Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

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[seattle smitty]

17 hours ago, VFR800 said:

 

An Avro York airliner pictured at Birmingham (now Elmdon) airport c1950

Dang, VFR, all yesterday after I posted, I was saying, "NO, stupid, that's an Avro YORK!!," and hoped I could get back here in time to correct my post before someone caught me!  Oh, well.

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All Good Seattle Smitty!  ?

[MikeRL411]

15 hours ago, VFR800 said:

 

I cannot remember the official designation, but this is the trainer aircraft used to pre qualify USAF Academy cadets for flight school and full qualification.

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[Jesse C.]

[KELMO]

Got the chance to go up in a Piper Cub this morning.

This view of the FBO and hangars just after take off.

He pitched it a little sideways on approach to slow us down a bit. Not sure this pic illustrates the angle too well.

Got home and realized I forgot to take any pics of the plane from the outside.

 

Then had an R44 (I think) show up for fuel.  Wind picked up a little when they were taking off and they wobbled a bit once about 2 foot in the air, don't know about them but I got a bit nervous.

Edited August 3, 2018 by KELMO

[VFR800]

7 hours ago, KELMO said:

Then had an R44 (I think) show up for fuel.  Wind picked up a little when they were taking off and they wobbled a bit once about 2 foot in the air, don't know about them but I got a bit nervous.

 

 

Those are used a lot here in AUS for catte farms in the outback and they also crash a lot. 

 

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[Charlie69]

An Edwards Air Force Base F-35A Lightning II fires an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile as part of Weapons Delivery Accuracy testing. The 461st Flight Test Squadron and F-35 Integrated Test Force completed WDA testing in early December, which concludes a large and important part of F-35 developmental test and evaluation. (Courtesy photo by Chad Bellay/Lockheed Martin)

 

 

 

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[Jesse C.]

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[MikeRL411]

49 minutes ago, Jesse C. said:

 

Looks like the Kawasaki Tony donated to the JSDAF at Irumagawa Air Base [ex Johnson Air Base] outside Tokyo.  It was found in a packing crate in the corner of a hanger at Tachikawa Air Base.  No markings, but a shipping order [in Japanese] attached.  The base interpreter almost had a cow when he read to document.  One complete Tony fighter including engine and instruments zero air hours to be shipped to Southern Japan as defense against B29 raids, abandoned in place at the time of surrender.  Most local Japanese mechanics hired by Tachikawa used to work at the assembly plant "just down the road" that manufactured the Tony.  They offered to assemble the plane.  It was decided to go ahead with the assembly and then to donate the complete aircraft to the JSDAF museum at Irumagawa [painted up in the colors of the Tokyo air defense fighter group.]

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[Jesse C.]

[MikeRL411]

1 hour ago, Jesse C. said:

 

A1H "Dump Truck"

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