Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[FastRich]

I took this photo a couple of years back at the Farnborough Airshow. I was quite pleased considering I'm an absolute novice!

[Lost soul]

[hammo19]

Lost soul said:

You sure that's a plane....looks like the pilot crashed his fuselage into some wings and wheels!

[Lost soul]

hammo19 said:

Lost soul said:

You sure that's a plane....looks like the pilot crashed his fuselage into some wings and wheels!

I can see what you are saying so come on Ph'ers name that plane

[blueg33]

Grumman G34? I ink it was also called the Skyrocket

[Lost soul]

blueg33 said:

Grumman G34? I ink it was also called the Skyrocket

Grumman XF5F Skyrocket

[Lost soul]

who said ze Germanz have no humour

[MartG]

Lost soul said:

who said ze Germanz have no humour

And IIRC, despite its novel layout, the only trouble was from its fairly conventional undercarriage

[Mutley]

MartG said:

Lost soul said:

who said ze Germanz have no humour

And IIRC, despite its novel layout, the only trouble was from its fairly conventional undercarriage

Blohm + Voss, thinking outside the box there. You have to wonder at how they came up with that layout.

[FourWheelDrift]

Observation, so unrestricted views down, forward and rear in the smallest, lightest package with a single engine. If you put your observation into a normal single engined aircraft the engine/tail will always get in the way and if you build it so that you include dedicated viewing it starts to get bigger and heavier. Or more people on board increasing weight.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

When you look at the gondola on the BV141 it is almost exactly the same as that of the Focke Wulf FW189 twin boom recce a/c. The BV141 never made it into production owing to problems with the BMW132 engine. By the time the evaluation a/c had been fitted with the more powerfu BMW801 the design had lost out to the FW189.

[iiyama]

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

That'll be Linton-on-Ouse in the background then.

[irocfan]

[hammo19]

Lost soul said:

blueg33 said:

Grumman G34? I ink it was also called the Skyrocket

Grumman XF5F Skyrocket

Sky rocket.....doesn't look like it could get into the Sky let alone a rocket.

[MartG]

Maybe this should go in the bad parking thread.....

[Ayahuasca]

[Moose.]

Another snap from the day job last week:



Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter landing in Jila airstrip, Papua, Indonesia.

[hammo19]

Segways are not that novel......

[CanAm]

I think I'd be happier if the spinning rotors were above my head rather than just below my feet.