Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[hammo19]

What tune should we sing this to?

[Eric Mc]

Aer Lingus has just had a Douglas DC-3 repainted in the colours they were flown in from around the late 1950s until the remaining fleet was disposed of in 1962. The DC-3 used is actually South African registered but it is painted as EI -ACD. I think it looks just lovely -

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

Aer Lingus has just had a Douglas DC-3 repainted in the colours they were flown in from around the late 1950s until the remaining fleet was disposed of in 1962. The DC-3 used is actually South African registered but it is painted as EI -ACD. I think it looks just lovely -

Beautiful !

[MartG]

Tooled up Orion

[JuniorD]

MartG said:

Eric Mc said:

Aer Lingus has just had a Douglas DC-3 repainted in the colours they were flown in from around the late 1950s until the remaining fleet was disposed of in 1962. The DC-3 used is actually South African registered but it is painted as EI -ACD. I think it looks just lovely -

Beautiful !

Wonderful

There's a great official video of it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHjT0wmPHnk

I saw a turobprop converted DC-3 recently and it just didn't have the soul of the piston engined aircraft

[mybrainhurts]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Fat Fairy said:

Never worked on them, but never heard them called anything other than Buccs.

FF

They were known as the 'Banana Jet' in Aircrew parlance.


GIVE ME BUCCANEERS

Don't give me the Jaguar,
Unless you refer to the car.
The car is a ground hog, the aircraft is half frog,
Dont give me the Jaguar.

(Chorus)
Give me Buccaneers,
They're British through and through.
The Banana Jet,
The Best we've had yet,
We are the last of the few.

Don't give me the Harrier jump jet,
You haven't convinced me yet.
Jets that fly backwards, is soon to be knackered,
Don't give me the Harrier jump jet.

(Chorus)
Give me Buccaneers,
They're British through and through.
The Banana Jet,
The Best we've had yet,
We are the last of the few.

Don't give me this computer crap,
It's no way to tackle a SAP.
It's OK for Dicks, Germans and Spicks,
But a Gentleman carries a map.

(Chorus)
Give me Buccaneers,
They're British through and through.
The Banana Jet,
The Best we've had yet,
We are the last of the few.

Don't give me Air Traffic Control,
They live in a bloody great hole.
They scream and they shout, then F##k you about,
Don't give me Air Traffic Control.

(Chorus)
Give me Buccaneers,
They're British through and through.
The Banana Jet,
The Best we've had yet,
We are the last of the few.

Don't give me the F-104,
It's only a ground loving we.
It goes in a turn, flick, spin, and burn.
Dont give me the F-104,

(Chorus x2)
Give me Buccaneers,
They're British through and through.
The Banana Jet,
The Best we've had yet,
WE ARE THE LAST OF THE FEW.

hammo19 said:

What tune should we sing this to?

I think it works reasonably well to the Luftwaffe march.....

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

hammo19 said:

What tune should we sing this to?

To be honest I can't remember, it's over 30 years since I last heard it sung.

[CanAm]

Eric Mc said:

Aer Lingus has just had a Douglas DC-3 repainted in the colours they were flown in from around the late 1950s until the remaining fleet was disposed of in 1962. The DC-3 used is actually South African registered but it is painted as EI -ACD. I think it looks just lovely -

Brings back memories of Speke Airport in the days when spectators were actually welcomed. Bristol Freighters too.

[irocfan]

[Bandit110]

[irocfan]

[ApOrbital]

Nice.

[B4rnst4ble]

Looks more like New York than south France to me

[ApOrbital]

[Caruso]

Spent an hour in the garden with Flightradar and my new Nikon P900 recording planes flying over.
This was my best pic - a Delta airlines plane at 30,000ft.

Edited by Caruso on Monday 7th August 00:24

[db]

Caruso said:

Spent an hour in the garden with Flightradar and my new Nikon P900 recording planes flying over.
This was my best pic - a Delta airlines plane at 30,000ft.

Edited by Caruso on Monday 7th August 00:24

Yer camera's upside-down

Very impressive though

[Eric Mc]

Great shot.

There is some seriously impressive video footage of high flying airliners available on youtube.

[MartG]

RAF Germany scenery shot with Bruggen Phantoms, Laarbruch Buccaneer, Wildenrath Harrier and Gutersloh Lightning seen over the Maas-river near Roermond, 1975. RAF/Crown copyright.

[Caruso]

Very pleasant surprise to see this fly past this afternoon while I had the camera with me.

[MartG]

Caruso said:

Very pleasant surprise to see this fly past this afternoon while I had the camera with me.

Must have got lost on it's way to Blackpool - only the Lanc and Spitfire showed up for the airshow this weekend