most famous aeroplane picture ever
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Old and new
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I used to visit [url= http://commemorativeairforce.org/ ]this place[/url] on an annual basis when I was a kid. I absolutely loved it, and would recommend anyone travelling to the USA, and who likes planes, to visit it themselves.
Meanwhile, I always liked the cigar-shaped fuselage planes of the Pacific campaign, like this FM2 Wildcat:
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A few not aeroplane pictures from my travels.
Osprey
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Wierd ass thing.
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Balloon that nearly took our tent away when it escaped in a storm.
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all those props in such a confined space ! 😯
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FW 190.
🙂
The Americans lost an Osprey in Yemen yesterday
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Was out walking near Chequers on Saturday and there was a Spitfire flying around and doing some loops and flying quite low.
Maybe I took too many pictures and should have just watched and listened to it a bit more. The pictures aren't great as I only had a 4 times zoom and that one above is a crop, but it was actually pretty close.
I took a movie and then realised I talked over it a bit :-(, annoyed at the times it lost focus, but you can here the engine still and it's pretty good as he (she ?) buzzes over the tree line :
Apart Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II the below are the predecessors I like. They are ground support gunships.
North American Rockwell OV-10s (Bronco) from the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base 5/1/1990 USAF Official Photo
Dakota
C47 Skytrain, strictly. As you were.
Me sitting under an F4 at Alconbury, late 70's/early 80's
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In a Tornado, Leeming, 1980 something..
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A Jag wheelieing down the runway after a display at Church Fenton.
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Klunk, why are you calling F-16s F-17s and a MiG-31 a MiG-13?
Fat Albert!
IIRC, Chris Dekerf used to weld stuff like that.
Ti or Iconel?
Ti or Iconel?
Surely Bone?
me 109
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