Classic warbirds and other aviation vids.

[LE BARON]

Workers on the assembly line producing an A-20 attack bomber in the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, California, 1942. The American version would go on to become one of the most fearsome attack aircraft of the war, singlehanded shortening the war in the pacific, from low-level attacks on enemy shipping and skipping bombs into their targets across the waves, to flying at tree-top height to strafe Japanese airfields and drop bombs.

 

[Murray20c8]

The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is the world’s first successful military tiltrotor to take to the air and the largest active production line for tiltrotors


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Something like this just crashed today or yesterday!

 

[Dave91TM]

Nice work Le Baron, but I didn't click a like on them all, I was afraid of developing carpel tunnel.

 

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[LE BARON]

The aviation distress call "Mayday" was created in 1923 and derives from the French "m'aidez" or "help me".

 

[LE BARON]

The A-10 can operate underneath 1,000-foot ceilings with 1.5-mile visibility. This capability, combined with its long loiter time, give the Warthog its ground support capability that earns so much praise. The Warthog also has an internal fuel capacity of 10,000 lbs, giving the A-10 an 800-mile range. The Warthog’s fuel cells self-seal and are protected by anti-explosion foam on the inside and the outside.

 

[LE BARON]

A runaway propeller flew off, knocking out the No. 4 engine and ripping a huge hole in the side of this Boeing B-29's fuselage. Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.

 

[OL Yeller]

The A-10 can operate underneath 1,000-foot ceilings with 1.5-mile visibility. This capability, combined with its long loiter time, give the Warthog its ground support capability that earns so much praise. The Warthog also has an internal fuel capacity of 10,000 lbs, giving the A-10 an 800-mile range. The Warthog’s fuel cells self-seal and are protected by anti-explosion foam on the inside and the outside.

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Almost 2 gallons/mile..Jet A fuel weighs 6.5lbs/gallon. 12.5lbs of fuel/mile. I'll stick with my 7.3L/100km (32.4 miles/gallon) daily driver, thank you.

 

[LE BARON]

We were just over in Wales a week ago and actually were up a ways on Snowdonia. Coming down from there we went through the pass (Mach Loop) where the planes practice. None in the pass that day unfortunately. Also met a bus driver on an excursion whose hobby was going to Wales to take pictures like this. Small world!


RAF Harrier GR9

Heading south through the Mach Loop in Snowdonia

 

[LE BARON]

"Loaded"

RAF Harrier GR9 diving in the "Mach Loop" during a sortie from Cottesmore, Rutland.

 

[LE BARON]

"MOGUL"
USAF F-15E working at low level in Snowdonia flying from RAF Lakenheath
492d FS/ "Bolars"
48th Fighter Wing.

 

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[Dave91TM]

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I was going to say waiting for high tide ain't going to help, but I googled it first. Its a US aircraft carrier in the Suez Canal.

 

[Rruuff Day]

The announcement came out to all the pilots. "You're Grounded"

 

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[Dave91TM]

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Whatever happened to travelling light?

 

[Rruuff Day]

Whatever happened to travelling light?

That's just for domestic flights....

 

[Murray20c8]

Whatever happened to travelling light?

Are those not parachutes? Nice guy packed mine ... <gulp>

 

[Rruuff Day]

He's a newbie.... As a joke they packed his parachutes with lead weights.... Oops....