Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Fat Fairy]

greghm said:

Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com

A unusual Mustang. With RAF colors.

Apparently a CA-18 MUSTANG/A68-107, wearing its Aussie colours

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51registry/ca18-a6...

FF

[Eric Mc]

greghm said:

Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com

A unusual Mustang. With RAF colors.

Royal AUSTRALIAN Air Force actually.

[Steve_D]

greghm said:

........The only one I managed to sit in (on the ground) was Precious Metal. To save weight, one sits on metal box + cushion.

Am I right in thinking back in the day you sat on your parachute which fitted in that box.

Steve

[Eric Mc]

Steve_D said:

Am I right in thinking back in the day you sat on your parachute which fitted in that box.

Steve

World War 2 fighter seats usually had no seat cushions and so the pilot sat on their parachute pack. It saved on space and weight.

This is one type of Spitfire seat -



P-51 seat

[Trevatanus]

IMG_2725 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

[tight5]

[MartG]

Awesome !

[anonymous-user]

Those massive hovercraft looked awesome. I wish they were still around. Do the usmc still use them?

[MartG]

The Hovercraft Museum have one they are restoring

https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/

[Escapegoat]

Is that the type I crossed the Channel as a sprog in the '70s? Exciting on the way to France on a clear day, but awful on our way back (from memory just slightly choppy). :-|<

[JeremyH5]

Escapegoat said:

Is that the type I crossed the Channel as a sprog in the '70s? Exciting on the way to France on a clear day, but awful on our way back (from memory just slightly choppy). :-|<

Yes, SRN4. I’ve had the same experience!

[JuniorD]

For want of a better place to post it



http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=...

[Caruso]

Lovely, that's the RAF memorial at Runnymede isn't it.

Trevatanus said:

[Mutley]

Caruso said:

Lovely, that's the RAF memorial at Runnymede isn't it.

Trevatanus said:

Thank you! I believe it is, have been trying to place it

[Trevatanus]

Mutley said:

Caruso said:

Lovely, that's the RAF memorial at Runnymede isn't it.

Trevatanus said:

Thank you! I believe it is, have been trying to place it

Cheers guys, I only got a few keepers from the event, but here they are if anyone is interested.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimpritchard67/album...

[greghm]

Steve_D said:

Am I right in thinking back in the day you sat on your parachute which fitted in that box.

Steve

Very good point although I think they don't wear parachute at the Reno air races. They just decide to not put a seat to save weight and space, have may be a high resistance to hemorroids and also do not spend much time in those airplanes ... well in fact they ferry them to Nevada and that one from Orlando.

[Dr Jekyll]

greghm said:

Very good point although I think they don't wear parachute at the Reno air races.

They might not always, they certainly do sometimes, they've been used on at least one occasion I know about.

[IanUAE]

Coming into land in Cape Town last Saturday.

[MartG]

In order... no Fulcrum though

[mcdjl]

MartG said:

In order... no Fulcrum though

(Father Ted) No Dougal that ones just massive (/FT)