Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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LotusOmega375D said:
Framed photograph in the pub adjacent to the Premier Inn at Thetford (near RAF Lakenheath). Oops.
This Lakenheath "F15" is actually an F16 from Spangdahlem, Germany.
This Lakenheath "F15" is actually an F16 from Spangdahlem, Germany.
...it's an easy mistake to make. Three wheels, a sidewinder, American. I dunno what the fuss is all about. Bloody plane-spotter pedants, eh?
And while I can forgive the reflections of the room lighting, what is going on with that fly above the starboard wing? Is it on the glass, or inside the frame? And is it a really big picture, or quite a small fly? I do hope it isn't trapped in your camera lens!
Vic's Viking Garage in Johannesburg. Some of you may have heard of it, some not. It used to have a Vickers Viking sitting on top of it but since 1987 it's had an Avro Shackleton testing the roof strength.
Streetview - https://goo.gl/maps/ujAMhou5rJM2
The original Vickers Viking story - http://www.saamuseum.co.za/our-aircraft/74-vickers...
Streetview - https://goo.gl/maps/ujAMhou5rJM2
The original Vickers Viking story - http://www.saamuseum.co.za/our-aircraft/74-vickers...
FourWheelDrift said:
Vic's Viking Garage in Johannesburg. Some of you may have heard of it, some not. It used to have a Vickers Viking sitting on top of it but since 1987 it's had an Avro Shackleton testing the roof strength.
Streetview - https://goo.gl/maps/ujAMhou5rJM2
The original Vickers Viking story - http://www.saamuseum.co.za/our-aircraft/74-vickers...
that's cool - prefer this one thoughStreetview - https://goo.gl/maps/ujAMhou5rJM2
The original Vickers Viking story - http://www.saamuseum.co.za/our-aircraft/74-vickers...
irocfan said:
that's cool - prefer this one though
Related - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dew00UZ8sgAgreghm said:
It reminds me of this comment by Israel Shamir that the Americans have this trend to name their helicopters after the tribes they have exterminated (comanches, Sioux, Apache) ... Have the Germans named their tanks this way?
I always think it's ironic that one of Britain's main bombers at the start of WW2 was named after a German town.yellowjack said:
LotusOmega375D said:
Framed photograph in the pub adjacent to the Premier Inn at Thetford (near RAF Lakenheath). Oops.
This Lakenheath "F15" is actually an F16 from Spangdahlem, Germany.
This Lakenheath "F15" is actually an F16 from Spangdahlem, Germany.
...it's an easy mistake to make. Three wheels, a sidewinder, American. I dunno what the fuss is all about. Bloody plane-spotter pedants, eh?
And while I can forgive the reflections of the room lighting, what is going on with that fly above the starboard wing? Is it on the glass, or inside the frame? And is it a really big picture, or quite a small fly? I do hope it isn't trapped in your camera lens!
mko9 said:
As long as we are being pedants, that is an F-15E of the 494th FS, not an F-15C of the 493rd FS.
Try finding a picture of an F-15 (any model of F-15) taken at a similar angle to that F-16 though. I tried a few Google searches and that angle was the best I could come up with.For security reasons I was forbidden from taking the best photograph I ever composed. An F-15 chained down on the engine test pad at Al Udeid Air Base, at night, at full throttle with those concentric blue rings in the exhaust flame. The most impressive demonstration of raw engine power I've ever personally witnessed. Airside photography was forbidden save for those employed by various air forces as photographers to document operations.
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