Cold War Aviation Porn

[pogofish]

There is one of those Spy-Chipmunks on display at the Gatow Museum - I will have to rummage to see if I took a photo.

Another thing I remember about that Chipmunk was that despite it having an engine about the same power as an old Mini, they could fly in conditions that would see all other aircraft grounded, so far more capable!

Here is some more history:

Chipmunk Aircraft | AlliiertenMuseum Berlin

The Allied Museum in Berlin tells the story of the Western powers during the Berlin Airlift and the Cold War.

www.alliiertenmuseum.de

 

[Detroit City]

Colourful Mig-29

 

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[nogojones]

The Canadian Air Force having a good long think about siding with the Ruskies

 

[Chz]

That has to be one of the most thoroughly fleshed out April Fools that I have ever laid eyes on.

The Breaking Point - Canadian MiGs test American friendship - 2011 APRIL FOOL'S HOAX > Vintage Wings of Canada

 

[dylanredefined]

First you load your rocket:

Then you push it home, very carefully:

We use a similiar tool to load the rockets on the apache rockets are electrically detonated so no phones on the point. Supposedly dutch groundcrew was loading one when she got a text and that was the end of her.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[spitfire]

epix.

 

[spitfire]

Gerroutofit!

 

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[existentialist]

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Fabulous bloody things!

 

[A380]

Fabulous bloody things!

They still look like the come from the future.

 

[pogofish]

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Am I right in remembering that the site of that hangar is now the "Harry Potter Studio Experience"..?

 

[pogofish]

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Which of course owed rather a lot to this:

The Miles M52, which got cancelled when about two-thirds complete because the Air Ministry didn't believe that supersonic planes had much of a future, despite successful trials of a scaled-down remote controlled version which reached 918mph! - So Bell got handed all the design data instead and then reneged on their side of the deal to share further findings!

Another "translatantic" project of Bell's was the Tarzon - Which was a British Tallboy bomb, partnered with Bell's own Azimuth and Range guidance system to make one of the Allies first big guided bombs - Despite being too late for use in WW2 and ending-up as too big for the only aircraft capable of dropping it without modification, it did see service for a couple of years before cancellation because of its singular inability to hit anything - only six of the twenty eight bombs successfully dropped in the Korean War actually hit their targets.

 

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[existentialist]

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It hasn't got any wings

 

[2hats]

It hasn't got any wings

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Cold War, Hot Jets - Episode 1

It's a repeat though, so you hot jet buffs have probably seen it

It's back

 

[DownwardDog]

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Another Bison...

 

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[kebabking]

a question for DownwardDog and anyone else who fancies throwing their tuppence in..

if the F-111K buy had gone ahead after the TSR-2 cancellation, and therefore - presumably - the Vulcan would have left strike service in the 70's, how different/possible would the Black Buck missions in the Falklands War have been?

could/would the F-111K have used LGB's instead of dumb bombs, and if not was the aircrafts bombing system much more accurate than the Vulcans - and then would the F-111K have been able to get down to the FI from Ascension (wasn't the reason that Buccaneers weren't used that the engine oil tank wouldn't be able to keep the engines lubricated for the duration of the flight, even if enough fuel could be put through the engines?), and thirdly roughly what impact would have using a pair of F-111K's instead of one Vulcan have had on the AAR plan to get them down there and back?

 

[DownwardDog]

a question for DownwardDog and anyone else who fancies throwing their tuppence in..

if the F-111K buy had gone ahead after the TSR-2 cancellation, and therefore - presumably - the Vulcan would have left strike service in the 70's, how different/possible would the Black Buck missions in the Falklands War have been?

could/would the F-111K have used LGB's instead of dumb bombs, and if not was the aircrafts bombing system much more accurate than the Vulcans - and then would the F-111K have been able to get down to the FI from Ascension (wasn't the reason that Buccaneers weren't used that the engine oil tank wouldn't be able to keep the engines lubricated for the duration of the flight, even if enough fuel could be put through the engines?), and thirdly roughly what impact would have using a pair of F-111K's instead of one Vulcan have had on the AAR plan to get them down there and back?

The F-111K would have used the TF30 engine which had very good endurance capabilities - Heyford pigs flew a 9,700km round trip for Eldorado Canyon in 1986. Not quite Black Buck but not far off.

In terms of capability the 111K was way ahead of the Vulcan as it would have had the nav/attack suite from the F-111F - assuming the MoD didn't turn it into a job creation scheme and try to 'upgrade' it with British avionics.

There would definitely have been a reduced tanker requirement. The USAF put 20+ F-111s over Libya using 20+ tankers while the RAF needed 11 tankers to put a single Vulcan over the Falklands.

So on 'Operation Black Eagle' there would probably have been 4 ship F-111K formations on each trip using forward looking IR and spiked LGB delivery to the great detriment of the Argentinians.

 

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that looks like the vessel that Charleton Heston piloted in the first original Planet Of THe Apes

 

[Detroit City]

Mirage IIIRs

 

[not-bono-ever]

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[A380]

that looks like the vessel that Charleton Heston piloted in the first original Planet Of THe Apes

Damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!