Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

It's a bit sad that NASA saw fit to rename the Drden Center the Armstrong Center. I hope Hugh Dryden's family were consulted.

[jmorgan]

Yeah, was a bit surprised when I clocked it the first time. Sure they could name something else.

That and the sometimes incomprehensible system they have. Here is what I the old was I think.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/multimedia/i...

[Trevatanus]

XB70 said:

hammo19 said:

Me too - stunning design

Love it!



You can keep Air Force One - arriving in one of these is like crashing a PH Sunday Service in a McLaren F1

Was having a browse and this chap does some rather nice pieces. The shuttle take off from above is stunning! I don't know him/have any connection but thought would flag it. Already seen two that are going in the order pile

Edited by XB70 on Sunday 20th December 14:46

But you would say that wouldn't you XB70

[XB70]

Trevatanus said:

But you would say that wouldn't you XB70

Guilty as charged!

[EskimoArapaho]

Back when the world was black and white and very, very cold:



(I'd forgotten about that delta wing. F102 it seems, am reading about it now...)

[Eric Mc]

The F-102 was a bit of a disappointment. Being America, of course, they simply went back to the drawing board and revised it as the F-106.

[hammo19]

What a fabulous picture with some super military aeroplanes......variants of a couple are still in active service today

[Mojocvh]

Love this photo, perhaps I should explain, it's the rolling countryside, the neat German hamlets and the way the forestry has been managed it's just SO germanic! Also the flat topped, snow covers plateau lh middle distance, there's just so much to look at in one image!!





Don't tell them your name Pike!





"Well Ivan?"

Edited by Mojocvh on Friday 1st January 11:20

[Eric Mc]

That looks a mighty crowded formation.

[NM62]

Reminds me of the "mass" fly past of F104's, F16's and F5's at the 70th or 75th Anniversary of the RNLAF that I attended in the 80's - I rember it was very wet but a magnificent sight ( and sound ).

[Mojocvh]

Eric Mc said:

That looks a mighty crowded formation.

Here ya go Eric!

Edited by Mojocvh on Friday 1st January 14:40

[Dr Jekyll]

[JeremyH5]

Any idea why he's taking a khazi with him?

[tight5]

JeremyH5 said:

Any idea why he's taking a khazi with him?

Trying to flush the enemy out ?

[hidetheelephants]

tight5 said:

JeremyH5 said:

Any idea why he's taking a khazi with him?

Trying to flush the enemy out ?

They'd run out of BLU-94 laser-guided kitchen sinks?

[Hugo a Gogo]

JeremyH5 said:

Any idea why he's taking a khazi with him?

the toilet bomb
http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/Humor/Toilet_bomb.h...

[Simpo Two]

Apols of already posted but I'm not checking 259 pages!

[hidetheelephants]

Lincolns? Never seen them with chin-mounted radar before and can't find anything on google.

[yellowjack]

hidetheelephants said:

Lincolns? Never seen them with chin-mounted radar before and can't find anything on google.

Look like Lancasters modified with (inaccurate, due to still being classified) bouncing bombs (Upkeep Mines ), from the filming of 'The Dambusters' (1955) about Operation Chastise.

No idea why the one in the middle isn't converted to carry the bouncing bomb though?

I can't remember exactly when the weapon was de-classified, but my uncle had a 1:72 scale model of the 'Dambuster Lancaster' when I was a kid, and that too was the 'spare tyre' shaped bomb. Years later Airfix had to alter the kit to reflect the true 'oil drum' shape of the Upkeep mine.

ETA:

This book (I've not seen it myself) apparently has a load of previously unpublished stills taken during the filming.

Edited by yellowjack on Saturday 2nd January 00:38

[Eric Mc]

More than likely it was the Revell kit as they definitely released a Dambuster version in the 1960s. The old, original Airfix Lancaster (early 1960s) was never released as a Dambuster version. Airfix released a new tool Lancaster around 1980 which was released as a Standard, a Special (with Grand Slam) and later as a Dambuster - with fairly accurate Upkeep mine and apparatus.

In very recent years, Airfix has released a brand new tooling Lancaster which is available as a Standard, as a MkII with Hercules engines or as a Dambuster.

1970s release of the Revell kit. Note that the "bomb" isn't too far out in shape etc -




Original kit from a mid 1960s boxing -



Second kit as a Dambuster



Latest kit in Dambuster form -



Tamiya also release a Dambuster version of their 1/48 Lancaster.