Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

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Trevatanus

11,125 posts

151 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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MartG said:
When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday
Just saw that on Facebook, and came on to check no-one else had posted it!

tight5

2,747 posts

160 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Saw this on twitter -


ChemicalChaos

10,399 posts

161 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Is that a Corsair in RAF livery?

Eric Mc

122,048 posts

266 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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I think those shots are from a Fleet Air Arm base in Scotland.

hidetheelephants

24,448 posts

194 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Barracudas are as ugly on the ground as they are in the air.

yellowjack

17,080 posts

167 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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tight5 said:
Saw this on twitter -

Spitfire, Corsair, Wildcat. Easy enough. What's in partial shade on the left? I've no idea. Far end? Possibly Sea Hurricane, but I'm only guessing, due to the depth of the wing. Another snippet of radial engined Americana behind the building to the right? And are those two in the right foreground Fairey Barracudas?

The figure ahead of the port wing of the Corsair certainly looks like a Naval officer.

Munter

31,319 posts

242 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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MartG said:
When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday
I'm guessing, shortly afterwards there was a conversation that started:
So, trainee xxx. How do you think you did today?

Eric Mc

122,048 posts

266 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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yellowjack said:
Spitfire, Corsair, Wildcat. Easy enough. What's in partial shade on the left? I've no idea. Far end? Possibly Sea Hurricane, but I'm only guessing, due to the depth of the wing. Another snippet of radial engined Americana behind the building to the right? And are those two in the right foreground Fairey Barracudas?

The figure ahead of the port wing of the Corsair certainly looks like a Naval officer.
I can see

Seafire x 2
Corsair
Wildcat/Martlet
Barracudas x 2
Sea Hurricane

There could be something like a Ryan PT-19 at the rear of the shot.



AstonZagato

12,712 posts

211 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Munter said:
MartG said:
When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday
I'm guessing, shortly afterwards there was a conversation that started:
So, trainee xxx. How do you think you did today?
Meeting. No tea. No biscuits.

Escapegoat

5,135 posts

136 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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AstonZagato said:
Meeting. No tea. No biscuits.
Probably not quite as tricky a meeting as the one for the Norwegian F16 jockey who shot up a (manned) control tower this week. :-o

Trevatanus

11,125 posts

151 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Escapegoat said:
AstonZagato said:
Meeting. No tea. No biscuits.
Probably not quite as tricky a meeting as the one for the Norwegian F16 jockey who shot up a (manned) control tower this week. :-o
Apparently it's not the first time the tower has been attacked either!
Can imagine the people tasked with manning it on future exercises being a tad reluctant smile

Trevatanus

11,125 posts

151 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Posted by the "Boss" at 48th Fighter Wing based at Lakenheath.
First ever pass through the "Loop" of an F22.


NormalWisdom

2,139 posts

160 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Munter said:
MartG said:
When some things aren't as long as you think they are...



Rumoured to be at Coningsby yesterday
I'm guessing, shortly afterwards there was a conversation that started:
So, trainee xxx. How do you think you did today?
I was at Coningsby last Tuesday and they seem to make a habit of landing at the back-end of the threshold, pretty low over the road too

lloyd h

1,559 posts

174 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Flying around Tain Range during JW 16-1.
Sometimes You Just Gotta by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

Mr Whippy

29,055 posts

242 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Trevatanus said:
Posted by the "Boss" at 48th Fighter Wing based at Lakenheath.
First ever pass through the "Loop" of an F22.

Wow.

Are they louder than the Typhoon?

MartG

20,686 posts

205 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Black cat smile


Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

262 months

Sunday 8th May 2016
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£4000 in 1965 was equivalent to about £80,000 now in retail price terms. Not sure how many airworthy Spitfires there were then, Eric?

Quite possibly most people assumed they were far more common than they were. When the Battle of Britain film was made a few years later the producers were quite surprised how difficult it was to find airworthy fighters from a war barely 20 years past.

MartG

20,686 posts

205 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Trevatanus

11,125 posts

151 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Mr Whippy said:
Wow.

Are they louder than the Typhoon?
No idea sadly, that's not my pic.
The only time I have ever seen one, it was flying very slow and low and flanked by a pair of F15's

Z06George

2,519 posts

190 months

Friday 13th May 2016
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Mr Whippy said:
Wow.

Are they louder than the Typhoon?
IMHO definitely!
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