Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[Eric Mc]

xeny 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?

The B-47 (and most 1950s jets) had a real problem with slowing down sufficiently to be able to hook up to the lumbering piston engined tankers in use (Boeing KB-29, KB-50 and KC-97). That's why Boeing was very easilly able to convince the USAF that they needed a dedicated jet powered tanker aircraft - which became the KC-135.

[Ayahuasca]

Ayahuasca said:

james_TW said:

irocfan said:

This definitely qualifies

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

Actually maybe a Mirage 2000N/D the bomber versions.

[MrBridger]

Nice image, but photoshop..

[ktcanuck]

MrBridger said:

Nice image, but photoshop..

Nope!

[anonymous-user]

ktcanuck said:

MrBridger said:

Nice image, but photoshop..

Nope!

More here

https://www.e-pic.se/Aircraft/Aircraft-sorted-by-t...

[spitfire-ian]

Was scanning a load of slides we had in the loft which were taken by my partner’s father in the 1960s and 70s. There were a few airshow ones among them which were mostly black dots on a light sky. However this one grabbed my attention!

[s111dpc]

El stovey said:

ktcanuck said:

MrBridger said:

Nice image, but photoshop..

Nope!

More here

https://www.e-pic.se/Aircraft/Aircraft-sorted-by-t...

Some great pictures in there

[MrBridger]

El stovey said:

ktcanuck said:

MrBridger said:

Nice image, but photoshop..

Nope!

More here

https://www.e-pic.se/Aircraft/Aircraft-sorted-by-t...

I stand corrected! it looked to me as if the foreground aircraft had it's serial number on the forward fuselage painted out

[Teddy Lop]

El stovey said:

ktcanuck said:

MrBridger said:

Nice image, but photoshop..

Nope!

More here

https://www.e-pic.se/Aircraft/Aircraft-sorted-by-t...

I remember a French display of a pair of mirage F1s, might have been some test or evaluation department, at fairford in the 90s, they got remarkably close. In fact the only closer I've seen two airplanes were those crazy ivans in their mig-29s in 93, although their definition of togetherness lacked the suggestive gallic coquettish.

[xeny]

spitfire-ian said:

Was scanning a load of slides we had in the loft which were taken by my partner’s father in the 1960s and 70s. There were a few airshow ones among them which were mostly black dots on a light sky. However this one grabbed my attention!

Wonder who was leading the Reds that year?

[Voldemort]

Superb Owl Flypast

[yellowjack]

Voldemort said:

Superb Owl Flypast

Irritatingly described as a "fighter plane flypast" on BBC Breakfast news this morning too...

[DJFish]

I noticed that.

[anonymous-user]

Quick Super Bowl fly past video here too

https://youtu.be/minANGfy3lg

[FourWheelDrift]

El stovey said:

Quick Super Bowl fly past video here too

https://youtu.be/minANGfy3lg

But they didn't drop anything, disappointed.

[Muppet007]

Teddy Lop said:

I remember a French display of a pair of mirage F1s, might have been some test or evaluation department, at fairford in the 90s, they got remarkably close. In fact the only closer I've seen two airplanes were those crazy ivans in their mig-29s in 93, although their definition of togetherness lacked the suggestive gallic coquettish.

Yep and one of the Migs chop the other in half, not sure if that was fairford. I do remember the Aussie F111 doing a fuel dump the following day as part of his display and people thought it was another crash.

[Teddy Lop]

Muppet007 said:

Yep and one of the Migs chop the other in half, not sure if that was fairford. I do remember the Aussie F111 doing a fuel dump the following day as part of his display and people thought it was another crash.

The Aussie F111 did the fuel dump+reheat trick in the flying display a couple of hours after the mig crash, too. Them Aussies just don't give a xxxx

[Eric Mc]

Muppet007 said:

Yep and one of the Migs chop the other in half, not sure if that was fairford. I do remember the Aussie F111 doing a fuel dump the following day as part of his display and people thought it was another crash.

Fairford 1993 - I was there.

The Aussie F-111 had just done its dump and burn trick BEFORE the two MiGs did their display.

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

Muppet007 said:

Yep and one of the Migs chop the other in half, not sure if that was fairford. I do remember the Aussie F111 doing a fuel dump the following day as part of his display and people thought it was another crash.

Fairford 1993 - I was there.

The Aussie F-111 had just done its dump and burn trick BEFORE the two MiGs did their display.

One of the Russian pilots did a light up and burn after the display too - https://youtu.be/fBNON6NTFIY?t=65

[irocfan]