Jessie The Jeep Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Great historic shots, keep posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 very nice Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Aircraft Maintenance And Regeneration Center ( Davis Monthan AFB ) F-14 Tomcats A-7 Corsairs C-141 Starlifter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Shuttleworth Collection's Gloster Gladiator and Hawker Hind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan turner (RIP) Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 According to my book on Handley Page the Hermes was based at Blackbush for BOAC and only had a short life being broken up there in 1953. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Bombers at Sunset, B-24 and B-17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) The Fighter Collection B-25 Mitchell, some time before 1991 as the second T2 hangar doesn't exist. The aircraft has recently been exported to the USA. The 'Aces High' B-25 Camera ship seen here during the 'Memphis Belle' filming Edited December 10, 2009 by Jessie The Jeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Here's another Boeing B-50 Superfortress at Planes of Fame. Unfortunately it's a fuselage only. It would be great if the museum could make a complete B-29/B-50 by recovering the wing from the Greenland B-29 'Kee Bird'. This B-29 was force landed in Greenland during a cold war spying mission in February 1947, and remained there until 1994, when a failed recovery attempt resulted in fire destroying the fuselage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Bf109E in the Battle of Britain Hall, RAF Hendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 More of Messerschmitt Bf109G Black 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 More German aircraft at Hendon. Bf110, Ju88, Bf109E and He111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 C-56 Lodestar at Castle and March AFB Museums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 de Havilland dH88 Comet was restored by British Aerospace works at Hatfield and flew again in 1987. It flew from Hatfield until 1993 when it was moved to the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden by road. After arriving, I believe the aircraft was damaged in a landing accident at Old Warden and then repaired, but is now only taxied. The photograph was taken in 1988 at North Weald, a year after the post restoration flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Grumman F3F. Several years ago, Planes of Fame crated up their two F3F's and shipped them to Duxford for the Flying Legends airshow. Unfortunately I only got this one picture of the two aircraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Grumman F7F Tigercat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 collected aircraft snaps for years...... then moved on to warships :banghead: this is my fav aircraft piccy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 Nice! I didn't realise until recently that the USAF had lost a B-2 in a take off crash. Rather messy and expensive. Back to some older jets now, the F-101 Voodoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 followed by my favourite plane, the Vultee Vengence The story I was told, designed by the American's,built by the British and given to the Australian's which ended up a dive bomber that could not recover from a dive Whilst searching for parts for these I found a Spitfire, but well thats another story :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 (edited) In that case, you'll probably like these two pictures of my A-35. If you read Peter C Smith's book on the Vengeance, you'll see it turned out the most accurate dive bomber of the war. Designed by Vultee to a specification laid down by the French and British, it was successfully used in Burma. Early versions suffered from engine failures as a result of the engines not being protected correctly with corrosion inhibitor and also being transported as deck cargo. Some elevator failures were also experienced as a result of incorrect fabric application. Edited December 15, 2009 by Jessie The Jeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 Back to jets. On December 10, 1963, during a test of the NF-104A rocket assisted Starfighter, Chuck Yeager narrowly escaped death when his aircraft went out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashed. He ejected at 8,500 feet after failing to regain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. He became the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights. An investigation showed the cause of the crash was a spin that resulted from excessive angle of attack and lack of aircraft response. The excessive angle of attack was as a result of a gyroscopic condition set up by the J79 engine spooling after shut down for the rocket-powered zoom climb phase. Here's two other F-104's. The first is a two seat version in standard USAF markings at Castle AFB, the other at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, in NASA markings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 Republic F-105 Thunderchief Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Back to jets. On December 10, 1963, during a test of the NF-104A rocket assisted Starfighter, Chuck Yeager narrowly escaped death when his aircraft went out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashed. He ejected at 8,500 feet after failing to regain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. He became the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights. An investigation showed the cause of the crash was a spin that resulted from excessive angle of attack and lack of aircraft response. The excessive angle of attack was as a result of a gyroscopic condition set up by the J79 engine spooling after shut down for the rocket-powered zoom climb phase. I like the bit where the ejection seat hit his face and ignited the oxygen. His gloves caught fire trying to put his face out and is kinda depicted in the film the right stuff as he asked the hot rod kid for a knife to cut his gloves off. He sliced the end of one of his fingers off. I wanted a photo of him and Glamorous Glennis so I contacted the US embassy and they replied with his name address, social secrity number, military record etc etc..... yes strange Anyway I mailed him in '91 and he posted me that photo, so legend and a nice bloke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Nice! I didn't realise until recently that the USAF had lost a B-2 in a take off crash. Rather messy and expensive. wasn't that in Guam, or was that a B52..... I got piccies of the B1 that had an incident at DG.... ie landed with all the wheels up These are some German RPPC postcards I bought in '94 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 B-2 was at Guam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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