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Post by tank621 on Mar 15, 2023 22:16:13 GMT
I've made the executive decision that we need an aviation thread. This year should be a good one for me in terms of aviation, I've got tickets for the International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in June and plans to go to the Clacton Air Show and Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show later in the year. For now though, I've made a couple aviation themed adventures so far, one for the Vulcan Restoration Trust Members Day at Southend showing off their Vulcan B.2 XL426 undergoing winter maintenance and another to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, which is an excellent place, especially if you like Cold War jets (I will post some photos once I work out how that works )
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Post by Savoury on Mar 15, 2023 22:31:42 GMT
Saw this gorgeous photo of a gorgeous aircraft earlier on Twitter. P-38 'Skidoo' My OCD eye just can't get away from the fact that if the accompanying aircraft was only a foot or so higher the white strip of paint on the starboard vertical stabiliser would have lined up perfectly with the road in the distance.
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Post by Womp on Mar 16, 2023 14:59:16 GMT
My OCD eye just can't get away from the fact that if the accompanying aircraft was only a foot or so higher the white strip of paint on the starboard vertical stabiliser would have lined up perfectly with the road in the distance. Would you like me to photoshop it for you? Nice pic. I had an old pc game when i was younger that had a P38 Lightning in it.
I've made the executive decision that we need an aviation thread. This year should be a good one for me in terms of aviation, I've got tickets for the International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in June and plans to go to the Clacton Air Show and Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show later in the year. For now though, I've made a couple aviation themed adventures so far, one for the Vulcan Restoration Trust Members Day at Southend showing off their Vulcan B.2 XL426 undergoing winter maintenance and another to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, which is an excellent place, especially if you like Cold War jets ( I will post some photos once I work out how that works ) You'll need to use an image host to post images on here, as i'm not sure the forum's attachment allowance will be quite prepared for the onslaught of images we'd be throwing at it.. Myself and Savoury are both using a site called Imgpile. It's on a list of recommended sites for use on here. And it's free to use. You could try that, or if you have an image host you already use, i'm sure that would also work.
Anyway, here's an image i've had on my pc for a long time now (earliest timestamp i can see in the image properties is from 2006!) No idea where i found it, but i just thought it was a cool image and saved it. It's an F4U Corsair.
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Post by tank621 on Mar 16, 2023 19:07:52 GMT
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Post by Savoury on Mar 16, 2023 19:25:17 GMT
Seeing as today (16th March) is my birthday... 16 March 1976. First flight of General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon variant YF-16 CCV Multirole jet fighter aircraft intended to serve as the USAF Flight Dynamics Laboratory's Control-Configured Vehicle (CCV) testbed.
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Post by Savoury on Mar 16, 2023 19:28:50 GMT
Avro Vulcan B.2 XL426 in Hangar 6 at Southend Airport for winter maintenance, one of only three Vulcans in taxiable condition Vulcans are awesome.. when I was little our family car was overtaken by one at VERY low altitude while on holiday on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. It frightened and left me in complete awe in equal measure. Loved them ever since.
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Post by postbox981 on Mar 16, 2023 19:29:49 GMT
Congrats mate! Hope you are still younger than the guy on your avatar looks like.
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Post by Savoury on Mar 16, 2023 19:37:42 GMT
Congrats mate! Hope you are still younger than the guy on your avatar looks like. What are you saying.. that's my youngest Grandson.. hahaha.
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Post by tank621 on Mar 16, 2023 21:00:59 GMT
Avro Vulcan B.2 XL426 in Hangar 6 at Southend Airport for winter maintenance, one of only three Vulcans in taxiable condition Vulcans are awesome.. when I was little our family car was overtaken by one at VERY low altitude while on holiday on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. It frightened and left me in complete awe in equal measure. Loved them ever since. Managed to get inside three of them, sat in the pilot seat of XL318 at the RAF Museum Hendon, XL360 at the Midland Air Museum at Coventry and XL426 twice at Southend. The most recent one at Southend was a bit weird, the ejector seats were both out for refurbishment and the cockpit roof was in a different building at the time! Still, made it very easy to see everything, they're very dark and very cramped. As a side note, I'm currently reading Jim Walls' 'Flying Forwards Facing Backwards' about his time as an Air Electronics Officer with the Royal Air Force flying in Nimrods and Vulcans, very interest read and really cool for adding extra context to my cockpit visits. I sat in the AEO position in both XL360 and XL426 on my first visit, it was very cool in particular as our tour guide was a former AEO who had flown on XL426... I was less thrilled about sitting where he once sat in service when he gleefully told us the story of the time he accidentally spilled the piss tube into his Navigator's bag from that very seat (apparently he got him back by throwing up in to the AEO's helmet on the very next trip )
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Post by Savoury on Mar 16, 2023 21:28:59 GMT
You're so lucky.. there is very little to see up here in Scotland tbh.. you do come across old, abandoned WWII airfields now and again, but that's about it. The Outer Hebrides had some very cool stuff back in the 70s that we went to see.. Cold War listening stations, radar installations and the like. Facing West from Lewis and Harris the next landfall is America, it was a vital piece of rock back in those days.
I think the one aircraft that symbolises the cold War is the Avro Vulcan.. huge, scary and loud.. it looked the part, and that part was nuclear annihilation.
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Post by Savoury on Mar 16, 2023 21:32:15 GMT
Oh.. is that a Hawker Hunter beside the Nimrod?
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Post by Womp on Mar 17, 2023 15:55:06 GMT
The Nimrod kinda reminds me of the Airbus Beluga transporter. The way the body of the thing bulges out at the top.. I honestly can't remember the last time i went to any sort of airshow or air museum, i must have been a kid. I had a bunch of stuff about the SR71 Blackbird popping up in my facebook feed a little while back, after i liked a photo posted by a group made up of people who's family members were involved with the project. I have some photos i found in a folder on my desktop that i'll share in here once i upload them. Vulcans are awesome.. when I was little our family car was overtaken by one at VERY low altitude while on holiday on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. It frightened and left me in complete awe in equal measure. Loved them ever since. Found this clip on Youtube some time back. Thought of it when you said that, lol.
Happy Birthday, btw.
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Post by Emil Glockner on Mar 17, 2023 17:02:57 GMT
Anyway, here's an image i've had on my pc for a long time now (earliest timestamp i can see in the image properties is from 2006!) No idea where i found it, but i just thought it was a cool image and saved it. It's an F4U Corsair.
Cool picture! I have the COBI model of the Corsair. Fell in love with it thanks to the Pixar movie 'Planes' (of all things).
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Post by tank621 on Mar 17, 2023 21:30:38 GMT
Oh.. is that a Hawker Hunter beside the Nimrod? Aye, one of a few at the museum: Hunter F.6A XG172, Danish F.51 E-409 and another F.6A cockpit from XE612 which was converted to simulator As for Scotland, I'd very much like to visit the National Museum of Flight at the former RAF East Fortune, looks like it has an awesome collection
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Post by Savoury on Mar 17, 2023 22:52:21 GMT
Oh.. is that a Hawker Hunter beside the Nimrod? Aye, one of a few at the museum: Hunter F.6A XG172, Danish F.51 E-409 and another F.6A cockpit from XE612 which was converted to simulator As for Scotland, I'd very much like to visit the National Museum of Flight at the former RAF East Fortune, looks like it has an awesome collection Thanks for the heads-up.. never even knew it existed.. we are planning a visit very soon, looks awesome. My maternal Grandfather (Victor Peterson Mackay) was an Acting Pilot Officer (VR) stationed at RAF Turnhouse (now Edinburgh Airport) which was probably the closest airfied to East Fortune. Turnhouse used to have a Spitfire at the entrance which was probably the most awesome thing I ever saw as child. He was heavily involved with Operation Chastise and worked closely with Barnes Wallis with regard to locating the weakest points of the Ruhr hydro dams. He was a civil engineer with Bruce Peebles in Edinburgh, who manufactured turbines and generators etc for the fledgling hydro-electric industry. I believe he was involved in the architecture of the dams themselves and specifically the placements of turbines. I remember (when I was very wee) being taken to the Cruachan Dam above Loch Awe in Argyll to see the dam and especially the plaque with his name engraved on it.. he was rather proud of that project as it was the highest hydro plant in Scotland. Cruachan Power StationPS.. There are some very cool historical photos from Bruce Peebles' East Pilton factory here - Bruce Peebles Edinburgh
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