Extinct aircraft

[telecat]

There's a Victor at Elvington Air Museum that Ground Taxi's, also the One at Bruntingthorpe did take off in 2009. To the dismay of the CAA!!!

[richw_82]

williamp said:

In the excellent Coventry airpoty museum (where you can climb into most of thd cockpits of the aircraft ona good sunday, inclduing a Vulcan) they have a display with the only remains of the Whitley bomber.

Its not the last Whitley bit, there's a group been collecting Whitley parts for a few years now. They are looking to making a complete, albeit composite, example.

There's also about two and a half Albermarle front fuselages kicking about too.

With regards to the Victor at Bruntingthorpe, I don't believe the CAA were worried after they investigated it's hop. There was a lot of info from the 'pilot' over on pprune shortly after which explained it all.

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Ayahuasca said:

Take one DH91, add steroids,


Lockheed Connie.

As soon as I saw the DH-91 I thought it looked like a slightly melted Constellation. Wonder who copied who?

Neither. The Albatros was an all wood aircraft - with serious structural problems incidently. But a beautiful design none the less.

The Connie was designed around the same time but was all metal - and pressurised to boot.

The designer of the Albatros, Arthur Hagg, went on to design another elegant British airliner, the Airspeed Ambassador - also extinct from a flying point of view (although one is on static display at Duxford).

Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 4th December 15:37

[CelicaGT]

pacman1 said:

CelicaGT said:

Tu-144

Speak to NASA

Yes, I knew about NASA flying one, but sadly the last flight was 1999, so I think it qualifies as a 'non-flying extinct' aircraft.

[FourWheelDrift]

Aurora and whatever else they have in Area 51 that they say doesn't exist or is extinct