Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[james_tigerwoods]

Eric Mc said:

How recent is that picture? Is it of one of the current South African aircraft?

They've all been grounded following some dodgy maintenance practices, haven't they?

[FourWheelDrift]

I thought it was a painting.

[james_tigerwoods]

Dr Jekyll said:

Looks like a painting to me too, but do you have a hi res version?

[Trevatanus]

Avro Lancastrian jet test bed, 1946.

[Eric Mc]

james_tigerwoods said:

Eric Mc said:

How recent is that picture? Is it of one of the current South African aircraft?

They've all been grounded following some dodgy maintenance practices, haven't they?

They are back flying again.

[Eric Mc]

Trevatanus said:

Avro Lancastrian jet test bed, 1946.

Looks like one of Charles E Brown's pictures.

[MartG]

That's what you call 'combat persistence'

[hammo19]

Eric Mc said:

Trevatanus said:

Avro Lancastrian jet test bed, 1946.

Looks like one of Charles E Brown's pictures.

Good timing with the new Peanuts movie being released next month....

[hammo19]

Here's a Florida oddity....

[EskimoArapaho]

This is one made my eyes go funny, making me think for a moment that it must be flying with the harbour in the background. But...

[yellowjack]

EskimoArapaho said:

This is one made my eyes go funny, making me think for a moment that it must be flying with the harbour in the background. But...

Ahhhh! Howards Folly, or the 'Spruce Goose'. Well over a hundred tonnes of birch and eight Pratt and Whitney Wasp Major engines, that somehow hauled itself (if a little briefly) into the air in 1947.


It's still with us as well, at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon... http://evergreenmuseum.org/the-spruce-goose

[ApOrbital]

[AlexC1981]

yellowjack said:

Ahhhh! Howards Folly, or the 'Spruce Goose'. Well over a hundred tonnes of birch and eight Pratt and Whitney Wasp Major engines, that somehow hauled itself (if a little briefly) into the air in 1947.


It's still with us as well, at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon... http://evergreenmuseum.org/the-spruce-goose

It actually flew it just wasn't needed any more due to the end of WW2. According to the Wiki entry it was maintained in flying condition until 1976. What a shame it never flew again!

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

AlexC1981 said:

It actually flew it just wasn't needed any more due to the end of WW2.

Stabilising at 70 ft amsl in 'Ground Effect' is hardly 'flying'!

[mko9]

MartG said:

That's what you call 'combat persistence'

An F/A-18 without any external fuel tanks is anything but persistent.

[MartG]

AGM-86A ALCM painted in American Airlines livery

[anonymous-user]

EskimoArapaho said:

This is one made my eyes go funny, making me think for a moment that it must be flying with the harbour in the background. But...

That's exactly what I thought too.

[anonymous-user]

MartG said:

AGM-86A ALCM painted in American Airlines livery

Unfortunately not.

[FourWheelDrift]

Probably mocked up for some tinfoil hatted 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

[irocfan]

el stovey said:

MartG said:

AGM-86A ALCM painted in American Airlines livery

Unfortunately not.

ahhhh - but how do you know that the picture you posted isn't the shopped one?