Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Not to everyone's taste, the F-111:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... F_F111.jpg[/imgc]
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
cool, thanks.




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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!

The Hawker Typhoon was a bit, y'know, functional, but the follow-on Tempest was much easier on the eye IMHO:
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Handley Page Victor, long before it was converted to the tanker role:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpap ... b11024.jpg[/imgc]
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The Vulcan already made an appearance on page 1, but the pic was smaller than that one. You can never have enough Vulcan pics:
http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/wp-conte ... ulcan1.jpg[/imgc]
http://forum.valka.cz/files/avro_vulcan_b.2.jpg[/imgc]
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Variation on a theme from page 1...
(We've got two!
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Seconded!klr wrote:The Vulcan already made an appearance on page 1, but the pic was smaller than that one. You can never have enough Vulcan pics:
Or Red Arrows ..

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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who appreciates the Vulcan.





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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Have reached a consensus then ........and the award for sexy beast goes to Vulcan




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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Damn straight.
Two more for the road:
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk ... ay1988.jpg[/imgc]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... r_RAF.JPEG[/imgc]
EDIT: Can I recommend Vulcan 607 (Rowland White) as a cracking read about the first Black Buck raid by Ascension Island-based Vulcans during the Falklands war. This artwork depicts one of the many in-flight refuellings during the mission - in this case, one of the Victor tankers topping up another during a storm:
http://artaca.net/ronaldwong/40degreess ... ssouth.jpg[/imgc]

Two more for the road:
EDIT: Can I recommend Vulcan 607 (Rowland White) as a cracking read about the first Black Buck raid by Ascension Island-based Vulcans during the Falklands war. This artwork depicts one of the many in-flight refuellings during the mission - in this case, one of the Victor tankers topping up another during a storm:
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
When I was a sales rep I used to visit a chap who had an ejector seat from a Vulcan as his office chair, obviously suitably upholstered. Hung in his wall was the first stage compressor from a scrapped Olympus engine, also from a Vulcan. He was a bit of a fanatic. I remember seeing the Vulcan many time at Bigging Hill (near where I lived) the noise was literally mind numbing!
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The Mitsubishi F-1, clearly owing something to the Jaguar, and the Phantom as well:
http://tbirds.hp.infoseek.co.jp/nyuta01_lg.JPG[/imgc]
http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acimages/f1 ... elberg.jpg[/imgc]
http://www.atchat.jp/%7Ehalizoh/images/ ... shi_F1.jpg[/imgc]
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