Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[NM62]

Ilyushin IL-18-B ex Interflug and East German Air Force - I actually saw it flying ( into Leeds / Bradford from memory taking striking miners children on holiday)

[Eric Mc]

Smokey old things. They looked like they ran on coal.

[GliderRider]

Viewed from the outside, the cockpit shape and windows of that Ilyushin 18 look very C-130ish to me.

[RizzoTheRat]

NM62 said:

Ilyushin IL-18-B ex Interflug and East German Air Force - I actually saw it flying ( into Leeds / Bradford from memory taking striking miners children on holiday)

That must have been a while ago, apparently it was a pizzeria for quite a few years before becoming a hotel

They've done a pretty decent job, it was looking a bit sorry for itself when it arrived in Teuge

[Teddy Lop]

Eric Mc said:

Smokey old things. They looked like they ran on coal.

Is there anything old and russian that doesn't?

[NM62]

RizzoTheRat said:

NM62 said:

Ilyushin IL-18-B ex Interflug and East German Air Force - I actually saw it flying ( into Leeds / Bradford from memory taking striking miners children on holiday)

That must have been a while ago, apparently it was a pizzeria for quite a few years before becoming a hotel

They've done a pretty decent job, it was looking a bit sorry for itself when it arrived in Teuge

Early 1980’s, 1984 was the miner’s strike, so must have been that year and as Eric said smoky old thing BUT very rare into Leeds at the time.

[Voldemort]

The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) on the deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3), 17 January1928

[FourWheelDrift]

Voldemort said:

The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) on the deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3), 17 January1928

When you see the film of the landing below, I'd say the photo above is not real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FmKw9JKD8

[mcdjl]

FourWheelDrift said:

Voldemort said:

The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) on the deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3), 17 January1928

When you see the film of the landing below, I'd say the photo above is not real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FmKw9JKD8

In the film only the first 1/4 or so is over the deck. Looking it up on wiki the LA was 200m long and the Saratoga 270m so it's probably real.

[Flying Phil]

But when the airship is attached...would the Saratoga float a tiny bit higher?

[FourWheelDrift]

mcdjl said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Voldemort said:

The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) on the deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3), 17 January1928

When you see the film of the landing below, I'd say the photo above is not real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FmKw9JKD8

In the film only the first 1/4 or so is over the deck. Looking it up on wiki the LA was 200m long and the Saratoga 270m so it's probably real.

That is the only existing "photo" that shows it like that, you'd think there'd be others. The perspective looks wrong, also it landed the other way around, and being that close to the island with an inflated airship prone to sudden movement from gusts also doesn't make any sense. Which is why it touched down on the stern, very wobbly, then took off again in the film. It was a one time brief landing.

[BrettMRC]

Few damp people on deck!

[MartG]

By Andrew Nicholls

[Voldemort]

[anonymous-user]

Brewster buffalo, was a bit hopeless in the Far East against the Japanese and didn’t cope well with the heat but the Finns had better luck in the cold against the Russians with it.

[anonymous-user]

Didn’t realise the Finnish had the swastika long before the Nazis and it was only dropped completely fairly recently

Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53249645

Always thought the buffalo looked great in FAF colours

[Eric Mc]

And Latvia -



And at least one World War 1 air ace -



And a commercial laundry in Dublin -

[Ayahuasca]

[DodgyGeezer]

Ayahuasca said:

Now that's flying low

[yellowjack]

DodgyGeezer said:

Ayahuasca said:

Now that's flying low

Low budget Thunderball remake...?