Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[FourWheelDrift]

Ditched off Welsh coast. Near Harlech.

[irocfan]

cirian75 said:

P-38 Lightning

D'oh!!! Now you've said it I can see it clear as day

[tuffer]

VSTOL

Edited by tuffer on Thursday 8th December 11:37

[Hugh Jarse]

Surely bad parking thread. Then again should be on an epic parking thread.

[irocfan]

tuffer said:

VSTOL

Edited by tuffer on Thursday 8th December 11:37

concordski?

[FourWheelDrift]

http://englishrussia.com/2014/09/08/hidden-tu-144-...

[Ayahuasca]

tuffer said:

VSTOL

Edited by tuffer on Thursday 8th December 11:37

Is this the one that the Aeroflot employee stole piece by piece over 20 years, smuggling them out of the airport in his trousers, and reassembled in his back garden?

[FourWheelDrift]

According to Wikipedia it flew "there"

Here's the google map - https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8543721,49.0986124...

It's on display at the Kazan State Technical University.

[hammo19]

Check out the planes parked at the airport when you zoom out - very interesting Ruski metal.

[McAndy]

hammo19 said:

Check out the planes parked at the airport when you zoom out - very interesting Ruski metal.

What's the big boy with the very swept back wings, next to the bushes with a yellow truck in front of it?

[MartG]

McAndy said:

hammo19 said:

Check out the planes parked at the airport when you zoom out - very interesting Ruski metal.

What's the big boy with the very swept back wings, next to the bushes with a yellow truck in front of it?

Blackjack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160

Edited by MartG on Monday 12th December 13:10

[SpamCan]

McAndy said:

hammo19 said:

Check out the planes parked at the airport when you zoom out - very interesting Ruski metal.

What's the big boy with the very swept back wings, next to the bushes with a yellow truck in front of it?

They look to be a pair of TU-22's NATO code name Backfire.

[Eric Mc]

I'd go with a Blackjack rather than a Backfire

The Backfire's engines exhaust under the tail. The Blackjack's engines are under the wing (like the American B-1).

Tu26M Backfire -



Tu16 Blackjack

[SpamCan]

Eric Mc said:

I'd go with a Blackjack rather than a Backfire

The Backfire's engines exhaust under the tail. The Blackjack's engines are under the wing (like the American B-1).

Tu26M Backfire -



Tu16 Blackjack

I was looking at the wrong one there are two swing wing aircraft on the main apron near the runway.

In that case yes I'd agree its almost certainly a Blackjack.

[FourWheelDrift]

hammo19 said:

Check out the planes parked at the airport when you zoom out - very interesting Ruski metal.

Have a look at the LII aircraft testing facility in Zhukovsky.

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5708758,38.1548914...

Two TU-144s

The Americans even came to play - https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5674969,38.1476175...

check out the other photospheres, stern Russians, tanks playing, more aircraft.

[mko9]

SpamCan said:

Eric Mc said:

I'd go with a Blackjack rather than a Backfire

The Backfire's engines exhaust under the tail. The Blackjack's engines are under the wing (like the American B-1).

Tu26M Backfire -



Tu16 Blackjack

I was looking at the wrong one there are two swing wing aircraft on the main apron near the runway.

In that case yes I'd agree its almost certainly a Blackjack.

The original coordinates take you to a Tu-144 with what looks like a MiG-25 tucked up under the left wing. To the NE along that main road is a Tu-22M BACKFIRE in a grassy area between two large buildings. Continueing to the NE at the airfield itself, on the NW end of the parking apron, there looks to be a derelict Tu-160 BLACKJACK. SW of that are a pair of Tu-22M, one with wings swept forward, one with wings swept back. There are more across on the north side of the airfield.

[McAndy]

Cracking. Thanks Chaps.

[Ayahuasca]

Don't often get a chance to correct Eric, but that looks more like a Tu-160 than a Tu-16.

[MartG]

Ayahuasca said:

Don't often get a chance to correct Eric, but that looks more like a Tu-160 than a Tu-16.

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

Ayahuasca said:

Don't often get a chance to correct Eric, but that looks more like a Tu-160 than a Tu-16.

Got to give me the benefit of the doubt regarding it being a typo.

Although I'd love to see a Tu16.