Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[kooky guy]

Eric Mc said:

There are about 4 or 5 Daimler Benz powered 109s currently flying, most in the US.

The example flying in Germany is actually a Buchon with its Merlin replaced by a DB605. The Buchon was essentially a 109G with a Merlin.

I hate seeing the Buchons and the fact that people seem to get so excited about them. They're just not the real thing but they're all made up to pretend to be.

[Dr Jekyll]

kooky guy said:

I hate seeing the Buchons and the fact that people seem to get so excited about them. They're just not the real thing but they're all made up to pretend to be.

I like seeing them, but I wish they would paint one up in authentic Spanish colours.

[irocfan]

Mutley said:

irocfan said:

are those genuine 109s or the Spanish version?

They're the Buchons, am not aware of any original 109s actively flying. The tail chase with the P51s yesterday was great

thanks for that, I thought they weren't 'right' glad it I maintained my geek status lol

[Blib]

[onyx39]

Blib said:

what, when, where?

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

kooky guy said:

I hate seeing the Buchons and the fact that people seem to get so excited about them. They're just not the real thing but they're all made up to pretend to be.

I like seeing them, but I wish they would paint one up in authentic Spanish colours.

In a way I agree. However, one of the Buchons flying in the UK is painted in the scheme it wore in the film "Battle of Britain" - which is, in itself, a historic scheme. And the film deserves to be recognised in the airshow circuit as it was this film that more or less kick started the warbird restoration movement in the UK.

[MattyTPhotos]

Farnborough 2014

Vulcan at Farnborough 2014 in full sun! by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

Vulcan at Farnborough 2014 in full sun! by Matt Toms Photography, on Flickr

[hidetheelephants]

ApOrbital said:

I suppose it could just be scruffy paint but the russki looks like a total shed.

[eccles]

hidetheelephants said:

ApOrbital said:

I suppose it could just be scruffy paint but the russki looks like a total shed.

Matt paint is a real bugger to clean.

[jmorgan]

Thought this was amazing yesterday.

[perdu]

Some bugger's bolted the rotor blades on the wrong way up

S'posed to be on the top innit.



That is a hell of a 'copter

[jhfozzy]

perdu said:

Some bugger's bolted the rotor blades on the wrong way up

S'posed to be on the top innit.



That is a hell of a 'copter

Especially considering it held the helicopter speed record from 1984 until very recently.

[perdu]

jhfozzy said:

perdu said:

That is a hell of a 'copter

Especially considering it held the helicopter speed record from 1984 until very recently.

Now you have disappointed me

I hadn't realised that she'd been beaten for speed

[jhfozzy]

perdu said:

jhfozzy said:

perdu said:

That is a hell of a 'copter

Especially considering it held the helicopter speed record from 1984 until very recently.

Now you have disappointed me

I hadn't realised that she'd been beaten for speed

Nor me, I was actually about to post that she was the fastest and was checking to make sure.

I was a little sad to hear she'd been beaten, unofficially in 2010 and officially in 2013. I wonder how they got over the supersonic blades issue that the Lynx had.

I was glad to read that G-LYNX had been restored in 2011, smoothed rivets and all!

[onyx39]

[jhfozzy]

onyx39@15:53 said:

Fantastic double posting skills, Saturday and then today.

[dandarez]

Voldemort said:

jmorgan said:

Blib said:

Doing their bit for Climate change.

Now that is a smoke display, not that wish washy stuff the Arrows chuck out.

Bloody amateurs.

Now this is a fking smoke display: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/f-i-d-o/query/fi...

Thanks for that link, not just for FIDO but the unexpected Mosquito clips and Don (Pathfinder) Bennett.
(after the war, the boss of Fairthorpe Cars Ltd, among his many other ventures).
Bennett, the man Bomber Harris said was the most efficient airman he had ever met.

He saw the potential of the then underestimated and magnificent Mosquito which was used principally as the leading aircraft of Pathfinder marking forces. He regularly and against regulations would fly a Mosquito himself to observe the marking of targets and the subsequent attacks.
Incredible man. Yet of all the senior RAF commanders he was alone in not being knighted. A man with such outright views, I think he tried to become an MP and even showed support for far right parties probably didn't help. Nonetheless, he should have been knighted.

[mybrainhurts]

perdu said:

Some bugger's bolted the rotor blades on the wrong way up

S'posed to be on the top innit.



That is a hell of a 'copter

Work of the Devil, yes...but, then, they all are. They were Not Meant To Be.

[hidetheelephants]

mybrainhurts said:

perdu said:

Some bugger's bolted the rotor blades on the wrong way up

S'posed to be on the top innit.



That is a hell of a 'copter

Work of the Devil, yes...but, then, they all are. They were Not Meant To Be.

An evil curse inflicted on aviation by Sikorski; true Englishmen should only ascend vertically in a Rotodyne or a Harrier.

[lloyd h]

Couple from HB14..

201 Squadron Falcões F-16M by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

RNLAF Chinook CH-47D by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr