A long overdue awesome aeroplanes thread!

that’s the cleanest b29 ever, looks like a dreadful viewpoint datalabs catalogue render.

They have a few other nice examples.

Including,

And,

dannyh

Yes, IL2 player! Ubizoo aficionado? Hyperlobby? Any of these ring a bell?

Was more of a 109 man myself.

One of the sweetest handling (given its size) and awesome aircraft ever:

A great workhorse and friend:

And a pic of me a few years back… Had so much fun in those 🙂

Typhoon

Jaguar

Mirage F1

Saab Viggen in proper colours

Buccaneer, Royal Navy of course.

F15

SU35

F16/Dassault Rafale

Have we had the F-104 Starfighter yet?

Yup, underneath the pic of the GeeBee racer, and I even quoted Captain Lockeed. It’s a pic of a Luftwaffe F-104, too, for that exact reason.
Another lovely, and awesome in its own way, aeroplane, the Cosmic Wind racer:

Tiny little thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeVier_Cosmic_Wind

P40 Warhawk

CAC Boomerang

J3 Cub

Total lack of Lightnings on that last page please correct on this page.

This thread has made me want to dig out a copy of Firefox (Mig 31)

Colomban Cri-Cri

piemonster – Member
Total lack of Lightnings on that last page please correct on this page.

Eh? There were two!

Excellent thread and one I didn’t think I’d like.

Some of the NASA and Soviet planes are spectacular, but what got me most was the pic of the German War plane taking off in amongst the trees, beautiful shot that.

The Dassault Mirage F1 a boyhood fave!

The last time I did an aircraft recce test (80’s Germany) I scored 80 out of 80, but really struggled with many of these. (unsurprisingly!)

Loved the pics of the Foxbat, F15, a couple of faves there. Remember seeing a Lighting take off and disappear into a pure blue sky vertically in 30 secs….ACE!

No F14s yet?

Top Gun has a lot to answer for!

The Soviet alternative to the A-10, the SU-25 Frogfoot. No minigun but an obscene amount of rocketry

NASAs SOFIA project 747. Amazing retrofit engineering to put a telescope into an unpressurized section of the fuselage.

Lurking in Moscow’s Victory Park is a teeny military museum. In there you’ll find…

Two Migs (15 and a 15 trainer) and a not DC-3 (an Lisunov Li-2)

Sukhoi Su25, yep the Russians lurve rockets.

Mig23

A Mig21 and a Mig29

But perhaps most impressive scary of all is the Mil24 (please excuse the Paraffin Budgie)

Can’t believe no-one’s posted one of these beauties yet…

Total lack of Lightnings

F35 Lightning 2 doing VTOL:

EE Lightning:

P38 Lightning:

LS1 Lightning kitplane:

oh, and the tiny, stubby Cassutt racer, all 227kg of it:

Or, for that matter, one of these…

always liked the look of ov10 bronco

probably destined to be the finest piston engine fighter of all time, but alas for the martin baker mb5 end of hostilities and a chap called whittle.

fairy firefly

Dehavilland Hornet.

Best looking twin piston fighter ever made.

Used to listen to these doing their stuff at night. The very definition of awesome:

Edit: to satisfy those pedants out there I know the above pic is an A model, the ones I heard were H models, but the pic is pretty cool!

Hawker Typhoon – one of the least feted WW2 fighters/ground attack aircraft but one of the most feared

Some excellent diversity here, all sorts of stuff showing up.

This may well be seen as a rather mundane plane, but the story behind these beasts coming in to being at Boeing is brilliant (May still be on iPlayer). They remain one of the more impressive feats of engineering in the skies, IMHO.

Over the years, I’ve spent more time on them than I should. As such, they make me feel happy, because the second time I see one on a trip, it’s coming to take me home! (After one long US trip, I spied the tail plane through a window at LAX and it just made me smile immediately!)

Preferably sitting here;

Here’s the documentary. The test flying stuff is awesome!

Always liked the proportions on these Grumman A6

@CFH: nice video. I much prefer flying on even the tattiest Boeing 747 over any Airbus – the teeny little windows and communist approach to A/C makes for a poor flying experience.

Needs more…

And

This happened quite a lot:

Did anyone see the documentary on the Dambusters 617 sqn…what they did next, on Monday evening? Twas very interesting and worth watching on catch up if possible.

Some very brave men…..made you feel very humble.

Always liked the proportions on these Grumman A6

I sat on a cliff in the NW USA once and watched the US navy training pilots of this. The local town had a slogan “The Sound of Freedom” as the airbase was there. Bloody noisy.

One of the first jet bombers…

I’m not really sure how awesome the solar plane is. Great thread though.

AN-2 Colt

Not many planes can pootle along at under 30MPH 😀

pzl p11

fokker dviii