Topic: Vintage airplanes: let's see your pictures

[72500john]

here is a neat one. cut my aviation teeth on this very airplane..fun to work on and crews loved flying them. test flights where a blast in a stol ( short take off and landing) aircraft. maybe not totally vintage but it is to me.

[BeSeeingYou]

Then and now.  Crashed in Russia in 1943...rediscovered in 1989....and now the only FW-190 flying with an original BMW 801 radial engine.  Owned by Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection.

Focke Wulf 190 wreck / Avião Segunda Guerra Mundial

[strynboen]

its belong not in the dessert....it belong in  green fields,, rain frost and snow  ....  in germany,,just a shame to see it fly in usa..but the gay with most money winns..so it are ok

most importment  it flying

[72500john]

yes the most important thing is its flying..
2 of the funnest experiences i ever had was helping the confederate air force change an engine on a b25 and the other being staying up all night sewing a new section of wing onto a crop duster. just in time for the pilot to go to work in the morning.

[72500john]

here is one i saw the,, quote unquote, last surviving one about ten years ago..if memory serve me right i think the owner was in Elizabeth city NC. its a Douglas dolphin. not pic of the one i saw obviously.

[Hinomaru]

153 Airplanes from the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, FL

Some old – Some new. Link from another site:

http://www.cdsg.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=337

[BeSeeingYou]

here is one i saw the,, quote unquote, last surviving one about ten years ago..if memory serve me right i think the owner was in Elizabeth city NC. its a Douglas dolphin. not pic of the one i saw obviously.

I wonder if they go with wider tires on those old rims?

[Randy]

I spent 20 hours polishing this bad boy.. for the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino California..

[Randy]

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[Killer Canary]

The old girl's looking good!

[Stev-o]

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Randy - this looks awesome. How bout a little history on it?

[Markcb750]

I spent 20 hours polishing this bad boy.. for the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino California..

I spent a full day there in the 80's one of the great collections of airplanes!

[Randy]

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Randy - this looks awesome. How bout a little history on it?

 I heard the plane was one made at the end of the war.. Never used... sold a auction... Her name now is Dolly... but her real name is "Spam Can"...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51registry/p51-4511582.html

P-51 Spam Can "Dolly" takes a flight with a tail mounted camera
sporting the Pacific group colors

[Randy]

My son on the B-17 Aluminum Overcast some years back..
My sons B-17 flight

[strynboen]

here are a svedish plane..it vas used in danish airforce..and in sveitch...it is a mach 2 plane...
Saab J35 Draken Marketing video

[grcamna2]

Nice !   

[BeSeeingYou]

While in Seattle recently I visited the Museum of Flight.  Among the aircraft they had was the A-12/ MD-21.  An aircraft operated by the CIA that could fly higher and faster than the better known and later SR71 Blackbird.  This one is one of two that were modified to carry a drone and where designated the MD-21.  They did carry a second pilot who controlled the drone and you can see the position behind the cockpit.   The A-12 only had one pilot unlike the SR71 that had two.  The museum also had the complete and intact nose and cockpit section from a wrecked aircraft that you could sit in.

[strynboen]

at the flying drone photo..the air intake are covered..but at the static plane ..it are open.it looks like the same type engine,in the drone as the 71..
it must be the fighter type sr 71. (a-12).?they used for this

[grcamna2]

She's a 'Hot Knife' that'll cut right through butter w/o missing a lick !   
A sweet,slippery Clean machine 

[strynboen]

here are the story...it kosted a crue member the life..the test with this drone..

SR71 Sistership, The MD21 Blackbird Accident

[Head]

I like these, P 38S' This an actual photo from WW2, taken with a 35mm camera from the cockpit of a 38 My father was in photo recon, they stripped the planes for speed and hoped that they would lose the 109s and faulk wolf's.

[BeSeeingYou]

just some boring passenger jets but from my brothers front yard we had this view which included the land/takeoff approach for the airport.  You can see one liner just to the right and below Rainier, it's just a white smear.    I just like the scale of the whole view....it just makes everything look small.  In the early evening we often sat out in the front with a drink and counted the airliners you could see airborne at the same time.  I guess the neighborhood record was 9...I managed 7 one night, 4 to 5 was routine.  If you look very closely about halfway between Rainier and the lampost you will see Mount St Helens just above the tree line.  It is much further south but it's summit is the white smudge visible thru a notch in the closer mountain range.  In the second photo you can see Liberty Ridge on the north face of Rainier.  This is were those six climbers died recently.  You can see the jagged edge of the snowpack where it broke off and came down the mountain.

[BeSeeingYou]

The first Hayabusa?  Nakajima Ki43 Hayabusa,  American codename "Oscar"

[scottly]

About a month ago, I heard a loud aircraft approaching, and went outside to see a B29 passing almost directly over my house. The B29, a B17 and a P51 were visiting the Prescott airport, and they were giving rides in the larger planes. I only got one picture later in the day, of what I think was the B17, but it was pretty far away.

[faux fiddy]

This Saturday a friend just took his whole family on a b-17 ride for about $350 a head. I wish I had 2k to do something fun with.