Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

The TSR2 would have been cancelled even if the F-111 had never existed.

As for bittersweet - after around 40 years of fairly successful service with the Aussies (and the US) I don't think that there is anything bittersweet about the retiring of an aircraft after a long career.

[macp]

I guess your right Eric Mounbatten had it in for it from the start and the government didnt take much persuading.

[Dr Jekyll]

Could the TSR2 and F111 requirements have been met by the same aircraft?

If the UK dropped the more extreme parts of the requirements such as those necessitating a complex landing gear, and the US had realised earlier that the F111 wouldn't cut it as a carrier fighter it would have made sense.

If the US had said 'what about our swing wing carrier fighter' perhaps we could have teamed up with them instead of trying to collaborate with the French on the AFVG. After the naval F111 was cancelled an AFVG based proposal was put forward by Dassault and an American firm I forget the name of as a potential F14.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mountbatten was Navy so wanted the funding to go to the Buccaneer instead of the RAF's TSR2. Nothing unusual with service chiefs getting behind their own service.

[bluey1905]

Hopefully not a re-post, low flying pics.

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tab...

[FourWheelDrift]

bluey1905 said:

Hopefully not a re-post, low flying pics.

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tab...

It has but it gets updated. The Halifax Elvington photos and the Young & Bored in Gabon photos are updates.

[Ayahuasca]

[Ayahuasca]

I would love to see a thread on the good Doctor building a model of this one!

[FourWheelDrift]

Ayahuasca said:

I would love to see a thread on the good Doctor building a model of this one!

And in colour

[MartG]

RAF 5 Sqn Tornado F3 and Spitfire over Tattershall Castle, 1989.
By Rick Brewell

[irocfan]

[MartG]

[MartG]

B-25 assembly line, Kansas 1942

[MartG]

Smokin'



De Havilland Venoms FB.1 of 14 Squadron, RNZAF, based at RAF Tengh Singapore, powering up during operation Firedog in Malay, Oct.1956.

[irocfan]

looks like a rolling coal meet

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

That looks suspiciously like a line up of scale models to me ( fairly well done models, for all that)

[Eric Mc]

irocfan said:

That first picture is a still from the 1977 film "A Bridge Too Far". As far as I know, Ray Hannah was the pilot.

[PanzerCommander]

MartG said:

Smokin'



De Havilland Venoms FB.1 of 14 Squadron, RNZAF, based at RAF Tengh Singapore, powering up during operation Firedog in Malay, Oct.1956.

Coffman starters?

[MartG]

PanzerCommander said:

MartG said:

Smokin'



De Havilland Venoms FB.1 of 14 Squadron, RNZAF, based at RAF Tengh Singapore, powering up during operation Firedog in Malay, Oct.1956.

Coffman starters?

Yup

[Escapegoat]

Sometimes, there's some sort of macabre beauty in the moment of impact.



Pilot ejected and survived, I gather.