Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

[MikeRL411]

Didn't have enough flight time [or invisibility to enemy snipers] to be carried any further.

[MikeRL411]

I still like the photo taken by an USAF patrol plane of the Russian bomber crewman flashing his "Pepsi" bottle to the photographer on the USAF plane!  No!  I don't have a copy, search whatever pits you have access you can, it's that unique and I am going to bed!

[MikeRL411]

 

The USAF bone yard.

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[hobospyder]

 

hey that was taken across the street from me. Looks like it was summer though I don't know why we had two of the lifters on the ground at once

[Jesse C.]

Ass hole base commander ordered that the grounded planes be nestled closer together so that more could be crowded in.  Japan should have awarded him a medal for that decision!

 

Actually, they thought  that it the planes where parked closer, they would be easier to protect them from sabotage. 

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[Burabuda]

The Henschel Hs 130 was a German high-altitude reconnaissance and bomber aircraft developed in World War II, but never used operationally due to various mechanical faults.

 

(I was searching for 280zx when this popped up!)

 

[KiloTango1200]

 

 

 

Gonna have to bend the rudder trim tab to the right because of the missing wheel pant.

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[MikeRL411]

 

 

My earliest memory, I was 6 months old at the time, is hearing the thrumming of engines and looking up to see the Graf Zepplin circling overhead on its way to Lakehurst NAS. I distinctly remember the red background of the Nazi flag on its lower rear vertical stabilizer but at that age could not really remember seeing the white circle and black Hackenkreutz.

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[flyerdan]

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A Ju-52 and a De Havilland Dove, a couple of rare birds indeed.  About 40 years ago a guy at Bonners Ferry bought a Dove planning to establish a sched  to some of the bigger population centers.  Never did take off.  Odd aircraft, inverted engines and air brakes.

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[Loren O]

Here's a Google picture of the plane that started it all for me. I got to go in this as a kid. I hear tales it's at the Evergreen museum now, but I would like to know for sure.

[MikeRL411]

 

My earliest memory, I was 6 months old at the time, is hearing the thrumming of engines and looking up to see the Graf Zepplin circling overhead on its way to Lakehurst NAS. I distinctly remember the red background of the Nazi flag on its lower rear vertical stabilizer but at that age could not really remember seeing the white circle and black Hackenkreutz.

  I just realized that having seen the new generation Zeppelin flying a demonstration flight over the Los Angeles basin 2 years ago that I might be the only "I saw both generations of Zeppelin" left alive!