A long overdue awesome aeroplanes thread!

and a lovely civilian Avro Anson

great paint job on this avro tutor

hawker tempest

extreme aero engineering !!!

Napier Sabre III

H-24 sleeve valve piston engine developing between 2,200 and 3,500 hp (depending of version)

in the prototype fury

This thread rocks!

Don’t think we’ve seen these yet:
Bristol Brabazon

Hawker Siddeley Trident

Cobra Rattler

Enemy Roboskull

Skystriker

Fits in a suitcase (well, almost, as we all know from Moonraker) Wallis Autogyro:

Diamonds are Forever, shurely?

Pimpmaster Jazz
Diamonds are Forever, shurely?

wukfit – Member
The autogyro was in “You only live twice” not “Moonraker”

On the subject of Bond, how about another “as seen in Bond” miniature plane, this time the smallest jet going, BD5 (sadly this particular example is I believe no more):

fairey delta 2

bell x-22

convair xb-46

in flight

the vtol mirage IIIV

more vtol yak-36

more from the days when jets were all pointy

su15 flagon

this has the mostest awesomest name ever !!!!!!!

Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor

along with the
Republic XF-84H “Thunderscreech” (supersonic propeller)

The XF-84H was quite possibly the loudest aircraft ever built (rivalled only by the Russian Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear” bomber[15]), earning the nickname “Thunderscreech” as well as the “Mighty Ear Banger”.[16] On the ground “run ups”, the prototypes could reportedly be heard 25 miles (40 km) away.[17] Unlike standard propellers that turn at subsonic speeds, the outer 24–30 inches of the blades on the XF-84H’s propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards. The shock wave was actually powerful enough to knock a man down; an unfortunate crew chief who was inside a nearby C-47 was severely incapacitated during a 30-minute ground run.[17] Coupled with the already considerable noise from the subsonic aspect of the propeller and the dual turbines, the aircraft was notorious for inducing severe nausea and headaches among ground crews.[11] In one report, a Republic engineer suffered a seizure after close range exposure to the shock waves emanating from a powered-up XF-84H.[18]

sounds awesome to me

Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane

Convair XF-92A

DeHavilland Swallow designed in 45

Starscream

Bristol Beaufort

Hope this ‘berra pastes in ok…

HA-1112-M1L Buchon

(Essentially a ME 109 with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine)

soma_rich, do you know where that one was taken?

Skystriker

Holy sweet mother of Jesus, I had one of those as a kid and it was THE most awesome toy plane, I loved the way the wings were operational, and it was just like the F14 from Top Gun.
Awesome plane, awesome memorys.
Thanks for that 🙂

@ Northwind sorry no its off Google image search, certainly looks like the Med.

Ed.

After a bit of digging its Malta
http://marksimner.me.uk/second-world-war-colour-photographs-malta/

Thanks for that

Welcome!

I actually have a rather beaten up one in my study… 😀

beaufort picture is Luqa Malta

Can’t believe that’s the first Canberra posted!
My old man did his national service as a fighter plotter at Nottingham in the early fifties. He told me a story about how the USAF used to do exercises with F86 Sabres, intercepting Canberras. Flying flat, they could catch up fairly easy, until the Canberra went into a climb……..and NOTHING could keep up with them!
Sort of a spiritual ancestor to the Mozzie

Can’t believe that’s the first Canberra posted!

it’s not

martin xb-51

in flight

boeing b-47 stratojet rocket assiste takeoff

with a shooting star chase plane

twas developmental dead end the p80

Cheers Soma_Rich! My grandad spannered beauforts in malta and ceylon, and very occasionally flew as a gunner, suppose there’s the tiniest of chances that’s him.

it’s a beaufort II (wasp engined) probably 86 squadron or 39 squadron

some beaufort “daring do”

That Martin xb-51 is possibly one of the ugliest planes I’ve ever seen.

He moved squadrons more than once so it’s all pretty confusing but I think he’d have been with 217 at the time… Cheers for the info!

That Martin xb-51 is possibly one of the ugliest planes I’ve ever seen.

I don’t know seen worse the boeing x32 for example