Abandoned & unwanted plane pics

[mojo pixy]

OK never mind, I don't want that at the top of the page. Nice one danny la rouge for the plane. Somewhere on google there's a picture of another one, lying on its side abandoned and forlorn. So forlorn I failed to post it

Instead, here's a cool photo of AMARC in Arizona.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[mauvais]

I bow to your superior knowledge. Better tell the management, they called the place "Osprey Quay" after the chopper

That'll be named not after any helicopter but after HMS Osprey, a naval station at Portland.

RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey) - Wikipedia

 

[dylanredefined]

Why would they want them ? Lots of crashes and range when fully loaded ain't that great

Would make a better tanker & awacs aircraft for the carriers.
Augusta/Westland also make a tiltwing we will probably get talked into buying them and then find something to do with them

 

[twentythreedom]

That'll be named not after any helicopter but after HMS Osprey, a naval station at Portland.

RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey) - Wikipedia

Ah OK. I was misinformed then I think it's a popular misconception here, glad to hear there hasn't been such a basic cock up after all

 

[not-bono-ever]

catalina?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's a WW2 bomber, called a Canso.

Get Me Outdoors: Tofino, BC

 

[not-bono-ever]

yup , same plane iirc- flying boat ting

 

[DownwardDog]

abandoned ex Yugo MIG at Zeljava complex in Bosnia

That's a G-2 Galeb not a MiG. This thread is wearing me out.

 

[pogofish]

Why would they want them ? Lots of crashes and range when fully loaded ain't that great

Ticks most of the boxes for UK procurement already!

 

[A380]

Ticks most of the boxes for UK procurement already!

If they can just ensure it's made in factories across fourteen marginal constituencies, will turn up 12 years after we need it and is not quite as effective as the American version whilst costing twice the unit price it's perfect.

Then we can buy them and give them to completely the wrong service to operate. A tilt rotar, excellent for moving troops and light equipment around in the tactical environment if fully integrated into the army? Let's give it to the RAF...

 

[pogofish]

Let's give it to the RAF...

Coast Guard would be better still - Perfect for those "UK Border" patrols!

 

[DownwardDog]

Yak-40 in Liberia. To be fair I've flown on worse looking a/c in West Africa.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Cid]

It's a WW2 bomber, called a Canso.

Get Me Outdoors: Tofino, BC

Ha, my sister lives there, will have to check it out when I eventually get round to visiting. Well, she lives in Ucluelet, Tofino being too trendy.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Wow- where are those located ?

 

[kebabking]

Would make a better tanker & awacs aircraft for the carriers...

Only ish...

Their tanking capacity is relatively small, so you'd have to use lots of them to put a big F-35 strike at long range, and of course if you have lots of V-22's on your carrier you can't also have lots of F-35 - space being finite on a carrier.

The AWAC's angle also isn't as great as is sometimes suggested - while they fly higher than the Merlin, they aren't going to be flying that much higher, and so their radar performance isn't going to be that much better.

A great tanker and a great AWAC's would be massive improvements to the Carriers/F-35 mix, but the V-22 is neither, while being very expensive, taking up lots of very limited space, and being very complicated and time consuming to maintain.

If the carriers were bigger - thank you Gordon Brown - and cheaper (again, thank you GB), then the V-22 would look like a better option, but as we are they are too compromised, and too compromising.

 

[DownwardDog]

Is this somewhere in Germany? There is a Do-27 and I think I see the remains of GAF code on the Flogger.

 

[Idris2002]

Is this somewhere in Germany? There is a Do-27 and I think I see the remains of GAF code on the Flogger.

Some place called Bad Oeynhausen (spelling?), apparently:

Muß das sein...? Ein Technikmuseum vergammelt...!

(FAO not-bono-ever)

 

[spitfire]

Is this somewhere in Germany? There is a Do-27 and I think I see the remains of GAF code on the Flogger.

There's a balkankreuz on the armoured vehicle in pic. 1 as well.

 

[spitfire]

And on the vehicle under the helicopter in pic 2.

 

[DownwardDog]

Lots of crashes and range when fully loaded ain't that great

Sounds perfect for the FAA. Some Wyvern squadrons used to come back from Far East cruises without any of their original aircraft.

 

[gosub]

Sounds perfect for the FAA. Some Wyvern squadrons used to come back from Far East cruises without any of their original aircraft.

At least the Wyvern's managed to take off for Suez. RAF managed to trash all theirs without leaving the runway.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Not abandoned but whatevs- Tokmok city limits, Kyrgyzstan - this isn't unusual in the former SovBlok

I think is a 23

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ha, my sister lives there, will have to check it out when I eventually get round to visiting. Well, she lives in Ucluelet, Tofino being too trendy.

Ucluelet is cool; but Tofino does have a restaurant that makes a good burger - and it's pretty hard to beat Chesterman Beach.

When we go over there, we stay in Ucluelet, and just drive up to Tofino for a visit.

 

[DownwardDog]

Uzbek Su-27. It's for sale if anyone fancies a project.

 

[kebabking]

Uzbek Su-27. It's for sale if anyone fancies a project.

Mrs kebabking was grumbling about the idea of a 20yo Isuzu project - i can only see stormy waters ahead if i turn up with an SU-27 in a spares or repair state...

 

[A380]

Uzbek Su-27. It's for sale if anyone fancies a project.

An Urban 75 air wing? How cool.

 

[kebabking]

An Urban 75 air wing? How cool.

Yeah, fuck it - I'm in.

 

[spitfire]

I have 8 hours on a Cessna, surely it can't be much of a leap to that. I am also, in.