Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!

[leo-rcc]

I saw a few of these flying at Fairford last year, I am still amazed that they didn't plumit to the grond. They are so slow.

[Boadacia!]

I saw a few of these flying at Fairford last year, I am still amazed that they didn't plumit to the grond. They are so slow.

Yes, but slow can be good. Especially having a sandwich as one flies. I would have posted my favourite SE 5, but I can't find the disc I put them all on.

[Varangian]

If you want noise, step forward those nice, politically correct, peace loving Swedes. When you stand within 200 feet of a Saab Viggen doing a full afterburner takeoff, you know what noise is. This thing made an apocalyptic din. It was so loud, the sound vibrations were playing funny tricks with my heart rhythm. This is an aircraft that can deliver CPR without the need to put hands on the patient. Oh, from the standpoint of an aerodynamicist, thanks to the arrangement of the forward canards and delta wings on a Viggen, it is, in effect, a supersonic biplane.

In the early 80's, I sold popcorn at a drag race. On the Saturday, when a significant portion of the audience was suffering from hangovers, the Swedish Air Force put on a mall show. A Viggen made a low pass over the strip, and when it was over the stands, the pilot angled the nose sky-wards and engaged the afterburner...

[Varangian]

Some are predicting this may be the weapon of the future and may even render the ironclad obsolete.

They scare the crap out of me on a daily basis.

There is something menacing about them....

Freud would probably have had an opinion about that.

Sometimes a flying cigar is just a flying cigar.

[Varangian]

The Horten Ho 229 - the future was there in 1945!

[klr]

The Horten Ho 229 - the future was there in 1945!

I have a kit of this almost complete.

[Russell]

There was a program on the History Channel on the Horten Ho 229. They build a scale model at, IIRC, NG's Phantom Works using what information that had about the materials and construction techniques used back then. The model was then taken to a radar test range to have it's performance against the Chain-Home system measured. The outcome was that you would only have ~5 minutes warning of a Ho 229 attack.

[Mantisdreamz]

The Canadian Snowbirds:


Here they are in action this fall in Toronto:


US Navy Blue Angels


Same thing this fall doing the Air Show in Toronto:

[Dr. Kwaltz]

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I have to agree with the above...

But I have to say, I have a real hard-on for this plane:





It looked like a mean beast, it looked like a plane you should not fuck with, it had soul, character, it was an awesome plane.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

BTW, Scaled Composites Inc got back to me about building replica Tri-Fokkers.

[leo-rcc]

[The Dawktor]

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My Grandfather was a Master Carpenter and made these in WW2

[BrettA]

Douglas DC-3 - First flight 75 years ago this December and mor'n 400 still in use - what's more beautiful than a record like that? Pics from 1977...










...and a Lockheed Lodestar M18, just 'cause...

[leo-rcc]

The "Uiver", a DC-2.

[Feck]

Just seem them build a replica of the 229 on TV