Another aeroplane thread! Anything from WWI to WWII inclusive this time….

Seeing as these have been popular when done before (Cold war one was ace!), and Rorsach asked for one!

CHOCKS AWAY, CHAPS!

Spiffing shorts, old bean!

BIG GUNS!

YEA!!! Big hugs to CptFH.

Above is a DH2 baldly made model but lovely plane more wire and space than fabric.

Right come on play nice and tell us what they are when you post please. Anything else is just mean. I love planes but I’m not that good on this era.

Edit like that helpful crankboy if you please.

Thanks

Hawker Hurricane

I wanted to post the Mosquito but Matt O&A beat me to it

One of the greatest (And with a personal connection to one of my grandfathers). The Rapide.

Between the wars, primarily, but saw service as the Dominie.

Mosquito wins for me

(And with a personal connection to one of my grandfathers). The Rapide.

You’re related to Franco???

Couple of WWII favourites (making a change from the usual):

Ooh, Lysander, good call.

My dad worked on these, In fact he may have worked on this one as he was based at Aldergrove during WW2.

AWW2-SLR_030_Consolidated_Liberator_GR_MkI by jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr

Boeing B-17 Memphis Bell

(Ah – that didn’t work. It’s a link to the original Memphis Belle movie, made in 1943)

I like some of the odder stuff of the era (lots to come from WW1 then…)

The BV141 was ‘different’.

Arguably the better fighter in the Battle of Britain

This crazy thing that didnt get past prototypes.

I finally fulfilled an ambition I had held for at least 40 years of seeing one of these fly, at Old Warden this summer. Always been interested since reading about William Barker ( that’s him on the OP’s image with a Sopwith Camel)

Sopwith Snipe replica, with original Bentley BR2 rotary.

If you are interested in WW1 aircraft, you need to check out the TVAL site
http://thevintageaviator.co.nz

My favourite to see flying is the oldest flying british plane, built in 1913

The BV141 was ‘different

Slightly more normal, but still cool looking. The FW 189:

Paul Allen ( of Microsoft fame) has a Fw 189 under restoration to fly… may be before the end of the decade?!?

Always been interested since reading about William Barker ( is that him on the OP’s image with a Sopwith Camel?)

It is indeed! Good spot!

On a similar, book related note, try this –

Featuring these;

Fairey Swordfish.

yes, just checked and had altered my post- sorry!

War in a Srtingbag is one of the better books on WW2 flying I have read- not the usual gung-ho stuff, but very thought provoking

not a hart but a hector

I have sat in the cockpit of the Hind whilst on the ground on a couple of occasions when working as volunteer with the Shuttleworth Collection ( with the appropriate permission of course).
It is surprisingly big and sophisticated compared to the WW1 types

Arguably the better fighter in the Battle of Britain

go on then 🙂

A solution to the problem of improving flying boat aerodynamics led to a less than successful result. Not helped by having the chronically unreliable R-R Vulture for power. Blackburn B20

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Might we see one of these in the air soon? Fiat CR42

may then be able to fly in formation with at least two of these. Gloster Gladiator

Ahem. Plane type details please. Ahem.

Great thread. Remember seeing the Fiesler Storch at Biggin Hill in the 1980’s. After all the Mach 2 jets that had been featured the Storch’s take off run was ridiculously short!

Grumman F6F Hellcat (Chino Warbirds’ F6F-3 painted as a Fleet Air Arm Hellcat Mk. I.)

Piaggio-Pegna Pc7.1928

Another attempt to reduce the aerodynamic drag in flying boats and seaplanes.

Using hydrofoils, the engine first drove a water prop until on the foils, then the airscrew would be clutched in and it would take off. I don’t think it ever did.

someone made a model fly, but if you look, it has additional float under the wings the original didn’t have