|
|
Those airplanes kick ass (large pictures inside) (Page 2)
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
I've never seen that bird before. It kind of reminds me of the the F-106 Delta Dart:
There was a movie, a teleserie, and there are many books about this plane. Many "urban" legends as well.
But the Twin Otter is better in my point of view...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Vladivostok.ru
Status:
Offline
|
|
Have to throw this in here for obvious reasons.
|
_,.
a solitary firefly flies at nite
into the darkness an endless flight
a million flashes of delight.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by theolein:
Just to completely bust the size of this thread, I thought I'd post a list of all the airliners that I've flown on: (all links are to web pages from airliner.net. Fantastic resource for these things!)
Boeing 707 Luxair The very plane in the photo in fact!, back in 1975. My first jet passenger flight. Had to land all over the place since they didn't have much range.
Airbus A300 in the 80's, Luxair. Very comfortable for those days.
Bac 111 a few times in the 80's, Tarom and Danair. Crowded cabin but a rugged little plane.
Boeing 727, also in the 80's, Danair. Very crappy flight and landed in the middle of a storm.
Tupolev Tu-154 also in the 80's, Tarom (This airlines held the world record for fatal accidents at the time, btw!). Built like a tank with rocket engines and it flies like one too.
Boeing 747. Numerous versions, from the ultra long range SP ( South African Airways) to the mixed cargo/passenger version (Alitalia) the modern 400 (Lufthansa). The 400 felt very heavy and cumbersome on the ground and in the air.
DC-9, Alitalia, during the Gulf War, from Rome to Zurich, just a week after another DC-9 crashed into a mountain on approach into Zurich! Very paranoid flight.
Airbus A319, Swissair, Lufthansa. Very nice cabins and very nice flying feeling.
Airbus A330, Emirates. Very comfortable fligt and seats and the Emirates cabin crew are by far the friendliest I have ever flown with.
Boeing 777, Emirates, from Dubai to Melbourne via Singapore. Dubai airport is like the crossroads of the planet, with every nation on this world milling about. Lovely plane and the first I flew in that had seat back videos.
Bombardier CRJ-100, Lufthansa. Cramped cabin and rough seating, but a real feeling of flying.
Boeing 767. Cramped cabin and shitty seats (Milan-Toronto, Air Canada).
Avro Rj-100, Azurra. Not as cramped as the CRJ-100 but loud as hell because of the engines being right next to the cabin.
How do you remember all this???
|
***
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
(
Last edited by Salah al-Din; Jan 28, 2005 at 07:00 AM.
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Photo Architect
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Bamberg, Germany
Status:
Offline
|
|
As for experimental aircraft - this one beats them all.
Lockheed XFV-1 POGO STICK Interceptor
|
"Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming." Simon Slavin
Me on Flickr.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by TailsToo:
Because I've flown several myself!
I did my commercial spin recovery training in a 152 Aerobat in the 80's It had a 125hp Sparrowhawk engine upgrade. It would climb straight up. I could pull it straight up and stomp the left pedal and just about put it an inverted spin. What a rush. Now I spend my flights trying to see just how smooth I can make them.
Here's me with my 172
How about a quicktime movie...
Let's go flying!
(
Last edited by bubblewrap; Jan 28, 2005 at 08:04 AM.
)
|
To create a universe
You must taste
The forbidden fruit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
I personally like the B-2 but that is probably because I get to see them fly over every day on approach to the air force base. It's really something to be walking outside and just look up and see a B-2 barely above the buildings. Here is a linky to more pics: http://www.whiteman.af.mil/gallery/index.shtml
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: City of Beck's beer
Status:
Offline
|
|
Airline: LTU
Airplane: Airbus A321
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: adequate, thanks.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
This must be the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by acadian:
[B]This puts Canada on the map although most probably would not have a clue about it's history.
*snip*
That's interesting. I had no idea that the AVRO name lived on in a Canadian daughter company. The 'original' AVRO made one of my favourite all-time planes:
Eventually they were absorbed into British Aerospace which is co-responsible for another one of my all-time fave planes:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Status:
Offline
|
|
Well, I see the beluga every day but this one is standing right in front of my office building:
Guppy size
(yes, it's a Boeing! )
|
***
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Washington
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Mafia:
huuuge image
About bloody time somebody posted a B-52. Bloody best aircraft ever built.
|
Donate your spare cycles - join TeamNN today!
Remember to check the Marketplace!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: City of Beck's beer
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Zimmerman:
About bloody time somebody posted a B-52. Bloody best aircraft ever built.
cynicism?
- Thilo
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Sar Chasm
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by badidea:
Well, I see the beluga every day but this one is standing right in front of my office building:
(yes, it's a Boeing! )
I wanna see someone pull off a barrel roll in one of those. Hey, the test pilot did it with a 747-- why not?
|
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: fredericksburg va
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by chris v:
I wanna see someone pull off a barrel roll in one of those. Hey, the test pilot did it with a 747-- why not?
now THATS a video I want to see
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by videian28:
now THATS a video I want to see
Me too! I only have seen a 747 flying a curve with the wings in a 90� angle to the ground and a Transall doing the barrel roll (all at an airshow in Paris a loooong time ago)!
If you don't know what a Transall is, then check the first picture here (very nice pictures!!!)
German Tornados
|
***
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Sar Chasm
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by videian28:
now THATS a video I want to see
I may be mistaken-- it could have been a 707. Still, a huge plane.
|
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
This made me laugh out loud.
|
blabba5555555555555555555555555555555555555
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by f1000:
Boeing 747
\
I would love to witness this in person. (With ear protection of course)
|
blabba5555555555555555555555555555555555555
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Steve's plane.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: zurich, switzerland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by badidea:
How do you remember all this???
I dunno, it's not that much, is it? I've always been a plane nut and know the types quite well (courtesy of Flug Revue).
|
weird wabbit
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Night's Plutonian shore...
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Zimmerman:
About bloody time somebody posted a B-52. Bloody best aircraft ever built.
My uncle flew B-52's with the 416th out of Griffis. I used to spend a lot of time there when i was a kid because I had a serious thing about military planes (I had my heart set on being a piliot until I got glasses at 14). He once showed me a video tape of a B-52 flying inverted. It was without a doubt about the damnedset thing I've ever seen. that's a lot of plane to put on it's back.
During Vietnam, he flew a T-28D Trojan (shown below) as well as AC-130�s with an Air Commando Squadron in Laos, training the Royal Laotian Air Force pilots as well as providing CAS over the border. He said those T-28's were a great bird for close air support.
Since he always talked so highly of them, I got a guy to give me a spin in one at an air show. When they kick over that big ol' engine, you know it!
|
Nemo me impune lacesset
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
During Vietnam, he flew a T-28D Trojan (shown below) as well as AC-130�s with an Air Commando Squadron in Laos, training the Royal Laotian Air Force pilots as well as providing CAS over the border. He said those T-28's were a great bird for close air support.
Was he with the 15th Air Commandos? My wife's grandad was in the 15th Air Commandos.
He flew C130's in Laos and Vietnam. He was shot down twice.
I have a photo of his air wing as well as he and his crew.
|
To create a universe
You must taste
The forbidden fruit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: /OV DRK 142006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by chris v:
I may be mistaken-- it could have been a 707. Still, a huge plane.
Yeah, it was the Dash 80, the 707 prototype flown by Tex Johnson. If anyone can find the video, please put a link up to it here. I've seen it before and it's incredible.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
***
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: /OV DRK 142006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, I tried that one yesterday and it didn't work. Tried it again now, and I get the broken quicktime film pic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by iLikebeer:
Yeah, I tried that one yesterday and it didn't work. Tried it again now, and I get the broken quicktime film pic.
You're right, I posted the link before I finished loading...
|
***
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Status:
Offline
|
|
A right click -> save as... worked!
|
***
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Night's Plutonian shore...
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by bubblewrap:
Was he with the 15th Air Commandos? My wife's grandad was in the 15th Air Commandos.
He flew C130's in Laos and Vietnam. He was shot down twice.
I have a photo of his air wing as well as he and his crew.
I'm not sure which squadron he was with back then. I�ll have to email him and find out. I'll also see if I can get that tape of the inverted B-52 and convert myself a copy of it. If I can get it, I'll post it up, even if this thread is long gone. Absolutely incredible.
|
Nemo me impune lacesset
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: /OV DRK 142006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thanks badidea,
my old jet engines prof has been looking for that for a while.
B52 video would be good too, he used to be a navigator on the BUFF's.
I'm surprised we don't have any kitbuilders here. Many moons ago, I helped my neighbor build a Raven, basically a Kitfox from plans. He modded it with many different Kitfox versions, a subaru engine, and lots of his own custom stuff.
Any of you pilots ever had hypoxic fun?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by iLikebeer:
Thanks badidea,
my old jet engines prof has been looking for that for a while.
B52 video would be good too, he used to be a navigator on the BUFF's.
I'm surprised we don't have any kitbuilders here. Many moons ago, I helped my neighbor build a Raven, basically a Kitfox from plans. He modded it with many different Kitfox versions, a subaru engine, and lots of his own custom stuff.
Any of you pilots ever had hypoxic fun?
No hypoxia as of yet. I don't take the Cessna above 10K feet.
Kitfox is a great kitplane. I like the Glasair a lot too.
|
To create a universe
You must taste
The forbidden fruit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
"Nice pics of the Gripen. I always wished Saab could make their cars look as cool as their fighter jets.
"
They do. Proud owner of a 2002 9-3 SE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Milan, Europe
Status:
Offline
|
|
The B747SP was a cool-looking airplane:
BTW, remaining within flight simulator pics, this is a cool A380 one:
|
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. - Mikhail Bakunin
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Seaford, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
I would have to say that this aircraft is the most awesome:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: /OV DRK 142006
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Seaford, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by iLikebeer:
Hey, I see a scuba diver in there!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Hey Wayne! What are you doning here?
|
To create a universe
You must taste
The forbidden fruit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
To create a universe
You must taste
The forbidden fruit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Seaford, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by bubblewrap:
Hey Wayne! What are you doning here?
Okay, help me out here... I've only had one pot of coffee today...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
The Sky Captain is reporting for flight duty, sir!
|
To create a universe
You must taste
The forbidden fruit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Seaford, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Doh! I didn't even recognize the name bubblewrap!! LOL
So what is going on? I didn't really know you were over here!
Like my Su-27?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
waky waky!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Finland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Here's an old Soviet bomber which we used to kick some Soviet ass in WWII:
And if somebody got offended by the swastikas, they are traditional Finnish symbols, not nazi symbols. This site offers pictures from different wars of Finland.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Semi Posting Retirement *ReJoice!*
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
That is my fav also. They are not the best planes but they look cool. A couple of them fell out of the sky for no reason also.
there is always a reason why...
no object ever does anything without a reason. with enough facts and knowledge, everything can be explained.
|
No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|