Ya think?

Those daring damn fools in their flying machines.

buster points to this link of some cool jets performing over a tropical beach.

https://www.facebook.com/Airplane9/v...68843/?fref=nf

No easy way to embed Facebook videos.

The Time a Big Ol' Convoy of Vintage U.S.A.F. Bombers Moseyed Down the Highway








If this vid is a repost (it seems familiar), MODS please feel free to delete this post.

If I asked you what was wrong with this picture, you'd figure out pretty quickly that the plane is upside down.

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What might not be so obvious is that the plane is a 707.:eek:

B-24

Cockpit of a B-17G. I always thought that Boeing emblem was cool as hell, but they dropped it. Too old fashioned, not what the Mad Men thought was hip. But the totem pole comes from the northwest roots, and wings for flying. and the name, what more do you need. They replaced it with one that said nothing, then when they bought Douglas they made it worse. grumble bitch moan
I was furious when I lost my hat, it had my 25 year pin on it but didn't fucking care, just wanted the hat back.

I suppose that would make it a LOL. :lol:

similar?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BALL-CAP-Boe...gAAOSwBLlVbx8t

Yes and no, this one just had the logo embroidered. Big. Without a sniper target. The Boeing motorcycle club still uses that logo.

well played

The agony and the ecstasy...

Cool vid showing how the SR-71 Blackbird's engines worked.

Hey, remember that time an Israeli pilot landed that F-15 with only one wing?



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I should think an ultralite would be perfect for a big-ass parachute to bring the whole rig down.

But, then, it would be an ultranotquiteaslite.

Or, an ultranotquiteasdeadly.

I'll pass, either way. I have enough deadly hobbies, if you're pickin' up what I'm layin' down.;)

They already have parachute systems for light planes as well as ultralights. They have saved lives and should be standard equipment, IMHO.

Yeah, I think Cirrus makes small planes with a chute system.

New one on me, Mexican Air force in WW II.
Nazis torpedoed two Mexican oil tankers headed to the US, so the Mexican President declared war on the Axis in '42. Mexico and Brazil were the only ones to send troops. The Aztec Eagles(30 pilots, 270 support) were attached to a US Army Air Corps squadron and loaned the latest Thunderbolts.

Heh.

Mexican Air Force...The term doesn't exactly inspire fear.

Now this is a mobile home:

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The whole stable...

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Remember the tv show 'Riptide'?

They had a chopper, (vvv this one) that they called The Screamin' Mimi:

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I remember that chopper

Yeah, me too, I don't know where though. :confused:

I remember it from Riptide.

I remember seeing it was a cheap old surplus chopper in the story line of that show, and wondering if someday I might be able to afford an old surplus chopper. I was a dumb kid, so I didn't know anything about the 5,000 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight rule of thumb back then.

It's a Sikorsky H-34, and was one of the last helicopters to use a piston engine.

The good old days...

Does this count as aircraft?

The asshole Air Force is still trying to kill the Warthog claiming to save money, when in truth to maintain and support the A-10 costs 0.21% of their $255,000,000,000 budget. They want extra money to dump into the mishandled nightmare called f-35, that even if by some miracle gets finished won't hold a candle to the A-10 for close air support. You know, the one stinking job that helps and protects boots on the ground. :mad:

Five males sniffin' .... :p:

That was the last one built, they're checking it's pedigree. ;)

While I'm at it...

Autorotation, I knew what it is, but, now I know why:

W.T.F?



This is T.F.W.:

From here.

What an amazing job Boeing did with that aircraft. No wonder it's still going strong. :thumb:

Boeing's oldest flyable twin-engine airliner makes last flight

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Delta flight makes emergency landing at Nashville International Airport

Government spreading mind control drugs before the soylent green harvest.

"Rainbow jet exhaust" is just awesome.

Mystery as British Airways A380 plane lands in London with square tire

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:smack: I realize he was put in a position to satisfy the reporters, probably on short notice, but what clear and utter bullshit!

Oh shit...

Somebody just got fired.

"Model" aircraft, in this case:

Say hello to my little friend...

Look at that big Fokker...

Fokker F-32???

I count only eighteen.

x2 legs each still bad maths

Cockpit window, top of the plane, and behind the tail. :p:

When the B-25 flew into the Empire State Building. They don't build them like they used to.

Hell's Angels...

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Shouldn't there be evidence of rotor wash?:eyebrow:

And why is the landing gear down?

When I've seen them flying over my house the gear is always down.

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From here, page 9.

I could have sworn I'd seen them wheels-up.

Yes, a lot of it.
You may have seen pictures of a CH-46 where the rear wheels don't hang down very far, or maybe a 107/234 that PAN AM and the loggers use(d). I'm not sure if they had retractable gear or not.

Till they need fuel...

Ran across this just now:

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From here.

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