Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[DJFish]

MartG said:

I'm no expert but isn't the ground in the wrong place in this picture?

[DJFish]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Again, no expert but on my tiny iPhone screen that looks like an A4 refuelling a tristar, isn't that a bit odd?

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

DJFish said:

Again, no expert but on my tiny iPhone screen that looks like an A4 refuelling a tristar, isn't that a bit odd?

Indeed

It's a RNZAF A4 Skyhawk fitted with a buddy-buddy pack and a RAF Tristar about to 'prod'. It's a 'dry' prod (ie no fuel transfer)!

The photo' was taken in the early/mid 1980's during a Far East deployment with the F3 Tornados and remained a quite closely guarded secret on 216 Sqn (I saw the original when I held on 216). For obvious reasons, it wasn't generally available to the wider audience.

Apparently there was also some video of a 101 Sqn VC10 prodding but I haven't seen that.

[MartG]

[perdu]

MartG said:

Ah the famous Otter auxiliary seating package




There are pictures of Otters and Beavers shifting some amazing loads on their floats and struts

[MartG]

[Dr Jekyll]

Rather unusual formation.

[irocfan]

[Eric Mc]

Does artwork count in this thread?

[RedLeicester]

"Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)"


Its a picture ffs.

[Eric Mc]

True.

Although I think aviation art is a whole subject in itself and possibly could run an entire thread all of its own.

I am a keen fan of aviation art - especially the art of Michael Turner.

(I think the FFS was a bit uncalled for).

[brenflys777]

[MartG]

[Mutley]

MartG said:

I always think someone trod on a preproduction model of a Dragonfly, and they kept it squashed

[RedLeicester]

MartG said:

Wossat then?

[MartG]

RedLeicester said:

MartG said:

Wossat then?

This you mean ?



Yak 130

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-130

[Dr Banjo]

Looks tidy !

[RedLeicester]

MartG said:

Yak 130

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-130

Thank you.

[MartG]

Here's an oddity....







Meteor testbed for the Trent turboprop

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

The Trent turboprop was essentially a Derwent with a reduction gearbox bolted on the front. Derwents, of course, were the power units fitted to Meteors.