Who Likes Aircraft ?

[Auggie56]

Top right photo is a Thuderbolt recovered from the Pacific war zone

Recovered from a lake in Europe where it crashed in WW2.

 

[Basket case]

Col Gabby Gabreski's Thunderbolt after he cut the grass....

 

[Auggie56]

No A/C in a Catalina.

 

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[Richard Cranium]

The Stuka was a bad-*** looking plane.

 

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WWII Boyington and Black Sheep Crew

 

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[Photon440]

Once upon a time, Beechcraft decided to make a successor to their popular King Air. Working with Burt Rutan, they came up with the Beechcraft Starship, a carbon fiber twin turboprop canard design. It didn't sell particularly well in the 1990s, only 53 were built. And not all of them were sold and used - some were eventually cannibalized to fix earlier ones. What to do...well Beechcraft ended up offering them as leased aircraft instead. And finally, looking at the costs of maintaining the fleet, they broke up and destroyed all that they had control of. There are a few in museums, and about five are in private hands and still flyable.

 

[dadsbee]

When the *** chases the tail... they should have scrapped them all sooner! ;)

 

[Photon440]

This is not photo-shopped.

In need of more power to tow gliders, the He-111Z was two 111s together with a fifth engine. Apparently pilots found that it flew well.

 

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BOEING B-17G Engine Runup Sentimental Journey

 

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Vintage Swiss Air

 

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