Este hijo de puta es una locura.

an inch lower and they would have been mopping that pilot up with a sponge.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Much better bigger, and in HD.

Know thine enemy...

My grandfather, who had served in WW1, always referred to airships as 'Zeppelins'.
It wasn't the stuff of everyday conversation, but a Goodyear airship was touring the UK at the time and 'Zeppelin' was how he described it.

Every so often, airships make something of a comeback but then disappear never to be seen again.

Here's the latest incarnation:



Incidentally, it was at Cardington about sixty miles North of London.

Unfortunately, its second test flight didn't go too well.

Technically, an airship is a rigid hulled dirigible which carries bags of gas to provide lift. What we see nowadays is a blimp, a flying gasbag which is not rigid and is more akin to a balloon.

Heh, that describes any politician on a plane.:)

Chopper = 0, Cow = 1.

Holy crap! Those things aren't even safe on the ground!



Much better bigger. You can see it coming.

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I was surprised he still had a hand. He was complaining that it was hurt, but I expected the whole arm to be gone.

A different angle of the same incident:

A Greek Apache lands at the beach. Kinda.

If that plane actually caused that, somebody would've sued somebody.

The Blue Angels are notorious for flat-hatting that beach during practice in the off-season. The hoi polloi are aware of this.

British bombardier...

That looks dangerous.

If you've been sitting with ordnance on your lap for the last hour or so, the urge to lob it over the side ASAP must be irresistible.

Heh, granted.:cool:

The year is 1985:

Several years after the parachute was perfected I guess the Germans didn't believe...

Hey, look...

...it did leave a mark.

I don't care about your ...
oh never mind.

Seems we've seen this before but I'm too lazy to search...

From the Aussie War Museum...

I don't remember seeing that particular pic, though I certainly could have forgotten it.

They got some wild contrail pics over at ContrailScience.

Here's one:

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That is one great big stack of ugly.


On a different note,

Not an "airplane", but important to them, certainly.

Twil and I will be staying nearby, but we'll arrive by land.

Sorry no pretty picture.

I saw a large, loud, yellow bi-plane fly over my place this morning. Flying south. Slowly.

Faster than a beeding spullet...

Literally. 6629 feet per second.

Wiki quote:

How embarrassing...

Darn student pilots :D

Dang, that took me a minute to sort out.

He's hanging on a wire/power cable, correct?

I ran out of height, airspeed and ideas all at once.

He's got a rope already tied off to something, and a figure 8 rope descender hanging from his waist. I wonder what's going on outside of the frame? Is the guy on the right a rescuer? Wouldn't he have a uniform on or something?

Yeah, what they said.

Portuguese is such a crazy sounding language.

Captured German Etrich Taube monoplane, on display in the courtyard of Les Invalides, Paris 1915...

I'm almost certain this is 'shopped.

Should the bottom of the Concorde be that well-lit?

Shouldn't there be silhouetting of the aircraft from the eclipse behind?

Shouldn't the sky be darker if there was an apparently full eclipse going on?

Would simply brightening the pic do all that?

Am I asking too many questions?

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It was obviously following the cow over the moon. ;)

Belly strobe covers the bright light. I dunno about the rest of it.

May not be an eclipse, could be a lens with a center spot blocking the sun.

Fairey Gannet on the HMS Ark Royal built between 1953–1959...

How the Gannet ever became airborne from terra firma, let alone an aircraft carrier, remains something of a puzzle.

In many ways it was a tough old aircraft and even managed to limp back to base on one occasion without either wing tip.

Cool post.

More from Fairey Aviation.
 

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It could be said that the Rotodyne was years ahead of its time and with more development might have been a success.

The concept survives, albeit in a somewhat different form, in the V-22 Osprey.




Trivia time...

The Chairman of Fairey Aviation lived here in Carruthers Town when I was a kid.
I don't remember much about him but I do recall his big old Bassett Hound who would entertain himself by roaming about the town.
He could often be seen ambling down the High Street barking at nothing in particular.
He probably howled at the Moon as well. Lovely dog, he was.

I've often wondered how a rapidly changing C of G, when the water is discharged, affects handling characteristics.

I assume that an increasing nose up attitude can be expected but perhaps it's over quickly enough not to cause any great problems.

In any event, low level ops in probably turbulent conditions can't be too much fun.

Nice find, Mr G!

Famed aviator 'Bob' Hoover, who escaped Nazis by stealing a plane, dies at 94

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He was one of my greatest heroes. I hope to be half as good a pilot as he was. RIP Bob. You earned it, brother.

I knew I posted that for someone, I just couldn't remember who.

It's tough to have a huge fan base. :p:

The master at work...




Ends with a both engines off landing.
But you knew that. ;)

Remember this pic I posted?

Well, it's supposed to do that.

And I learned about "arrestor beds" from this article about Mike Pence's plane making a hard landing in a rainstorm, skidding sideways, and overrunning the runway at LaGuardia. Arrestor beds kept the plane from running onto a busy parkway at the end of the runway.

Better bigger, and in HD.

They could take off from my back yard

They could takeoff from a treadmill in your backyard.:blush:

well maybe with a dolphin boost

Musta put some Red Bull in the tank...