Aircraft

[Steve_W_1962]

Couldn't find a current thread for pictures of aircraft, so I thought I'd start one. Here are some of my efforts from Heathrow Airport last week

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6158.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6279.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6263.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6252.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6189.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6169.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20090925_HeathrowSeptember2009_6164.jpg

[Phill D]

Er suprisingly you might be right Steve there is an airshow thread. Either way they are nice shots. What took you to Heathrow just observing or off on hols? I was really fortunate to actually fly on the Emirates A380 recently its amaizing inside - best flight I've ever been on with service to match.

[Steve_W_1962]

Hi Phill, thanks for your comments. I just fancied a day watching them all come in (in very quick succession), and was very pleased to catch the A380 - I would love to fly on one someday.
I'm registered on http://forums.airshows.co.uk/ and I'd heard a lot about a cul-de-sac called Myrtle Avenue, a great place for spotting, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm not a real anorak who records all the aircraft types / numbers etc., I'm just interested from a photography point of view really - something different to point my camera at :)

[Phill D]

It looks like a great spotting spot if I can put it that way. I bet the locals get fed up with observers though.

[SpecialK]

San Diego Air and Space museum.
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This DC-3 is in front of the future air museum at Santa Monica airport.
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Front of former Air Force One at Ronald Reagan presidential museum.
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The boneyard at the Planes of Fame in Chino.
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Some famous 1930's-era racers at the Planes of Fame.
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More from Planes of Fame.

Folland Gnat in foreground. The Skyrocket in the backround ws the first Mach 2 plane.
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Vampire.
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Mig and Sabre.
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Japanese Shusui, a version of the German Komet rocket-assisted glider.
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Kamikaze Ohka manned-bomb under the Val wing.
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Replica of Adm. Yamamoto's "Betty" bomber, ambushed by American P-38's.
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Me-163 Komet.
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Riverside airshow. Very windy...

KC-135 tanker.
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Taylorcraft.
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AT-6 "War Dog".
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Sukhoi Su-26mx.
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"Silver Wings" Stearman.
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Taylorcraft.
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Sukhoi.
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Pitts over a T-28.
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Pitts.
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[Steve_W_1962]

A few more from Heathrow

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20101405Heathrow_MG_7889.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20101405Heathrow_MG_7895.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20101405Heathrow_MG_7902.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20101405Heathrow_MG_7908.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/20101405Heathrow_MG_7934.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/Heathrow140510_MG_7892.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/Heathrow140510_MG_7917.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/Heathrow140510_MG_7924.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/evetsdaehdoow/Aircraft/Heathrow140510_MG_7937.jpg

[Falconest174]

Here is one of a C130 making one of a series of touch-and-gos. Note the 6-bladed Prop. They often come here for such practice because our runway is quite long (5000+ ft) and we're not as busy as other places with runways of such length. I often get good looks at aircraft landing here as I live in a nearly perfect line with our main local runway some 7 miles out. President Reagan came in here in the 707 Air Force One and I thought he was going to drop on my head.:eek: :D

[Phill D]

Nice to see them flying again Steve. Hope it keep up for the summer hols.

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Chino air show.

P-51's just after take-off.
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Silver Wings.
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The only flying Zero with the original engine.
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AD-1 Skyraider.
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Sea Fury.
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TBM Avenger.
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F4U Corsairs.
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This Northrop N9M flying wing is back after lengthy maintenance. It was originally built as a 1/3-scale test plane.
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Aerobatic Lear jet.
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This P-38 Lightning crashed in Greenland during WWII. It was recovered under more than 200 feet of snow in 1992, and retrieved piece by piece. It was restored and renamed Glacier Girl.
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This Me-109 landed on a frozen lake in WWII, and fell through the ice to the bottom. Recovered over 50 years later, it is awaiting restoration.
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This Bell X-2 was on a TV show, and is under restoration.
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This was the last decommissioned B-17G in the US Air Force, in service until August 1959. Under extensive restoration that may take 10 more years.
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A hangar of racers includes the Gee Bee in the center.
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A replica Sopwith Scout, nicknamed the "Pup" for its small size.
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A replica Fokker Dr-1, the type in which Manfred von Richtofen claimed 18 of his 80 kills and was shot down.
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A Hanriot owned and flown in the USA after WWI by French ace Charles Nungesser. Nungesser and Coli disappeared on a trans-Atlantic flight just weeks before Lindbergh's flight in 1927.
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[SpecialK]

This is a compilation of clips (not mine) from Oshkosh.

http://marcbrecy.perso.neuf.fr/Oshkosh.html

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National Air and Space Museum.

Northrop Gamma 2B named Polar Star, from an Antarctic flight in 1935. A rough forced landing on uneven ice caused the dents on the fuselage in front of the wing.
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Bleriot XI, the type used in the first flight across the English Channel in 1909.
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Lilienthal glider from 1894.
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X-15 rocket-powered plane that technically flew in space (more than 100Km in altitude) on two flights. Has gone as fast as Mach 6.7 (over 4,500 MPH).
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Wright Flyer from 1903.
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Lockheed Vega flown by Amelia Earhart.
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Fokker T-2 used in first US transcontinental flight in 1923.
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The Milestones of Flight gallery includes a Douglas DC-3 and front of a Boeing 747.
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The custom-built Ryan NYP airplane, Spirit of St Louis, used by Charles Lindbergh to solo across the Atlantic in 1927. It carried 450 gals of fuel, much of it in a tank blocking the forward window. The choice of a single reliable engine (with self-lubricating operation) was believed to reduce the chance of mechanical failure that a multi-engined plane would have.
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Replica Focke-Wulf FW-190.
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[frinky77]

beautiful shots of the FW-190, glad to see they didn't get scared and put crosses on the tail instead of more historically accurate symbols. What is the location of the replica?

[SpecialK]

beautiful shots of the FW-190, glad to see they didn't get scared and put crosses on the tail instead of more historically accurate symbols. What is the location of the replica?

Hi Frinky:

The FW-190 is located at the Planes of Fame museum in Chino, California. It was on display for the monthly seminar. An old German pilot was talking about his flying experience, but I wandered off for pictures and missed most all of the talk :-)

www.planesoffame.org.

Funny you should mention the swastika. Photobucket took down that image, but I asked them to restore it and apparently they have. I had an issue once before with a museum sign that had a portrait of Hitler and a photo of him standing in the touring car which was the exhibit the sign was for... they put that back, too.

[tizeye]

Now this was FUN! Gift my wife gave me for Christmas.

T-6 Texan trainer. Will hold off on other wing shots as advertises the firm offering the rides - but was fun none the less. Only downside, it was a cloudy day.

This was a video capture so not photographically that clear.
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/tizeye1/MISC/plane.jpg

[Steve_W_1962]

A few recent ones from me

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[tim11]

Looks like a good thread here. I have to come back often.
Any B-52? Iroquois helicopter?

[Kushnirenko]

On September, 17th has visited on aircraft factory.
Worked on it at 83-85 years the last century.
Here small a photo the report.

Checkpoint of aviation factory

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6169/6201182424_f877c4666b_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6201182424/in/photostream)

Logo of aviation factory

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6161/6200678795_d4dfd9eb60_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6200678795/in/photostream)


In shop 19 aviation factory

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6158/6201191546_92b9120c7e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6201191546/in/photostream)


Shop 19. A breadboard model of passenger salon.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/6201196478_5a9d7543f5_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6201196478/in/photostream)


Aircraft factory avenue

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/6201206672_7908451807_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6201206672/in/photostream)


Shops of aircraft manufacturing company

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6194248400_14af06b69b_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6194248400/in/photostream)


In shop of definitive assemblage of aviation factory

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/6202804101_9ac3731c29_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202804101/in/photostream)


Near Jak-18

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6159/6201224740_3cbab48d9e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6201224740/in/photostream)


Turbine of Tu-124

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/6200747953_33bfb47f00_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6200747953/in/photostream)


Grandson Artem and grand daughter Christina in an air intake of Tu-124

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6166/6201265562_fb9eaab875_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6201265562/in/photostream)

[Kushnirenko]

At the main landing gear An-74-200

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6159/6203288942_dde3fbbc04_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6203288942/in/photostream)


Aero cross-country vehicle

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6165/6202769931_bed43d4c27_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202769931/in/photostream)


Three L-39

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6180/6202777149_c9088f6bc3_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202777149/in/photostream)


Landing approach L-39

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6161/6202778075_c8b7b871b1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202778075/in/photostream)


Taxying on a runway

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6169/6202778911_36852040b2_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202778911/in/photostream)

Flight kite

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6180/6203313890_fd3a65f673.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6203313890/in/photostream)


It is time will refuel

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6202789009_74b0c7d224_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202789009/in/photostream)


Radio-controlled plane MiG-35

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/6202799865_7078d46433_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202799865/in/photostream)


Radio-controlled planes

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6180/6202793679_216b1142d5_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202793679/in/photostream)


Radio-controlled plane

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6202795861_30b6073bab_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushnirenko/6202795861/in/photostream)

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