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129 posts & 92 voices | Started 1 year ago by mr_krabs | Latest reply from Pawsy_Bear

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mr_krabs - Member

After the hullabaloo over the spitfire thread. Lets have a picture thread of your favourite aircraft.

On of my favourites, the Lockheed F104 Starfighter.

Posted 1 year ago #
Spongebob - Member

Looks a bit too phallic!

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

I think that's secretly why lots of men like certain 'planes....

Anyway, sorry to do this so early on, but...

END OF THREAD.

Posted 1 year ago #
b r - Member

Ah the widowmaker, thats a good start:

And I'll see your Starfighter with a Sunderland

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.beehivehockey.com/images/history_images/12sunderland.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.beehivehockey.com/photo_12sunderland.htm&usg=__lfo4GQomisF4Mq_MPjz-IRFniLU=&h=302&w=450&sz=25&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=2RF3X2TYjhBFhM:&tbnh=157&tbnw=208&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsunderland%2Bplane%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dig%26rlz%3D1R2ACAW_enGB373%26biw%3D1283%26bih%3D628%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=219&ei=df6ZTNymF8fKjAeA1dUM&oei=Rf6ZTICzKciQjAeR7Kn4Dw&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&tx=68&ty=92

Posted 1 year ago #
headfirst - Member

coz it means I'm off somewhere nice

Posted 1 year ago #
Karinofnine - Member

Yummy

Posted 1 year ago #
Andituk - Member

At risk of upsetting the hippies..

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Admiralable - Member

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crazy-legs - Member

CaptainFlashheart started a thread like this ages ago, it ran to about 8 pages!

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PeterPoddy - Member

The Ligntning

A few bits of frippery and a pilot strapped to two socking great huge engines. Lovely.

Is it true they never got one to it's top speed becasue it was a bit too 'lively'?

Posted 1 year ago #
MADB - Member

The F4-U corsair very pretty.

Posted 1 year ago #
cynic-al - Member

Darn it Andituk beat me to it, awesome machines.

Posted 1 year ago #
joolsburger - Member

Nippy.

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PeteG55 - Member

DeHaviland Vampire, just a bit different, no other reason.

YouTube
Love the Vulcan though.

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crazy-legs - Member

An excellent choice joolsburger. ^^
I love the stories about the Blackbird - when the RAF first spotted one it was a Lightning pilot who saw it and, on closing the gap with it, the Blackbird just buggered off.
No-one believed the pilot because everyone knew (or thought they knew!) that the fastest thing around was the Lightning...

Posted 1 year ago #
tragically1969 - Member

Saab Viggen

Posted 1 year ago #
enfht - Member

My fave would have to be the aircraft my Gramps flew

Posted 1 year ago #
missingfrontallobe - Member

Any Harrier, but the Shar in particular.

Posted 1 year ago #
njee20 - Member

END OF THREAD.

He was right. The shot of the underside was the one I went on, G-BOAF. Happy times.

These put on quite a display fo sho:

Posted 1 year ago #
muggomagic - Member

Saw one of these at Eastbourne a few years ago. Make a fantastic noise.

B1 bomber

Posted 1 year ago #
LHS - Member

Can I have 2?

Posted 1 year ago #
mattbee - Member

Icarus C42, for the simple reason that I flew one on Monday!

Posted 1 year ago #
stumpy01 - Member

P51-D Mustang

Piaggio Avanti

Comanche

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joolsburger - Member

These things were just amazing when they first came out

Posted 1 year ago #
Bez - Member

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SkillWill - Member

Agricultural...

Posted 1 year ago #
gustard_cannet - Member

Tupolev Tu-95 Bear

Can't post any pics works filter

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DezB - Member

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PJM1974 - Member

@PetePoddy

You beat me to it.

My father designed bits of Lightnings and knew a few pilots too. During the Cold War years I'd heard most of the Lightning stories, some apocryphal and some that turned out to be true, like the interception of a Lockheed U2 at 78,000 feet and some wild reports of the top speed.

I've also heard one or two stories that aren't widely known, for example the rivalry between Lighting and Phantom crews allegedly resulted in an extremely low pass of a Phantom airfield by a Lightning that resulted in several perforated eardrums of the maintenence staff working in an open hanger at the time and that Lightning pilots were warned against goading Phantom pilots into mock dogfights after complaints from demoralized Phantom crews... All hearsay of course.

Posted 1 year ago #
highclimber - Member

the single greatest british invention

Posted 1 year ago #
thepurist - Member

But I always drew Lightnings in my exercise books at school.

Posted 1 year ago #
Pimpmaster Jazz - Member

Purely for conversational value (also featured on the Chinook thread):

Posted 1 year ago #
toys19 - Member

Love the vampire and the harrier, but this always gets me.
They used to use my old school as a practise target, it was on a big hill and they would often fly past down in the valley below us. Awesome.

Posted 1 year ago #
crazy-legs - Member

I've also heard one or two stories that aren't widely known, for example the rivalry between Lighting and Phantom crews allegedly resulted in an extremely low pass of a Phantom airfield by a Lightning that resulted in several perforated eardrums of the maintenence staff working in an open hanger at the time and that Lightning pilots were warned against goading Phantom pilots into mock dogfights after complaints from demoralized Phantom crews... All hearsay of course.

There was similar rivalry between the Chinook crews and Phantoms in the Falklands (post war when they kept a squadron of Phantoms there). The Chinooks apparently won when they dropped tons of water from an firfighting bucket all over the airfield...

Posted 1 year ago #
njee20 - Member

TU-144 deserves a mention I guess, so near, and yet so far...

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