Aircraft appreciation thread

one of my favorites, I don’t know why it just looks right.

Lovely plane to fly according to the pilots at work.

I’m a sucker for german ww2 aircraft

Experimental..

Miketroid

Of the timmys which is your fav?

I preferred the KCs to the Ks and C2s.

Liked them all apart from Damian!!

I know, sadly, that I won’t fly a better beast again. It was so revolutionary and beautifully engineered. Economics won’t allow that to happen again.

My fav were the KC1s in cargo mode ,lots more space to stretch out and sleep to ensure I was fully rested to enjoy the next stop. 😛

I think I only flew in a K once ,over the adriatic on a tanking trip trying to sort a snag.

Had my most fun trips in the C2s Vegas,Nairobi and a Medman or two and even trips to the deep south were ok as most of the crew were fun and sitting in the jump seat and watching the systems work was always intresting. The eng always seemed to work the most.

Happy days but I sure dont miss working nights in all weathers and the none aircraft stuff but I did enjoy working on the timmys the systems did make you think.

I’m a Spitfire man meself, although the Sea Fury is rather nice:

Mpies,

’twas a complex beast. The FE panel was a bit of a headache!!

Medman…. How I miss those now…

Now the sea fury-nice. Like the sea vixen too.

I love these threads. I can remember being in the back garden in ’69/70 in South Essex and watching (one of the?) first Concorde test flights escorted by the Red Arrows. And then again 34 years later the three Concordes flew over work in Bracknell on their final flight into Heathrow. Everyone stopped work to go outside and watch. 😀

Hercules C130

because I jumped out of one or two or three…

I would love to have had a go in this puppy:

Or better this

Bellerophon;

flown that one a few times

Had many hours of fun in these

skyranger cos mi dads got one and i helped build it 🙂

mikertroid – Member
Bellerophon;

flown that one a few times

So it was you that made me jump

The TSR2 is very impressive, and there’s a certain nostalgic regret about it, but it’s not really all that pretty is it?

Another Lightning:

Though I think I prefer one of these:

Some lovely stuff, I always have fond memories of F1-11s low level over highlands back in the 80s, they were special, shame we didn’t get some, got to see one close up in the visiting aircraft hanger up in Lossie when I was in cadets, impressive beasts, the bucaneers and jaguars used to belt through nice and low too, they were certainly the good old days, jets are pretty thin on the ground these days :0(
PJ.

jets + Swiss Alps:

Think the ekranoplan should probably be disqualified despite being obviously teh bestest. So I’ll go with a Lightning. Used to drive past one every day, ZF584. But it got basically destroyed when it was removed for “conservation”… It was flown back from Saudi Arabia, then delivered intact to the Ferranti’s office but when they came to take it off to the air museum they saw fit to do this to it…

Sad.

They cut the wings to transport it to the air museum? It’s not as if they had to preserve it for flight: the CAA will never, ever let a Lightning fly in UK airspace whilst in private ownership, primarily because of their tendency to fall out of it when they were in service with the people who knew them best…

I’ve always liked the Sea Vixen

Pretenders go home.

The MiG 25 ‘Foxbat’. The reason the F-15 was built.

A MiG-25 was tracked flying over Sinai at Mach 3.2 in the early 1970s, but the flight resulted in the destruction of its engines. Apparently it flew like a turd in anything other than a straight line…

while were on with the soviet stuff…

Clint had great fun in the Firefox

Mmm. Firefox.

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A link to a Real Hercules this one is my particular fav

Sorry don’t know how to post pics from a website

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK—Air/Lockheed-C-130K-Hercules/0915435/L/

Always admired the shark-like menace of the Me262

and the space age Me163

All ways loved these long before the Iraq war.

And liked the looks of these.

Another shiney Delta from me…

Oooooo, lots of great stuff here. Always loved the DC3, managed to get a flight in one, watching the wingtips gently waving up and down in flight was fun. Buccaneer was another favourite, I remember seeing a cartoon from a Farnborough display when they came into service, showing one with a conning tower and periscope.
Very fond of these, too:

Whats that AndyF1? excuse my ignorance, but it looks great till they stuck the engines on the wings.

[edit]never mind, good old wiki. not heard of it, and thought it was smaller than it actually is, didn’t realise it was a bomber.

£49 return to Barçelona! Woohoo! 😀

I can almost smell the airfix glue looking through this thread

That would explain a lot….

Youll be to young to remember this, but for a while they made it smell orange flavoured, not the best idea ever, but as you say, it probably does explain a lot.

CountZero,

I like the Spad too, but it’s not really a good looking plane. I still like to have a combination of those and A-10s as a private airforce though, then just go for extended trips to somewhere that needed close air support.

I do love the A-10.

Grew up with this picture on my bedroom wall:

oh I have that picture on the cover of issue 4 of Warplane