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« Reply #3375 on: February 01, 2020, 08:08:31 PM »
Not a photo but still cool.

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« Reply #3376 on: February 01, 2020, 08:23:33 PM »
Royal Canadian Air Force CC-137 Boeing 707 taxiing for takeoff at CFB Comox back in 1991. 437 Husky SQN operated a fleet of five 707’s until 1997 when they were retired. Some were converted into E-8 J-STARS with the USAF and still operational.

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« Reply #3377 on: February 01, 2020, 09:31:01 PM »
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Flight trials have begun with an #AusAirForce C-130J Hercules & a Northrop Grumman Litening sensor pod. The Litening will potentially increase our ability to support search & rescue, & disaster relief missions.

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« Reply #3378 on: February 02, 2020, 05:42:43 AM »
Nice photo of how cramped the EE Lightning was.


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3379 on: February 03, 2020, 01:57:27 AM »
Yeah.   People talk about the F-104 being a “missile with a man in it” but it was nothing compared to the Lightning:

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« Reply #3380 on: February 03, 2020, 07:34:08 PM »
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« Reply #3381 on: February 03, 2020, 07:37:55 PM »
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« Reply #3382 on: February 03, 2020, 10:53:47 PM »
Loadmaster Sergeant Jacques Remillard prepares to drop a signal from the ramp of a CC-130 Hercules Aircraft during training near Kenora, Ontario on December 11, 2019.

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« Reply #3383 on: February 03, 2020, 11:37:54 PM »
That's an interesting photo Carl, the diagonal metal strut attached to the door (two flat bars at the top, one flat bar at the bottom) isn't in any 1/72 C-130 kit I have. However, the Flightpath PE C-130 interior set I have does have it, only it's oriented wrong. I was planning on building one of the kits to have the door horizontal like that too, but it looks easy enough to do out of styrene strip. I would say as it's extended to the max, that the bottom end would be detachable so the door can be lowered even further when it's being used as a ramp.
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« Reply #3384 on: February 03, 2020, 11:55:20 PM »
Maybe they are additional safety struts for when the ramp is lowered while in flight?
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« Reply #3385 on: February 04, 2020, 01:07:59 AM »
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. You wouldn't want a sudden hydraulic failure when you have a heavy pallet sitting on the ramp door ready to parachute out, would you.

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« Reply #3386 on: February 04, 2020, 07:44:54 PM »
Canadian Warplane Heritage's 2nd Firefly. First was BD-H.

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« Reply #3387 on: February 04, 2020, 10:36:10 PM »
Somewhere over the Strait of Georgia

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« Reply #3388 on: February 04, 2020, 11:16:59 PM »
Gorgeous photos   :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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« Reply #3389 on: February 04, 2020, 11:32:34 PM »
Thanks Robert. Here are a few more fresh off the Internet.

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The new submarine-hunting Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft arrived in the UK today at @Kinloss_Bks in Scotland. The P-8A Poseidon “Pride of Moray” is the first of nine aircraft that the RAF will introduce to patrol the waters around the UK.

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« Reply #3390 on: February 05, 2020, 12:00:08 AM »
On either side of the outer flap tack fairings, there's two other fairings with flat bottoms. Are those for pylons to be attached ?  And what are those bulges for on the forward end of the engine nacelles ?
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« Reply #3391 on: February 05, 2020, 01:42:59 AM »
This is for the P-8A but assume MRA.1 is the same. Bulges appear to be 180 KVa generators?

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« Reply #3392 on: February 05, 2020, 09:56:55 AM »
This is for the P-8A but assume MRA.1 is the same. Bulges appear to be 180 KVa generators?

I couldn't help but notice that the lavatory and galley have been positioned as far from the crew rest area as physically possible  ;D
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« Reply #3393 on: February 05, 2020, 07:55:10 PM »
HMS Prince of Wales

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« Reply #3394 on: February 05, 2020, 08:25:46 PM »
HMS Queen Elizabeth

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« Reply #3395 on: February 06, 2020, 03:39:29 AM »
USS Gerald R. Ford

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« Reply #3396 on: February 06, 2020, 09:00:41 PM »
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« Reply #3397 on: February 06, 2020, 09:28:01 PM »
Warp Speed! ;D
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« Reply #3398 on: February 07, 2020, 01:14:34 AM »
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« Reply #3399 on: February 07, 2020, 01:18:44 AM »
Looks like the RCAF's new jets doesn't it ?