Planes

[Tommy.]

Do tea bags need an engineer

Oh you little...

 

[lancs blue]

Sorry to nerd out but this thread is right up my street, this aircraft was originally known as the A-12 Oxcart.
Due to the extreme temperatures it endured due to the altitude and velocity it flew at its skin was Titanium.
Given the thing was designed in the 60's during the Cold War the Americans had to set up a blag company to import the required materials from Russia.

Used to leak fuel like anything

When the non smoking sign went up the crew took notice

 

[verreauxi]

I really like that massive Ukrainian-built plane that was sadly destroyed at the beginning of the Russian invasion. The Antonov A 125

 

[Tommy.]

The Russians used Satellites when the Americans had a model of it in Area 51, they upended a model on the airfield to test its imperviousness to RADAR, basically a SR-71 with a pole up its arse. They would take it down when they knew Ruski sats were passing overhead however it left an obvious heat signature on the ground where it had been covering the ground. So the Russians had a pefect outline of the aircraft but nothing beyond.

 

[Rita_Poon]

mitsubishi zero
then the mustang
then we evolved into the jet age.
some great urbex sites from plane graveyards...

 

[Tommy.]

Used to leak fuel like anything

When the non smoking sign went up the crew took notice

Correct mate, purposefully designed due to the expansion of materials at the altitude and speed it reached.

 

[Kurt.]

Astral planes

Wot yoo sayin @ForeverBlue92

 

[verreauxi]

The Guardian just did a long book review of a new book on the Mustang. Looked like a good read.

Wings of War review: how the P-51 Mustang gave the Allies the skies

A fine new book from a husband and wife team salutes the finest American fighter plane of the second world war

www.theguardian.com

I know nothing about planes, for the most part.

 

[PhilM]

Not the prettiest looking, but wow.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Amazing that a plane designed in the 50's still looks the most futuristic.

 

[Tommy.]

Amazing that a plane designed in the 50's still looks the most futuristic.

Beautiful isn't it mate, think about the ones in design now....

 

[Tommy.]

Probably should just end the thread here really.

 

[Old Blue 2]

'...What’s your favourite plane?...'

Given my research into it over the decades, and the aircrew I interviewed who flew it, it has to be this one, the Bf 110:

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Is the right answer but let's have a pic in its natural habitat...King of the sky.

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Great story by one of its pilots below...most have heard it if you're in to this stuff but it never gets old.

 

[john jako]

Good way to out the crabs