Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

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That was one big mother. Story?

[Jesse C.]

That was one big mother. Story?

 

Here ya go! 

 

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Thank you. Looks like it would have been an easy target if used in WW2.

[Jesse C.]

 

 

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Oh yeah! 

 

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Story please. Pilot looks small or the plane is large.

[MarkB.]

Martin-Baker M.B. 5

 

Very late-war British prototype.  Rolls-Royce Griffin power, Mustang style radiator.  Laminar flow wing.   Not much of an improvement on existing piston types and the jet fighter writing was on the wall.  Only one or two were built.  Program cancelled.  Prototypes destroyed.

 

A replica was started several years ago using Mustang parts.  Last I heard, the incomplete airframe was in a hanger in Reno.

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Spitfires also tried the counter rotating props, but never went in to production. Idea was good, but $$$$ was high and just one other thing that could go wrong.

[MikeRL411]

Spitfires also tried the counter rotating props, but never went in to production. Idea was good, but $$$$ was high and just one other thing that could go wrong.

 

Russian bombers use them.

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Russian bombers use them.

The bear, the loudest prop driven aircraft ever to fly, I think it was turbo prop too if I'm not mistaken.

[Jesse C.]

Spitfires also tried the counter rotating props, but never went in to production. Idea was good, but $$$$ was high and just one other thing that could go wrong.

 

Recon version and the Naval version, the Seafire, used the contra props

 

 

[Jesse C.]

Westland Wyburn Lightning

 

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Export version air tanker undergoing flight test at Kent Washington?  Note FAA registration number.

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Yeah my friend who took those pics live in Seattle and is always down there taking pics. 

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Yeah my friend who took those pics live in Seattle and is always down there taking pics.

They fly a lot of stuff out of there.

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Wart hog! Sill kicking ass over in rag land.

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A United Airlines plane being loaded with airmail from a Model T Ford mail truck.

 

United reaches all the way back to April 6, 1926, when they were founded as Varney Air Lines in Boise, Idaho. In 1930 they were bought by United Air Transport and in 1934 they and three other airlines merged to form United Airlines.