Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[The real Apache]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Sabre

[FourWheelDrift]

Yertis said:

I'll guess this is a Vulture powered Tornado/Typhoon type-thing?

Yep, it's the Rolls-Royce Vulture powered Hawker Tornado.

[The real Apache]

doh,

[FourWheelDrift]

The real Apache said:

doh,

The Vulture was an X configuration engine, 2 V-12s (RR Peregrines) mounted one on top of the other with a shared crank so it had 4 rows of exhaust stubs, 2 on either side. Also used on the 2 engined Avro Manchester bomber.

[mrmaggit]

The real Apache said:

There was a scale model of that engine at the Donington Model Engineers show a few years back. It was bloody marvellous.

[Dr Jekyll]

FourWheelDrift said:

The real Apache said:

doh,

The Vulture was an X configuration engine, 2 V-12s (RR Peregrines) mounted one on top of the other with a shared crank so it had 4 rows of exhaust stubs, 2 on either side. Also used on the 2 engined Avro Manchester bomber.

Mmmm, make a new engine by taking a notoriously unreliable existing engine and combining 2 of them.

[The real Apache]

FourWheelDrift said:

The real Apache said:

doh,

The Vulture was an X configuration engine, 2 V-12s (RR Peregrines) mounted one on top of the other with a shared crank so it had 4 rows of exhaust stubs, 2 on either side. Also used on the 2 engined Avro Manchester bomber.

And probably destroyed more of em than the Luftwaffe

[Rouleur]

Roll out of last ever Shuttle





Huge high res here

[M-J-B]

Rouleur said:

Roll out of last ever Shuttle



Huge high res here

Brilliant!

[Eric Mc]

I thought there were two missions left?

(And possibly even a third).

[Rouleur]

Eric Mc said:

I thought there were two missions left?

(And possibly even a third).

You're right of course, I just got my words in the wrong order and forgot to include the word 'Discovery'... Silly me!


Atlantis launched for the last time earlier this year:

Edited by Rouleur on Saturday 25th September 11:55

[blueedge]

[FourWheelDrift]

From the RAF collection.

Vicker Vildebeest single engined biplane bombers at Singapore, no it's not 1928 when these aircrat entered service with the RAF it's 1942, this is what we had to go up against the invading Japanese forces.





Prototype Handley-Page Victor, Farnborough 1953.





Supermarine Southamptons on patrol, give us a wave!





"GO UP" apt code for 4 Squadron Mosquitoes being serviced.

[RizzoTheRat]

love the colour scheme on that Victor

[FourWheelDrift]

RizzoTheRat said:

love the colour scheme on that Victor

In colour on this video at 3m57s mark - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CTsFwJ9Sk dark blue and silver.

Also includes the prototype Valiant B2 in it's black scheme at 3m23s

[Marshdweller]

I hope this hasn't already been posted (I haven't gone through all 500 pages of Volume 1)



One of my favourite planes, the Lockheed Lightning. I must confess I don't know enough about the different versions to say which particular version it is.

Edited by Marshdweller on Saturday 25th September 23:16

[tdm34ds]

Marshdweller said:

I hope this hasn't already been posted (I haven't gone through all 500 pages of Volume 1)



One of my favourite planes, the Lockheed Lightning. I must confess I don't know enough about the different versions to say which particular version it is.

Edited by Marshdweller on Saturday 25th September 23:16

Great first post Marshdweller!

[marksx]

I'm glad I found this thread.

Can I ask what's happening here:

blueedge said:

Edited by marksx on Sunday 26th September 12:09

[FourWheelDrift]

Australian F1-11 dumping fuel and then lighting it with it's afterburners. Always a airshow thing but IIRC they aren't allowed to do it anymore. The fuel dump is situated between the two jet exhausts.

Always looks good in a climb

[Yertis]

tdm34ds said:

Marshdweller said:

I hope this hasn't already been posted (I haven't gone through all 500 pages of Volume 1)



One of my favourite planes, the Lockheed Lightning. I must confess I don't know enough about the different versions to say which particular version it is.

Edited by Marshdweller on Saturday 25th September 23:16

Great first post Marshdweller!

That reminds me of this sad story...