Aviation

[Pink]

And, oh, allow me for a moment to gush over the nose window introduced with the B-17F:

Spoiler: Large picture of a B-17G

One piece frameless plexiglas!

 

[Space pilot]

Sorry for the bad image quality, but here are a few from the Chicago air show last weekend:

Ospreys: View attachment 25703
F-22 View attachment 25704
F-16 View attachment 25705 f-18 View attachment 25706

Not bad images forum can zoom like 8× scope

 

[Horus Lupercal]

And, oh, allow me for a moment to gush over the nose window introduced with the B-17F:

Spoiler: Large picture of a B-17G

One piece frameless plexiglas!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Journey_(aircraft)

 

[Horus Lupercal]

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Don't mind me, just a video of 4k Mach Point footage.

The real highlights aren't the fast jets, it's the transport craft coming through. The slower they are, the lower they tend to go. Call me biased but fat albert at 8:37 is laughing at the poor attempts by the Typhoons and that chinook at 4 minutes looks like it's trying to give the hill a short back and sides.

Fucking love CH-47s. Nothing on Earth sounds like one and they're absolutely rapid for a helicopter.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Don't mind me, just a video of 4k Mach Point footage.

The real highlights aren't the fast jets, it's the transport craft coming through. The slower they are, the lower they tend to go. Call me biased but fat albert at 8:37 is laughing at the poor attempts by the Typhoons and that chinook at 4 minutes looks like it's trying to give the hill a short back and sides.

Fucking love CH-47s. Nothing on Earth sounds like one and they're absolutely rapid for a helicopter.

 

[Marmilo]

Don't mind me, just a video of 4k Mach Point footage.

The real highlights aren't the fast jets, it's the transport craft coming through. The slower they are, the lower they tend to go. Call me biased but fat albert at 8:37 is laughing at the poor attempts by the Typhoons and that chinook at 4 minutes looks like it's trying to give the hill a short back and sides.

Fucking love CH-47s. Nothing on Earth sounds like one and they're absolutely rapid for a helicopter.

Don't mind me, just a video of 4k Mach Point footage.

The real highlights aren't the fast jets, it's the transport craft coming through. The slower they are, the lower they tend to go. Call me biased but fat albert at 8:37 is laughing at the poor attempts by the Typhoons and that chinook at 4 minutes looks like it's trying to give the hill a short back and sides.

Fucking love CH-47s. Nothing on Earth sounds like one and they're absolutely rapid for a helicopter.

You posted the same message twice.

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

You posted the same message twice.

Sometimes that happens with the forum when you click the post button multiple times before it loads.

 

[Marmilo]

Sometimes that happens with the forum when you click the post button multiple times before it loads.

I've noticed that. Happened to me twice.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Or occasionally it just pretends it didn't post it the first time

 

[Horus Lupercal]

I'm a simple man.

I hear BBBBBBRRRRRTT, I press like.

DCS definitely know their audience

 

[Loxy]

I'm a simple man.

I hear BBBBBBRRRRRTT, I press like.

DCS definitely know their audience

Oh. Legendary BBBBRRRRT

 

[Horus Lupercal]

 

[Tony]

 

[Tony]

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Popular Mechanics has been running a retro episode series, where they re-release old articles on what are now iconic aircraft.


The F-14

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a34262986/f-14-reveal-history/

And Concorde

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a34096095/concorde-reveal-history/

They're really good looks into how the world viewed them when they were still new and in the case of the Tomcat, still surrounded in a certain level of secrecy.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Anyone want goosebumps? I've got some right here.

Headphones and and skip to 1:10. You can thank me later

Has a group of old warbirds coming in for a low pass down a canal. A P-40, a Corsair, a P-51 and a mk. IX Spitfire. Each is going for the 'hold my beer' lowest pass, until as usual they're shown up by the brit, cos hard, fast and low is what brit aircraft do.

And make no mistake, that Spitfire is absolutely fucking going for it. Remember, it and the Mustang share the same engine (the RR Merlin). But listen to the noise. The P-51 is playing it pretty safe. The dude in the Spit is almost underwater with the throttles to the stops and you can hear the supercharger pip as it tears past.



And speaking of low level shenanigans, anyone used to watch this?

(skip to 5:40)

Say what you like about 80s cheese, but they had to do everything for real back then, including flying low level during a brown-out caused by a rolling explosion. The series had lots of examples of this, on occasions nudging the tail skids on tarmac hovering in streets or weaving through canyons.

However was doing the flying in the first season (when they had the budget to film fresh sequences rather than re-cycling them as they did later on) had some stones man.

 

[TtTOtW]

That Airwolf team visited Cape Town when I was 5... (Mid-1987) I actually remember being there, got a pic being carried by I can't remember which cast member.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

This, on a t shirt.

Here, take my money.

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

This, on a t shirt.

View attachment 47765

Here, take my money.

Even I would pay for it.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Anyone got 3 an half million for the worlds only commercially available and flyable Phantom?

F-4 Phantom for Sale: Buy a Flyable McDonnell F4H-1F Phantom Jet

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Before the F-15 became the most successful fighter aircraft ever built.

A Fighter Pilot's Fighter Plane: PM Meets the F-15 | F-15 History

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Just gonna leave this here.

Concorde was such a beast, it had one of the loudest sonic booms in the sky. That double bang is from over 11 miles away

 

[TtTOtW]

Horus that there is pretty sick man. Seriously who wouldn't want a legend in his hangar?

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Just gonna leave this here.

Concorde was such a beast, it had one of the loudest sonic booms in the sky. That double bang is from over 11 miles away

That’s what happens when you leave 4 supersonic engines running at the same time...