A long overdue awesome aeroplanes thread!

How to avoid being shot while in a P47?

undo the straps and run around the cockpit

Vintagewino, seeing as I live near Popham, if he’d like to trade beers for a flight……

🙂

My only claim to fame on this thread will be having briefly been, in a past life, an engineer officer on the RFA directly below the port wheel on the landing gear…

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enjoy

RA5C Vigilante…apparently “challenging” to get on board the carrier fleet. Same era as TSR2, similar looking innit

Ha, snap klunk!!

Canberra.

first of the centuries

pedal damn it!

Mig 15 meets its match:

what a bunch of nerdy spotters we all are!!

we can rebuild him !

A quick video for plane geeks:

Time for a Folland Gnat:

The AK47 of the jet fighter world:

A Pilatus Porter, at altitude.

The most important aircraft of WW2.

The 2nd most important.

The 3rd most important.

No Spitfire. Sorry.

@ 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!

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.

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.

His dad was a navigator in one of these:

First plane that could shoot through the propeller.

nope it was Morane-Saulnier L

@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:

how do i copy pics from the net onto here??

F106 Delta Dart

@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.” Calvert must have felt a strong affinity with them as he too was unreliable, difficult to control and unstable as hell. 😀

Most important plane of WWII (for the world after the war):

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!