Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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AlexIT said:
Not sure if this has been posted already:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/multimedia/...
It covers test aircrafts used by NASA (NACA) from the 40's until now
I've seen a version of it. It's a pity it only starts with the 1940s. The NACA started in 1916 - so there are 30 plus years of earlier test aircraft and experiments in their archives.https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/multimedia/...
It covers test aircrafts used by NASA (NACA) from the 40's until now
Eric Mc said:
I've seen a version of it. It's a pity it only starts with the 1940s. The NACA started in 1916 - so there are 30 plus years of earlier test aircraft and experiments in their archives.
And that is not even mentioning the ones they are testing but not telling us ... [insert X-Files Audio here]What about this competing experiment... Kudos for the guy to have some big enough to do it actually himself and managing not kill himself...
greghm said:
And that is not even mentioning the ones they are testing but not telling us ... [insert X-Files Audio here]
What about this competing experiment... Kudos for the guy to have some big enough to do it actually himself and managing not kill himself...
Give him time.What about this competing experiment... Kudos for the guy to have some big enough to do it actually himself and managing not kill himself...
This is Mad Mike Hughes, who launched himself 1,800 feet high in a homemade steam powered rocket, in an effort to prove that Earth is flat. TBH a Cessna could have done that; but he does plan to go 62 miles high to finally lay this global world rubbish to rest.
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On this day 50 years ago - April 5th 1968, a Flt.Lt. Alan Pollock of 1(F)sqn got pissed off and decided to do something about it.
He was pissed off that 4 days before there had been no big official flypast for the RAF's 50th birthday, and that both the RAF and aircraft industry were being run down in favour of a spurious love of guided missiles.
So, he got into his Hunter FGA.9 from Tangmere (itself about to be closed), buzzed several airfields, the RAF memorial on the Embankment and the Houses of Parliament, and carried on by flying through Tower Bridge. He then went and flew inverted at 200ft over Wattisham, Lakenheath and Marham before landing at RAF West Raynham.
He was then arrested, the rest of the squadron detached to North Africa, but the MoD didn't want to give him the platform of a court martial so he was "retired" from the service on medical grounds. He received hundreds of letters of support, and a barrel of beer from BOAC.
You'll all be delighted to know that at the age of 82 Alan Pollock is still alive and well, although his career after leaving the RAF was in engineering, not flying.
He was pissed off that 4 days before there had been no big official flypast for the RAF's 50th birthday, and that both the RAF and aircraft industry were being run down in favour of a spurious love of guided missiles.
So, he got into his Hunter FGA.9 from Tangmere (itself about to be closed), buzzed several airfields, the RAF memorial on the Embankment and the Houses of Parliament, and carried on by flying through Tower Bridge. He then went and flew inverted at 200ft over Wattisham, Lakenheath and Marham before landing at RAF West Raynham.
He was then arrested, the rest of the squadron detached to North Africa, but the MoD didn't want to give him the platform of a court martial so he was "retired" from the service on medical grounds. He received hundreds of letters of support, and a barrel of beer from BOAC.
You'll all be delighted to know that at the age of 82 Alan Pollock is still alive and well, although his career after leaving the RAF was in engineering, not flying.
MartG said:
On this day 50 years ago - April 5th 1968, a Flt.Lt. Alan Pollock of 1(F)sqn got pissed off and decided to do something about it.
He was pissed off that 4 days before there had been no big official flypast for the RAF's 50th birthday, and that both the RAF and aircraft industry were being run down in favour of a spurious love of guided missiles.
So, he got into his Hunter FGA.9 from Tangmere (itself about to be closed), buzzed several airfields, the RAF memorial on the Embankment and the Houses of Parliament, and carried on by flying through Tower Bridge. He then went and flew inverted at 200ft over Wattisham, Lakenheath and Marham before landing at RAF West Raynham.
He was then arrested, the rest of the squadron detached to North Africa, but the MoD didn't want to give him the platform of a court martial so he was "retired" from the service on medical grounds. He received hundreds of letters of support, and a barrel of beer from BOAC.
You'll all be delighted to know that at the age of 82 Alan Pollock is still alive and well, although his career after leaving the RAF was in engineering, not flying.
Awesome!He was pissed off that 4 days before there had been no big official flypast for the RAF's 50th birthday, and that both the RAF and aircraft industry were being run down in favour of a spurious love of guided missiles.
So, he got into his Hunter FGA.9 from Tangmere (itself about to be closed), buzzed several airfields, the RAF memorial on the Embankment and the Houses of Parliament, and carried on by flying through Tower Bridge. He then went and flew inverted at 200ft over Wattisham, Lakenheath and Marham before landing at RAF West Raynham.
He was then arrested, the rest of the squadron detached to North Africa, but the MoD didn't want to give him the platform of a court martial so he was "retired" from the service on medical grounds. He received hundreds of letters of support, and a barrel of beer from BOAC.
You'll all be delighted to know that at the age of 82 Alan Pollock is still alive and well, although his career after leaving the RAF was in engineering, not flying.
And here he is, what a nutter/guy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5571423/RA...
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