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

true winner of the battle of britain 😉

De Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth

Could someone post a nice pic of a beautiful polished alloyP-51 Mustang for me? Can’t seem to do it from my phone :-/ Absolutely GORGEOUS airplane with (essentially) a throbbing British heart. Kind of like a Shelby Cobra, in reverse…

De Havilland Vampire

p51d mustang

Thanks Klunk!

De Havilland Hornet

Stuka

Do-17

Messerschmitt 110

Beech UC-45J Expeditor

That Vampire is glorious.

dakota

ford transit trimotor

junkers transit trimotor ju52

death on a stick geebee r-2

laird solution

avro lancaster

deserves another pic i think

what the hell

laird-turner meteor

ye gods, page 3 before a lanc!

it was so obvious, I assumed it had already been done

avro anson

ye gods, page 3 before a lanc!

it was so obvious, I assumed it had already been doneNot a single Spit either, for what I assume to be similar reasons. I like the unusual stuff though; that Black Widow thing looks evil; like a spiky Cessna Skyvan

avro 504

the view fritz doesn’t want in his rear view mirror

spitfire

hard to believe the same company made this 🙂

supermarine walrus

Keep up the good work Klunk. I’m guessing its a slow day in the office. 😉

bristol fighter

B-17 Flying Fortress

Handley Page Stirling

Vickers Wellington

Lancs (rightly I suppose) get all the limelight for bomber command but in the early stages of the campaign, there weren’t enough of them. Quite a few pilots actually preferred the Stirlings…

sopwith triplane

And just to show that MR A.V. Roe didn’t get everything right, I give you

The disastrous Avro Manchester. Was operational briefly. Everything that was wrong with it, was mostly fixed in its successor. Which was of course the Lanc.

And if I can be a bit cheeky, another Hurricane but a Mark V, little known variant that was redesigned to carry bombs/rockets and upgraded guns to Canons so it could take on a ground attack role.

Affectionately known as the ‘can opener’ because it was so effective against tanks. Replaced late in the war by the already posted and rather terrifying Typhoon!

mitchell

douglas a-26 invader

another cheeky repeat – I know its already been posted but, my goodness, I do love a Corsair.

Second fiddle to the mighty Lanc, HP Halifax

Was a little late for WWII
But what a plane
Bearcat
IMG_5834 by msh_sco[/url], on Flickr
I always get frowned at for saying i like these better than Spitfires
Mustangs
IMG_6006 by msh_sco[/url], on Flickr

replica vickers vimy

It wasn’t just the Gee Bee racers that went to extremes

Bristol 72 racer, 1922

Dayton-Wright RB-1 retractable undercarriage and variable camber wings 1920

As much as I like prop planes, you lot need to get with the times and embrace the future:

I still think it’s a lovely looking plane: Me-262

Makhinine Mak 10

in Flight variable span wings – 1932

video here
https://youtu.be/p3HsmM-IKqY