Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)
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DodgyGeezer said:
Not amazingly cool per se, but i figured this might be of interest. We're in Hang Zhou at the mo and several lots of these noisy buggers flew over us (apols for poor pic quality, rushed phone pic)
Bottom pic clearly some flavour of Flanker, but the top one intrigues me. Looks a bit Jaguar-esque, but can't think of a PLA equivalent (Edit: Google has thrown up the JH7A, if still in service)
MartG said:
The F7U-3 Cutlass ramp strike on USS Hancock (CVA-19) in 1955, one of the most infamous naval jet landing accidents ever.
The jet impacted the stern of the flight deck. It broke apart; the cockpit section tumbled down the deck. Miraculously, pilot Ensign B. L. Winterrowd survived, suffering only minor injuries.
Pilot didn't survive that, sadly.The jet impacted the stern of the flight deck. It broke apart; the cockpit section tumbled down the deck. Miraculously, pilot Ensign B. L. Winterrowd survived, suffering only minor injuries.
“The Cutlass could be made into a pretty good flying machine with a few modifications,” wrote F7U-3 pilot John Moore in The Wrong Stuff, about his Navy flying days. “Like a conventional tail, tripling the thrust, cutting the nosewheel strut in half, completely redoing the flight control system, and getting someone else to fly it.”
About 6:20 in this video
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/...
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/249790
havoc said:
DodgyGeezer said:
Bottom pic clearly some flavour of Flanker, but the top one intrigues me. Looks a bit Jaguar-esque, but can't think of a PLA equivalent (Edit: Google has thrown up the JH7A, if still in service)
d offspring of a Jaguar and a TSR-2, but who knows...
DodgyGeezer said:
they still look like something out of a scifi film 
https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/t...
It was a beast, although much like a TVR, in it's later life looked better from a distance, This was taken in the last year of 55Sqn from a Hawk.https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/t...
The view out of a Victor was pretty awful.
Edited by a340driver on Thursday 6th November 19:17
eharding said:
Much like a Griffith 500 - the view out of the windscreen was just fine, but if you wanted to see where you were probably going you need to look out of the side windows. Still miss it though.
Sounds exactly like the Victor in a crosswind. I don't miss it. I've been lucky to fly lots of frankly better aircraft albeit nowhere as weird. It had the H2S radar from the Lancaster! When you planned a trip across the pond you had to preselect your ILS frequencies because you had a choice of 6 crystals which were only changed by ground engineers. So your diversion choices were frozen from the planning stage.I've been grateful that the windows on modern aircraft allow you to see out when you're given a 40kt crosswind.
a340driver said:
When you planned a trip across the pond you had to preselect your ILS frequencies because you had a choice of 6 crystals which were only changed by ground engineers. So your diversion choices were frozen from the planning stage.
Much the same as the ADF in my old Yak-52 - apparently the small set of available frequencies was preselected by engineers on the ground, although in that case the reason was apparently that a budding young Soviet-bloc aviator who decided to defect to the West wasn't able to arbitrarily navigate using NDBs he wasn't supposed to. Presumably also stopped them using the ADF to listen to the cricket, which just goes to show how morally bankrupt the Soviet system was.Voldemort said:
My Dad flew the bulk of his operations in IX Squadron's WS D. Here's a photo of him and presumably the rest of the crew plus the ground crew in front of it. The pilot (who was an Aussie) seems to have gone AWOL in this photo, which was probably taken at RAF Bardney in 1944. My Dad is the central one of the three in battledress under the roundel.
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