[Closed] Planes

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Stanley Miller's patent

and a Sopwith

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Sailor Inhaler

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Used for some pretty evil purposes, but still the most beautiful plane that has ever flown:
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Those Victors look like something out of Dan Dare / Flash Gordon.

They still fly too - occasionally:

beamers/HTS, "Teasin' Tina" has gone back to her gulf-era pink-on-top paintjob now. And it really is piiiink! Kept my bored/retired father-in-law busy for a couple of weeks 😯 .

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How on earth has this thread got into double figures without a Vulcan?

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First saw the "new" one back in the air at Windermere a couple of years ago. Beautiful day, then it came in, sleek and low and almost silent. Until it turned it's back to us, and pulled up. Oh my God the NOISE. Incredible.

I'd forgotten the sound they make, I was really young the last time I saw a flying one.

That's a gorgeous shot of the TSR.2, Harry.

Bristol Type 188:

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I suppose that the Spitfire could look quite nice in the right light, too:

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Now we're talking.

That's a lovely shot of the Buran (Russian Space Shuttle) back there.

Vaguely amusing trivia - on the US carrier aircraft, next to the mounting pylon it says "attach Orbiter here (note: black side down)"...

(is the next thread in the series going to be "automobiles"?)

Mighty Bucc.
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Best job I ever had.

Someone pretty please post a pic of a McDonnell Phantom!

And a Warthog tank-buster; beautiful yet ugly at the same time.......

How on earth has this thread got into double figures without a Vulcan?

Because the Victor looks better!

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How on earth has this thread got into double figures without a Vulcan?

Or a Harrier
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Did someone want to see a Phantom?

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still the most beautiful plane that has ever flown

Here's my far prettier offering:
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Goblin Parasite fighter anyone? hairbrained, bloody dangerous and ultimately useless!

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The Mosquito's a fine looking aircraft but would have looked much better if its inner wings didn't stick so far forward of its outer wings and if its tail wasn't behind its rudder. IMO, anyway, and it's not like these aesthetic things held it back in any way. 🙂

is the next thread in the series going to be "automobiles"?

hmmm... now there's a thought.

Is that blue Spitfire the Rolls-Royce owned one?

De Havilland Sea Vixen.

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My childhood dream...

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Is that blue Spitfire the Rolls-Royce owned one?

Yes it is. The photo was taken at the 2009 Leuchars airshow.

As a child I was contrary and much preferred the Hurricane to the Spitfire. Seeing this PR.19 Spitfire in PRU blue was one of the first times that I really appreciated the aesthetics of the Spitfire.

It this CF-18 Hornet crashing

that I was trying to post earlier.

There's something very haunting about watching a thing of such beauty just drop out of the sky.

(Don't worry. It has a happy ending for the pilot.)

This is kind of hypnotic:

Sukhoi SU-34

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Seeing this PR.19 Spitfire in PRU blue was one of the first times that I really appreciated the aesthetics of the Spitfire.

That's not a proper Spit anyway, it's got a griffon engine in it!

I always liked these:

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Real purty:

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Taken by me at the Dambusters Anniversary flypast a couple of years ago. I was on the hill above the dam, got a great view. And, glorious though the Vulcan noise is/was, nothing beats 4 Roll Royce Merlins.

funny no-ones mentioned:

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Russian heavy metal
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That Pro/E video [i]is[/i] hypnotic.

edit for new page pics! do these count?

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Hmm my brother in law had a bit of a off in a F-15E a few years ago

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aracer - just fairly ordinary in a "get a child to draw a plane" sort of sense

But anyway...
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...peekaboo!

That's not a proper Spit anyway, it's got a griffon engine in it!

I read an article about the Griffon-engined Spitfires recently. It expressed the opinion that the Spitfire only really grew up when it got the Griffon engine. I like the way that the later Spitfires mix the slender lines of the Spitfire with what is a ridiculously powerful engine.

There's something appealing about Spitfires that refuse to conform to how people expect them to look. For example the final Seafire (navalised Spitfire) variants had Griffon engines, contra-rotating propellers and a bubble canopy. If they'd had clipped wings too they'd probably cause Spitfire purists to have seizures...

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That's a good picture of the Blackbird above, too. I really should get the photos I took at Duxford (4 years ago now) online someday...

Can't say I like Mustangs much, though. Their proportions aren't quite right and the big radiator under the cockpit looks all wrong.

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That Beluga is a sight when you pick the right day to go riding at llandegla.

I remember the predecessors to the Beluga, first the 'Guppy' then the 'pregnant guppy'.

Not a photo, but i know you guys will enjoy this - needs watching with sound for proper Aussie humour! 🙂

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That Sea Vixen is proper awesome.

I read somewhere that the English Electric TSR2 was super advanced for its day. A Lightening was used for a photoshoot. It couldn't keep up with the TSR2 which was running on just one engine!

Saxonrider - my cousin was there when it happened. A distant relarion -Captain Bews was the pilot.

My girlfriend's dad was involved in creating the infra red telescope for this.

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Run like fu....

"Fat Albert" goes up

I like Sea Furies:

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I like almost anything by Hawker or De Haviland.

Jaguar, always loved them,

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Saab Viggen, Loved the paint scheme

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Westland Whirlwind

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Another Whirlwind shot:
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Lavochkin La-9:
Best piston engined fighter ever?.
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Like a flying orangery.

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is that Spitfire PS915 on the first page?

if it is I helped restore it. 😆

6 months on my back riveting that bloody rear fuse. 🙁

and i'm afraid UAV's have to count nowadays.

here is our latest

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Hmmm... someone oop norf who may (or may not!) work for the same people as me!

For me, it's all about the B-2 Spirit, and Lockheed Martin's U2 & F-117 planes.
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I probably do dave.

There doesn't seem to be an abundance of UAV manufacturers in good old blighty.

are you @ Farnborough?

Looks like they need to turn up the anti-aliasing a bit on that one

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Wow!! Any more info on this thing Vortexracing?

Anyone got a decent picture of a wellington bomber?

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Taranis is not necessarily my favorite, in fact it's bottom of my list at the moment, it's just giving me a bad stomach and a high blood pressure 🙁

But his is one of my all time favorites

it looks just right

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there you go

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Wow!! Any more info on this thing Vortexracing?

Not many 'real' photos yet Mike, this is about as close as they've got so far...

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speaking of Hawker Hunter...

I saw this at an airshow at Elvington, near York, a couple of years back:
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not your typical camo scheme 😉

not my photo btw

The Vulcan at the Uffington Show a couple of years back. As mentioned on the previous page it was almost silent as it went overhead, looped round and passed silently on its way. No standing on its tail as it was on its way to a proper airshow where it would undoubtedly split the air:

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Do you work on them UAVs at Warton then Vortex? Or is it, as my dad says, I could tell you but I'd have to kill you 🙄

yip,

and i'll let you live, just this once 😆

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is that Spitfire PS915 on the first page?

No, it's not the BBMF's one, it's PS853 and belongs to Rolls Royce. It was flying at the airshow separately to the BBMF display.

How about the Republic A-5 Vigilante,

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Or the Vought F-8 Crusader?

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And for the Hawker fans, the Sea Hawk:

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I find the Sea Hawk in particular very pleasing on the eye, despite or perhaps because of its primitive design. Sweeping the wings and applying the area rule to the fuselage may make for a better plane but the simpler lines of the Sea Hawk work very well.

Mmmmmmmm Jagwaars

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I got to touch the Lockheed A-12 on the USS Intrepid when I visited in 1999. The predecessor of the SR-71. Not beautiful but a fantastic piece of aeronautic engineering IMHO.

My fave jet has to be the Phantom which just outdoes the EG Lightening and Harrier.

My uncle used to fly Lightnings. He's got Parkinsons now but still remains a very cool guy - it must have been part of the training!

Some of my favourite planes on here: EE Lightning, TSR2, Hawker Tempest, Vulcan and Victor, Meteor, (possibly one of the prettiest jet fighters ever)...
Always had a real love of these:
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and with a serious gun in it's snout:
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And this one. I dearly wish there was one still flying:
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Nice bomber there, Countzero; just a shame they would only not let you in one if you didn't tell them you weren't crazy...

On a saner note, I'm actually quite excited about the plastic-laden, fuel-efficient future of commercial aviation:
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Quite pretty, if you like that sort of thing.

You probably had to be nuts to fly Mitchells under these circumstances:
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carrier launching and landing a plane of that size must have been ...interesting.
Like the Beaufighter, more than just a bomber, a damn good ground attack aircraft, 'specially with all those cannon up front.

And speaking of carrier landing, who'd put their hand up when this was suggested?
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You know something?

I've adored this thread. I love planes, I know utterly sod all about them but I've gone "oooh!" at every post. Thank you.