Spruce Goose.
Best. Name. Ever.
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Hughes H1 [s]Penis extension [/s] Racer.*
Hughes hated the name Spruce Goose.
* Strictly, this shouldn't be in the thread as it's a recreation. A bloody good one though.
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Ilyushin Il-2M3
Here's a pic of TT winner Alec Bennett in his RFC Bristol F2.
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ME163
As an avid childhood reader of W.E. Johns my mind links the aforementioned Beaufighter with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator in some particularly exciting piece of derring-do - possibly in Borneo.
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DO335
Nerd/pedant
That Handley Page Stirling way back up there, were they not built by Short Bros?
Got the shot of the two Lancaster but some modern old thing got in the way! 🙄
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Rachel
B26 Martin Marauder. Hard to fly because of its high landing speed, but the pilots loved it when they got used to it.
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Sopwith Camel and Pup ( and my father-in-law third from left who once upon a time commanded the Fleet Air Arm Historic Flight ):
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Nerd/pedantThat Handley Page Stirling way back up there, were they not built by Short Bros?
Correct. Beat me to it.
Curtiss XP-55
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Beamers, the Pup looks like it's escaped from Pixar's "Planes" 😉 the machine guns look like its eyes...
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Fokker E111 eindeker. No flaps the cables warp the wings to make it manoeuvre. Lethal in the Fokker Summer as it had the first effective forward firing gun .
I don't think we've had one of these yet, despite it being considered by many to be the best British fighter of the World War (though it's not as pretty as a Camel)
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SE5a
For Typhoon fans, I bumped into this a while back. Worth a watch - the usual collection of heros.
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boeing 221a monomail
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Boeing 218
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junkers 88
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blackburn firebrand
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Lavochkin La-9
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Lockheed 10-A Electra
No DC3?
Shame on you all...
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C47 on page 2...
I love the sound of a rotary engined plane.
Another "big unit"
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That Electra is lovely.
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Commonwealth CA-12 Boomerang
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Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
Sorry, pedant mode:
Imnotverygood: the doctrine the Defiant fell foul of was the daft idea that it didn’t need to be able to fire forward. If it had a few guns in the wings it would probably have been much more successful
Alex: It’s a Short Stirling. Didn’t hold a candle to the Lanc or the Halifax as it only had a puny bomb load, and had a habit of tripping over its silly long legs when landing
CZ: That’s a Mk IIC Hurri, so won’t have seen action in the BB, it was a later version
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Curtiss P-36C Hawk
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Halberstadt CL IV gotta love a bit of lozenge
Albatross D3...
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[pedant] Albatros D.III (Oeffag) [/pedant]
for those aeronuts who haven't been but your get along to the shuttleworth collection last sunday of the month during the summer to watch these ww1-to-ww2 planes fly. it's a very "tactile" kind of museum every plane has an oil pan under with fresh smelly oil dripping into it.
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De Havilland DH-88 Comet
Henschel Hs 129
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Hispano Aviación HA-1112
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Northrop XP-56 'Black Bullet'
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Northrop X-216H 'Flying Wing' prototype. Built in 1929!!
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Note the asymmetric cockpit placement- I think it was so they could fit the engine in!
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tons of stuff their for aero buffs...
pou-de-ciel, possibly the original microlight
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miles falcon
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percival mew gull
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That Horten Ho 229 from the first page is an interesting aircraft. It was later looked at by engineers form Northrop-Grunman when they were developing the B2 'Spirit' (stealth bomber). The Horten brothers designed some beautiful looking gliders (the H IV, from 1941):
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Apparently Jack Northrop wasn't too adverse to having a sneaky peek at the Horten bros work when he developed this, the N-1M ('M' for model, as it was intended to be scaled up into the mighty XB-35 long range heavy bomber)
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Fairey Firefly AS5
