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dandelionandmurdoch - Member
Quite pretty, if you like that sort of thing.
and you know where the fire exits are...
Lots of lovely stuff posted here but the one i used to draw most as a kid and could still spend hours look at pictures are these
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Stunning 🙂
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I love p38's
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And reno warbirds.
Is that a cool job or what?
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Not sure if this counts:
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Oh so many to chose. Many of them in the thread above.
Brought-up around aircraft (father was a pilot and an [s]arms dealer[/s] MD of an Avionics/Aeronautical manufacturers), so nearly considred life in the RAF...
Anyway, to misappropriate one of his fantasies, ditch the camper van and go touring in one of these:
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Catalina
Other favourites:
A10
Bucanneer
Mosquito
and the de Havilland Comet. Mrs Stoner Sr was one of the first ever Air Hostesses, working for BOAC on the Comet
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and the dH Vampire
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Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the bonkersness that is the Fairey Gannet:
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folding wings, Twin turbojet engined contra rotating props, turn one engine (and prop) off to coast around saving fuel, one bloke sat in the back on his lonesome looking at the radar screen - does it get madder?
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How about some significant planes which don't ever seem to get featured on these threads - somewhat surprisingly since at least 2 out of 3 are quite aesthetically pleasing.
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My favourite plane ever, the butcher bird.
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Great thread - always enjoy it
Am buiding an airfix Lancaster with my younger son at the mo
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And one of these on older sons ceiling 🙂
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Mosquito next, I hear the comments about questionable asthetics above but I still love them
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the v 22 osprey plane and helicopter!!
Arguably the main reason we don't speak german...
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all fugly compared to this
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Some modern ones:
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And a fairly old one on its recent last run (I believe):
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I'd not necessarily argue with that, Monkfish, but that's not its best angle
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One of the most exciting things I've ever done, if the not the most exciting was to loop the loop in the front seat of one of these
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Does an Ekranoplan count?
I think it does! Sod it don't care what you think anyway.
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if you like watching old aircraft [url= http://www.shuttleworth.org/brochure-pageflip/Shuttleworth_Brochure_2011.pdf ]flying [/url] can be combined with a riding @ rowney warren.
Calm down Klunk!
He's gone mad....
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...and the newly pinked-up Victor i mentioned earlier.
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VORTEX - luckily not, i'm in the South West
Klunk has excellent taste, I particularly like the DH88. Here's a TwinBeech:
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The famous Dakota DC3.
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de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
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I've been out the back door of this one a few times in years gone by;
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and this one;
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and the Shorts [s]Shed[/s] Skyvan
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Jumped this one too! 🙂
Finally, a JP..
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de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
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Flew in them a few times ... brilliant.
ahh, if it's nostalgia we're doing now
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Crikey! Is there anyone on here called John Andrews?
I have a Chipmunk nosecone somewhere...! Must dig it out again!
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biggest plane in the world .....
Always liked the Douglas DC-3, especially when it was left chromed up:
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Same goes for the Beechcraft C-45:
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So lovely it deserves more pics.
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Woo hoo - ekranoplan! Go Elfin!!!
You [i]knows[/i] it! 😀
Ekranoplans rock.
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TWO in one!!!
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Lovely shot of a Halifax
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That's an incredible looking plane, 5th - really puts the "stagger" into staggerwing. I'm ashamed I had to google it!
So many stunning aircraft on here that I love, like the Skyraider, DH Comet, Supermarine S6B. Here's another angle of one that klunk put up, at a slightly better angle, the Grumman F7F-3P Tigercat. Yummy!
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Supermarine S6B
Ha! Except it's not (unless somebody else has posted one) - check the URL.
I used to live just down the road from [url= http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=smjmhzgz9nnj&lvl=19.37192049989064&dir=268.92286495897315&sty=b ]here[/url] - that's where they designed the Mossie (and the prototype is inside the hangar). Went regularly as a kid, hence why I still think of Mossies as being yellow! Well worth a visit if you're in the area.
How very British! A big house with a large shed and a load of war planes outside. Was that De Havilland’s design base or just Mr DH’s house? Has it got a website?
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More Russian madness, according to the email I got
The most amazing airplane in History....For the Airplane Buffs.
Built in Russia during the 1930s, it flew 11 times before crashing and killing 15 people.
The designer, Konstantin Kalinin, wanted to build two more planes but the project was scrapped.
Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed.
Evidently, it was not good to fail on an expensive project under Stalin.
It's got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count 12 engines facing front.
The size would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its side, with cannons.
And you think the 747 was big... not only a bunch of engines but check out the cannons the thing was carrying.
In the 1930s the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating huge planes.
At that time they were proposed to have as many propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented yet.
Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time has already passed.
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not quite the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7 ]emipre state[/url], but impressive none the less
Interesting renderings, but the reality was a little less extreme
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I've been out the back door of this one a few times in years gone by;
If we're doing "otherwise perfectly good aeroplanes that I've fallen out of," here's mine:
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... only with not quite such a scabby paint job.