A long overdue awesome aeroplanes thread!

some wwi grunt with bristol fighter

b26 marauder aka “the widowmaker” (though went on to have one of the best records of any bomber of wwII)

I’ve always liked the Short Sunderland

My dad looked after those for his national service just after WW2, in Sri Lanka, where they were doing patrol runs. Uesd to get lots of trouble with the P&W’s – the water thrown up by the props would cause cylinder heads to crack on a regular basis.

Sounded like a real tough gig – on a daily basis they generally had to get up, do (literally) a couple of hours work, before it got too hot to do anything until the evening. At which point they might have a game of football or go for a swim. Hard times!

Handle Page hp42

Bristol 188:

Ok, not a complete aircraft, but worth a mention, the largest jet engine made, General Electric’s GE90-115B, has produced 568,9 kN of thrust (although rated a bit lower in service).

For some contrast, Whittle’s first production jet (type W1) had just 3.8 kN.

the superlative pe-2 only matched in versatility by the mosquito

Some De Havilland love….

…and an oddball Comet

DH were a thoroughly excellent aircraft shop.

The other DH Comet (DH88):

DH were a thoroughly excellent aircraft shop

They were indeed. Now sadly producing this tat:

DeHavilland Canada Dash 8 / Bombardier Q400

I know nowt about planes, but love looking at them 🙂 Seeing the Enola Gay in the final picture was a weird one for me. I’d been to Hiroshima only a couple of months before, so to see the plane that brought ‘Little Boy’ was a real mixture of feelings – stunningly beautiful plane, horrendous purpose.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Udvar-Hazy main hanger by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Underside of Discovery by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-3 Kingfisher by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Bonkers Russian K7 from the 30’s

Gentlemen why have you ignored the Junkers JU-52 in its awesomeness?

page 9, keep up old boy!

page 9, keep up old boy!

and page 4

Bonkers Russian K7 from the 30’s

it did exist but that fantasy render is not it 🙂

with turrets from the missouri ! 🙂

b26 marauder aka “the widowmaker” (though went on to have one of the best records of any bomber of wwII)

I really like the Martin ‘Murderer’, most of them were based in Essex at some point due to their shorter range. When I’m out riding the road bike we pass by most of their bases, it seems really peaceful now and it’s hard to imagine what it was like when they were there.

more multi engine madness dornier do x

Torado. End of thread.

is this real?

looks like a Mosquito that’s been very heavily – and badly – photoshopped. two engines removed, one of them posted onto the nose.

<EDIT> thought so </edit>

Please note that this is strictly an imaginary aircraft and story and should therefore not be taken seriously by any researcher.
Concept and photo manipulation © Stéphane Beaumort / AviaDesign 2010

😆

you have to be quite careful with half size replica’s, rc models, renders and photoshop

Before wind tunnels

Ten years later…

the just plain bonkers blohm & voss bv141

Grumman Skyrocket

Has to be one of the best threads for a loooong tiiiime 😀

Convair Sea Dart

And a Martin Sea master

Leduc ram jet.

looks safe 😯

I’ve got an old Sperry Gyroscope brochure I should scan – it’s got lots of good stuff, but the best I think is the story of the first public display of their autopilot. This was pre-WWI, very early, and they demonstrated it at an air show, flying low over the crowd in an open two-seater. While about 20ft over the crowd, the pilot stood up and held his arms up to demonstrate that he wasn’t controlling the aircraft, and the engineer climbed out of the cockpit and started jumping up and down on one wing to demonstrate how stable it was 😀

The utterly bonkers Taylor Aerocar:

Food for thought.

Is this the only plane ever actually designed to kill the pilot?

Frightening stuff……….

There was quite a grrr looking prop plane used by the US from WW2 to Vietnam for ground attack – cant remember its name though.

douglas a-26 invader bottom of page 1

Carrier-borne single seat ground attack stuff:

There was quite a grrr looking prop plane used by the US from WW2 to Vietnam for ground attack – cant remember its name though.

Douglas A-1 Skyraider ?

No guns, no fat, photo recon spitfire:

Yup – Skyraider.

love the f-8 crusader with it’s variable incident wing

Ive never seen the gunless spitfire before. Absolutely stunning looking thing, so clean. Is it actually physically possible for a plane to look nicer than that?

A bit of goose,