Cold War Aviation Porn
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Might it be this one?
Seems its an ex-RAF/UK-private reg aircraft that has been sold to Jordan and is now operated as part of the Jordan Airforce Historic Flight. Which does not have a particularly good record for maintaining its aircraft, so regularly needs to replace them with still flyable planes from other countries.
This is apparently because their two other flyable Vampires have been crashed - and the rest were sold-off to Rhodesia decades ago.
The guy who taught me to fly on my PPL used to be a display pilot with a vampire. For some reason most of my training dual navigation exercises ended up at remote East Anglian airfields where we’d meet with spry septenagerian ex RAF or Fleet Air Arm types and fly back with really obscure parts. Did you know, for example, that the tyres on the vampire are the same as on the Sea Harrier, but not the Harrier ( or it might be the other way round...)
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
They gave you a parachute?!? I didn't get a parachute. Bastards!
Really lucky, cos I ended up jumping out!
not-bono-ever
meh
Looks like it - was a bit confused as didn’t expect to see one about 500 ft above the Red SeaMight it be this one?
Seems its an ex-RAF/UK-private reg aircraft that has been sold to Jordan and is now operated as part of the Jordan Airforce Historic Flight. Which does not have a particularly good record for maintaining its aircraft, so regularly needs to replace them with still flyable planes from other countries.
This is apparently because their two other flyable Vampires have been crashed - and the rest were sold-off to Rhodesia decades ago.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
They painted that last week, it's not exactly "Cold War". If we're doing modern F-4s, here's the "Princess of Andravida".
And its trans-Agean rival, the "Terminator".
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
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I put it on for five minutes - I've already seen it twice. One hour later....
T & P
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Of all the Cold War jets, the F-14 ranks about my all-time favourites. Nothing to do with Top Gun of course. The plane was so damned aesthetically pleasing. Those twin tails and the big, widely set apart engine nozzles just screamed 'badass'. The MIG 29 was also pleasing to eye.
For the same reasons I've always found the F-16 highly annoying. The look of the engine air intake and the single engine makes it a thoroughly unlovable aircraft imo. The fact that was a staple of the Israeli Air Force doesn't help either.
For the same reasons I've always found the F-16 highly annoying. The look of the engine air intake and the single engine makes it a thoroughly unlovable aircraft imo. The fact that was a staple of the Israeli Air Force doesn't help either.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
On the subject of aesthetics you could probably divide people into those who are reminded of an over-and-under shotgun when they see an English Electric Lightning and those who are reminded of an English Electric Lightning when they see an over-and-under.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I think of an SE 2415 'Grognard'.
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I may have mentioned it before but there’s one at Cranfield that a group occasionally does high speed taxi runs along the runway using retuned heating oil. It is bloody cool.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Just for T&P here's the most storied Israeli F-16; the famous "Netz 107".
Complete with kill markings for 6.5 Syrian MiGs and an Iraqi nuclear reactor!
Complete with kill markings for 6.5 Syrian MiGs and an Iraqi nuclear reactor!
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
But it, and its sequels, did help the Mossad move their money around effectively.
Allegedly.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Navigator's seat in a Be-12 Tsaika.
Anything other than abysmal ergonomics are counter-revolutionary.
Anything other than abysmal ergonomics are counter-revolutionary.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Lacks glamour compared to the 8th AF Mustangs.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Googling suggests that it's the Chinese knock-off of the Soviet knock-off of Herr Von Braun's charming rocket.
Hence the family resemblance you noticed.
I wonder what the story behind the PLA Mustang is, though? Captured in Korea, or from Kuomintang forces?
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Or supplied direct to the PLA over the hump in 1944 perhaps?
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
They all produced more or less identical copies of the V2 in the early stages of cold-war missile development - Have a look at the US's "Hermes" Project" and particularly the A1/A3 and RV-A-8 missiles:
Also, of course a whole lot more early missile designs were based on or even included aspects of German Tech. The smaller "Wasserfall" rocket project (essentially a mini V2 for anti-aircraft use) is arguably even more important as it directly influenced a wide range of SAM types - with captured German engines or very close copies initially powering the early tests for each one.
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Captured from or defected from the Kuomintang, yes and later a load of spares/unflyable machines were captured to keep them going until they moved over to Soviet jets in the early 1950s.
Several even flew in the first military parade that marked the establishment of the PRC - so very historic indeed!
