Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

Fastdruid said:

That looked fake so I googled it. Yakovlev Yak-141

Two flyable prototypes.

Saw one flying at Farnborough 1992. It wasn't only the engines that were burning. So was the grass and tarmac.

[Eric Mc]

Stickyfinger said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPOo1jOqZTA

Quoted to make the link work.

[Stickyfinger]

Eric Mc said:

Quoted to make the link work.

Ta muchly

[FourWheelDrift]

Just reading about the 747-8 Cargo and it's raised cockpit over a cargo nose door made me think of it's evolution. Ignoring anything newer than the 60s as that's 747 era and others more recent. Going back...

The 1961 Aviation Traders Carvair


The 1945 Bristol Freighter


1941 Messerschmidt Me 323



Anything earlier with a raised cockpit over a front loading door anyone can think of?

[Ayahuasca]

FourWheelDrift said:

The 1945 Bristol Freighter

No, not a Bristol Freighter, but an MGA roadster.

Call yourself a PHer?

[Stickyfinger]

Hamilcar-heavy load Glider

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

There was a motorised version of the GAL58 Hamilcar - the Mk X:



This was very much the basis for the thinking that became the GAL60 Universal Freighter which morphed into the abortion that was the Blackburn B101 Beverley of 1950 (after GAL and Blackburn merged in 1949).

[Eric Mc]

The original Globemaster II -




The Bud Canestoga



Although freight was loaded through the rear, with a raised flight deck a later version could have been fitted with nose doors.

[FourWheelDrift]

Any pre-dating 1941?

[Eric Mc]

No.

The need and the technology for large freight shifters really came about during WW2 so that is why we see these designs emerging in the mid to late 1940s. Before 1939 it would have been difficult anyway because the necessary powerful engines just weren't available yet.

[7mike]

Not amazing photos but may prompt some memories of when we saw this in our skies! This was at North Wield 1984 I think.

[MartG]

[16v_paddy]

What are those arms sticking out the side for?

[Dr Jekyll]

Eric Mc said:

The original Globemaster II -

Was this the 'Chinese freighter' in the Italian Job?

[MartG]

16v_paddy said:

What are those arms sticking out the side for?

HF radio antennae which fold down during flight operations

[FourWheelDrift]

Dr Jekyll said:

Was this the 'Chinese freighter' in the Italian Job?

It's predecessor the C-74 Globemaster was the Italian Job aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-74_Globema...

[Trevatanus]

16v_paddy said:

What are those arms sticking out the side for?

They're oars.
Cutbacks in the MOD are not new you know.

[Stickyfinger]

Trevatanus said:

They're oars.
Cutbacks in the MOD are not new you know.

Then it must be a Greek Aircraft Carrier then

[MartG]

North American F-100C (SN 54-1744) in flight with a US Army Blue Goose drone

[Stickyfinger]