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| 11-19-2022, 12:40 PM | #1 |
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The Airplane Thread
...because I feel that this topic needs its own thread, instead of cluttering up that other forum thread.
For those who love the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin, imagine having *four* of them on a single plane like the Avro Lancaster. Fortunately for us, the Bomber Command Museum of Canada has a non-airworthy Lancaster in their collection that they occasionally run up. Rumor has it that even a short demo costs them over 800 Loonies in AVgas. Here's the audio of a three-engine run up on YouTube (fourth engine's prop was out for service). Grab your headphones and enjoy the Merin music..... .
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| 11-19-2022, 12:44 PM | #2 |
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YouTube coincidentally suggested this video to me today, of a B36 startup/takeoff/landing:
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| 11-19-2022, 01:12 PM | #3 |
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| 11-19-2022, 01:39 PM | #4 |
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Of course, I need to pay homage to (IMHO) the most awesome airplane ever built...the XB-70 Valkyrie:
   I know that some think it's an ugly duckling, but seeing the last survivor at the Wright-Patterson AFB museum is definitely on my bucket list if they ever roll it out again.....
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| 11-19-2022, 01:51 PM | #5 |
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| 11-19-2022, 01:56 PM | #6 |
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<=== Flew on one in 2001! ^^^^^
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| 11-19-2022, 02:07 PM | #7 |
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Late 50's CF-105 Avro Arrow, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow
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| 11-19-2022, 02:38 PM | #8 |
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The A-10 is like the Michael Myers of aircraft. The AF keeps trying to kill it off but it keeps coming back.
 I’d embed a short video, but most of them are clips of the A-10 annihilating terrorists and might get flagged for violence. |
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| 11-19-2022, 04:52 PM | #11 |
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| 11-19-2022, 04:56 PM | #12 |
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.jpg) Tracked one of these doing 440 ground speed over the Salt Lake, at 6K'. Prior to that, he made a low approach and buzzed the cockpit of a UAL 72 sitting on a high-speed taxiway. I thought my short career was over! |
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| 11-19-2022, 07:21 PM | #13 |
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Oh, I gotta get in on this thread -- how about nominations for the prettiest aircraft ever: Mine is the Vought F-8 Crusader. Here's a civilian-registered one -- I'm pretty sure it was used just for government contract work and is no longer flying. As a certified (certifiable?) Navy Air geek, there are examples in far more fetching livery, but this one shows the lines of the basic airplane well.
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| 11-19-2022, 07:41 PM | #15 |
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I was just reading this the other day. It`s a long read, but I really enjoyed it. NATO Tiger Meet 2016.
http://defens-aero.com/2016/07/nato-...perlatifs.html |
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| 11-19-2022, 08:00 PM | #16 |
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And while talking pretty, I've loved this photo for 57 years: It was published as a centerfold in the Pacific Stars & Stripes newspaper in early 1965. (I was living in the Philippines as a high school senior and the S&S was our daily newspaper.) The photo depicts a KA-3B Skywarrior (AKA 'Whale') refueling an RA-5C Vigilante of RVAH-5 above USS Ranger in the South China Sea. Beautiful! I've searched in vain for a larger version.
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My submission for most elegant…. Supermarine Spitfire
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One of my favs…
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How about the Navy F18 Jolly Roger?
I also love this photo of an F14 with a NAVAIR Tomahawk courtesy of Raytheon. |
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 I see that it is cannon-armed rather than machine guns. So do you know if it is an F4U-4B or F4U-5?
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