Topic: Vintage airplanes: let's see your pictures

[ken65]

I spent the 1st 6 years of my life living in a house which backed onto the Laverton air force base in Victoria. My father was in the RAAF and my mother was in the WRAAF untill she had us.  It seemed like everyday i would watch the Mirages, Canberra Bombers, Caribou and Wirraways fly around. It wasn't unusual to see rows of Caribou's with rows of parachutist jumping out the back, seemed like there where 100's of them. On one side of the base where row upon rows of decommissioned DC-3's  awaiting there fate.. Me and another kid would ride our pushbikes around the back of the base near the end of the runway, push our bikes under the barb wired fence and ride to where the planes where.   Everytime we did this someone in a uniform would ask us what we where doing. We would just say we wanted to have a look at the planes and everytime they'd take us over for a close look.  It wouldn't happen in this day and age..

[strynboen]

a nice film from germany.
..the poor starfighters stood autside all year. they have so many tere not vas place ,store them inside.strange they almost all crashed...
the danish starfighters ,,,bayed used from canada..worked fine..with new elektronic/seat..and stored inside... it vas a safe plane..lot more of the super sabers fighters vas lost..i talk to a flight mekanik..it vas a o ring in the fuel pump..leaked..and set fire..at the 104..the problem vas a cabin heat/air cirkulation for scandinavian klima mod..who gave turbolens at the kompressor vings..make them to breake off...baad thing then happend

Wartung F-104G Starfighter Luftwaffe

impressing all that fuel they pressed in all unused room in the plane..those small vings have to lift a heell lot...

[Markcb750]

I watched a Luftwaffe 104 flame out & crash  on take off at Luke field in AZ in 1975.   An American test pilot was lost. One more went down at take off while I was stationed there.  I worked on the 104 Inertial Navigation system for Lockheed Air Service in 77 & 78 while I went to engineering school at ASU. 



I got to see this modified version fly when it came into Luke field for repairs.  It still holds at least one speed record for a measured three mile long flight at only a few hundred feet altitude. 

Great plane, designed to intercept Soviet bombers as far from the US as possible.  Designed by Kelly Johnson's skunk works at Lockheed in the mid 1950s.

[strynboen]

bell helikopters...the begining...
Birth of the Bell Helicopter.mpg


they got a closed cookpit,,,after the pilot vas throv through the rotor..by axident

[flybox1]

Here in WA, Boeing is it, but back between the 20's and '70's there were many smaller, VERY busy airports in the area.
In the late 60's, my mom got her pilots license, and after I was born, I frequented BVU (Bellevue Airfield) and sat in many a cockpit.
Its all gone now.  Business parks and a Microsoft campus has all but covered the old airport. 
Fond childhood memories.

BVU and other small local airfields, pictures, planes and history here...
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/WA/Airfields_WA_Seattle.htm

[TwoTired]

This is probably my favorite P51 of all time.

I saw it fly and race at Reno.  Awesome assault on the senses. 
Wish it had better video quality.

Steve Hinton World Air Speed Record Attempt 1979 Red Baron xvid

[demon78]

One of the few things I miss about living in the LA area not working on Aircraft and being close to the air races.Used to work at Kuhn Airmotive in the City of Industry.
Bill the demon.

[BeSeeingYou]

Aviatik D1.  Restored original aircraft Museum of Flight in Seattle.



misc aircraft.


Mig 15

[strynboen]

here i am on a f 84..

[BeSeeingYou]

More from Seattle

B-17F.  Though in flying condition this aircraft is no longer flown due to it's value.  Most B-17 survivors are G models with fewer of the earlier types.  This one, restored at Boeing is probably the most complete example with all of the equipment and hardware in place.  Had to catch my flight home so we ran out of time for an inside tour but looking in through the various openings I saw gear in place that I had never seen on other B-17's I had been through.


Yak 9 Russian built fighter from WWII.  The only one in the U.S.  First Russian aircraft that could take on the ME 109 and FW 190 on equal terms.


B-47.  Tail of the B-17 in the background.


Coming attractions.

[vfourfreak]

Nice !

Kev

[grcamna2]

This is probably my favorite P51 of all time.

I saw it fly and race at Reno.  Awesome assault on the senses. 
Wish it had better video quality.

Steve Hinton World Air Speed Record Attempt 1979 Red Baron xvid

I curious what she was taching on that last 4th run TT? !! 

[BeSeeingYou]

variations on a theme.

1917 100hp Hall Scott aircraft engine.


This was the engine of the Messerschmidt 163 liquid fueled rocket plane from 1944.  This engine was surprisingly compact...maybe 8 feet long to get an idea of the scale.


Crappy photo I took of a Me 163 several years ago when I was in Australia.

[BeSeeingYou]

Messerschmitt Bf109 or Me 109.  This one is the Emil or E model that flew at the beginning of WWII thru the Battle of Britain.  Designed in 1935 it is considered the first modern fighter of that era, a low wing monoplane of all metal construction that included an inclosed canopy and retracting landing gear.  The 109 is credited with more aerial victories than any other aircraft in history.
   Spain continued to build a variant of the 109 until 1958 and they served in the Spanish Air Force until 1965. Another postwar variant built in Czechoslovakia was used by the Israeli Air Force and formed it's first fighter squadron in 1948.

[demon78]

Srust if you ever get to Ottawa they've got a Bristol Centarus engine there 24 cyls interesting I don't know if it's out on display now and but if it is it would be fascinating  to inspect there was a bunch of old aero engines that ran from 1 st WW to WW2 they have things all nicely laid out I kind of horrified my daughter when I hopped the velvet cord went over and grabbed a drip off of the Lanc's oil cooler door and rubbed it all over my hands ah 100 weight softens the hands like a champ she figured we would get kicked out but I talked to their chief mechanic and he understood whilst saying tut tut you shouldn't do that.
Bill the demon.

[strynboen]

faund this old film..all you(old) born usa..vill likely have seen it..but us ungersters its gold dust...

[demon78]

That brought a tear to my eye, God do I miss walking a flight line, I did roughly what the German Corporal did in the 104 film
Bill the demon.

[BomberMann650]

My favorite ride destination features an Antonov AN-2 among others.

[strynboen]

at aur local kold var museum

[TwoTired]

at aur local kold var museum

That's a museum?  Must hate aircraft. 

[Powderman]

Couple of old photo's from my early skydive days , 1977, still jumping at 64. The B25 was cool ride, but it had a hydraulic leak and spewed fluid all over my new container. Straddled the bomb bay, emptied the plane of all those divers in 3 seconds. Tried to find the pic of the Steerman with me wing walking before jumping off it. And the Beech D18 that was used in the movie 1941 with John Belushi we used as a regular jump plane. At the time my girlfriend worked for Omni Aviation insurance company at Van Nuys airport. She had connections and for my Christmas present one year I got a ride in Miss Van Nuys, the 1970 Air Racing National Champion and the following year a ride in Clay Lacy's Lear Jet.

[strynboen]

here is a strange svedish jetplane..they stole/find some dravings for FW- (kurt(-ta)nk-183) planes,,,and put a British engine in..the perfekt match..

(must have used all 600 made planes in that one clip.). ..or reused the 6 they had..can klerly see they klip them in the cut..

so dont say the germens 1945 planes vas paper planes..they realy fly great..if they got the chance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_183

there is still a tønna flying today..and a draken 35(as i are informed)have not updated data

[demon78]

I'm pretty sure I seen a flypast of all the SAAB a/c up to the Gripen.
So I know there is at least 1 Tuna airworthy.
Bill the demon.

[754]

My son got to see this flying boat. Aka Water Bomber, up close in the hangar a few weeks back.
He now went to work for that company as an apprentice..
 That plane was working the big fire here in 2003 , pretty cool to see..

[demon78]

So Frank he's going to go for A&E ? That's what I push all the young guys I know for.
Bill the demon.