Cold War Aviation Porn
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The Soviet Air Force used stars for kill markings. I guess they already had the stencil and red paint.
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I didn't know that.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Well blow me down with a feather, I didn't know that either.
I guess they weren't too keen on covering their planes in swastikas.
* heads off to re-education camp *
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Soviet Airmen’s Song
Our planes are roaring, roaring for the battle,
High in the air above the clouds we speed,
Our bombs are ready, our machine-guns rattle,
Against the world’s imperialist greed,
Chorus
Flying higher, higher and higher,
Our emblem the Soviet Star,
And ever propeller is roaring,
Defending the USSR,
(shout) Red Front !
But to the workers and the toiling masses,
A gleam of hope all our propellers whirl,
We drop them leaflets while we bomb their bosses,
The first Red Air Force of the world,
Chorus
Our proud machines obey our every order
There is no flight our pilots do not dare,
We form an iron ring above our border
The workers first squadrons of the air,
Chorus
And should dictators with snouts come rooting
Around the soil of our free Soviet land,
Our guns can sting the jaws that gape for looting,
Our bombs will smash the greedy hand
Our planes are roaring, roaring for the battle,
High in the air above the clouds we speed,
Our bombs are ready, our machine-guns rattle,
Against the world’s imperialist greed,
Chorus
Flying higher, higher and higher,
Our emblem the Soviet Star,
And ever propeller is roaring,
Defending the USSR,
(shout) Red Front !
But to the workers and the toiling masses,
A gleam of hope all our propellers whirl,
We drop them leaflets while we bomb their bosses,
The first Red Air Force of the world,
Chorus
Our proud machines obey our every order
There is no flight our pilots do not dare,
We form an iron ring above our border
The workers first squadrons of the air,
Chorus
And should dictators with snouts come rooting
Around the soil of our free Soviet land,
Our guns can sting the jaws that gape for looting,
Our bombs will smash the greedy hand
gosub
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All his stuff is like that. But some interesting stuff on his channel. Quite well researched
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Amazingly the Beverly entered operational service only 6 months before the first C-130. One of them has been in continuous production for 67 years.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I recently had several trips that involved me driving past the remains of RAF Kemble. Now Cotswold Airport & currently with a load of planes parked up, some to be used again, others as spare parts ... a bit sad, really.
What I remember best about Kemble, as a youngster, was watching some jets take off and climb almost straight up. Now I know they were EE Lightnings. What they were doing there ?
I know the Red Arrows were based there until 1983 ...
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Big bastard, isn't it?
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Shame it wasn’t offered to the airlines as a rival to Concorde once it’d been discontinued as a viable nuclear deterrent platform. I reckon you could have sat 200+ pax in there
*stacked
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
I have a vague memory that Kemble retained a specialist maintenance role for some time after its active status as an RAF base had ended?
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Yeah, we lived down the road in the mid-80's, and the USAF used it as some kind of maintenance site for a magic mix of aircraft - most of which seemed to use our house as a navigation point.
Which I thought was the best thing, like, evah...
It was returned to the MOD in the early 90's and became a sub-depot for, I think, South Cerney. I did an airfield capture/operate exercise there in the late 90's - everything still worked so it must of had a reasonable care and maintenance budget...
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They must have accounted for several dollars worth of trees…MiG-21 kill marking from Vietnam on B-52D 'Diamond Lil'.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I'm going to be telephoning the civilian vs low-flying liaison office.
I live near enough to Spadeadam for the house to be a turning point / landmark for almost every Tom, Dick and Harry from the RAF, USAF and NATO ...
Which is normally fine, and I enjoy the flypasts. But sometimes the pilots come over the hill at high speed and low enough I can count rivets, so we get a blast of sound without warning ... really rattles the windows !
A few years ago, there was a period of frequent training exercises [it felt like 24 / 7 , as there was a lot of night-flying involved] I don't think it was just prior to a deployment. But it was disconcerting, as the local paper had given up publishing dates ...
I rang an officer [based at Penrith] after a period of several hours with several someones blatting past at low level [not much over tree-top height], at what felt like every 5 - 10 minutes. Whilst I was talking to him, there was another example over-flight- which he heard, despite being inside, with doors/windows shut. It made me yelp ! I heard an interesting expletive, much tapping of keys and "That was the USAF from 'somewhere in Norfolk' ..." and, about an hour later, I got an American voice calling me, to ask if anything was broken ? and to apologise for scaring me. The next few days, no plane went exactly overhead !
tbh. I much prefer to see and hear the C-130s pottering about. They're a happy & majestic memory from years living under flight paths in Wiltshire.
Helicopters are also a fairly frequent visitor ...
I live near enough to Spadeadam for the house to be a turning point / landmark for almost every Tom, Dick and Harry from the RAF, USAF and NATO ...
Which is normally fine, and I enjoy the flypasts. But sometimes the pilots come over the hill at high speed and low enough I can count rivets, so we get a blast of sound without warning ... really rattles the windows !
A few years ago, there was a period of frequent training exercises [it felt like 24 / 7 , as there was a lot of night-flying involved] I don't think it was just prior to a deployment. But it was disconcerting, as the local paper had given up publishing dates ...
I rang an officer [based at Penrith] after a period of several hours with several someones blatting past at low level [not much over tree-top height], at what felt like every 5 - 10 minutes. Whilst I was talking to him, there was another example over-flight- which he heard, despite being inside, with doors/windows shut. It made me yelp ! I heard an interesting expletive, much tapping of keys and "That was the USAF from 'somewhere in Norfolk' ..." and, about an hour later, I got an American voice calling me, to ask if anything was broken ? and to apologise for scaring me. The next few days, no plane went exactly overhead !
tbh. I much prefer to see and hear the C-130s pottering about. They're a happy & majestic memory from years living under flight paths in Wiltshire.
Helicopters are also a fairly frequent visitor ...
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We are the only country in the world that had a satellite launch capability but don’t now.
But we do make almost half the world’s satellites in Stevenage and Hatfield…
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
We were also far ahead in hydrogen rocket motor development compared to the rest of the world. The US fell on that tech like vultures when that work was cancelled in the 1970s.
gosub
~#
That was down to the the way the V2 tech split was done after the war UK got the chemistry. Black Arrow came out of the black sheds that are 200 yards from my old office
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