd

some great aircraft pictures there thanks

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[iiyama]

Unfortunately I didn't take these!

Great pics Lloyd.

[Dr Jekyll]

Found on Pprune.

[Mr_B]

There's some nice pics here of crashed aircraft ( non fatal ) that have been left in the wilderness to fade.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11342934/...

[MartG]

[perdu]

power assisted suicide

so scary

[lloyd h]

Thanks guys, hopefully have a few interesting things to post this year.

[MartG]

T2B Buckeye

[Eric Mc]

That's a nice picture.

[hidetheelephants]

Dr Jekyll said:

Found on Pprune.

HP Hermes or Hastings?

[Dr Jekyll]

hidetheelephants said:

HP Hermes or Hastings?

Hastings. From a Hercules. I think the Hermes all had tricycle undercarriages.

[Eric Mc]

The production versions did. The prototypes had tailwheels - and were much closer in looks to the military Hastings.

Prototype Hermes II



Production Hermes -

Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 17th January 09:25

[MartG]

What a view out of the cabin window that would have been in flight......

[yellowjack]

MartG said:

What a view out of the cabin window that would have been in flight......

12,000hp per wing!!!

And it still only ever flew 1 mile at a maximum altitude of 70 feet

[DJFish]

Spruce Goose?

[MartG]

DJFish said:

Spruce Goose?

Yup. In danger at the moment apparently, as the museum where it is housed is bankrupt

[tight5]

yellowjack said:

12,000hp per wing!!!

29600shp per wing .

[FourWheelDrift]

What's that BBC thing on the tail, are they advertising with the Russian now?

[Eric Mc]

FourWheelDrift said:

What's that BBC thing on the tail, are they advertising with the Russian now?

BBC in Cyrillic translates into VVS in Roman letters - which spells "Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily".

[MartG]

Whoops - someone forgot the trestles to support the tail.....



617 Sqn Tornado GR4