Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[anonymous-user]

Baron Greenback said:

El stovey said:

I’m a bit lost with these new us army helicopters in development tbh. I thought that defiant thing had already flown? Wasn’t the defiant a Sikorsky Boeing aircraft SB 1?

More info https://newatlas.com/military/lockheed-martin-boei...

"Designed to replace the Black Hawk helicopter, the Defiant X looks very similar to its SB>1 Defiant predecessor, with the same basic layout, though the nose is sharper, the airframe more aerodynamic, and the engine nacelle has been refined to reduce its thermal signature."

So Lockheed Martin and Boeing are developing the defiant x which is based on the Sikorsky Boeing SB 1 defiant?

[irocfan]

[Ayahuasca]

[FourWheelDrift]

irocfan said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFxJcQiaZ-o

[CanAm]

Ayahuasca said:

That's an interesting motley crew.

[anonymous-user]

CanAm said:

Ayahuasca said:

That's an interesting motley crew.

Indeed, spitfire, Corsair and hellcat (facing away) barracudas.(on the right) a hurricane (facing the camera)

[FourWheelDrift]

El stovey said:

Indeed, spitfire, Corsair and hellcat (facing away) barracudas.(on the right) a hurricane (facing the camera)

Martlet (Wildcat) you can just see the main gear coming out of the fuselage not the wing on the Hellcat.

[anonymous-user]

FourWheelDrift said:

El stovey said:

Indeed, spitfire, Corsair and hellcat (facing away) barracudas.(on the right) a hurricane (facing the camera)

Martlet (Wildcat) you can just see the main gear coming out of the fuselage not the wing on the Hellcat.

Yeah it’s a (wildcat) martlet isn’t it.

Presumably these are all FAA aircraft?

[Ayahuasca]

El stovey said:

CanAm said:

Ayahuasca said:

That's an interesting motley crew.

Indeed, spitfire, Corsair and hellcat (facing away) barracudas.(on the right) a hurricane (facing the camera)

No spitfires there.

[anonymous-user]

Ayahuasca said:

No spitfires there.

How can you tell it’s a seafire?

Looks like an early spitfire no cannon and non folding wings.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 26th January 21:38

[RizzoTheRat]

El stovey said:

So Lockheed Martin and Boeing are developing the defiant x which is based on the Sikorsky Boeing SB 1 defiant?

LM bought Sikorsky a few years back

[Ayahuasca]

El stovey said:

Ayahuasca said:

No spitfires there.

How can you tell it’s a seafire?

Looks like an early spitfire no cannon and non folding wings.

Edited by El stovey on Tuesday 26th January 21:38

You know, you could be right. The photo is from 1943 of Women’s Royal Naval Service training station Mill Meece in Staffordshire, known as HMS Fledgling, where mechanics were trained. Hence maybe the strange Spit and the one -legged Hurricane (Sea Hurricane?).

[Eric Mc]

The Royal Navy did operate some Spitfires - as opposed to Seafires. They were generally land based and used as trainers for those who would eventually go on to fly actual Seafires.

[Speed 3]

[MartG]

[xeny]

MartG said:

Little bit of flap there on the '47.

Is it to get the speed to match, or to add drag so they can run a higher throttle opening for better engine responsiveness?

[irocfan]

[Baron Greenback]

Like that pic

[james_TW]

irocfan said:

This definitely qualifies

[Ayahuasca]

james_TW said:

irocfan said:

This definitely qualifies

Pulp: “Let’s all meet up in a Mirage 2000..”