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Posted on 11/30/2010 5:00:39 PM PST by ccmay
Just for fun, how about we stump each other with exotic or unusual airplane photos. Upload to Tinypic so no one can cheat by looking at the image source.
I'll go first. What is this aircraft?
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: airplane; aviation; plane; wwii
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To: Army Air Corps
WHO are you? ( and your tagline is familiar - what’s the story with it?)
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:37:46 PM PST
by
GOPJ
('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
To: PhiloBedo
I once saw a guy in a Beech 18 try this stunt at an airshow, and fail.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:38:03 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: ccmay
That is the Ilya Muromets bomber designed by Igor Sikorsky in the WWI.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:38:44 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ccmay
Do you even have a life?
I have been an aviation fanatic since I was a wee bairn. :-)
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:39:59 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: GOPJ
The tagline is an homage to my relatives who served in the USAAC/USAAF in WWII.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:41:17 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps; GOPJ
Sorry, I meant that my FR name is an homage. My tagline comes from The Blues Brothers.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:42:38 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: GOPJ
WHO are you?
An aviation enthusiast. Some of my friends and family would jokingly say that my enthusiasm borders on obsession. :-)
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:44:44 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ccmay
108
posted on
11/30/2010 6:45:52 PM PST
by
OCC
To: OCC
English Electric Lightning
109
posted on
11/30/2010 6:49:59 PM PST
by
pfflier
To: OCC
English Electric (later, BAe) Lightning.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:50:45 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Some of my friends and family would jokingly say that my enthusiasm borders on obsession. :-) LOL - they might have a point there...
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:51:20 PM PST
by
GOPJ
('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
To: OCC
More specifically, I think that is a Lightning F.6.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:54:24 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: GOPJ
113
posted on
11/30/2010 6:55:00 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ccmay; alfa6
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:55:49 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
To: pfflier; Army Air Corps
Yep, not that exotic of Aircraft, but thought it was an interesting picture.... external fuel tanks ON TOP of the wings and what appears to be a large thermonuclear device underneath :)
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:00:16 PM PST
by
OCC
To: OCC
An English Electric/BAC Lightning. That was an amazing and much-beloved aircraft with one of the highest thrust-to-weight ratios ever to see service.
This is probably the F.6 variant with the overwing drop tanks (which couldn't be dropped until empty), and the larger fuel tank under the fuselage. Most of these had 2 30mm Aden cannons at the forward part of the under-fuselage tank but I don't clearly see them here.
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:01:14 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: OCC
The bulge on the underside is caused by one of the engines. The Lightning was a twin jet with the engines arranged vertically (one stacked atop the other).
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:03:01 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ccmay
Yeah, the cannon prts are not really clear in that photo. The Lightning was a really interesting design. The trainer version was also nifty looking because it was a side-by-side arrangement instead of a tandem seat layout.
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:05:36 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
You are right.. it looked like something else tucked in there in the previous picture. Odd, but I guess necessary design.
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:08:55 PM PST
by
OCC
To: Army Air Corps
A-HA! I got you on one point!
It was a BAC Lightning, not a BAe. BAe wasn't formed out of BAC and Hawker-Siddely until 1977, and by that time the Lightning was out of production.
But you are right about it being an F.6 model.
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:09:12 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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