Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[FourWheelDrift]

At least it looks happy.

[Ayahuasca]

Buchons dressed up as ME109s look wrong to me. One of the distinctive things for me of the 109 is the snarling snout, and the double chinned smiling Merlin powered machines just do not have it.

[Eric Mc]

The problem is that they are now very much associated with the film "Battle of Britain" and the vast majority of surviving Buchons now carry colours similar to those worn by the Buchons in the film.

This is what they REALLY should look like if carrying proper "Buchon" colours -

[Ayahuasca]

Also lack the 109's nose cannon.

[Dr Jekyll]

Ayahuasca said:

Buchons dressed up as ME109s look wrong to me. One of the distinctive things for me of the 109 is the snarling snout, and the double chinned smiling Merlin powered machines just do not have it.

+1

I wonder if the Spanish considered fitting the Merlins upside down, that would have made them more BF109like.

[FunkyNige]

Ayahuasca said:

anonymous said:

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Thanks for posting. Great read. I love treasure hunt stories.

A few more here
http://www.thexhunters.com/
It's an ancient site so a pain to navigate (and link to individual stories) but a lot of them are worth a read.

And if anyone's in Norfolk in the next couple of months there a photographic exhibition at the RAF radar museum from Malcolm English who "has flown in most of NATO’s front line aircraft and has spent his entire working life in aerospace."


http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photographer-malcolm-e...

[greghm]

Hey, who has been to the Machloop? is it something that can be done by researching or is it better to do it with one of the few companies organizing tours?

[tuffer]

greghm said:

Hey, who has been to the Machloop? is it something that can be done by researching or is it better to do it with one of the few companies organizing tours?

Just drive to the car park and walk up the hill, weekdays as a preference as the RAF don't tend to do weekends or Friday afternoons.

[irocfan]

[Eric Mc]

I hope that's not a recent photograph.

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

I hope that's not a recent photograph.

That's Red 7's 2013 crash, following it's wheels up landing in 2008 and it's 2005 crash and rebuild. Tricky little monkeys those 109s. It is another Battle of Britain Buchon, that flew until another crash in 1986 during a take off, it was then rebuilt as a non-flying E model, then after languishing outside for many years it was rebuilt as a G model in the 90s with a DB605 engine. And as mentioned has crashed a further 3 times.

https://www.flyinglegends.com/aircraft/bf-109-g-4-...

[Ayahuasca]

I would love to see / hear a flying Ju87 Stuka, but given there are I think only three in the world and none flying it is probably a long shot.

[Tango13]

FourWheelDrift said:

Eric Mc said:

I hope that's not a recent photograph.

That's Red 7's 2013 crash, following it's wheels up landing in 2008 and it's 2005 crash and rebuild. Tricky little monkeys those 109s. It is another Battle of Britain Buchon, that flew until another crash in 1986 during a take off, it was then rebuilt as a non-flying E model, then after languishing outside for many years it was rebuilt as a G model in the 90s with a DB605 engine. And as mentioned has crashed a further 3 times.

https://www.flyinglegends.com/aircraft/bf-109-g-4-...

James Gilbert estimated that 5% of all 109's built were lost to landing or taxiing accidents.

[Eric Mc]

Ayahuasca said:

I would love to see / hear a flying Ju87 Stuka, but given there are I think only three in the world and none flying it is probably a long shot.

There was a Russian project to build a full scale flying replica but it came to nothing.

[Dr Jekyll]

[FourWheelDrift]

They fitted Allisons (Allison V-3420-11 liquid-cooled W24) to a B-29 as well in case there were shortages with the normal radials and called it the XB-39.




The XB-38 with the 1710s looks very nice, I wonder if anyone had an E model fuselage with no wings or engines they might be tempted to restore it as an Allison powered prototype.

[Dr Jekyll]

And of course the Chinese stuck turboprops on the TU4.

[MartG]

Perfectly timed shot of a hot air balloon

[ApOrbital]

[FourWheelDrift]

Nearest one is XH558 isn't it?