The plane enthusiasts thread

[midlife]

I wonder what it was doing at BEA Brough.? My uncle built Buccaneers there when I was a kid.

 

[Cycleops]

I wonder what it was doing at BEA Brough.? My uncle built Buccaneers there when I was a kid.

I also built a Buccaneer as a kid but it was the Airfix one.

 

[midlife]

Hard to believe the last A4s flew nearly thirty years ago.

Didn't the A4 fly DACT at Miramar until nearly 2000?

 

[Cycleops]

You know more than me midlife. Apparently the last US A4 flew in 2016 I found, here's the vid:

View: https://youtu.be/rT_gLtwAjBs

 

[midlife]

Sorry, I was confused. I thought you were thinking of the A4 Skyraider

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-4_Skyhawk

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Not many Phantoms left in the UK. Most were leased from the US and returned.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

An Osprey flew over here quite low yesterday. They've been around on and off for a while. Methinks they visit the barracks near Hereford.

not my pic

 

[DaveReading]

Not many Phantoms left in the UK. Most were leased from the US and returned.

I'm not aware of any ex-RAF or RN Phantoms that were returned to the USA, nor of any reason why they would have needed to be.

Of the 170 Spey-powered examples built, plus the 15 second-hand ex-US Navy ones acquired later, most were broken up here in the UK. Around 20 remain, in various states of preservation.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I'm not aware of any ex-RAF or RN Phantoms that were returned to the USA, nor of any reason why they would have needed to be.

Of the 170 Spey-powered examples built, plus the 15 second-hand ex-US Navy ones acquired later, most were broken up here in the UK. Around 20 remain, in various states of preservation.

I may be mis-remembering a discussion from some time ago on PPRUNE.

 

[midlife]

Not been to Carlisle Airport for years but see that they have smartened up their very tired looking UK Spey powered Phantom

http://www.111sqn.com/phantom-vx406-restoration.html#

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not been to Carlisle Airport for years but see that they have smartened up their very tired looking UK Spey powered Phantom

http://www.111sqn.com/phantom-vx406-restoration.html#

That's looking good now, but my eyes were drawn to XJ823, in the background
https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/vulcan/survivors.php

 

[MichaelW2]

An Osprey flew over here quite low yesterday. They've been around on and off for a while. Methinks they visit the barracks near Hereford.

View attachment 598381 not my pic

I cant help thinking that things would be simpler with a honking big turbofan electric generator in the middle fuselage and electric drive at the wing tips

 

[DaveReading]

I cant help thinking that things would be simpler with a honking big turbofan electric generator in the middle fuselage and electric drive at the wing tips

I think they got fed up waiting for someone to invent a turbofan electric generator.

 

[plantfit]

F35 Lightening coming into RAF Marham last week

 

[DaveReading]

Darkening the sky ...