Cool aircraft part 2

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Sat May 12, 2012 12:56 am

Great pictures MrMurphy! What's with the vertical stab on that P-3? Never saw a Navy A/C without some sort of markings there.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Sat May 12, 2012 2:20 am

I'll see your Block 40 and raise you a Block 60!

Oly

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Sat May 12, 2012 2:26 am

Another day at work:

Oly

gak · Post by **gak** » Sat May 12, 2012 7:48 am

Great pics guys!

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Wed May 16, 2012 1:47 pm

The business of old airplanes (big in Tucson):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/reale ... .html?_r=1

Oly

gak · Post by **gak** » Wed May 16, 2012 7:32 pm

Oly, interesting and kinda sad all at the same time. Wasn't the Marana "collection" at one time open to the public somewhat like Pima Air Museum is at Davis Monthan? Would like to see some of the 'liners before they're gone altogether, of not already. Way back, used to see DC-10s and what not fly into there.

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Wed May 16, 2012 9:07 pm

awp101 wrote: Let's start with a little tropical vacation. The Dutch island of St Maartin is the home of Princess Juliana International Airport.

I am amazed at how many stupid people hang out at the beginning of the runway at the Princess Juliana International Airport, take a look

:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CGBJe_Yu-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IB54jb3tc

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Fri May 25, 2012 5:54 pm

Polish Su7 Fitters on a low level run:

Sukhoi Su15 Flagon IIRC:

Su27 Flankers from one of the Russian display teams. The Russian Knights maybe?

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Fri May 25, 2012 5:59 pm

Japanese Ki43 in French markings used after the war in Indo-China:

cas · Post by **cas** » Sat May 26, 2012 9:37 pm

Speaking of cockpits…. I think most golf carts have more room for two than the cockpit of a B-25.

MrMurphy · Post by **MrMurphy** » Sun May 27, 2012 2:42 am

Never been inside a fully loaded and manned uparmored Humvee, have you?

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Mon May 28, 2012 3:14 pm

In honor of Memorial Day...

B24s taking part in the Ploesti raid

B24 hit by flak over Germany IIRC. The wing has collapsed and the bomber is almost inverted. I don't ever recall hearing if anyone made it out.

Wreckage of The Gray Ghost in New Guinea

Captured B24 used by the Luftwaffe (probably for T&E) found on an airfield after being overrun by Allied troops.

gak · Post by **gak** » Tue May 29, 2012 9:27 am

Watching one of the WWII documentaries they usually cluster around Memorial Day, there was an interesting bit on the 24 by a surviving bombadier. They were in dire straits with two engines out. His comment of (to paraphrase) "they hardly flew on three (you could sense he also meant four

), with two it dropped like a rock..." The way he said it was funny. My father flew these as an instructor pilot. I think they called it the "flying brick" or "boxcar" or some similar affectionate term. He had a certain fondness for it like all he flew (17s, 25s, 29s, A-20s) even some of the more problematic ones.

dogngun · Post by **dogngun** » Tue May 29, 2012 11:02 am

These guys always held my attention...

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... wBA&dur=38

Bristol Beaufighter.

mark

dogngun · Post by **dogngun** » Tue May 29, 2012 11:10 am

[quote="awp101"]In honor of Memorial Day...

B24 hit by flak over Germany IIRC. The wing has collapsed and the bomber is almost inverted. I don't ever recall hearing if anyone made it out.

[i

This is from the raid on the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania. I knew a guy who was a waist gunner in another B24 and saw this plane get hit and go down. 1 crewman survived. My friend survived 5 B 24 shoot-downs/crashes and escape from German capture, and died of heart disease in his late 60's some years ago.

Those old guys were TOUGH!

mark

Added: I once worked with a guy who was an infantryman at the Bulge. I told him I had seen the movie a few days before and I was impressed with some guys crawling under moving German tanks attaching mines.
He said, " Yeah, the first few times you do that it's scary..."

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:42 pm

dogngun wrote:These guys always held my attention...

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... wBA&dur=38

Bristol Beaufighter.

mark

Fixed it...

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:46 pm

May 18, 2012 - Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper
Small flying boat airliner. Fairchild designed the aircraft in response to a Pan American Airways request for a small flying boat to operate on their river routes along the Amazon and Yangtze. After the first two aircraft were delivered, Pan Am cancelled the remaining four aircraft on its order, discovering that the two aircraft they had already purchased were capable of handling their entire Amazon River demand. First flight 1935.
CREDIT

Here's a little something on British airliner service and aircraft from 1919 to the 1950s:
http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com ... ws-of.html

MrMurphy · Post by **MrMurphy** » Wed May 30, 2012 4:48 am

Anytime you see a plane go down with a wing off like that.......pretty much guarantees nobody gets out.

In the days before ejection seats, where the crew generally wasn't always wearing their chutes (though over the target, they did I believe) you lose a wing, the G forces from losing a wing would pin the crew to the walls of the fuselage. Short of being thrown out (by an explosion or say a waistgunner at an open gun position).......nobody gets out.

Nowdays if the guy can fight to get his hands on the Big Yellow Handle, he can still sometimes get out, but ejecting at high-G/weird angles may give him issues for the rest of his life.

dogngun · Post by **dogngun** » Wed May 30, 2012 7:32 am

awp101 wrote:
dogngun wrote:These guys always held my attention...

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... wBA&dur=38

Bristol Beaufighter.

mark

Fixed it...

OK, thanks-here's more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4XPIjsW3Rc

The fighter version had 4 20mm Hispano cannon in the nose, 780 rounds per minute each, plus 6 .303 machine guns in the wings. Carried rockets for anti-ship use. They must have been fierce if you were on the ship, or the ground...

mark

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Wed May 30, 2012 9:52 pm

MrMurphy wrote:Anytime you see a plane go down with a wing off like that.......pretty much guarantees nobody gets out.

In the days before ejection seats, where the crew generally wasn't always wearing their chutes (though over the target, they did I believe) you lose a wing, the G forces from losing a wing would pin the crew to the walls of the fuselage. Short of being thrown out (by an explosion or say a waistgunner at an open gun position).......nobody gets out.

Correct, but there's always that chance.

The Beaufighter, Beaufort and Blenheim have always been interesting to me. Maybe it's the way the nose sits behind the props...

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:37 pm

June 5, 2012 - Martin B-26 Marauder
Photo: December 1940

CREDIT
http://www.planeaday.com/

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:42 pm

Ki43 Hayabusa in postwar Indonesian markings:

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:47 pm

A20 skip bombing in the Bismarck Sea

gak · Post by **gak** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:51 pm

My father trained that A-20 pilot well--or at least could have been the one to! Along with the B-17, his favorite to fly.

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:49 pm

My, how far aviation came in 40 short years...

June 15, 2012 - Blackburn Dart
The Blackburn Dart was a British carrier-based torpedo bomber biplane. First flight 1921.

CREDIT

Tupolev Tu-22, first flight 1958:

NATO reporting name Blinder, known to Soviet crews as the shilo (awl)

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:09 pm

Here is that Super Corsair that I was talking about earlier, from Falcon Field in Mesa, AZ. I guess only a few of these were made to intercept Japanese Kamakazies. The powerplant was upped to the same engine as the B-36, bumping it up to 3000 horsepower. The guide said it had been clocked at Reno doing 450 mph at low altitude. Notice also the clipped wings and I think the Prop is a little bigger than the usual, already large standard one. The "Stang" is gorgeous as well...wish they had filmed it flying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3D9GT1PoJ4

pdentrem · Post by **pdentrem** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:06 pm

Was at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum 40th Airshow today.

Good weather, no rain, some thin clouds at times. Was on the flightline from 11 to 5:30. Took over 400 shots. I still have to go through the stack. Did try some video of the heavies flying pass.(Lanc, B-17, B-29, and medium B-25 Mitchell)
Here are two.

FIFI from Texas. The only remaining flying in the world. They never did a fly past in the direction that would show the plane in a better light.

F-86 Golden Hawk. This is a slow pass with pilot waving through the open canopee.

b29-fifi.jpg

gak · Post by **gak** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:23 pm

Great shots--Encore! Envore!

pdentrem · Post by **pdentrem** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:14 am

Here is a still from the video. It needed a little work to bring out the more of the details. The light was getting flatter and flatter and the clouds in the background are just not helping. An hour earlier would of made a huge difference.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:15 am

awp101 wrote:June 5, 2012 - Martin B-26 Marauder
Photo: December 1940

CREDIT
http://www.planeaday.com/

What was the saying "One a day in Tampa Bay". Great airplane, but unforgiving especially for trainees.

pdentrem · Post by **pdentrem** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:21 pm

I have always liked the 26.

pdentrem · Post by **pdentrem** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:04 pm

March 28th, I was at the Imperial War Museum (Duxford) which is a little south of Cambridge in England. Spent the day and took lots of pictures. The F-86 was out on the tarmac and later in the afternoon it flew and did a practise demonstration. As it was a week day and not a show date, it was GREAT. A private air show, what more does one need. Here is a couple shots. Enjoy, I did!
I also hit Hendon where the RAF Museum is located a couple days previous. Another full day there as well. Heaven!
Pierre

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:32 pm

gak wrote:My father trained that A-20 pilot well--or at least could have been the one to! Along with the B-17, his favorite to fly.

Did I miss this? Did I mention that my Dad was the test pilot that flew A-20s off the Douglas production line?

Grizz

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:45 pm

Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario:

S.A.AF SAAB 39 two seat fighter:

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