The plane enthusiasts thread

[DaveReading]

1st post
Canberra
Draken
Super Sabre
Shooting Star

2nd post
Hunter
Gannet
Lightning

3rd post
Mystere

Hopefully all those years of reading Speed and Power magazine in my youth has paid off

Also visible in some of the photos are a Wessex, Sycamore and a Jet Provost in a distinctly dodgy colour scheme,

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Trident is a fuselage only but I was impressed by the (relatively) huge wooden fold down tables -

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And the ashtrays in the armrests

Yes the Trident 1 they are restoring at Sunderland (G - ARPO) has had wooden 'Pullman' tables fitted amongst other things. I presume these are the same.

 

[ozboz]

An interesting doc film about Catalinas , worth watching

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xMkYzO0_By0

 

[ozboz]

A nice story ...
http://frces.tv/qam2hF

 

[Profpointy]

No pictures sadly, but saw a tilt-rotored Osprey flying round Wastwater in the lakes last week. Never seen one in real life before. I didn't think our lot had them, so presumably some yanks over practicing, unless Boeing lent the RAF one for a test drive.

A Hercules was flying low down the valley a day or two later as well

(Although only saw it fleetingly I can't imagine anything else remotely similar to the Osprey that it could conceivably be.)

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I've flown in a Catalina. Extraordinary aircraft!

Ah, Catalinas

There's also one in that pic.

 

[ozboz]

1 photo , 2 beauties !!

 

[Spinney]

Bit of a brown-trouser moment for the crew...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37248696

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

And everyone on deck getting out of the way of that wire whiplashing.

 

[DaveReading]

And everyone on deck getting out of the way of that wire whiplashing.

Not everyone got out of the way - 8 sailors were injured by the flailing cable, one sustaining a fractured skull, and two parked aircraft were damaged.

It happened back in March, and the pilots were subsequently awarded the Armed Forces Air Medal for saving their aircraft.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Ah, Catalinas

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There's also one in that pic.

If he's planning to land then he's leaving it a bit close.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Chinook flew over a couple of days ago
Northwards, then southwards again, a couple of hours later

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We were stopping in Charlecote a couple of years ago, & previous OS map investigation (to find running routes, whilst there) revealed the nearness of an airfield
Home to XM655 (the Vulcan featured in the Guy Martin programme, where he taxied it

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I saw the last two Navy search and rescue Seakings of HMS Gannet fly over Dumbarton (19 and 25), and one of the two green navy helicopters.

Sit back and enjoy the noise which I have been privy to for YEARS, even if the filming is a bit crap!!

View: http://youtu.be/ga4LYL-13TQ

We used to get Sea-Kings landing at the Hospital, if the (Yorkshire) Air-Ambulance was unavailable - rare now, as they have 2 (based at Nostell Priory, where I ParkRun, & my wife has her company office)
A few of us got a look around it once, crikey, it was like having a single-decker bus with a rotor!
All of the hi-tech instrumentation was very intriguing, but, more reassuring was the pouch full of very well used & notated OS maps!!

The old one (in April 2004) at the Hospital

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 28th June 2015
Finningley Airport






Pontefract RaceCourse, from 2,000 feet(ish?)
A friend with a PPL, took me up, from Sherburn, for a couple of hours
September 2005



Bolton Abbey

 

[cisamcgu]

Just saw this flying past my office window this morning, a most ungainly beast, but rather lovely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga