Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Steve_D]

MartG said:

Do you have a high res version of that pic or know where I can find one?
fancy that printed out on my wall.

Steve

[ben5575]

Blueg33's post reminded me of several cockpits that are (or were, see link below) sat in a farmer's field near to me. Used to see them across the river when out walking the dog.

They were put on display at the airshow at Teesside Airport last summer



Link to article: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/wa...

[MartG]

Steve_D said:

MartG said:

Do you have a high res version of that pic or know where I can find one?
fancy that printed out on my wall.

Steve

It's from here http://www.oxonimages.com/prints.html

[FourWheelDrift]

ben5575 said:

Blueg33's post reminded me of several cockpits that are (or were, see link below) sat in a farmer's field near to me. Used to see them across the river when out walking the dog.

They were put on display at the airshow at Teesside Airport last summer



Link to article: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/wa...

More photos on here of it and the other he has - http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Info/Images/Vampire....

[ben5575]

FourWheelDrift said:

More photos on here of it and the other he has - http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Info/Images/Vampire....

Excellent. Thanks for that!

[MartG]

[hammo19]

ben5575 said:

Excellent. Thanks for that!

Are they back on the farm now?

[Trevatanus]

A couple of shots of a C5 departure from Fairford yesterday.
IMG_2315 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr
IMG_2351 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

[MartG]

Clockwise from top - F-104, F-89, F-106, F-86D, F-101, F-102

[highflyer]

does this count ?

[perdu]

Works for me

[MartG]

[LotusOmega375D]

What's the one with the blue tail?

[Dr Jekyll]

LotusOmega375D said:

What's the one with the blue tail?

Lightning F1 or F2.

[yellowjack]

MartG said:

Pre-1968, due to being photo-bombed by that Anson. The last one was out of service in June '68.

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

LotusOmega375D said:

What's the one with the blue tail?

Lightning F1 or F2.

Early Lightnings had a narrower tail fin with a rounded top.

[yellowjack]

Leading me on to these pictures...





All four crew survived, and the pair were flown, locked together, using flight controls in the upper aircraft to fly with the power provided by the engines in the lower one.

The one remaining pilot on board, LAC Leonard G. Fuller, brought them down like that, under control, in a spot of his own choosing.

Both aircraft were repaired - one returned to flying status, the other as a ground instructional aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-...

http://worldwarwings.com/pilot-lands-avro-anson-an...

There's newsreel film of the aftermath on the second link too...

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

LotusOmega375D said:

What's the one with the blue tail?

It's a 92 Sqn jet so it's a Lightning F Mk 2.

[Ayahuasca]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

LotusOmega375D said:

What's the one with the blue tail?

It's a 92 Sqn jet so it's a Lightning F Mk 2.

There was a drawing of one of those (pointy tail lightning) inside the back cover of the Ladybird Book of The Story of Flight

[Eric Mc]

Ayahuasca said:

There was a drawing of one of those (pointy tail lightning) inside the back cover of the Ladybird Book of The Story of Flight

The original Airfix kit of the Lightning was an F1A.