[Closed] A long overdue awesome aeroplanes thread!

yak-9

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polikarpov i-16

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great shots of a restored IL-2

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Another couple of F1 racers, about the smallest airplane you can fit a person in and go racing with.

Midget Mustang (and P51 🙂 ):
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Cosmic Wind:
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Arnold AR6
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The picture of the Lancaster & Vulcan a few pages ago. That was nice. So here's another.

They also win the "most awesome noise ever" award.

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The Chipmunk & Bulldog brought back memories of my RAF Cadet days. 🙂

They also win the "most awesome noise ever" award.

The combination of those two engine types is symphonic bliss!

another mossie pic

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Top thread.

North American B-25 Mitchell

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Convair B-59 Hustler

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Northrop YB-49

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Miles Magister

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hawker demon

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supermarine spitful

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blackburn firebrand

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Messerschmitt Me 323 D

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Even more impressive considering that it started life as a glider being pulled by one of these!!

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achtung achtung another spitfire vb

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The SE5a. Not the most wonderful plane of WW1, but the one my grandfather was rigger on, in the RFC before the RAF was formed. He was in the squadron adopted by WE Johns for the Biggles stories, and as squadron librarian was given signed copies of all Johns' books then published for them to read.

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F4F Wildcat

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One of our engines is missing

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widely used in D Day proceedings

edit: airspeed horsa

That YB-49 is awesome.

But, not as awesome as the Vulcan.

Here's an upside down one:

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Got to say gents, epic thread 😀

Something from Japan from me

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Loving this thread to bits!
Love this plane, proved essential for helping the Resistance during the War:

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The Lysander. And yes it's got a swastika on it, it's one flown by the Finnish Air Force.

Then there's this, one of the most remarkable aircraft from the Germans, the Fi-156, or Storch

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Has an astonishing STOL capability, and can almost hover with a good headwind, because of its low stall speed.

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B52 "BUF"

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Can't believe anyone would miss the [b][u]Fokker F-27-400M Friendship[/u][/b].

Plenty of flying with the earlier model of Fokker F-27 one as a kid. Always thought the propellers were going to break off ... 😆

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me-110
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more yellow nosed bastards at 12 o'clock

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and a proper pic of a Komet

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Please, never let this thread end...

Does this qualify?

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And playing with some big planes:

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nicely restored zero

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Saunders-Roe SR-A1:

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A jet-powered flying boat 😉

Time to go for some funny business

An Edgeley Optica.

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Sea vixen is pretty cool

[b][u]Ansett Express Fokker 50 PER Wheatley[/u][/b]

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Sea Hornet.

Judged by Winkle as being the nicest plane he'd ever flown.

And he should know

grumman f3f

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devastator

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Has a place here by default?

helldiver

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tail end charlies view !

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I always liked the look of the P39 and the fact that it had a 37mm cannon in the nose and tricycle landing gear but it was a bit rubbish tbh.

The [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_T-28_Trojan ]T-28 Trojan[/url]. A plane that resonates for me because of the story of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lue ]Lee Lue[/url], which I first read of in the amazing book on the secret war in Laos, [url= http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Moon-Story-Americas-Clandestine/dp/1883642361/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1 ][u]Shooting at the Moon[/u][/url]. Fly til you die.

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lovely shot of a corsair
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Havard

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Don't think we've had a Wellington yet? Built a few of these models as a kid
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colourful stearman

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early b24 liberator

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Evil-looking suburban Nimrod AEW.
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Tiger Moth - not for any aviation-related awesomeness, but because I once did a loop the loop in one whilst sitting in the passenger (front) seat
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..and to counteract all this awesomeness, let's have a chippy
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The awesome [b][u]Yakovlev Yak-3[/u][/b]

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-3 ]From Wiki ...[/url]

"On 17 July 1944, eight Yaks attacked a formation of 60 German aircraft, including escorting fighters. In the ensuing dogfight, the Luftwaffe lost three Junkers Ju 87s and four Bf 109Gs, for no losses to the Yaks.[6] Consequently, the Luftwaffe issued an order to "avoid combat below five thousand metres with Yakovlev fighters lacking an oil cooler intake beneath the nose!"[7] Luftwaffe fighters in combat with the Yak-3 tried to use surprise tactics, attacking from above."[8]

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My boyhood favourite:

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Harrier GR3

you can imagine the lecture from your co !

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My favourites have been done but a few more for the hell of it...

Grumman Duck - not a looker...

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C5 Galaxy - what a beast...

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Always liked this one from the film, Acrostar Mini Jet, looks like a hoot to fly...

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I've a soft spot for this one. BAe 146, very capable aircraft and I worked on them as an Apprentice and flew one in a proper simulator...

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Edit: Not sure what has happened to posting pics via BBL code from Flickr!

northrop blackwindow (in olive drab)
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F15 strafing run on the plane spotters.

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Tornado Gr4

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And the much unloved Tornado F3

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Mirage F1 again

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Send in the robots, sort of, landing on US carrier

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Can't believe this hasn't featured. Chatting to a B1 driver he reckoned it'd be pretty potent in a long range Air to Air role too!
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it has 🙂 twice

Damn you!! I was about to post one of those.

Regardless, here's another piccie:

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c47 cockpit

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These just look so cool, like an idea of what planes should look like- sleek and fast.

nice ju52 compo

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rockfords great escape me108 taifun

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ford tri-motor

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There can never be enough Buccaneer...

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The sign said don't touch, I couldn't help myself though.

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Lucky enough to live in a low fly zone so whatever I have seen recently.
Normally tornados and hawks but the occasional more exciting Hercules doing its thing is a thing of beauty.

But they allow you to get soooo close it'd be rude not to
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The deck of Intrepid is a great place to hang out. Even better now there's a shuttle there.
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Anyone read 'Fate Is the Hunter' by Ernest K Gann?

Fantastic book...

Evil-looking suburban Nimrod AEW.

That's the MRA.4 (mark 4, Marine Reconnaissance Attack), not the AEW.3 (mark 3, Airborne Early Warning) actually. The stillborn mark 4 was the only Nimrod to be fitted with the modern bypass turbofans that needed the enlarged air intakes. The (also stillborn) mark 3 had smaller intakes but an even more bulging nose:

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I remember reading a story about a Buccaneer that was being chased by an enemy fighter during a Red Flag exercise. It was flying at low level and as part of its attempts to shake the fighter it ended up dropping its payload of practice bombs. At the end of the mission it was calculated that at the altitude it was flying enough debris would have been thrown up by the bomb's detonation that it would have destroyed the enemy fighter and the Buccaneer was credited with an air-to-air kill using an unguided bomb! Afterwards this became an acknowledged part of their air-to-air combat techniques.

Below decks on the Intrepid they have a landing capsule.
It looks like I made it in my shed.
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On seeing the Me 109 get a couple of mentions you have to remember that Erich Hartmann was the leading fighter ace of all time in one of these with, prepare yourselves, 352 confirmed kills. And he made it out of the war to a ripe old age.

I don't know much about the man or his politics, but despite the fact that he was on the wrong side, 352!

Now time for some Boulton Paul Defiants:

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Mig 17

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Short Stirling

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De havilland venom

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Hurricane, the other merlin powered fighter during the Battle of Britain
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The Argie Pucara
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and of course, the Sea Harrier
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That Venom is lovely.

Another Porter.
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And yes, they really are getting back in.

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I've always liked the Short Sunderland
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Or this little guy
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As does this beast too:

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What a great thread. I really like the pics of the chipmunk. Got loads of hours in them when I was an air cadet. I also remember going to Holbeach ranges on a couple of occasions watching A10's, jaguars, harriers and tornados doing bombing and strafing runs was just awesome. One particular memory is of being in the tower being given a talk by one of the controllers who then asked a jaguar to do a fly past for us. He did 3 passes and the last one we were all convinced he was going to hit us. Amazing.
i also remember driving along the loch from north North Ballachulish to Fort William watching Buccaneers and tornados blasting past us over the loch so low you could see the pilots faces.

a bit of 30's elegance with Lockheed electra

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