Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

[Stickyfinger]

tuffer said:

Ditchfinders

[tuffer]

Eric Mc said:

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

This morning on the 06:57 from Grateley to Waterloo.

[Eric Mc]

Boiler problem?

[Dr Jekyll]

Eric Mc said:

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

Not sure if serious....

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

Toulouse after storm winds reached 87kts. Easily blown over due to it being relatively light as it had no engines fitted.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Eric Mc said:

It looks like an Italian one.

I think you'll find that the Italians didn't operate the Jaguar.

[Eric Mc]

I thought it was a Tornado.

Back to ID school for me.

[MartG]

Just a bit higher than an aircraft - long exposure taken from the ISS

[MartG]

This photo comes from a 1947 issue of LIFE Magazine
Winston Churchill was overweight, a profuse smoker, had already suffered two heart attacks, so less than ideal health conditions for a man who flew all over the world. In wartime, a special one-man pressure chamber was built to protect his precious bulk on the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta.

Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was too dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. Much higher altitudes were necessary, however, because of weather and the enemy.

The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash-trays, telephone, and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere. While pressures within the chamber were kept at the equivalent of 5,000 feet, the prime ministerial figure could loll comfortably like an outsized pearl within a gigantic oyster shell.

[Caruso]

MartG said:

Just a bit higher than an aircraft - long exposure taken from the ISS

[Elroy Blue]

Eric Mc said:

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

Italy didn't have Jags.

It's a French one without engines. Happened a few years ago.

[Eric Mc]

I know Italy have never had Jaguars

I thought it was an upside down Tornado which is why I said Italy.

My plane spotting skills are diminishing with age.

[DJFish]

Bearing in mind the criticism the jag received for its ability to get airborne, perhaps the should've just ditched the engines altogether?

[Ayahuasca]

Elroy Blue said:

Eric Mc said:

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

Italy didn't have Jags.

It's a French one without engines. Happened a few years ago.

Seeing it was upside down, they thought it might has well be exhibited in a museum.






yes I know this is obviously not a French one as it had clearly been fitted with the laser rangefinder & marked target seeker (LRMTS).

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

That one was : "Buster Gonad and His Unfeasibly Large Testicles"

Sticking it on it's back as a bloody art exhibit was downright criminal in my book.

[Ayahuasca]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

That one was : "Buster Gonad and His Unfeasibly Large Testicles"

Sticking it on it's back as a bloody art exhibit was downright criminal in my book.

Yes, it looks wrong.

[Brother D]

tuffer said:

Not an unusual position for a Jaguar. Pretty sure they were made by land-rover, their off-road capabilities are second to none - "where we're going we don't need roads"

https://youtu.be/z-uqMUA7U-k?t=106

[Brother D]

Ayahuasca said:

Elroy Blue said:

Eric Mc said:

Place and date?

It looks like an Italian one.

Italy didn't have Jags.

It's a French one without engines. Happened a few years ago.

Seeing it was upside down, they thought it might has well be exhibited in a museum.



yes I know this is obviously not a French one as it had clearly been fitted with the laser rangefinder & marked target seeker (LRMTS).

When I went they also had this hanging from the ceiling:

[Brother D]

First ever flight on a 787 (Dreamliner).

Powerplant is a work of art - I have a small JP fan blade in my lounge, I'd love one of these blades, but pretty sure:

a: Would have trouble getting it in the car
b: Sister D would have a fit
c: I could not afford it...