Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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Eric Mc said:
It's a shame to see museum pieces become scrap.
Wales Aircraft Museum, Roose. RIP.
February 1996 - Avro Vulcan B.2 XM569 is broken up on site. One among many historic aircraft left outside and poorly cared for, a significant number of which were scrapped where they stood.
yellowjack said:
Eric Mc said:
It's a shame to see museum pieces become scrap.
Wales Aircraft Museum, Roose. RIP.
February 1996 - Avro Vulcan B.2 XM569 is broken up on site. One among many historic aircraft left outside and poorly cared for, a significant number of which were scrapped where they stood.
More Wales Air Museum aircraft. - https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/operator/Wales%20Airc...
Different fates.
Meteor WL332 at the museum
Meteor WL332 ended up at Long Marston.
Hawker Sea Hawk WV826 at the museum.
Hawker Sea Hawk WV826, today indoors and fully restored in Malta.
Different fates.
Meteor WL332 at the museum
Meteor WL332 ended up at Long Marston.
Hawker Sea Hawk WV826 at the museum.
Hawker Sea Hawk WV826, today indoors and fully restored in Malta.
Ayahuasca said:
http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8187278/
http://www.air-and-space.com/Boeing%20B-17G%20Libe...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-448...
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N5111N.html
She was rebuilt and returned to the air as "Liberty Belle". After her test bed career, she went to a museum where a storm caused extensive damage. A long period of storage followed until she was restored to airworthy condition. You could then buy rides in the 'plane to fund her continued operation, but on one such 'experience flight' she suffered an in-flight fire leading to an emergency landing in June 2011. Despite getting the aeroplane down relatively undamaged, the delay in the fire department getting to the field where she was put down meant that she was consumed by the fire ...
...but happily all seven paying passengers and the crew on board evacuated safely.
yellowjack said:
Sadly, although it survived for quite some time after it was originally sold for scrap in 1947 (before it's engine test bed days), it didn't end well for this aeroplane...
http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8187278/
http://www.air-and-space.com/Boeing%20B-17G%20Libe...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-448...
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N5111N.html
She was rebuilt and returned to the air as "Liberty Belle". After her test bed career, she went to a museum where a storm caused extensive damage. A long period of storage followed until she was restored to airworthy condition. You could then buy rides in the 'plane to fund her continued operation, but on one such 'experience flight' she suffered an in-flight fire leading to an emergency landing in June 2011. Despite getting the aeroplane down relatively undamaged, the delay in the fire department getting to the field where she was put down meant that she was consumed by the fire ...
...but happily all seven paying passengers and the crew on board evacuated safely.
And being restored (again) to airworthy condition using parts recovered and a donor B-17 fuselage recovered from a Canadian river.http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8187278/
http://www.air-and-space.com/Boeing%20B-17G%20Libe...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-448...
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N5111N.html
She was rebuilt and returned to the air as "Liberty Belle". After her test bed career, she went to a museum where a storm caused extensive damage. A long period of storage followed until she was restored to airworthy condition. You could then buy rides in the 'plane to fund her continued operation, but on one such 'experience flight' she suffered an in-flight fire leading to an emergency landing in June 2011. Despite getting the aeroplane down relatively undamaged, the delay in the fire department getting to the field where she was put down meant that she was consumed by the fire ...
...but happily all seven paying passengers and the crew on board evacuated safely.
Not an amazingly cool photo, but there is an amazingly cool, ice-cold, sub zero cool, thread on pprune called 'gaining a RAF pilot's brevet in WWII' that has been going for a decade or so. I only started reading it in earnest the other day and what a thread. Recommended for anyone with an interest in aviation history.
Have a Vultee Vengeance, reputed to be the only dive bomber apart from the Ju-87 that could dive vertically to drop its bombs. All you need to know about the VV is on that thread (as well as many other types..)
Those airbrakes were designed to limit the dive to about 300 knots, to give more time to line up the bomb sight (a normal reflector gunsight swivelled 90 degrees so it served as a bombsight (or really a dive angle measuring tool) - with the target.
Have a Vultee Vengeance, reputed to be the only dive bomber apart from the Ju-87 that could dive vertically to drop its bombs. All you need to know about the VV is on that thread (as well as many other types..)
Those airbrakes were designed to limit the dive to about 300 knots, to give more time to line up the bomb sight (a normal reflector gunsight swivelled 90 degrees so it served as a bombsight (or really a dive angle measuring tool) - with the target.
Ayahuasca said:
Not an amazingly cool photo, but there is an amazingly cool, ice-cold, sub zero cool, thread on pprune called 'gaining a RAF pilot's brevet in WWII' that has been going for a decade or so. I only started reading it in earnest the other day and what a thread. Recommended for anyone with an interest in aviation history.
Have a Vultee Vengeance, reputed to be the only dive bomber apart from the Ju-87 that could dive vertically to drop its bombs. All you need to know about the VV is on that thread (as well as many other types..)
Those airbrakes were designed to limit the dive to about 300 knots, to give more time to line up the bomb sight (a normal reflector gunsight swivelled 90 degrees so it served as a bombsight (or really a dive angle measuring tool) - with the target.
that is fantastic - i ll be reading that later!
Have a Vultee Vengeance, reputed to be the only dive bomber apart from the Ju-87 that could dive vertically to drop its bombs. All you need to know about the VV is on that thread (as well as many other types..)
Those airbrakes were designed to limit the dive to about 300 knots, to give more time to line up the bomb sight (a normal reflector gunsight swivelled 90 degrees so it served as a bombsight (or really a dive angle measuring tool) - with the target.
that is fantastic - i ll be reading that later!
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