Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

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FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Monday 11th April 2016
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Escapegoat said:
Pilot ejected and survived, I gather.
Yep, video here of the incident - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMLkEYgT78

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Tuesday 12th April 2016
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T-38C supersonic shockwaves captured as the aircraft passes in front of the sun

Pic credit - NASA



http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/t-38c-passes-in-...

Eric Mc

121,782 posts

264 months

Wednesday 13th April 2016
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Excellent photograph.

SVX

2,182 posts

210 months

Wednesday 13th April 2016
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MartG said:
Any idea where I could get a high-res image of that picture? Or a print....?

Mutley

3,178 posts

258 months

Wednesday 13th April 2016
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While she sat outside the American Air Museum at Duxford


The Don of Croy

5,976 posts

158 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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This is a screenshot, so apols for quality, but it is from Steve Backshall's Mountain Challenge prog on BBC2 a few weeks' back. The aircraft gets closer too in the video clip...



- worth viewing the clip here at the very start of the trail for Episode 1.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ld67j

Ref the earlier images of the Comet windows - my late Dad worked on the pressure test at DeHavillands whilst doing his apprenticeship. I think it was an opportunity for overtime as someone had to read gauges 24/7.

bigandclever

13,750 posts

237 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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Definitely cold, maybe not so cool.

This took me from Longyearbyen to (practically) the North Pole (actually Camp Barneo), this morning, at which point the pilot decided the huge crack across the ice runway would be difficult to avoid, so we turned back. Try again tomorrow, I hope, assuming the Russians have fixed the runway.


MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Thursday 21st April 2016
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Selfie of the year contender smile


Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Thursday 21st April 2016
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Typical bad parking by the white van man.




Reading the wiki on this incident(yes, I know..) the pilot seems to have been treated rather harshly by the navy (maybe they still enjoy a bit of flogging..); had he ejected and lost his aircraft I suspect he would have fared better.

Why are the jet exhaust nozzles in the forward flight position? What is the gap in the upper fuselage just aft of the dorsal navigation light?







Trevatanus

11,109 posts

149 months

Friday 22nd April 2016
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MartG said:
Selfie of the year contender smile

I saw that on Facebook this morning, fantastic shot.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Friday 22nd April 2016
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bigandclever said:
Definitely cold, maybe not so cool.

This took me from Longyearbyen to (practically) the North Pole (actually Camp Barneo), this morning, at which point the pilot decided the huge crack across the ice runway would be difficult to avoid, so we turned back. Try again tomorrow, I hope, assuming the Russians have fixed the runway.

Coaler. Cool looking aircraft. Is that the An-72 or the An-74 version?

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Friday 22nd April 2016
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Trevatanus said:
MartG said:
Selfie of the year contender smile

I saw that on Facebook this morning, fantastic shot.
He's either very shy or absolutely gutted when he saw his face biggrin

CanAm

9,115 posts

271 months

Saturday 23rd April 2016
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Ayahuasca said:
WTF is that one? Doesn't seem like the ideal troop carrier.

Eric Mc

121,782 posts

264 months

Saturday 23rd April 2016
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Probably a Waco CG-3



It was the US Army's first combat glider but was considered too small for operational use - so was used as a trainer.

bigandclever

13,750 posts

237 months

Saturday 23rd April 2016
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yellowjack said:
bigandclever said:
Coaler. Cool looking aircraft. Is that the An-72 or the An-74 version?
I understand it's an Antonov AN-74TK-100. This one's airframe number is RA-74020. What I can tell you is that it's not entirely mandatory to be seat-belted in on takeoff/landing. Or even sat in a seat for that matter smile

You might find this video interesting ... playing with a drone and a plane at the North Pole.

Sorry it's a Faceache link, but you don't need an account to view it. It's from the race organiser's page.

Caruso

7,422 posts

255 months

Saturday 23rd April 2016
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bigandclever said:
You might find this video interesting ... playing with a drone and a plane at the North Pole.
That's pretty cool.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Sunday 24th April 2016
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bigandclever said:
I understand it's an Antonov AN-74TK-100. This one's airframe number is RA-74020. What I can tell you is that it's not entirely mandatory to be seat-belted in on takeoff/landing. Or even sat in a seat for that matter smile

You might find this video interesting ... playing with a drone and a plane at the North Pole.

Sorry it's a Faceache link, but you don't need an account to view it. It's from the race organiser's page.
Thanks for the answer, and for sharing that amazing video in the link. Brilliant. thumbup

CanAm

9,115 posts

271 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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Eric Mc said:
Probably a Waco CG-3



It was the US Army's first combat glider but was considered too small for operational use - so was used as a trainer.
Thanks Eric,
The only Waco I knew was the slab-sided one. This particular photo appears to be the one and only XCG-3.
The first photo that is, not the one Eric posted.

Edited by CanAm on Monday 25th April 16:08

Eric Mc

121,782 posts

264 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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The same thing happened with the British General Aircraft Limited (GAL) Hotspur glider. It was the first British combat glider and its dimensions were more or less based on the successful German DFS 230 gliders they used so effectively on the assault at Eben Emael fortress in Belgium.

It was decided that the Hotspur was too small so it ended up bring relegated to the training role as well.




MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday
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