russian planes appreciation thread

[Qwert]

Badly damaged TBM Avenger returning to the carrier Bennington

Deconstructed Vought F4U Corsair

[Sykes]

There's a Vulcan at an aircraft museum not too far from me. Wasn't aware of it at all until I went to visit it a few months ago. You can get up inside the cockpit and everything.

Fun fact: the Vulcan and the other V Bombers were only fitted with ejector seats for the pilot and co-pilot. The navigator, flight engineer and bombardier had to sort themselves out in the event of an emergency.

The awesome Air Vectors site has some nice historical stuff on the V-bombers.

http://www.airvectors.net/idx_cvbo.html

[ChaeDoc II]

Badly damaged TBM Avenger returning to the carrier Bennington

That must've taken some skill to handle to say nothing of landing it.

[Sykes]

Typhoon



... not what you want to see come screaming out of the clouds at you (4 x 20mm cannon, 8 x 60lb rockets) if you're an SS Panzer crew who've been told by Hitler not to retreat. (see e.g. Battle of Falaise Gap)

[Keorythe]

Badly damaged TBM Avenger returning to the carrier Bennington

That must've taken some skill to handle to say nothing of landing it.

1 upping..sorry.
Israeli pilot had a mid-air colision with an A-4 Skyhawk. Lost entire wing but landed it safely.

[Daco]

Badly damaged TBM Avenger returning to the carrier Bennington

That must've taken some skill to handle to say nothing of landing it.

1 upping..sorry.
Israeli pilot had a mid-air colision with an A-4 Skyhawk. Lost entire wing but landed it safely.

I remember watching that on TV when it happened.

Big Up to that pilot. I think I remember him saying if he had of known the whole wing was gone he would of ejected.

[Qui Shon]

...had of........would of....

[walrus]

DAMAGE

B-17

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B-24

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Halifax

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Lancaster

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For Razor:

[sahtila]

oops

[walrus]

[Qwert]

B1 Lancer

[F18]

Thread neglect, BECAUSE OF WARSHIP.

[ry ry]

B1 Lancer

Saw one of those at Fairford airshow when i was a kid. Very cool, but literally nowhere near the sr71 as far as ludicrous bombers go.

[Paradox]

SR-71 isn't a bomber, it doesn't carry weapons of any kind. the YF-12 does but that wasn't a bomber either.

[dpidcoe]

SR-71 isn't a bomber, it doesn't carry weapons of any kind. the YF-12 does but that wasn't a bomber either.

What if they roll down the windows and toss some bricks out?

[Paradox]

SR-71 isn't a bomber, it doesn't carry weapons of any kind. the YF-12 does but that wasn't a bomber either.

What if they roll down the windows and toss some bricks out?

Then we've come full circle to WWI pilots chucking hand grenades at people from the air except far more awesome.

[Warpath]

Site i nicked this from claims it to be a Wellington. My Gran/Granddad used to build the wings for these during the war.

[Ædward]

Yep, it's a Welly. The pattern of the airframe gives it away.

[Jason Marshall]

"The 38th Fighter Group of the Korean Air Force conducted a drill with the U.S. Eighth Fighter Wing at Gunsan Air Base on Friday. The exercise involved around 60 of the Korean Air Force's KF-16 and the U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter jets."

[GiDiYi]

"The 38th Fighter Group of the Korean Air Force conducted a drill with the U.S. Eighth Fighter Wing at Gunsan Air Base on Friday. The exercise involved around 60 of the Korean Air Force's KF-16 and the U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter jets."

Fucking Japs jamming the roads during summer vacation.

This might be a somewhat generalized statement regarding the correct national origin, but chinks are chinks, amirite? Guys?.... Guys?