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 Harry_the_Spider
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Some of them are mint.

English Electric TSR2
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Convair B58 Hustler
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Handley Page Victor
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Posted : 28/02/2011 12:02 pm
 piedidiformaggio
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Posted : 28/02/2011 12:05 pm
 boxelder
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Stanley Miller's patent

and a Sopwith

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Posted : 28/02/2011 12:10 pm
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Posted : 28/02/2011 12:12 pm
 Oggles
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Sailor Inhaler

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Posted : 28/02/2011 12:12 pm
 dandelionandmurdoch
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Used for some pretty evil purposes, but still the most beautiful plane that has ever flown:
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Posted : 28/02/2011 12:16 pm
 SaxonRider
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Except when [url=

do this[/url].


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 12:19 pm
 beamers
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Those Victors look like something out of Dan Dare / Flash Gordon.

They still fly too - occasionally:


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 12:22 pm
 julianwilson
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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 😯 .


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 12:51 pm
 Harry_the_Spider
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Posted : 28/02/2011 1:28 pm
 crazy-legs
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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.


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 1:47 pm
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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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Posted : 28/02/2011 1:51 pm
 Cougar
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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)"...


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 1:53 pm
 Cougar
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(is the next thread in the series going to be "automobiles"?)


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 1:54 pm
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Mighty Bucc.
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Best job I ever had.


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 1:55 pm
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Someone pretty please post a pic of a McDonnell Phantom!

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


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 1:56 pm
 ChrisL
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How on earth has this thread got into double figures without a Vulcan?

Because the Victor looks better!

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Posted : 28/02/2011 1:57 pm
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How on earth has this thread got into double figures without a Vulcan?

Or a Harrier
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Posted : 28/02/2011 1:59 pm
 ChrisL
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Did someone want to see a Phantom?

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Posted : 28/02/2011 1:59 pm
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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:01 pm
 BigButSlimmerBloke
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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:02 pm
 aracer
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still the most beautiful plane that has ever flown

The STW forum as always proves that people have differing opinions - I really don't get the beauty of that at all (not suggesting it's ugly, just fairly ordinary in a "get a child to draw a plane" sort of sense).

Here's my far prettier offering:
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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:05 pm
 piedidiformaggio
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Goblin Parasite fighter anyone? hairbrained, bloody dangerous and ultimately useless!

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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:06 pm
 ChrisL
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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. 🙂


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:12 pm
 Harry_the_Spider
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is the next thread in the series going to be "automobiles"?

hmmm... now there's a thought.


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:17 pm
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Is that blue Spitfire the Rolls-Royce owned one?


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:19 pm
 Harry_the_Spider
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De Havilland Sea Vixen.

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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:19 pm
 titusrider
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My childhood dream...

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 derek_starship
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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:39 pm
 ChrisL
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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.


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:39 pm
 SaxonRider
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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.)


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:45 pm
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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:52 pm
 beamers
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This is kind of hypnotic:


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:53 pm
 Harry_the_Spider
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Sukhoi SU-34

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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:53 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 2:56 pm
 cranberry
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I always liked these:

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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:58 pm
 binners
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Real purty:

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Posted : 28/02/2011 2:59 pm
 crazy-legs
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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.


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 3:06 pm
 dogbert
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funny no-ones mentioned:

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Posted : 28/02/2011 4:26 pm
 5thElefant
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Russian heavy metal
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Posted : 28/02/2011 4:30 pm
 Oggles
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That Pro/E video [i]is[/i] hypnotic.

edit for new page pics! do these count?

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Posted : 28/02/2011 4:37 pm
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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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Posted : 28/02/2011 4:39 pm
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aracer - just fairly ordinary in a "get a child to draw a plane" sort of sense
[regarding B-29]
Y'know, that's kinda what attracts me to it: it's perfectly proportioned and looks exactly like a plane 'should' look. Indeed we all do have differing opinions on here, so to add my tuppence: that Mosquito, whilst a fine aircraft is, to my eye, rather aesthetically unpleasant (I think it's those engine nacelles, plus the points mentioned above).

But anyway...
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...peekaboo!


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 4:52 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 28/02/2011 5:34 pm
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