Allways thought the F16 Fighting Falcon was the prettiest:

…..kinda reminds me of the Angels:

Spectrum is green!

(Sees another HIND-D, wets himself again…)

I am liking this one

Bristol 188

14155842 bytes seems a liiiiiiittle big for that picture… Don’t want to get it removed, but could someone change it to a jpeg and repost it? It’s MAHOOSIVE!

There were some fantastic F-16 variant s designed and many were built and tested as well. Delta wing versions, a huge droop-snooted version, a forward swept wing version…etc.

14MB????????

What’s it’s resolution, ffs?? That’s enormous!

Too late mate. S’probbly gonna bork the STW server, now.

Sorry my fault, linked the wrong version, ive removed the original now, will that solve it?

Yeah, love the F16 – very pretty.

Also remember seeing the SU27 (I think) doing the ‘cobra’ at Farnborough – basically it flies slower and slower at a very high alpha (is that the correct term?) then it goes past vertical and comes back again in a ‘snake strike’ kind of style.

Just gonna see if I can find it on YouTube.

By the way, love the NSFW low-flying Spitfire clip: watched it loads of times and it always makes me smile!

Yeah i saw that at Waddingham i think, they had a pair of Flankers.

Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ekgpE7WvY&feature=PlayList&p=BD1EF849D7337871&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=48

Wow! It’s still going….! This is amazing.

How about a little monster that trained the pilots of the day? The wondrous, wondrous JP!

http://www.starfighters.nl/

I remember seeing these at Greenham Common airshow and they were fabulous – oh the howl from them as they went over the fence!

When planes were big and ugly… but still quite cool.

Sea Vixen

Javelin

Corsair

re. B-36. Six turning, four burning evolved into “Four turning, two burning, two smoking, two joking” 😀

Completely forgot my favourite…Intruders were beautiful. Still love those shots in flight of the intruder of the carriers with a mixed deckful, F-14’s, Hawkeyes, Intruders, + more…. Cant find any pics online though. 🙁

How about a few transport planes? Antonov An-225…

This thread has truly amazed me!

My thanks to everyone involved so far. Wonderful!

Keep ’em coming, though!

Keep ’em coming, though!

<Goes off to dig out complete 1st series of Take Off magazine>

😉

Another airplane nut here 🙂

My personal favourite:

Su-27 (In Ukranian camo)

C17 Globemaster III

Saw one at high altitude today and it looked so meaty compared to the airliners flying at that height.

Oh and I just love this pic…

Was fascinated by SR71 when I was a kid. Awesome is an overused word but pretty apt for an aircraft that broke 4 world records on its retirement run!

If you want big things making lots of noise and smoke I give you a B-47b JATO oops RATO

Found one ^clicky for biggy^

Never realised how big those b47’s were, howzabout this for an idea of scale

That maybe a big carrier but its amazing how small the landing section of the deck looks relative to the F14 sat on it.

Can’t believe Fireflash hasn’t been up yet.

And another….

Hey Rudeboy, I’ve a mate who’s an avionics tech with the RAF who told me a similar tale about the SR71 pi$$ing fuel when on the tarmac back in about 91′, i thought it was a tall tale at the time………maybe not………and ekranoplans…..i WANT a caspian sea monster (Kai M?) great documentary on Ch4 years ago!

It’s got to be old skool for me:
(It took 3 years at university and 2 years in the industry to cure this ‘plane nut)




and, of course, the daddy:

This thread is brining back so many happy memories of childhood weekends spent at airshows 🙂

Go on then, what is it?

and this!

and this!!
(nerd)

Best….thread…ever.

My Dad flew a few of the planes in this thread.

Guess which one he used to tow targets past navel ships for them to practice gunnery at…nutter.

bikemonkey is that a c160 then!

ive Marshalled them onto a slot at akrotiri for the frog air force!!

Not realy cold war as it was all but over by the time i could walk,

But i do remember having picknics in the lakes watching tornado’s doing bombing practice over coniston.

Transall C-160

Not sure if its been posted earlier, but the F105 Thunderchief was a favourite of mine.

Great thread!

CFH- JP was a great aircraft. My brother was in on of the final flights to do their basic flying training in the JP; ‘The Last of the Fast’, before it was replaced by the Tucano.

Cuddly appearance given teeth in Strikemaster guise!

yes C-160. How about this: