Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

It's amazing anybody thought that this contraption was going to work.

[Stickyfinger]

That is just a big drone

[Eric Mc]

It was crewed - and one person was killed when it crashed on its first attempt at flight.

As I said, what were they thinking?

[Dr Jekyll]

Eric Mc said:

It was crewed - and one person was killed when it crashed on its first attempt at flight.

As I said, what were they thinking?

According to Wikipedia there was at least one successful flight. I was a bit surprised this all happened in 1986, it looked like some early 50s lunacy.

[Tango13]

MartG said:

Hmmm - doesn't look at all unsafe, does it...

With ideas like that you can understand why the designer is ex US Navy

[yellowjack]

On 17-20 April 2012, the annual Doolittle Raiders Reunion was held at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the famous and audacious B-25 raid on Tokyo. This event featured not only the largest gathering of B-25 Mitchell bombers since WWII (20 aircraft in attendance), but also four of the five surviving crewmembers from the raid. A mass flyover of B-25s was also performed.

[Eric Mc]

I saw three B-25s on the ground at Dublin Airport in 1978. They were staging through to the UK for filming of the movie "Hanover Street".

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

I saw three B-25s on the ground at Dublin Airport in 1978. They were staging through to the UK for filming of the movie "Hanover Street".

IIRC there was a TV programme at the time about that ferry flight - title was something like 'B-25s do fly in IFR'

[Eric Mc]

Indeed there was. It was shown on Channel 4 in 1982 (which was a brand new TV channel at the time) and was called "Mitchells Do Fly in IMC".

It looks like it's on you tube now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoYi8da6yD0

[Steve_D]

Thanks Eric that was splendid.

Steve

[MartG]

Su-25 after a direct hit from a Georgian 9K38 Igla missile

[JuniorD]

Dr Jekyll said:

Eric Mc said:

It was crewed - and one person was killed when it crashed on its first attempt at flight.

As I said, what were they thinking?

According to Wikipedia there was at least one successful flight. I was a bit surprised this all happened in 1986, it looked like some early 50s lunacy.

Me too.

At first I thought this was an airship for transporting multiple helicopter fuselages. Once the rotors started, I assumed it was a crazy 1950s Russian thing.

[NM62]

Eric Mc said:

I saw three B-25s on the ground at Dublin Airport in 1978. They were staging through to the UK for filming of the movie "Hanover Street".

I saw them at Blakbushe around then too, think they had a couple more too. Sadly it was before I bought a camera so didn’t have any record other than in the log book!

[Ayahuasca]

MartG said:

Su-25 after a direct hit from a Georgian 9K38 Igla missile

That looks very serious indeed. They seem to have knocked over a beer bottle.

[FourWheelDrift]

The engine looks a bit rusty, it's probably been flown like that for a few weeks

[Stickyfinger]

FourWheelDrift said:

The engine looks a bit rusty, it's probably been flown like that for a few weeks

Not rust, they run it on Castrol-R.....turbine-heads

[anonymous-user]

Made it back to base though. Looks like a tough old bird.

[Fastdruid]

El stovey said:

Made it back to base though. Looks like a tough old bird.

It's a ground support plane, someone analogous to the A-10 in that its designed to be a flying tank and specifically designed to be able to take damage.

Although the A-10 was designed round its gun while the SU-25 serves more of a general role.

Interesting comparison between the two here: https://battle-machines.org/2015/07/26/a-10-thunde...

[Kenty]

Pretty rare photo of NASA S-3 Viking

[MartG]

AWACS Hurricane ?