Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[magpie215]

Sad news but probably not unexpected apparently the guppy has been moved to a dispersal for cutting up.

[LotusOmega375D]

[magpie215]

OscarJ said:

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

BTW the image is reverse the refuelling probes to starboard are the giveaway

I posted this pic in a Lightning group I'm a member of (credited you Oscar)....anyway heres a reply.

If that pic was taken from the ground on 29 or 30 Sept '70, there's a possibility it's me and Mervyn Fowler. RCDS/NATO event Waddington. Horrendous weather, had to join the tanker around 12,000ft in the Hull area.On rehearsal day, left hose would only trail half way then jam. After several attempts, tanker called for one last try before switching to the spare. Hose appeared at great speed and full length, detached from pod and fell wriggling into the cloud. We heard plugged-in flyby were banned thereafter.

Edited by magpie215 on Friday 27th November 21:00

Edited by magpie215 on Friday 27th November 21:00

[Ayahuasca]

All photos posted in the Facebook Spitfires Group with appropriate permissions. Hope they don’t mind sharing.

[RDMcG]

A pic from my 2021 calendar from the Canadian warplane heritage museum of the Canadian Lancaster and a Mossie from the Military Heritage museum..I have flown in the Lancaster but imagine I will never get to the Mosquito:

[tog]

PRTVR said:

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

I think they have of those at the Army Air Corps museum in Middle Wallop. There's also a similar thing which just has a person where the jeep is in this.

[Ayahuasca]

Gerry Weatherhead

[eccles]

OscarJ said:

A few from fathers logbook

That one look like Valley on what was Goshawk line (big ASP near the main gate). The white building in the background was the sea angling club in the 80's (very good bar!) and you can just see the shapes of the blister hangars behind the aircraft.

[james_TW]

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

[Rogue86]

RDMcG said:

A pic from my 2021 calendar from the Canadian warplane heritage museum of the Canadian Lancaster and a Mossie from the Military Heritage museum..I have flown in the Lancaster but imagine I will never get to the Mosquito:

Great opportunity and a lovely shot.

[CanAm]

james_TW said:

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

Supermarine were famous for their seaplanes.

[james_TW]

CanAm said:

james_TW said:

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

Supermarine were famous for their seaplanes.

This is, genuinely, a new one on me

[yellowjack]

james_TW said:

CanAm said:

james_TW said:

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

Supermarine were famous for their seaplanes.

This is, genuinely, a new one on me

Plenty more (highly unlikely) float and ski equipped aeroplanes where that one came from... http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tab...

[Eric Mc]

james_TW said:

Wait. What?

A number of Sptfires were converted to floatplanes during the war, initially using MkVs and later MkIXs. It was expected they might be useful in the Med or the Pacific. In the end, the idea wasn't pursued.

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

james_TW said:

Wait. What?

A number of Sptfires were converted to floatplanes during the war, initially using MkVs and later MkIXs. It was expected they might be useful in the Med or the Pacific. In the end, the idea wasn't pursued.

The first one was done (iirc) by Folland, on Southampton Water, near Hamble. They were building the assemblies for Spitfires anyway, I think, and ended up mating a Mk1 Spitfire to the floats of a Blackburn Roc.

At various points the development of a float version of a Spitfire or Hurricane was prompted by a situation which, by the time development work started in earnest, had changed. First was Norway, and a Spitfire float plane was mooted because the short range of UK fighters meant no useable loiter time over the coast of Norway when flying from Scotland. But the Germans took control of Norway before prototype work could be done. Then it was suggested for the Med/Aegean, to disrupt German supply lines by flying from Greek Islands and sheltered coastal inlets, but again, German military victories put the idea swiftly to bed. And finally, they played with the idea again for the MkIV, with a view to pressing them forward to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy's float planes in the Pacific Campaign. But like the Tiger Force of Bomber Command, that idea was scrapped after the Americans got ahead of the game by dropping atomic bombs on Japan and bringing forward the end of the war.

ETA: Found it! https://www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/unusual...

Edited by yellowjack on Monday 30th November 13:26

[Ayahuasca]

james_TW said:

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

Going back to its roots.

[CanAm]

james_TW said:

CanAm said:

james_TW said:

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

Supermarine were famous for their seaplanes.

This is, genuinely, a new one on me

Then I suppose you've never heard of the Spitfires carrying 2 passengers, in "body bags" strapped to the wings?

[james_TW]

CanAm said:

Then I suppose you've never heard of the Spitfires carrying 2 passengers, in "body bags" strapped to the wings?

Um. Nope

[irocfan]

Ayahuasca said:

james_TW said:

Ayahuasca said:

Wait. What?

Going back to its roots.

not being a smart alec - but is that where the marine in Supermarine Spitfire comes from?

[Ayahuasca]

irocfan said:

not being a smart alec - but is that where the marine in Supermarine Spitfire comes from?

I imagine so. Eric will no doubt confirm. Their first base was a boat yard and they built a series of seaplanes, obvs.