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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2050 on: April 13, 2018, 02:57:42 AM »
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« Reply #2051 on: April 13, 2018, 12:05:19 PM »
Amazing "Frightening" pic, where and when?? :smiley: :smiley: :-*
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2052 on: April 14, 2018, 03:14:14 AM »
RAF Gutersloh, Germany.  Not sure when.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2053 on: April 14, 2018, 03:24:52 AM »
Slightly bigger version:

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« Reply #2054 on: April 14, 2018, 10:06:34 AM »
Sometime before air safety authorities would shut down an air show if a pilot sneezed, the public liability on flying that low over spectators these days would see senior RAF officers & event organisers having conniptions.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2055 on: April 14, 2018, 08:18:15 PM »


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Another Lancaster topside yesterday
Tim Dunlop, Seb Davey and RAF BBMF
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« Reply #2056 on: April 14, 2018, 11:01:28 PM »


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Out of all the CONA paint schemes, I think VX-31's retro flight test scheme was the best.
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« Reply #2057 on: April 15, 2018, 01:52:26 AM »
Wow, you can actually see the "panel lines" on that Lancaster's wings.

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« Reply #2058 on: April 15, 2018, 02:35:18 AM »
Question for the UK members: Why does the BBMF Lancaster always fly with two dorsal hatches open?  So the aircrew can do their hand-in-the-air-airfoil thingy?  ;D
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2059 on: April 15, 2018, 03:44:29 AM »
Amazing "Frightening" pic, where and when?? :smiley: :smiley: :-*


It was August 1974 at RAF Gutersloh.

Here's a couple of similar photos:

Sep 1974:



1976:

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« Reply #2060 on: April 15, 2018, 08:02:40 AM »
Super "Frightening" pics GTX  :-* :-*
Great fisheye F-18 pic too :smiley:
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« Reply #2061 on: April 16, 2018, 10:45:44 PM »


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« Reply #2062 on: April 17, 2018, 02:31:20 PM »
With the "seam" visible just above the cockpit & towards the rear of the radome (&, possibly, near the antenna at the top of the pic) that almost looks like a model! ;D
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« Reply #2063 on: April 21, 2018, 02:18:36 AM »
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« Reply #2064 on: April 22, 2018, 02:55:14 AM »
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« Reply #2065 on: April 22, 2018, 03:32:01 AM »

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« Reply #2066 on: April 27, 2018, 12:48:23 AM »


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« Reply #2067 on: April 28, 2018, 02:08:38 AM »
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« Reply #2069 on: May 02, 2018, 10:35:38 PM »


A C-17 Globemaster III and a C-47 Skytrain perform a Mobility Heritage Flight during the #JBCHSAirandSpaceExpo Apr. 28 (Courtesy photo by Colt Roy)
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« Reply #2070 on: May 05, 2018, 04:40:22 AM »
View from an angle not often seen:

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« Reply #2071 on: May 05, 2018, 10:07:51 AM »
Looks great in that scheme  8) 8)
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« Reply #2072 on: May 06, 2018, 09:21:55 AM »
A Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneer firing firing 2-in rockets for the amusement of her carrier crew!


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« Reply #2073 on: May 06, 2018, 07:33:38 PM »
BFH: Big F******** Helicopter

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« Reply #2074 on: May 07, 2018, 04:56:15 AM »


An Air Canada A330-300 rotating out of Montreal Trudeau (YUL).
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