Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[tight5]

how much damage would you be looking at there ?
what consequences for the people involved ?

[MartG]

As well as the widely reported stealth fighter, Iranian designers have come up with a few other fantasies over the years - all of which were of course 'in production'......

[Collectingbrass]

tight5 said:

what consequences for the people involved ?

for the grunts:


for the officer:

[davepom]

MartG said:

Whoops - someone forgot the trestles to support the tail.....



617 Sqn Tornado GR4

I was in a differant bay in the same hanger (doing vc10 majors) when this happened-raf st athan somtime in mid 2000's-there was lots of comotion and we all walked into this bay to see it sat there on its backside!
the story was that nightshift had removed the tail trestle and the aircraft sat there happily untill next morning when somebody got on it and walked down the spine and it back it went.
Wasn't too much damage-two slightly bent tailerons and thrust reverser buckets.
It happened at the begining of a major maintenance input.
Everybody was taking pics on their phones and we all got warned about showing them to anyone-i would probally know who took this pic.

[MartG]

davepom said:

MartG said:

Whoops - someone forgot the trestles to support the tail.....



617 Sqn Tornado GR4

I was in a differant bay in the same hanger (doing vc10 majors) when this happened-raf st athan somtime in mid 2000's-there was lots of comotion and we all walked into this bay to see it sat there on its backside!
the story was that nightshift had removed the tail trestle and the aircraft sat there happily untill next morning when somebody got on it and walked down the spine and it back it went.
Wasn't too much damage-two slightly bent tailerons and thrust reverser buckets.
It happened at the begining of a major maintenance input.
Everybody was taking pics on their phones and we all got warned about showing them to anyone-i would probally know who took this pic.

Thanks for the info

[mrloudly]

Dr Jekyll said:

tight5 said:

does anyone know if there are any of either of these types still flying ?

No Beaufighters, there was one at Duxford meant to be under rebuild to fly but suitable engines couldn't be found.

I think there are a few P47s though.

I think it's props stalling the Duxford re-build. There's another private non-flying Beaufighter owned by a chap called Tim Moore at Skycraft not far from Duxford.

[yellowjack]

Pessimism about a return to flight, it seems, based on lack of suitable Bristol Hercules engines...

http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-526858.h...
http://www.warbirdsonline.com.au/2014/07/02/dap-be...

...and a madman in NZ who has a running Hercules...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0q9l8xejrE


It seems far more likely that one of the Southern Hemisphere Beaus will fly than the Duxford aircraft at the moment...

http://www.warbirdsonline.com.au/2014/11/16/beaufo...

[Eric Mc]

I wonder if there would be any mileage in converting these airframes into Merlin powered Beaufighters?

Some Beaus in WW2 were Merlin powered.



There are a lot more working Merlins knocking about compared to Hercules.

[Elroy Blue]

I think you'd have to be brave, even if it was possible. I believe the handling of the Merlin engine Beaus was 'interesting'.

[gwm]

Some pics from a Jalopnik article about USAF operations in Japan (someone more anorak can tell me the aircraft, I just like the pretty pictures)

[gwm]

[hidetheelephants]

Elroy Blue said:

I think you'd have to be brave, even if it was possible. I believe the handling of the Merlin engine Beaus was 'interesting'.

I'd have thought P&W R2800 or Wright R2600 would be a better bet than Merlins, certainly a lot more airworthy ones available than Bristols.

[FourWheelDrift]

hidetheelephants said:

I'd have thought P&W R2800 or Wright R2600 would be a better bet than Merlins, certainly a lot more airworthy ones available than Bristols.

Yep, they are often transplanted into Sea Furies in the US in place of the Centaurus.

[Eric Mc]

hidetheelephants said:

Elroy Blue said:

I think you'd have to be brave, even if it was possible. I believe the handling of the Merlin engine Beaus was 'interesting'.

I'd have thought P&W R2800 or Wright R2600 would be a better bet than Merlins, certainly a lot more airworthy ones available than Bristols.

Not very authentic though.

There genuinely were Merlin powered variant of the Beaufighter - as my picture shows - the Mark II.

The problem with the Bristol radials such as the Hercules and Centaurus is that they were immensely complex with sleeve valves and there are very few running versions left.

[tight5]

got this from twitter ,
"Nostalgia. 1968 when the RAF still had aircraft Part of the Review line-up at Abingdon."

[whiteonyx]

see if we can name them all, starting from top left
Britania, Comet, Belfast, VC10, Hercules, Beverley, Varsity

[perdu]

The Varsity isn't in the top left apron, its over on the right

Top left

Britannia, Comet, Belfast, VC10, C130, Hastings, Beverley

Top right

Wellington, Mosquito, Lancaster, Canberra, Dominie, Gnat, Jet Provost, Piston Provost, Varsity

Foreground left

Gazelle, Devon, Pembroke, Devon, Auster, Lysander, Tiger Moth, Magister, Lightning T4, Javelin, Hunter, Whirlwind (over head) Vampire, Meteor, Tempest, Beaufighter, Defiant, Spitfire


I am not sure if there's supposed to be a Chipmunk behind the Pembroke, is that a dH tail back there on the corner?

edit for mistyped Tiger Moth

[hidetheelephants]

Facing the battery of Bristol Bloodhounds, clockwise from 12 o'clock;

Percival Jet Provost(Folland Gnat and HS Dominie behind)
?Percival Provost? not sure
Vickers Varsity
?Hawker Hurricane?
Spitfire
Boulton Paul Defiant
Bristol Beaufighter
Gloster Meteor
DH Vampire
Hawker Hunter
Gloster Javelin
EE Lightning

in the background top right there's:
Vickers Wellington
DH Mosquito
Avro Lancaster
EE Canberra

Airbourne foreground is a Westland Whirlwind

Mid-ground behind the Javelin:
I can only identify a Westland Lysander, a DH Devon and maybe a Percival Pembroke and Sikorsky R4?

At the front of the group of heavies top left is an HP Hastings.

[williamp]

Great photo. But 1968? Was a defiant and wellington still flying in 1968??

[perdu]

Yup the R4 makes more sense than my guess of Gazelle, really too early for the Gazelle, I can see R4 now