Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Such a clean, modern looking bird. Always admired them, even if they are a bit French. The tail stabs on the MiG-21 makes it not quite as pretty, though probably make it a better fighter.
Cold War Aviation Porn
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Walty McWaltface
Google gives me this as a Yak18P, I went to see exactly how much of the ME262 they'd nicked for that plane and only found these little cuties.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The first one is a Yak-28P. An unlikely interceptor variant of the original Brewer.
I have flown a Yak-18 variant in the form of a Yak-52. It was good at aerobatics but nothing else about it inspired confidence.
I have flown a Yak-18 variant in the form of a Yak-52. It was good at aerobatics but nothing else about it inspired confidence.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I wonder what the failure rate of the eventual F-85's would have been - apart from distressing....
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That's what it said where I got the picture.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Then it would not be unreasonable for us to continue with that assumption, then.
It's nice when things get sorted out.
I went to the RAF fiftieth anniversary air show at RAF Finningley in 1968.
I remember in the programme I bought there was a four page a discussion about using Blue Steel by attaching them to military variants of Concorde.
I wish I still had it.
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An elegant weapon for a more bonkers age.
How cool would a tooled up Concord have been? Very cool, that's how cool.
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Is it a Thor, didn’t we lose one?
It looked awesome in the sketches.
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It looked awesome in the sketches. [QUOTW]
2hats
Dust.
Would have made for a great fireball in that livery.
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It is, and we are the only country to have launched a satellite (Prospero) but don't have the capability any more.
Though to be fair quite a lot of Black Arrow did go into the early Ariane. And the main engines for that are still made near Stevenage - apparently...
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Apparently this image is from the RAF 1968 yearbook?
Part of the text says "three Blue Steels" and another part says "relatively inexpensive"...
A concern for the V bomber crews was pointed out to me by my dad at the air show during the demonstration. As the V bomber scramble when four Vulcans all screamed off in under three minutes. He said of course, even if they got to their target and back without being shot down. They probably wouldn’t have anywhere to land because all this here would be gone. He was a fatalistic chap.
I remember that shot.
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In Hullo Russia, Goodby England, Derick Robson's novel about a Vulcan Squadron, the unofficial plan of most crews was to keep flying east till the fuel was gone , bail out and try to start a new, medieval level, life in the Steppes or Tibet...
