Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Trevatanus]

MartG said:

When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday

Just saw that on Facebook, and came on to check no-one else had posted it!

[tight5]

Saw this on twitter -

[ChemicalChaos]

Is that a Corsair in RAF livery?

[Eric Mc]

I think those shots are from a Fleet Air Arm base in Scotland.

[hidetheelephants]

Barracudas are as ugly on the ground as they are in the air.

[yellowjack]

tight5 said:

Saw this on twitter -

Spitfire, Corsair, Wildcat. Easy enough. What's in partial shade on the left? I've no idea. Far end? Possibly Sea Hurricane, but I'm only guessing, due to the depth of the wing. Another snippet of radial engined Americana behind the building to the right? And are those two in the right foreground Fairey Barracudas?

The figure ahead of the port wing of the Corsair certainly looks like a Naval officer.

[Munter]

MartG said:

When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday

I'm guessing, shortly afterwards there was a conversation that started:
So, trainee xxx. How do you think you did today?

[Eric Mc]

yellowjack said:

Spitfire, Corsair, Wildcat. Easy enough. What's in partial shade on the left? I've no idea. Far end? Possibly Sea Hurricane, but I'm only guessing, due to the depth of the wing. Another snippet of radial engined Americana behind the building to the right? And are those two in the right foreground Fairey Barracudas?

The figure ahead of the port wing of the Corsair certainly looks like a Naval officer.

I can see

Seafire x 2
Corsair
Wildcat/Martlet
Barracudas x 2
Sea Hurricane

There could be something like a Ryan PT-19 at the rear of the shot.

[AstonZagato]

Munter said:

MartG said:

When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday

I'm guessing, shortly afterwards there was a conversation that started:
So, trainee xxx. How do you think you did today?

Meeting. No tea. No biscuits.

[Escapegoat]

AstonZagato said:

Meeting. No tea. No biscuits.

Probably not quite as tricky a meeting as the one for the Norwegian F16 jockey who shot up a (manned) control tower this week. :-o

[Trevatanus]

Escapegoat said:

AstonZagato said:

Meeting. No tea. No biscuits.

Probably not quite as tricky a meeting as the one for the Norwegian F16 jockey who shot up a (manned) control tower this week. :-o

Apparently it's not the first time the tower has been attacked either!
Can imagine the people tasked with manning it on future exercises being a tad reluctant

[Trevatanus]

Posted by the "Boss" at 48th Fighter Wing based at Lakenheath.
First ever pass through the "Loop" of an F22.

[NormalWisdom]

Munter said:

MartG said:

When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday

I'm guessing, shortly afterwards there was a conversation that started:
So, trainee xxx. How do you think you did today?

I was at Coningsby last Tuesday and they seem to make a habit of landing at the back-end of the threshold, pretty low over the road too

[lloyd h]

Flying around Tain Range during JW 16-1.
Sometimes You Just Gotta by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

[Mr Whippy]

Trevatanus said:

Posted by the "Boss" at 48th Fighter Wing based at Lakenheath.
First ever pass through the "Loop" of an F22.

Wow.

Are they louder than the Typhoon?

[MartG]

Black cat

[Dr Jekyll]

£4000 in 1965 was equivalent to about £80,000 now in retail price terms. Not sure how many airworthy Spitfires there were then, Eric?

Quite possibly most people assumed they were far more common than they were. When the Battle of Britain film was made a few years later the producers were quite surprised how difficult it was to find airworthy fighters from a war barely 20 years past.

[MartG]

[Trevatanus]

Mr Whippy said:

Wow.

Are they louder than the Typhoon?

No idea sadly, that's not my pic.
The only time I have ever seen one, it was flying very slow and low and flanked by a pair of F15's

[Z06George]

Mr Whippy said:

Wow.

Are they louder than the Typhoon?

IMHO definitely!