@ rogerthecat - a conversation between your uncle and your dad would have been so interesting to hear!
@ vintagewino - I may even have met your dad: I had a really nice chat with the pilot of the Staggerwing and he let me peer into the cabin...
@ CFH - if you want to split the beer cost of a ride in the Staggerwing I'll happily pitch in (sorry if I've missed some more recent comments - Springwatch was on) probably going to be quite a lot of beer though!
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First plane that could shoot through the propeller. Caused a bit of a stir at the time.
I'd be shitting myself about flying that thing, as opposed to the idea of all the western fronts guns being pointed at me as I flew over the line in a bumbling 100mph canvas contraption that could be blown over by a 5 mph crosswind.
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Close call!
If it was an American bloke with a moustache then it was my dad. He's always happy to let people look, he's very proud of that plane.
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First plane that could shoot through the propeller.
nope it was [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morane-Saulnier_L ]Morane-Saulnier L[/url]
@vintagewino - think it was! So he should be proud of that plane and it was good of him to let me look. Cheers.
His dad must have seen a few things and had some stories to tell.
My wife's uncle was a Catalina pilot in WWII. I never met him though, but my wife's father has a few stories to tell about him (and many others to tell about his life after the war). Never get tired of heading them!
Nice stormovik above!
Now, perhaps the ultimate in risk/reward:
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how do i copy pics from the net onto here??
F106 Delta Dart
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@JulianA - sadly only Dad left now at 90, when all that generation got together at Xmas and family gatherings it was heaven, grab a cuppa and just sit and listen. Pity no one ever recorded it, so many lost stories.
Have we had the F-104 Starfighter yet? If so, did they mention that it is quite possibly the only fighter aircraft to have a psychedelic prog rock concept album devoted to it? One by Hawkwind's frontman and featuring Brian Eno?
If so, oops; otherwise, enjoy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Lockheed_and_the_Starfighters
http://www.allmusic.com/album/captain-lockheed-the-starfighters-mw0000201272
This concept album deals with the tragedy that occurred when American made Lockheed Starfighter jets were purchased in the sixties by the West German Air Force in a supreme act of folly. As stated in the gatefold, the Starfighter was “…originally used by the U.S. Air Force as a light, single seater, fair weather fighter [that the German Defense Ministry had hastily converted into] heavy duty, atom bombers. It was these severe structural modifications which rendered the jet unstable and difficult to control.” [b]Calvert must have felt a strong affinity with them as he too was unreliable, difficult to control and unstable as hell.[/b] 😀
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Most important plane of WWII (for the world after the war):
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how do i copy pics from the net onto here??
1. Search Google for the picture you want.
2. Click on the image and another window will open. Click on "view image"
3. Right click on the image and left click on "copy image url"
4. Come back to STW and click in the reply box.
5. Click on the "IMG" button above and past the url into the resulting window. Click OK.
6. Press "Send Post".
7. Sit back and bask in the adoration you will receive from all corners of internet (assuming the internet is square, it could be round for all we know).
That would be "bask in the adoration", surely. The alternative scares me.
rogerthecat - Member
@JulianA - sadly only Dad left now at 90, when all that generation got together at Xmas and family gatherings it was heaven, grab a cuppa and just sit and listen. Pity no one ever recorded it, so many lost stories.
Sorry to hear that those conversations are gone now. Hope you have some stories written down, or can still do so.
That would be "bask in the adoration", surely. The alternative scares me.
hahaha yeah you're right. I had a mental block at that point.
Post edited to make it less scary.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
That would be "bask in the adoration", surely. The alternative scares me.
Was just wondering if that was a safe search...
We digress. Some great stories and pictures on this thread. Cheers all!
that's the cleanest b29 ever, looks like a dreadful viewpoint datalabs catalogue render.
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They have a few other nice examples.
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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:
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A great workhorse and friend:
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And a pic of me a few years back... Had so much fun in those 🙂
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Typhoon
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Jaguar
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Mirage F1
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Saab Viggen in proper colours
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Buccaneer, Royal Navy of course.
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F15
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SU35
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F16/Dassault Rafale
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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:
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Tiny little thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeVier_Cosmic_Wind
P40 Warhawk
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CAC Boomerang
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J3 Cub
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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)
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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?
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Top Gun has a lot to answer for!
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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.
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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)
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Sukhoi Su25, yep the Russians [i]lurve[/i] rockets.
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Mig23
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A Mig21 and a Mig29
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But perhaps most [s]impressive[/s] scary of all is the Mil24 (please excuse the Paraffin Budgie)
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Can't believe no-one's posted one of these beauties yet...
Total lack of Lightnings
F35 Lightning 2 doing VTOL:
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P38 Lightning:
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LS1 Lightning kitplane:
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oh, and the tiny, stubby Cassutt racer, all 227kg of it:
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Or, for that matter, one of these...
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always liked the look of ov10 bronco
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