Yup, underneath the pic of the GeeBee racer, and I even quoted Captain Lockeed. It’s a pic of a Luftwaffe F-104, too, for that exact reason.
Another lovely, and awesome in its own way, aeroplane, the Cosmic Wind racer:
Some of the NASA and Soviet planes are spectacular, but what got me most was the pic of the German War plane taking off in amongst the trees, beautiful shot that.
The last time I did an aircraft recce test (80’s Germany) I scored 80 out of 80, but really struggled with many of these. (unsurprisingly!)
Loved the pics of the Foxbat, F15, a couple of faves there. Remember seeing a Lighting take off and disappear into a pure blue sky vertically in 30 secs….ACE!
Some excellent diversity here, all sorts of stuff showing up.
This may well be seen as a rather mundane plane, but the story behind these beasts coming in to being at Boeing is brilliant (May still be on iPlayer). They remain one of the more impressive feats of engineering in the skies, IMHO.
Over the years, I’ve spent more time on them than I should. As such, they make me feel happy, because the second time I see one on a trip, it’s coming to take me home! (After one long US trip, I spied the tail plane through a window at LAX and it just made me smile immediately!)
Preferably sitting here;
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlNcG2W0p0&feature=kp[/video]
Here’s the documentary. The test flying stuff is awesome!
@CFH: nice video. I much prefer flying on even the tattiest Boeing 747 over any Airbus – the teeny little windows and communist approach to A/C makes for a poor flying experience.
Did anyone see the documentary on the Dambusters 617 sqn…what they did next, on Monday evening? Twas very interesting and worth watching on catch up if possible.
I sat on a cliff in the NW USA once and watched the US navy training pilots of this. The local town had a slogan “The Sound of Freedom” as the airbase was there. Bloody noisy.