Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[KloppsBarmyArmy]

[LotusOmega375D]

KloppsBarmyArmy said:

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

What’s that behind it? Looks wrong for a Catalina.

[FourWheelDrift]

LotusOmega375D said:

KloppsBarmyArmy said:

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

What’s that behind it? Looks wrong for a Catalina.

It's a Consolidated P2Y - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_P2Y

[TheJimi]

KloppsBarmyArmy said:

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

That dude is in decent shape!

[Ayahuasca]

[irocfan]

[eccles]

Isn't that the place that had the twin mustang?

[anonymous-user]

LotusOmega375D said:

KloppsBarmyArmy said:

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

What’s that behind it? Looks wrong for a Catalina.

Looks like a Consolidated P2Y

[MartG]

The last Boeing flying boat - XPBB-1 Sea Ranger

[Eric Mc]

One I wasn't familiar with. I presume it lost out to the Grumman HU-16 Albatross?

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

One I wasn't familiar with. I presume it lost out to the Grumman HU-16 Albatross?

Cancelled so Boeing could concentrate on B-29 production

[yellowjack]

magpie215 said:

Eric Mc said:

Ayahuasca said:

Thanks - I had a dim memory that there was one. They used a Bell 222 - and the late Jan Michael Vincent.

Metpol used to operate iirc a pair of B222s

A Bell 222 used to operate out of Blackbushe Airport, back before the BCA car auctions mob took over the whole of the north side of the runway. It was painted similar to Airwolf, dark with a pale 'belly', but obviously without the physical modifications. It was long after the peak popularity of the show though. And it wasn't around for that long either. But who knows with these things? Maybe it was sold, moved, or stayed around after being repainted. I just remember looking up and seeing it occasionally and pointing it out to my kids. "Hey kids! Look at that! It's Airwolf!!!" Sadly for me, they'd just look at me as if I'd taken a funny turn and say "Dad? What's an Airwolf?"

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

Cancelled so Boeing could concentrate on B-29 production

Interesting. The B-29 was obviously top priority.

[Dr Jekyll]

MartG said:

The last Boeing flying boat - XPBB-1 Sea Ranger

Not one I'd come across before. Interesting aircraft. Only two engines but bigger and more powerful than a Sunderland.

[FourWheelDrift]

I like that Japan still operates 4 engine flying boats. ShinMaywa US-2 similar wingspan but 7m longer than a Sunderland.

[CrutyRammers]

MartG said:

Always thought the Gazelle had a very pleasing shape to it.

[magpie215]

CrutyRammers said:

MartG said:

Always thought the Gazelle had a very pleasing shape to it.

Flying chicken leg

[yellowjack]

CrutyRammers said:

MartG said:

Always thought the Gazelle had a very pleasing shape to it.

Not when you're inside the buggering thing, with an all-NCO crew flying it sideways with the rotor disc drawing lines in the desert sand below you. And watching the instrument panel quivering away if you're fool enough to look out of the windscreen between the pilots. Horrid bloody things...


...I mean the helicopter is OK, but those AAC pilots? Horrid bloody things!

[irocfan]

Dr Jekyll said:

MartG said:

The last Boeing flying boat - XPBB-1 Sea Ranger

Not one I'd come across before. Interesting aircraft. Only two engines but bigger and more powerful than a Sunderland.

lot longer range too

[JuniorD]

yellowjack said:

CrutyRammers said:

MartG said:

Always thought the Gazelle had a very pleasing shape to it.

Not when you're inside the buggering thing, with an all-NCO crew flying it sideways with the rotor disc drawing lines in the desert sand below you. And watching the instrument panel quivering away if you're fool enough to look out of the windscreen between the pilots. Horrid bloody things...


...I mean the helicopter is OK, but those AAC pilots? Horrid bloody things!

Growing up in Belfast in the 80s, these things caused me many sleepless nights, especially around school exams time. During the night they’d be aloft for hours above the area, barely moving, with the incessant screaming from the engine and rotors disturbing everyone in their beds below. When they’d shine the midnight sun searchlight along the streets, it was a bit more exciting, trying to get a chase from the beam.