xpost-What is that? A De Havallend or sommat? Time to step it up with this bad boy:
http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/Images/f117a.jpg
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost x2 even.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a canberra mr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
this isn't:
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/images/jpgs/buccaneer/buccs%20in%20echelon.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
naw mine was a meteor. canberra is big plane.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The thread title specified jets, but screw that...
Sopwith Camel
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/images/sopwith_camel_original_500.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Fokker Triplane
http://www.airtoair.net/store/cw2/Assets/product_full/10sport-fokkera.jpg
Fokker D.VII
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI_Combat/AP4G6.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
So many choices for WWII (personal faves - the P-47, F6F Hellcat, and the Mark V. Spitfire) but this may be the overall best:
The Mitsubishi Zero
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/cafsocalphoto/zero.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Northrop XP-79
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/P79-1.jpg
Fighter version of the Flying Wing. Wasn't designed with any armaments, but with a magnesium leading edge. The idea was to ram through the tail section of your opponent with the fortified wing.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
So much of my childhood was devoted to fighter plane lust. I love the A-10. Hands down my favorite airplane ever. I was also big into WWII ones, but never really liked the early US / Soviet cold war planes - all those 50's and 60's jets never really did it for me.
Other favorites:
P-38 Lighting: http://www.kelleycows.com/images/p38.jpg
Messerschmitt ME 109: http://www.zap16.com/images/ME_109.jpg
B-25 Mitchell: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2005/Highlights/NellisB25From2oClock.jpg
And not a plane, but the most awesome helicopter ever = The Mi-24 Hind:
― joygoat, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops
http://www.isra.org/drawing_a_bead/mi24-hind-helicopter.jpg
― joygoat, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
F-100
http://home.worldonline.nl/~hsc/F100/F-100%20ThB.jpg
I believe this was the first operational supersonic fighter.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
P-26. One of the only fighters built by Boeing.
http://www.air-and-space.com/19780903%20Chino/31%20P-26A%20N3378G%20left%20front%20l.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
These fockes were Messerschmitts! </stan boardman>
Messerschmitt Bf 109 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/BF109BLACK6.jpg
(bah xpost, duplicate Messerschmitt)
― onimo, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Northrop built some wacky stuff. Here's the XP-56
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Northrop_XP-56_238353.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
These Fockes aren't Messerschmitts!
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Fw_190As_in_flight.jpg
― onimo, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
high-altitude phallic symbol
http://www.espionageinfo.com/images/eeis_03_img0989.jpg
― milo z, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://lynchmob.freeyellow.com/02-john-h-p-51.jpg
p-51 mustang
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s-3b/images/S3Viking_1.jpg
S-3 Viking, AKA the plane Dubya got to play soldier on. Mission accomplished, indeed.
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
F7F Tigercat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg/250px-F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
F8F. About as badass as you can get.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/F8F1boxeroversf.jpg
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-189588-1165803100.jpeg
f-111
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
skua
http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/pictures/jpg/blackburn%20b24%20skua%20I.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
XB-70. Everything else can fuck off.
http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/north_American_XB70_Valkyrie.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
P-40 with the Flying Tigers
http://www.walnutridge-aaf.com/P40a.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
scratch one Italian battleship
http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/media/July-2.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man, I spent countless hours as a kid reading about military aircraft. Here's Romania's lone WWII fighter, the IAR-80:
http://www.casusbelli.com.ar/aire/2gm/otrasnaciones/IAR_80.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
ripped from today's headlines
http://www.jetfly.hu/rovatok/repules/katonai/hirek/topten_bombers_070518/Tu95_V.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
The incredibly ungainly-looking Saab Tunnan: http://avions.legendaires.free.fr/Images/Gj29.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Messerschmitt Me-163. Scary scary scary. Five minutes of rocket fuel and a 50% chance of exploding on you.
http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/me163b-1a_takeoff.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I see your Bear, and raise you one Peacemaker
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-36_1.jpg
(always a favorite of mine, due to stories about them from my grandpa)
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
HAI, I SUNK YR BISMARCK TOO
http://www.vectorsite.net/avsword_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Same here. When my parents first moved to California, my dad got a job at Convair working on the jet engine retrofits to the initial prop-only B-36s. Best thing I like about the B-36s is the unusual sound they made - it's like the worlds largest drone symphony. (I've got a recording of a B-36 flyby - it's wonderful)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's another B-36
http://people.virginia.edu/~rjr/engines/b36.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
oops erm 'my bad'
THIS is a canberra (or 3):
http://www.aeroplaneart.com.au/Images/JSJ_PC_English_Electric_Canberras_B_Mk_2.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The Junkers Ju-390, designed to fly transatlantic missions and bomb the east coast of America:
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/ju390_2.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Smile for the camera!
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/staff/simongray/u2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/air-ww2/beaufighterattack.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember my grandpa talking about testing the B-36s with the jet engines (and maybe JATO as well?) and counting the times he almost died (at least a dozen).
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
B-47 with full RATO packs going.
http://www.tayyareci.com/amerikanucak/postww2/b-47.jpg
Always liked the B-47 because it was the first model kit I ever built.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The second model kit I built was a B-58 Hustler
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-58_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Mig-25 Foxbat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/MiG-25_fig2agrau_USAF.jpg
I didn't realize until years later that the NATO codenames all began with the same letter (Foxbat, Fiddler, Flogger, etc.)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Mig-29
http://lankapage.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/air_mig-29_lg.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
F4F Wildcat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/F4F-3_new_pitot_tube_of_later_model.jpg
I love the old-style AAC insignia.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Blohm und Voss wins the WWII WTF contest. Here's the BV-141. Yes the cockpit is on the wing
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/aircraft/showimage.php?id=7108
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
OK what?
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
BV-142
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/bv142-2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Attack/Ov10From2oClock.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The idea was that the asymmetrical layout would give better visibility (and it did) and that the added drag on one side would be offset by the torque from the motor (it was). However the initial engine wasn't powerful enough and by the time a better engine was outfitted, the FW-189 was on the scene.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a FW-189
http://www.afwing.com/combat/Normandie%20Nieman/fw189.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link