Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[FourWheelDrift]

MartG said:

In order... no Fulcrum though

Hiding out of shot behind the 31, escorting the Tu-144.

[Steve_W]

Very nice - whereabouts in Russia is that?

Just a shame they're not under cover for longevity. Also, do I see a DC3 (or the Russian copy) and a B25 in the overhead shot?

[FourWheelDrift]

Steve_W said:

Very nice - whereabouts in Russia is that?

Just a shame they're not under cover for longevity. Also, do I see a DC3 (or the Russian copy) and a B25 in the overhead shot?

Central Air Force Museum in Monino, near Moscow, it has an official website, but despite it's age this one is useful - http://www.moninoaviation.com/

Lots of 360 degree photos if you use streetview mode - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Central+Air+Fo...

[FourWheelDrift]

The B-25. They operated them during WWII, the US sending 862 under the lend lease agreement -

https://goo.gl/maps/hCAxELH75Jw

[Eric Mc]

The Soviet "DC-3" was the Lisunov Li-2 - which was quite different in many respects.

[MartG]

Shorts Sunderland flying over the Royal yacht Britannia in 1950

[Ayahuasca]

Convair airliner, a replacement for the DC3, This particular one is in a club in Costa Rica, where the hostesses dress up as er, air hostesses, and then they do utterly utterly naughty things that would have them sacked from BOAC.

[Eric Mc]

Which Convair airliner?

They produced a number, all basically similar with minor changes on each version - the 240,340 and 440. Some of them were re-engined with turboprops and became the 580 and 640.

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

Which Convair airliner?

They produced a number, all basically similar with minor changes on each version - the 240,340 and 440. Some of them were re-engined with turboprops and became the 580 and 640.

I am afraid I don't know. One with square windows.

[Eric Mc]

I've had a quick search on the 'net and it MAY be a Convair 240, which was the first of the family.

As you said, Convair produced this "modern" twin just after World War 2 as an intended replacement for the ubiquitous DC-3 - which was really obsolete as a passenger airline by 1945. However, there were just so many war surplus DC-3/C-47s after World War 2 that it made it very difficult to sell newer more capable aircraft to replace it. Having said that, the Convair twins were probably the most successful of the piston engined "DC-3 replacements".

From a performance point of view they were a big improvement on the DC-3, being faster and pressurised.

[Steve_W]

Thanks for the Monino info gents, would be nice to be able to visit someday.

[ou sont les biscuits]

MartG said:

Shorts Sunderland flying over the Royal yacht Britannia in 1950

That takes me back to my youth - reading 'The Flying Porcupine' stories in The Wizard.

[Ayahuasca]

[Hugo a Gogo]

MartG said:

Shorts Sunderland flying over the Royal yacht Britannia in 1950

wow, it's much bigger than I'd have thought...

[MartG]

Hugo a Gogo said:

MartG said:

Shorts Sunderland flying over the Royal yacht Britannia in 1950

wow, it's much bigger than I'd have thought...

Another Father Ted moment...

[stevesingo]

This is a cow, it looks small because it is far away.

[irocfan]

MartG said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

MartG said:

Shorts Sunderland flying over the Royal yacht Britannia in 1950

wow, it's much bigger than I'd have thought...

Another Father Ted moment...

TBF they are sodding big!

[MartG]

Formation of RAF fighters - just a link 'cos it's a big pic

https://cdn.allwallpaper.in/wallpapers/3812x2632/1...

[FourWheelDrift]

MartG said:

Formation of RAF fighters - just a link 'cos it's a big pic

https://cdn.allwallpaper.in/wallpapers/3812x2632/1...

And in colour before the flight.
"Seen at RAF Coltishall’s ‘At Home’ day in September 1960, aircrews of five aircraft assemble next to their aircraft prior to a flight to mark the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. They are: Hawker Hurricane IIc LF363 and Supermarine Spitfire PRXIXR PM631 both of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Gloster Meteor F.8 WL164, Hawker Hunter FGA9 XK136 of No 74 Squadron, Gloster Javelin FAW.9R XH894 of No 23 Squadron and the recently introduced English Electric Lightning F.1 XM137 of the Air Fighting Development Squadron, part of the Central Fighter Establishment."

[james_tigerwoods]

MartG said:

Formation of RAF fighters - just a link 'cos it's a big pic

https://cdn.allwallpaper.in/wallpapers/3812x2632/1...

How on earth did the lightning fly slowly enough to be in a formation with a Spitfire?