Actually that phone booth was for the loadmaster, as I understand it.

When Orville Wright died, Neil Armstrong was already 17 years old.:eek:

Yes, eight $18,000 Jdams more gooder, than a $1.4 million cruise. :thumb:

Look. Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane.

It's the Space Shuttle?!

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It's the Space Shuttle.

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XP-82 Twin Mustang – June 2016 – Restoration Update

Beautiful!

Double your pleasure, double your guns. :haha:

This is the guy the Wright Brothers were inspired by...

The B-58 Hustler: America's Cold War Nuclear Bomber Blunder

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Two German Eurofighter Typhoons, followed by four Swedish Gripens, all on the right wing of a USAF B-52 Stratofortress. On the left wing of the BUFF, are two Polish, and four USAF, F-16 Fighting Falcons.

Moving the Spruce Goose in pieces to be reassembled for it's first and only flight.

Synchronized landings:

I was on a flight exactly like that into SFO.. It was pretty cool coming in with another plane. To be fair, it was about five seconds ahead of us, so I had a good view of it. Not perfectly synchronized.

Oh sure, it's all fun and games until they find out they're using the same runway. :mg:

Machine guns mounted on a Zeppelin in 1916. I assume an anti-aircraft measure.

Birds.

Another B-24 in trouble...

So, earlier today while I was working on today's 'This Day In History' post, I was interrupted by what sounded like a helicopter landing in my backyard.

It turned out to be a helicopter landing in my backyard!

Well, not quite my backyard, but, close enough:

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It was the Air Evac Lifeteam out of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

I don't know what they were doing. They weren't picking up a patient. They were there 30-45 minutes, and then they just flew away.

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It may have been a meet-and-greet-look-at-our-fancy-chopper-type thing for the new tenants at the little factory behind my house.

Made for an interesting Friday morning, if nothing else.

Maybe it was a warning to the factory people if you get hurt we'll fly you out of here, deny you ever worked here and your family will never see you again. :haha:

That might be a newly designated LZ? We have one maybe a half mile from here. It'd be nice if they could see them under ideal conditions.

No no, these fokkers were messerschmitts...

That's a thought, but, it's less than a mile, as the chopper flies, from the hospital helipad.

that video of the guy balancing his pet jet like you balance a broom on your fingertip was cool. but you have to give this guy props (nyuknyuknyuk). his connection with his similarly scaled r/c aircraft is scary-good. I finally figured out the differential paint scheme on the opposite wing surfaces. it helps him distinguish which direction it "local up". Otherwise, there's gonna be some free haircuts.

The XB-36

http://cellar.org/2016/XB-36A.jpg

http://cellar.org/2016/XB-36B.jpg

http://cellar.org/2016/XB-36c.jpg
Guess it didn't take long to figure out that wasn't a good idea. :rolleyes:

He caught the last cable, and it snapped. That'll fill your flight suit.

I can't imagine the hours spent polishing, and maintaining that shine, on this P-51C Mustang. :eek:

Ooh, shiny!

YOUNG MEN!
Travel! Excitement! See the world! Serve the Fuhrer!
Join the elite Zeppelin Corps as a mechanic!

Second pic.

Um...no?

What about this big baby?

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Story<--Awful website. Good luck.

Glider launch fail:

China was showing off their new amphibious plane. They say it's the world's largest, almost as big as a 737.

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Please to notice the man on the right of the pic for scale.

~from here

A different perspective:

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The most expensive weapons platform in history, and it's weaponry:

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The above pic, and the below pic are from here.

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Valkyrie
 

I'll see all yer airplanes and raise you this unrealized Mach 3 bomber. There was only two made, and one crashed because a chase plane pilot was a doofus.

Here's the business end of this bad bitch. Yow.

When men were men...

I'm not even sure what I am looking at here. Some sort of blimp or balloon or something.

Yes, remember the Germans working on the engines of the Zeppelin in flight? Well this is the British version of those daring young men and their flying machines.

That open gondola is very open.

Right, like a trapeze bar.

Thousands didn't get one...

Jerry Lashin served with the 447th Bombardment Group USAAF, based at RAF Rattlesden in Suffolk.
It would appear that he completed another five missions after the award for the twenty-five flown above.

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Jerry Lashin's mission listing, flown over the summer of 1944:

June 4 - over Versailles, France
June 6 - D-Day, Normandy, France
June 7 - Nantes, France
June 11 - Le Touquet, France
June 14 - Florennce, Belgium
June 15 - Hanover, Germany
July 12 - Munich, Germany
July 14 - near Vichy, France
July 18 - Cuxhaven, Germany
July 21 - Regensburg, Germany
July 24 - near St Lo, France
July 25 - St Lo, France
August 2 - Paris, France
August 9 - Nuremberg, Germany
August 11 - Belfort, France
August 13 - Rouen, France
August 15 - Germany
August 16 - Altenberg, Germany
August 24 - Brax?
August 25 - Richlin, Germany
August 30 - Bremen, Germany
September 1 - Mainz, Germany
September 5 - Brest, France
September 9 - St Laurent, France
September 17 - Arnhem, Netherlands
September 25 - Ludwigshaven, Germany
September 26 - Bremen and on to Bremerhaven, Germany
September 28 - Merseburg, Germany
October 2 - Kassel, Germany
October 3 - Gibelstadt, Germany

The original handwritten lists of his missions, among other items, can be found at the American Air Museum in Britain website.

You can only speculate on how much of a toll on a crewman's mental wellbeing was taken as each mission was flown.
As the number of survived missions increased, so would his chances of not returning from the next one.

He looks like Mark Duplass.

He does, kinda.

Alllllmost pushed off the runway by the wind:

Gunnery practice...

How to wake up the pilot in mid-flight....

That'll do it.

Whatdafuq?

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Re: the AF plane.... It is hoovering up the water from the puddle below the engine pod. The water spins in a vortex due to the rotation of the engine primary fan.

Somebody got rich...

Why am I imagining a single strafing run right now?

Perhaps too many hours in a combat flight simulator?

Someone didn't stay inside the lines:

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