Cold War Aviation Porn

[DownwardDog]

Last RAAF Sabre flight: 1971
First RAAF F/A-18A flight: 1985

 

[A380]

 

[A380]

 

[Idris2002]

Nicked off shitebook: the Saturn V that took the Skylab to orbit, with the crew rocket in the background.

"Flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun", or however Mr. Young put it.

 

[DownwardDog]

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Not even remotely in a straight line. The Staish would have been doing his fucking nut.

 

[existentialist]

Not even remotely in a straight line. The Staish would have been doing his fucking nut.

Nor are they in alphabetical order

 

[2hats]

Nicked off shitebook: the Saturn V that took the Skylab to orbit, with the crew rocket in the background.

Technically, not a Saturn V (no third stage), but arguably a variant of the Saturn INT-21 (the starting point for Skylab itself was actually a conversion of a third stage, S-IVB).

 

[A380]

(Photographed from a Canberra …)

 

[Idris2002]

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(Photographed from a Canberra …)

The Dan Dare-fulness is terrific.

 

[DownwardDog]

You can certainly tell that the engines were moved outboard from the wing roots at the last minute. Almost a British Leyland level of "fuck it, that'll do" to the design of the inboard sections.

 

[A380]

 

[Idris2002]

i think a lot of the people who might have done it got paramotors instead as they don't need you to find a large hill to throw yourself off, and modern ultralight and microlight plans look more like planes than a hangglider with a sidecar hung underneath

This guy needed quite a big hill indeed:



Still has the authentic '70s bloke moustache though (post-hippy variety).

 

[gosub]

 

[ffsear]

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Buccaneer ?

 

[gosub]

Buccaneer ?

Looks like Glouster Javelin

 

[DownwardDog]

Buccaneer ?

Javelin FAW5+ because they have the vortex generators and pylons on the wings. Not a FAW8 because it doesn't have the modified leading edge. So they are FAW5/6/7.

 

[_Russ_]

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Always my favourite, pure flash gordon, the Artouste was always a pita though when needed and ground power was almost essential, but they were basically French so to be expected

 

[T & P]

Always my favourite, pure flash gordon, the Artouste was always a pita though when needed and ground power was almost essential, but they were basically French so to be expected

Why the distinct cockpit window arrangement though?