But you can hear the Lightening from inside an airbourne Wessex, and Wessi are effing noisy.

IanS

Quote from: toxicpixie on 06 September 2016, 03:51:08 PM
Sounds like a jet powered kazoo

  Naw! This is a kazoo ....

https://youtu.be/H_ARSE8jEHQ

Just okay it LOUD!

The Lightning is loud enough you could probably hear it in a helicopter from another county, never mind Wessex

I remember an old TV show where various military pilots got to fly one another's aircraft types. A Harrier pilot was in a 2-seat Lightning. It took off, pointed the nose into the air and the commentry said "And now he experiences a different form of vertical takeoff..."

I also remember a fast flypast at RAF Leuchars. Commentry: "That was a fast flypast at Mach 0.97. I know it was Mach 0.97, because that's the fastest he's allowed to fly..."

My favourite of the V Bombers was the Victor, classic 1950's design, looks like it came straight off the pages of the Eagle comic.

Vulcan, every time.

A1E Skyraider. It had a two hour loiter time on target. Your best friend in viet nam.

I have a few.
WW2:
Spitfire
Mosquito
Ju 52
Post War:
VULCAN
Harrier
F4 Phantom
C5 Galaxy................mainly because size does matter

Comment at Fairford many years ago - "In the event of foul weather the Moroccan air force will perform inside the C5"  - they were flying small prop aerobatic machines.

IanS

A10 - warthog

F4 Phantom in SE Asia livery of USN, white/grey, and Bristol Fighter as a neighbour when I was a kid had been an Ace in WW1

Quote from: mlr314159 on 27 September 2016, 05:19:33 PM
A10 - warthog

Yep - agreed:



Big fan of the Osprey too:

Anything with Muttley on board!

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 22 October 2016, 02:25:32 PM
Anything with Muttley on board!

It'll NEVER fly.....

It is also very hard not to like the many aircraft of Hayao Miyazaki

The Goblin, a parasite fighter designed to be carried in a B36 bomber.

Explanation?

The B36 was a long range bomber. The Goblin was designed to fit in the B36 and offer fighter support. It was swung out and in on a descending arm.

The project was killed off basically by in-flight refuelling of conventional aircraft, but they did manage to launch and retrieve aircraft from a B36.


Those were the days when science meant science.

No WW I fans? When it was Biggles and Algy and Snoopy, not all this quadratic equations and afterburners?