Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[eccles]

El stovey said:

Name the mirages, no cheating

Such a beautiful family of aircraft.

[anonymous-user]

Dr Jekyll said:

El stovey said:

Name the mirages, no cheating

Not sure. But I'd say from the back, IV, III, V, F1, G. May have got III and V the wrong way round.

Very close Mirage G8-01, Mirage F1, Mirage IIIE, Mirage IIIB, Mirage IV A

[MartG]

[Baron Greenback]

Close flying of Blue Angels 3 planes in that shot!

[Ash_]

Baron Greenback said:

Close flying of Blue Angels 3 planes in that shot!

Blue Angels are bloody mental to be honest!

Going back to Mirages, did the French have a STOVL variant of Mirage or was that just a.......mirage?

[Eric Mc]

They did - and it crashed - twice.

[Ayahuasca]

The pictured aircraft (Eric’s post above) is the Mirage V Balzac.

It was a test bed for the Mirage IIIV that looked very similar to the Balzac, but was about twice the size.

It had 8 engines to provide vertical lift, and one to provide normal thrust.

Not a successful design.

This is a Mirage III V. The V is for vertical, not part of the Roman numeral sequencing.

Edited by Ayahuasca on Tuesday 24th November 00:59

[Ayahuasca]

[Ayahuasca]

[PRTVR]

And now for something a little bit different.....


There was plans for a tank modified the same, but it was never built.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafner_Rotabuggy

[Ayahuasca]

Disappointed that is not called a Gyrojeep.

[mko9]

Sort of defeats the all-terrain, go anywhere nature of a Jeep when you bolt a huge tail appendage and a rotor onto it.

[Riff Raff]

mko9 said:

Sort of defeats the all-terrain, go anywhere nature of a Jeep when you bolt a huge tail appendage and a rotor onto it.

The departure angle is going to be pretty crap....

[RizzoTheRat]

Meanwhile in Russia



Sadly only flew once though.

[james_TW]

Riff Raff said:

mko9 said:

Sort of defeats the all-terrain, go anywhere nature of a Jeep when you bolt a huge tail appendage and a rotor onto it.

The departure angle is going to be pretty crap....

I think using that arrester hook won't end well

(I know it's not one )

[OscarJ]

A few from fathers logbook

[LotusOmega375D]

Very nice.
Looks like he needed a lens cleaner!

[Eric Mc]

Very nostalgic pictures. I presume they are mid to late 1960s?

[OscarJ]

Yeah that’s about right. The Vulcans in Goose Bay were 1969.

[Eric Mc]

Like the Hastings at the end.