Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Steve_D]

Eric Mc said:

What picture are you talking about?

Either making a joke or genuinely mistaking the AN124 air brakes/slats as D Day markings.

Steve

[Eric Mc]

I was curious as I couldn't see a picture which contained an Antonov 124.

[Steve_D]

Eric Mc said:

I was curious as I couldn't see a picture which contained an Antonov 124.

14 posts back.

Steve

[hammo19]

Ah yes, sorry for the confusion. I thought I was on the current page when posting. I then realised there was another page full of photos after hitting the Submit button.

[ben5575]

Ok so firstly apologies for this not actually being an amazingly cool picture of an aircraft. It is, as you can see, an extremely poor picture of an aircraft.

In my defence I was driving past, telling my kids the history of the place when I spotted that somebody's added a little spitfire statue. I thought this was a really nice touch and actually quite (dad) cool. So I stopped, dashed out snapped this terrible photo into the sun, on my phone.

Points if you can actually see the spitfire, bonus points if you can tell me where it is (ok, so not that hard!)

[FourWheelDrift]

Guessing that's the bridge Ray Hanna flew under for the TV series A Piece of Cake?

[CobolMan]

Winston Bridge in County Durham I would guess. The late great Ray Hanna flew MH434 under the bridge in the making of Piece of Cake.

[ben5575]

6 minutes, I'm impressed!

[CobolMan]

There was an article in December's Aeroplane magazine about the making of Piece of Cake and it mentioned the statue on the bridge.

[ben5575]

Ha, I didn't know that. I'll have to find a copy.

[QuantumTokoloshi]

Not a picture, but worth seeing an ICBM being dropped out the back of a C5 Galaxy and launched.

I would loved to see the group's and pilot's facial expressions when that idea was first mentioned.

https://youtu.be/96A0wb1Ov9k

[Eric Mc]

That should really be in the "Cool Videos" thread.

[MartG]

Unusual load for an F-15 - AIM-4 Falcons. These were used to test a missile approach warning system aboard a C-141.

[tight5]

USS Yorktown's hangar deck catapult 1943

[FourWheelDrift]

So that's where Battlestar Galactica got the idea.

[MartG]

Article about them

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11821/the-cra...

[tight5]

Nice paint job.

[LotusOmega375D]

Except for the guy who painted the back-to-front Turkish flag on the tail!

[Ayahuasca]

LotusOmega375D said:

Except for the guy who painted the back-to-front Turkish flag on the tail!

Many US aircraft have back-to-front Stars & Stripes flags on them. So do American troops and astronauts. Weird.

[CanAm]

LotusOmega375D said:

Except for the guy who painted the back-to-front Turkish flag on the tail!

Common on the r/h side of vehicles of all types to represent the flag flying from behind a jack-staff; on the l/h side the flag would be represented in the usual form with the (imaginary) jack-staff to the left.