Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

[J-Luis]

[J-Luis]

[Stinky]

Can you help me identify this plane that I saw....I saw it over Parker, AZ flying low (relatively) and it looked like a C-17, BUT I think that it had propellers.  I didn't hear it as my windows were up.

 

I looked at Wiki, under current US planes and didn't see anything that fit the description.

 

Is there such a plane?

[J-Luis]

Can you try uploading the picture again? 

[Stinky]

I didn't try.... 

I couldn't get one 

[J-Luis]

Could this have been it? C-27J Spartan cargo plane. It's not as big as a C-17 or C-5, but it has propellers. Or maybe a C-130 Hercules. 

Spartans are on their way to San Diego for the US Forest Service to use.

[J-Luis]

[J-Luis]

[J-Luis]

Upside-down at RIAT

[Stinky]

Twas definitly not a C-130

 

I think what I saw had a high tail, just like a C17.

 

I wonder if I put props where there were none...(My eyes playing tricks).  Oh well, one of life's great mysteries goes unsolved.

[J-Luis]

LOL! I've been there. Once, I was driving out of Big Bend National Park (around 2001), and what I thought may have been a B-1 Lancer crossed in front of me. It was so low it looked like it came out of the ground. So close I could have thrown a grapefruit at it and hit it. It was gone before I could even consider pulling over. One of my kids caught the dark flash across the windshield, and he corroborated that it was long, thin, and loud. It was heading east toward Laughlin AFB or Randolph AFB. Today, my son lives near Cape Canaveral and Patrick Space Force Base. 

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2 hours ago, J-Luis said:

LOL! I've been there. Once, I was driving out of Big Bend National Park (around 2001), and what I thought may have been a B-1 Lancer crossed in front of me. It was so low it looked like it came out of the ground. So close I could have thrown a grapefruit at it and hit it. It was gone before I could even consider pulling over. One of my kids caught the dark flash across the windshield, and he corroborated that it was long, thin, and loud. It was heading east toward Laughlin AFB or Randolph AFB. Today, my son lives near Cape Canaveral and Patrick Space Force Base. 

Those unexpected buzz jobs trump all air show stuff.

[J-Luis]

Junior Vulcans

[J-Luis]

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B36:  Does anyone remember a museum where they had a B36 hung from the hanger ceiling?  

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24 minutes ago, J-Luis said:

Vulcan Vindicator was in a James Bond movie, right?

[J-Luis]

Wow! This is so cool! It was a mock-up Vulcan for the 1965 Thunderball film, but awesome info! Thanks. 

[J-Luis]

There are some great pictures online, but I have not seen a hanging display. 

[Jesse C.]

[Jesse C.]

[Jesse C.]

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Found these, various airplane mishaps and some successes.  It's possible no one died in these.  (the pic below is not in the video.)  

 

 

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On 12/4/2024 at 9:27 PM, Jesse C. said:

Big fan of the B36 - built the model as a child (maybe still have it).

Three stories:

1) Nuclear powered design, flew with lead bulkhead and mock reactor.  What if it crashed?  "Those areas would be uninhabitable."

2) Felt a shudder, went back to base, landed, discovered tail fell off.

3) I swear I was at an aviation museum and they had one hanging from the ceiling of the hanger.  I remember spending a summer at NASA Lewis curing grad school and Bob Kielb told me about it.  I believe it was the AF Museum.  I saw it.  I swear.  Then returned years later and they claimed it never happened.  Still haunts me to this day.

[J-Luis]

S-22 Russian fighter

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Territorial DC-10