Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[irocfan]

MartG said:

Nice article on the YA-7F

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/can-we-learn-som...

great article - I do like the plane too!

[LotusOmega375D]

Air National Guard Corsairs used to be annual visitors to Cottesmore in the early 1980s. The air would be permanently filled with their noise and that of the Starlifter support planes on arrival and departure days.

[Eric Mc]

They were powered by an American derivative of the Rolls Royce Spey.

[MartG]

[MartG]

The International Space Station (altitude 400 km) captured by chinese satellite Jilin-1 (altitude 640 km).

[anonymous-user]

MartG said:

The International Space Station (altitude 400 km) captured by chinese satellite Jilin-1 (altitude 640 km).

What a fantastic picture the clouds and sea details make the ISS look like it’s only at 40,000ft

[Eric Mc]

Very good.

Is that the same Chinese satellite that took the shot of the rocket taking off?

[LotusOmega375D]

They've now captured a Russian one too!

[Eric Mc]

The Americans started practising decades ago -

[FourWheelDrift]

anonymous said:

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Would have been funnier if it was a photo captured by a Canberra RB-57F.

[dr_gn]

anonymous said:

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Or even better, a Meteor PR.19

[generationx]

Eric Mc said:

The Americans started practising decades ago -

Ah - the "angry alligator"!

[Eric Mc]

Indeed. Some people at NASA wanted Gene Cernan to pop out with some cutters to try and free the strap that was causing the shroud to stick. That idea was vetoed pretty quickly.

[MartG]

[QuantumTokoloshi]

MartG said:

That still looks like something out of Sci-fi, almost 50 years on.

[james_tigerwoods]

Voldemort said:

I like that - Have you got a link to it??

[Voldemort]

james_tigerwoods said:

I like that - Have you got a link to it??

Sorry, no. Twas just something I saw on the internet and thought the board would like.

[ben5575]

Quick reverse google finds:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/RAF-Camera-1960s-Keith-Wi...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N07/42136415...

[james_tigerwoods]

ben5575 said:

Quick reverse google finds:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/RAF-Camera-1960s-Keith-Wi...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N07/42136415...

Brilliant Thanks

[irocfan]

it's not a picture - but it is amazingly cool (IMO)

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/...