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I love the sound of a rotary engined plane.
Another "big unit"
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That Electra is lovely.
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Commonwealth CA-12 Boomerang
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Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
Sorry, pedant mode:
Imnotverygood: the doctrine the Defiant fell foul of was the daft idea that it didn’t need to be able to fire forward. If it had a few guns in the wings it would probably have been much more successful
Alex: It’s a Short Stirling. Didn’t hold a candle to the Lanc or the Halifax as it only had a puny bomb load, and had a habit of tripping over its silly long legs when landing
CZ: That’s a Mk IIC Hurri, so won’t have seen action in the BB, it was a later version
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Curtiss P-36C Hawk
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Halberstadt CL IV gotta love a bit of lozenge
Albatross D3...
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[pedant] Albatros D.III (Oeffag) [/pedant]
for those aeronuts who haven't been but your get along to the shuttleworth collection last sunday of the month during the summer to watch these ww1-to-ww2 planes fly. it's a very "tactile" kind of museum every plane has an oil pan under with fresh smelly oil dripping into it.
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De Havilland DH-88 Comet
Henschel Hs 129
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Hispano Aviación HA-1112
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Northrop XP-56 'Black Bullet'
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Northrop X-216H 'Flying Wing' prototype. Built in 1929!!
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Note the asymmetric cockpit placement- I think it was so they could fit the engine in!
shuttleworth collection
tons of stuff their for aero buffs...
pou-de-ciel, possibly the original microlight
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miles falcon
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percival mew gull
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That Horten Ho 229 from the first page is an interesting aircraft. It was later looked at by engineers form Northrop-Grunman when they were developing the B2 'Spirit' (stealth bomber). The Horten brothers designed some beautiful looking gliders (the H IV, from 1941):
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Apparently Jack Northrop wasn't too adverse to having a sneaky peek at the Horten bros work when he developed this, the N-1M ('M' for model, as it was intended to be scaled up into the mighty XB-35 long range heavy bomber)
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Fairey Firefly AS5
Klunk,
I was there when that particular Firefly crashed. As days go, not a good one.
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Focke-Wulf Fw-44J Stieglitz
CZ: That’s a Mk IIC Hurri, so won’t have seen action in the BB, it was a later version
Really? I'm sure the commentator said it was the only Hurri flying that was a BoB veteran; either he got it wrong, or I'm muddling it up with something else. Which is entirely possible, there's been a lot on telly about the big displays of Spits and Hurricanes over the last year.
It was lovely to see the two flying together, regardless.
Klunk never ceases to amaze me with the photos he posts up, not only the extraordinary variety, but the quality, every one is a beauty.
The only BoB Hurricane flying at present R4118 is now resident at the Shuttleworth collection's airfield at Old Warden ( privately owned)
http://www.shuttleworth.org/news/r4118/
It may well have been flying in the event but not the one in your photograph. That one is the last Hurricane built IIRC
As always it is a bit freaky how many of these I can remember from Commando Comics and Airfix models as kid, so many of them hanging from the bedroom ceiling. Obscure things like Mitchell Bombers and the wee snub nosed Gloucester jet thing.
Always fancied a float plane to convert into a camper. A Sunderland would be nice but would settle for one of these
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Klunk never ceases to amaze me with the photos he posts up, not only the extraordinary variety, but the quality, every one is a beauty.
that's very kind, wish i could claim credit but i don't think i've ever taken a good picture of an aeroplane myself 🙂
[url= http://www.airliners.net/search/indexsearch.main?distinct=aircraft_generic ]this is a good source[/url] the variety comes from going alphabetically 😉
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Mitsubishi A6M2 Reisen Replica (Zero)
and the real thing
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Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka
Pretty simply a piloted missile!
wasn't there a Japanese version of the me163...?
Really?
Yup. They occasionally take the 20 mm cannons out to make it look like a BoB Mk I, but it's definitely not a Mk I
This seems most appropriate 😀
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35271182 ]solo biplane flight from UK to Aus[/url]
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I hope I don't upset this excellent thread by playing the "Who can tell me what this one is?" game.
Brewster Buffalo?
Brewster Buffalo?
Winner! 🙂 Brewster F2A. Shown with Finnish Air Force Markings.
I might have had an airfix one of those as a kid with exactly those markings 😉
Bell P-39?
The Buffalo was a dog in it's original form. It was designed to operate from US Navy carriers and was overweight and underpowered.
The British used them in the Far East, as Dutch bound planes were diverted to the RAF when The Netherlands fell. Mitsubishi Zeroes made minced meat out of them.
In Finnish service, the heavy stuff was stripped out and thanks to a few modifications, they were actually pretty handy. They gave a good account for themselves against a lot of Soviet aircraft.
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Winner of Britain's first Schneider Trophy at Monaco on 20 April 1914. Started as a two-seat landplane, but Tom Sopwith thought it good enough to convert to a floatplane, swapping the 80hp Gnome for a 100hb, it averaged 86.78mph over 28 laps, then set a world seaplane record of 86.6mph over 186 miles.
And I'd never heard of the Sopwith Tabloid! The name comes from a popular first-aid kit of the time...
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Nieuport 17, favoured mount of many air 'aces', including Albert Ball, it outclassed the German fighters in speed, manoeuvrability and rate of climb.
Not sure if this one's already been posted, but you can never have enough pics of possibly the most beautiful biplanes ever built:
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Albatross DVa.
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With that corrugated skin, it couldn't really be anything else but a Junkers, an F13. Well ahead of its time in 1919, had an enclosed passenger cabin, with seatbelts, first in an aircraft.
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😯 Caproni Ca. 60 Transaero. Nine wings, eight Liberty engines, W.T.F?
More seaplane loveliness:
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Supermarine Southampton Mk II, designed by Reginald Mitchell.
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Curtiss CR-3. Took first two places at the Schneider Trophy at 177.5mph, in the Solent at Cowes in 1923.
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Ryan NYP. Better known as Lindberg's [i]Spirit Of St.Louis[/i]
That F13 photo makes me want to leap in and fly away!
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Lockheed Vega. Flown by Amelia Earheart solo across the Atlantic and Pacific, and by Wiley Post on the first solo circumnavigation of the world in [i]Winnie Mae[/i]
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That F13 photo makes me want to leap in and fly away!
I know exactly what you mean!
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Macchi MC.72. Fastest piston-engined seaplane ever built, one crashed killing its pilot, another blew up in mid-air, took a British fuel expert to sort out the supercharged Fiat AS.6 engine, which was two Fiat AS-5's in tandem on a common crankcase driving a contra-rotating prop. Set a world record of 441mph which has never been beaten.
I [i]love[/i] floatplanes!
I don't know if this has been featured yet:
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Polikarpov I-16. World's first single-seat, low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable undercarriage.
Designer was sent to Stalin's Gulag, for 'sabotage' over alleged slow progress in aircraft development.
Never let the politicians get involved in aircraft design.
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Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovic. More built than any other aircraft in history, at least 35,952 built as expendable, not designed to be taken apart or repaired. Fills a pilot with confidence, that.
Knight Twister
homebuilt bipe from around 1932
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Lincoln Sport
another homebuilt bipe, mid '20s I think
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Rose Parakeet
and a third homebuilt bipe, from the 30s
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I discovered in the holidays that I'm related to [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lupton ]this man[/url]. First World War flying ace, killed in a flying accident aged 20. I gather he would have been my great uncle (more or less) if he hadn't died 57 years before I was born.
On a lighter note, last September I went for a flight in this:
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As it went for a flight with this:
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Thanks to a very generous 40th birthday present from some of my friends. 🙂
On a more pedantic note some of the planes on this thread, while propeller-driven, date from after the Second World War - e.g. the Sea Fury and the Bearcat. Given that, I feel justified in posting a picture of the Republic XF-12 Rainbow:
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date from after the Second World War
Bearcat first flight .... 21 August 1944
Sea Fury first flight ..... 21 February 1945
unfortunately...
XF-12 Rainbow 4 February 1946
While the Bearcat became operational during WWII it never saw combat and the Sea Fury didn't enter service until October '45, so I'd classify both as postwar aircraft. The same with the Blackburn Firebrand, which entered service in September '45. Like those aircraft, the Rainbow was developed during WWII and intended for use during that conflict, though it took a while longer to get into the limited service it had.
How about the Curtiss P40 Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk?
Like the Hurricane overshadowed by latter designs but it was ready to go when the war kicked off.
I've loved this thread, fantastic pics of fantastic aircraft, thank you all!
Though a few missing.. Some of the most important aircraft of the war:
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