Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

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Ayahuasca

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Friday 1st May 2015
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james_tigerwoods

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Friday 1st May 2015
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We need more lightning photos - can't get too many of those smile

Not like this though:

_DSC1490 by James (JTW), on Flickr

_DSC1489 by James (JTW), on Flickr

MartG

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203 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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OK.....

Gun testing


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MartG

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EskimoArapaho

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134 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Not embeddable here, but an amazingly cool picture indeed: an interactive EE Lightning cockpit with mouseover info: https://www.haraldjoergens.com/panoramas/lightning...

(If you haven't seen it before, it's definitely worth clicking.)

tight5

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158 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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james_tigerwoods said:
We need more lightning photos - can't get too many of those smile


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yellowjack

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165 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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MartG said:
A few more from Kate



Ooh!

Is that a 'Frog' I see before me?

macp

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182 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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tight5 said:


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Is it just me or does that look photoshopped ?

MartG

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Saturday 2nd May 2015
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macp said:
tight5 said:


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Is it just me or does that look photoshopped ?
Famous pic - the photographer was doing a promo shoot for the tractor manufacturer when the Lightning crashed

Eric Mc

121,775 posts

264 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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The picture is well known but this version - when I first saw it - looked photoshopped in the sense that it is much clearer than the older versions I had seen previously. However, it's more likely that this version is from an original negative rather than a copy.

bencollins

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Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Ayahuasca said:
Nahiiice smile

Dr Jekyll

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260 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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tight5 said:
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=56567

macp

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182 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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MartG said:
macp said:
tight5 said:


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Is it just me or does that look photoshopped ?
Famous pic - the photographer was doing a promo shoot for the tractor manufacturer when the Lightning crashed
Thanks thats incredible had not seen this pic before.Lightning is one of my favourite aircraft.

macp

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182 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Dr Jekyll said:
tight5 said:
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=56567
Thanks again

This aircraft is one the featured in the famous (and much syndicated) photograph of the pilot’s ejection watched by a tractor driver (see below). According to some sources, including the tractor driver who appears in the picture, the photographer was paid £1,000 (equal to £18,607 at 2012 prices) by The "Daily Mirror" for the photograph.

Tango13

8,395 posts

175 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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tight5 said:
james_tigerwoods said:
We need more lightning photos - can't get too many of those smile


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IIRC That photo was taken a few miles down the road from where i'm sitting right now smile

24lemons

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184 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Tango13 said:
IIRC That photo was taken a few miles down the road from where i'm sitting right now smile
Wasn't it at Hatfield? If so it wasn't far from my uni campus from 2005.

Ayahuasca

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Saturday 2nd May 2015
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24lemons said:
Tango13 said:
IIRC That photo was taken a few miles down the road from where i'm sitting right now smile
Wasn't it at Hatfield? If so it wasn't far from my uni campus from 2005.
There was a thread on it some time ago and we narrowed down almost to the precise impact point.

Tango13

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175 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Ayahuasca said:
24lemons said:
Tango13 said:
IIRC That photo was taken a few miles down the road from where i'm sitting right now smile
Wasn't it at Hatfield? If so it wasn't far from my uni campus from 2005.
There was a thread on it some time ago and we narrowed down almost to the precise impact point.
yes Close by Notcutts garden centre and the Shell garage in Smallford.

Dr Jekyll

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260 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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MartG

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Wednesday 6th May 2015
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Pilot, Ray Battle, and WSO, Ken Boone, were hit while flying a mission over Tchepone, Laos. The pilot lost control of his Phantom, so he told the WSO to eject. After the WSO ejected, that balanced out the aircraft and the pilot was able to regain control and landed at Ubon Air Base in Thailand. The runway was foamed and the aircraft slid off the runway and came to a stop in a massive cloud of dust and dirt. The Pilot survived uninjured and the WSO, Ken Boone, was rescued.
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