Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[irocfan]

AshVX220 said:

Hope you all like it.

Edited by irocfan on Wednesday 8th May 18:53

[tog]

The Saab 21 was also developed into a jet powered version from a piston engine design.





It was also one of the first aircraft to be fitted with an ejection seat, to avoid any baling out pilot being diced by the prop behind him.

[spikep]

FourWheelDrift said:

Why does a MiG-29 have RAF roundels?

Good question. It just the way the patches were done. It was the 90’s before hi tech computer machining.

[MartG]

Beverley and Skyvan

Photo Graham Simons collection

[NDA]

blueedge said:

A few from an airshow this past weekend:

Nice....

I had a noodle through your Flickr albums, some lovely shots. Even have one of my cars in there!

[MartG]

Aftermath of an F-14 ramp strike and crew ejection on July 11, 1994. The deck was pitching 10 feet in both directions. The pilot, LT "Pig" Arnold, made an unsafe power correction inside the waveoff window, chasing the deck down. When the ship rose back up, he did not have enough power, even at full throttle, to safely waveoff. The RIO - LCRD "Animal" Jennings saw what was coming and he initiated ejection just after the plane impacted the round down of the ship. The plane actually caught a wire and split into two pieces, with engine and back half of the jet left as a burning fireball in the wires. The front half of the jet skidded off of the front of the ship. Animal landed in his chute on the front of the ship next to some parked S-3's. Aside from some minor injuries to his feet due to the landing impact, Animal was fine and flying within a few days. Pig had the unfortunate luck to be brought down in his chute right into the fireball that was burning in the wires. He sustained serious injuries to his hands and neck. He ended up making a full recovery, but never flew Tomcats again.

[Caruso]

[MartG]

Today



Pic by Dave Thomas

[blueedge]

NDA said:

Nice....

I had a noodle through your Flickr albums, some lovely shots. Even have one of my cars in there!

Thank you

That's cool - is it one of your current fleet or one you previously owned?

[blueedge]

A few from another recent airshow at Andrews AFB:

[MartG]

Symbolic

[Voldemort]

Love the F4.

Here's one from the internet in advance of an expected tsunami of Dakota pics on Thursday.

[Eric Mc]

Nice period vehicles too.

[generationx]

MartG said:

Symbolic

It’s flown much further and higher than the ‘Goose!

[Brother D]

Spotted this awesome retro paintjob whilst sat in the lounge

[Darth_Helmut]

A pair of Spits at Thruxton last weekend.

[eltawater]

A few from Duxford.

[Eric Mc]

Brother D said:

Spotted this awesome retro paintjob whilst sat in the lounge

Classy scheme. You can see the inner Boeing 720 trying to escape.

[mylesmcd]

Eric Mc said:

Brother D said:

Spotted this awesome retro paintjob whilst sat in the lounge

Classy scheme. You can see the inner Boeing 720 trying to escape.

Thought the same, looks great.

[MartG]

Celera 500L





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