Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[tdm34]

Eric Mc said:

Ayahuasca said:

Should give the IDers some gentle exercise.

G-AIDN still exists and is being restored to flying condition.

de Havilland Hornet, what an aircraft, apparently Eric "Winkle" Brown's favourite prop driven aircraft.

[GliderRider]

tdm34 said:

Eric Mc said:

Ayahuasca said:

Should give the IDers some gentle exercise.

G-AIDN still exists and is being restored to flying condition.

de Havilland Hornet, what an aircraft, apparently Eric "Winkle" Brown's favourite prop driven aircraft.

As the UK appears to have only made one twin engined aircraft with contra-rotating propellers, No. 80 must be Short Sturgeon RK791, which competed in the Air League Challenge Cup Race of 1949 with an average speed of 295 mph.

[xeny]

GliderRider said:

As the UK appears to have only made one twin engined aircraft with contra-rotating propellers, No. 80 must be Short Sturgeon RK791, which competed in the Air League Challenge Cup Race of 1949 with an average speed of 295 mph.

Thanks, that was bugging me. It seems huge for an aircraft intended for carrier use.

[LotusOmega375D]

So it’s the start/finish of an air race then?

[GliderRider]

LotusOmega375D said:

So it’s the start/finish of an air race then?

Yes, by the looks of it. Just imagine the next time the Royal Aero Club put on a King's Cup Air Race, if some RAF chappie rocks up in a Eurofighter Typhoon.

If you Google 1949 King's Cup Elmdon, there are quite a few photos of competitor's aircraft.

There is also this Youtube clip, which even shows the De Havilland 108 Swallow with a racing number: 1949 King's Cup Air Race

[Jake899]

xeny said:

Thanks, that was bugging me. It seems huge for an aircraft intended for carrier use.

Technically the Gannet was also a twin engined/contrarotating prop aircraft...

[GliderRider]

Jake899 said:

Technically the Gannet was also a twin engined/contrarotating prop aircraft...

Jake899, you're right, I hadn't thought of the Gannet. By that measure, the Blackburn B-88 which was in competition with the Gannet, and also used the Double Mamba, also fits the bill, although it didn't enter service.

[ruwokeenuff]

GliderRider said:

Jake899 said:

Technically the Gannet was also a twin engined/contrarotating prop aircraft...

Jake899, you're right, I hadn't thought of the Gannet. By that measure, the Blackburn B-88 which was in competition with the Gannet, and also used the Double Mamba, also fits the bill, although it didn't enter service.

In the 60's and 70's .....some called the Gannet the mail plane!

[MartG]

After making an emergency landing in 1942 and being buried in ice and snow for decades, this Lockheed P-38F Lightning was returned to flying status in 2002.

Named 'Glacier Girl', the aircraft sat abandoned until it was salvaged in 1988 by the Greenland Expedition Society.

[RizzoTheRat]

Ok so not actually an aircraft but....


Boeing build this to train 747 pilots how to taxi



You'd think they'd have moved in to simulators by the 90's but apparently this one was for the 777

[DodgyGeezer]

MartG said:

After making an emergency landing in 1942 and being buried in ice and snow for decades, this Lockheed P-38F Lightning was returned to flying status in 2002.

Named 'Glacier Girl', the aircraft sat abandoned until it was salvaged in 1988 by the Greenland Expedition Society.

excellent pic

[DodgyGeezer]

[JeremyH5]

Oh I say, good job!

[Penny Whistle]

That's a half-hearted bodge if ever there was one. Were there no ratchet straps available?

[GliderRider]

DodgyGeezer said:

It is a permanent repair if it lasted for the remaining life of the aeroplane.

[ruwokeenuff]

Penny Whistle said:

That's a half-hearted bodge if ever there was one. Were there no ratchet straps available?

HBM

[Yertis]

MartG said:

After making an emergency landing in 1942 and being buried in ice and snow for decades, this Lockheed P-38F Lightning was returned to flying status in 2002.

Named 'Glacier Girl', the aircraft sat abandoned until it was salvaged in 1988 by the Greenland Expedition Society.

It's a tragedy that the Kittyhawk found in the desert a few years ago didn't meet a similar fate, or even better, be preserved 'as found'.

[GliderRider]

[MartG]

Wow !

[tdm34]

GliderRider said:

Reno Racer? Looks like a Sea Fury with the Centaurus/ Big P&W being given the berries..........

Great Photo!