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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1975 on: February 07, 2018, 02:11:45 AM »
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« Reply #1976 on: February 07, 2018, 02:12:35 AM »
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« Reply #1977 on: February 11, 2018, 05:57:42 PM »
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« Reply #1978 on: February 12, 2018, 06:12:24 PM »
That looks like an RN Broadsword  :smiley:
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« Reply #1979 on: February 14, 2018, 02:30:38 AM »
Brewster Buffalo in a playground. Tampere, Finland, 1956.

(to see more, go to http://siiri.tampere.fi/search.do?style=quick&clear=true&constraint=valokuva-%3Enone&searchView=ValokuvaUlkoinen , type brewster in the search, and go.
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« Reply #1980 on: February 14, 2018, 03:34:28 AM »
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« Reply #1981 on: February 14, 2018, 10:11:54 AM »
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« Reply #1982 on: February 14, 2018, 11:08:31 AM »
That's either BF-1, -2, or -3 or a later aircraft with the radar transmit/receive modules removed.  That flight test pitot boom mounts on the same frame they use (did the drawing for that, once upon a time).

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« Reply #1983 on: February 15, 2018, 08:34:39 PM »


@CWHM. Enough Merlins for you? A bit of a sad day as this was departure day from Coningsby on our 2014 UK Tour. This was the only time our Lancaster took the lead. #ThrowbackThursdays #TBT  @RAFBBMF
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« Reply #1984 on: February 18, 2018, 04:25:07 AM »
Mirage IIIs using their rocket:



Is it just me or do the Roundels almost look Indian:



There's a whiff for you:  Indian Air Force Mirage IIIs instead of MiG-21s.
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« Reply #1985 on: February 19, 2018, 01:52:50 AM »
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« Reply #1986 on: February 22, 2018, 01:11:27 AM »


Three Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force preparing to depart from Medenine on a sortie. The pilots of FR472 `GA-L' and FR440 `GA-V', are waiting for the section leader in the farthest aircraft to move out. All three Kittyhawks display the squadron's distinctive 'shark mouth' insignia.

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« Reply #1987 on: February 22, 2018, 02:31:49 AM »
I do love the P-40...

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« Reply #1988 on: February 24, 2018, 06:49:52 AM »


Vickers Windsor Colorized by Tom Thounaojam
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« Reply #1989 on: February 25, 2018, 04:10:16 AM »
Collection of TR-1 / U-2 photos taken from here: https://theaviationist.com/?p=51142







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« Reply #1990 on: February 25, 2018, 07:09:37 AM »
TR-1 pics are just spectacular  8) 8)
The Windsor is so very ungainly cool 8)
GTX, what P-40??  :P :P
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« Reply #1991 on: March 01, 2018, 12:47:44 AM »


NASA HQ PHOTO @nasahqphoto
Additional images posted from the Expedition 54 @AstroAcaba, @Astro_Sabot, and Alexander Misurkin landing! https://flic.kr/s/aHsmeWUd77
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« Reply #1992 on: March 01, 2018, 12:50:31 AM »


What, no broom?

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« Reply #1993 on: March 01, 2018, 07:42:50 PM »

Click on photo to enlarge.

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Check out this #elephantwalk! 12 KC-135 Stratotankers taxi down the runway at @RAFMildenhall. The show of force maneuver demonstrates the readiness of the 100th Air Refueling Wing to provide global air refueling support at short notice
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« Reply #1994 on: March 02, 2018, 01:49:00 AM »
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Also note in the above image that three of the KC-135 are fitted with additional IFR equipment in the form of wing mounted pods to service hose and drogue fitted aircraft (Tornado, Eurofighter, Hornet, etc.)
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« Reply #1995 on: March 09, 2018, 10:26:49 AM »


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Canadian Flt. Lt. Howard Peter "Cowboy" Blatchford DFC of 257 Sqn RAF  & his Hurricane Mark I at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk. 1940 (KIA  3/5/43)
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« Reply #1997 on: March 11, 2018, 03:32:18 AM »
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« Reply #1998 on: March 11, 2018, 10:52:04 PM »


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« Reply #1999 on: March 11, 2018, 11:01:39 PM »


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