http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/wonder_of_flight/images/p51mustang_500.jpg
The real battles of WWII were which nation -- US or Germany -- would build the baddest-looking fighters
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Ooooh good one. My heart says Germany but my body says GB cos of this bad boy:
http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/pictures/tempest.jpg
― kv_nol, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
xp someone got happy with the motion blur tool there
― ledge, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Pah, forget the B-24, go for the supersize version, the B32!
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/images/b32-2.jpg
"baddest looking fighter" = easy victory for USAAF:
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/021002-O-9999G-008.jpg
You don't want to mess w/that, do you. Look at the gun turret on top of the thing, it's like a flying tank!
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
That's straight out of starwars. Is that really a fighter?
― humansuit, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It is! It's the P-61 Black Widow which I was looking for a good picture of :)
― kv_nol, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
What a perfect name. Have a good day all!
― humansuit, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ricsartshop.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/Black%20Widow%20P-61_053.jpg
― kv_nol, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta rep Candialand here - our greatest (and possibly ONLY) contribution to the world of airborne military hardware. I present, from the 1950s, through scandal and mystery (Dan Akroyd was in a film about it), the AVRO ARROW:
http://gateway.uvic.ca/schoolnet/digicol/gp-images/gpdetail/d83-188.1.4.19.jpg http://www.robertvanderhorst.com/artwork_images/The%20AVRO%20Arrow.jpg http://www.wingweb.co.uk/img/aircraft/Avrow_arrow_rollout_top.jpg
yeeeeeah!
― Rob Bolton, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks nice man! Very like the Dassault Mirage. Was there some kind of tidal shift that said "Hey, let's make 'em all look like paper aeroplanes!"
http://www.histoiredumonde.net/images/20_eme_siecle/avions/mirage3/intro.jpg
― kv_nol, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread rules!
How bout some avro vulcan? http://quicklink.all.googlepages.com/avro_vulcan_04_04.jpg
― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
goose, you are gone but not forgotten... http://www.conservativethinking.com/files/f-14.jpg f14 tomcat
― andrew m., Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre
Okay, best user name in a LONG while.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/mig21.jpg
Mig-21. Still my favourite.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
As long as we're thinking in Russian: Mig-31 FIREFOX! http://www.brain-tuning.de/images/firefox1.jpg
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
That's from Gundam, dude.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
??
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys might like Jets'n'Guns
― kingfish, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
ha i'm gonna de-lurk for this one...
ACHTUNG!
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2006/Highlights/SpitfireCloseup.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/935206089-00.jpg
http://www.przygodoskop.pl/024/inne/adventurer02.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.oldtimerfan.nl/wp-content/galerij/gloster/meteor-f8/024dbdaabdb020423cccc415f716ee20_n.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
if this were an animal it'd be in a specimen jar on some victorian amateur scientist's shelf...
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/NorthAmerican/Aero37G7.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~mohamadi/dasilvaweb/A10.jpg A-10
― Kerm, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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
$65 billion project, which is more than the GDP of 2/3 of the countries in the world.
― Super Cub, Thursday, 26 March 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Sukhoi's new T-50 PAK-FA flew this morning. Looks like the lovechild of a Su-27 and YF-23:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/pak.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/201001291030avisnapshot.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/60867473.jpg
― President Danny Glover (Millsner), Friday, 29 January 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2007-11/28/8237.jpg
It does not really need saying that this aircraft was painted in the seemingly outrageous very pale pink (nearly white) colour all over. However there were very sound reasons for this: (1) the aircraft were supposed normally to operate just below the cloud base and, when seen from the ground, this colour merges well with the cloud, however, from above it was highly visible to enemy fighters; (2) the main reason for it was to carry out operations at sunrise and sunset when the sun is low in the sky, and the pink colour made the aircraft all but invisible at low altitude to ground forces.The greatest drawback of the pink camouflage was that this colour made the pilots feel very vulnerable even though this was not the case. The pink colour was only ever used on Spitfires and was still being used on the F.R. Mk. IXC's of 16 Sqn after D-Day when based in continental Europe (complete with D-Day stripes). There are some excellent colour photos of the latter taken on "captured" German Agfa 35 mm film by a 16 Sqn pilot. Copies are available in the RAF Museum collection and they have been published in a number of books.
The greatest drawback of the pink camouflage was that this colour made the pilots feel very vulnerable even though this was not the case. The pink colour was only ever used on Spitfires and was still being used on the F.R. Mk. IXC's of 16 Sqn after D-Day when based in continental Europe (complete with D-Day stripes). There are some excellent colour photos of the latter taken on "captured" German Agfa 35 mm film by a 16 Sqn pilot. Copies are available in the RAF Museum collection and they have been published in a number of books.
― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Monday, 8 February 2010 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Some nice photos from the Edwards AFB air show last year. I love fly-bys with both current and vintage planes in them...
http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/Edwards09/DBZ_8599.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 February 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
the f22 is so good that the f35 just looks like a malformed pygmypak-fa rly nice too, although more classicist with hints of the b2 and various 4th gen aircraftnothing beyond aesthetic considerations naturally
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 February 2010 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
First person view of everything required to fly the P-51http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-amazing-first-person-view-shows-every-move-it-take-1698638721
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
Neither fighters nor jets but I was out walking yesterday and a B-17, a B-25, and a C-47 all flew overhead.
― joygoat, Thursday, 3 September 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
Were you somewhere in... the past ??I may have said it already but the opening picture of this threas is great.I've always found the F4 so cool and massive.As for the Mig21, I remember a few years ago at Hanoi international airport : parked on the side they still had Mig21s ! Surely they're not in service anymore but then why were they in their individual hangars and seemingly operational...
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
I live not far from what was a huge bomber plant in WWII (where apparently none of these were actually produced) and it was VJ Day so I’m guessing the historical plane nerds got together for a ride. They were LOUD in a way I’m not used to hearing
― joygoat, Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
Really ? not louder than modern jets, surely ?I've always wondered how loud/impressive those WWII bomber operations including hundreds of planes must have been...
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
I literally can't imagine what this must have looked/sounded like !
"On the morning of March 18, 1,329 bombers and 733 fighters of the US Eighth Air Force formed up over England and set a course for northern Germany. The target for 1,221 of the bombers was Berlin. This mission, the largest wartime raid on Berlin, was intended to support the Russian advance by attacking rail stations and tank factories in the city."
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
I have friends who live close to the Minneapolis airport and definitely not as loud as jets right overhead. But they were flying kind of low and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a prop plane with more than one engine before - they were sort of buzzing in and out of tune with each other so very droney
― joygoat, Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
Speaking of F4s, due to the situation between Greece and Turkey , I've learned that the Greek AF still has around 30 F4s in service !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:14 (three years ago) link
As for the sound of modern jets, since my parents live near the Bourget airport, near Paris, where there's an international air show every two years, I'm quite used to see/hear them fly over and they're noisy af !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
TOMBOT to thread, kinda curious about his take on the f-35 debacle, where the money went, and if it's a good plane
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
I don't have a lot of good insight into how the F-35 went so wrong, other than collusion between parts of the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin to force the DoD to put all its eggs in one basket.
Here's a decent piece on what might ought to happen to avoid repeating those mistakes in the future: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-air-force-could-avoid-f-35-trap-47737
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 4 September 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35947/navy-f-a-18-squadron-commanders-take-on-ai-repeatedly-beating-real-pilot-in-dogfight
Fun read.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link