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Favourite Aircraft
« on: September 20, 2005, 09:04:11 pm »
Anyone like planes/ helicopters etc? Got any particular favourites.

For me, it has to be the Harrier Jump Jet. What an invention. Vertical take off and landing, for a plane. The nozzles used for take off are also used to enhance turning ability, don't you know. Discuss please.

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2005, 09:06:58 pm »
Fokker havn't got a pic though
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2005, 09:07:35 pm »
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2005, 09:08:59 pm »
F14A Tomcat for me.



Although the blackbird is a close second

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2005, 09:11:16 pm »
F14A Tomcat for me.



Although the blackbird is a close second



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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2005, 09:11:24 pm »
Favourite aircraft and pilot:


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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2005, 09:12:18 pm »
Fokker havn't got a pic though

Here ya go...
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2005, 09:12:38 pm »
The halcyon days of the old film folk in America produced this rather wonderful machine. More of a turkey than a goose maybe...


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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2005, 09:13:55 pm »
Angel Interceptor.

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2005, 09:14:14 pm »
Is it only the Americans that use the Stealth bombers?
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2005, 09:14:23 pm »


Ah the memories of woodwork  ;)
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2005, 09:15:05 pm »
Is it only the Americans that use the Stealth bombers?

How can you tell?  :)
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2005, 09:16:11 pm »
The halcyon days of the old film folk in America produced this rather wonderful machine. More of a turkey than a goose maybe...



Ah yes, an absolutely big plane, considering it was made out of wood.  Saw it when I went to long beach in 1990.  Certainly was a big plane.  Not sure what's happened to it now as I think it got moved from long beach where the queen mary is.
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2005, 09:18:36 pm »
 :o
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2005, 09:19:18 pm »
There is only one aircraft that can ever be mentioned in this kind of thread.
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2005, 09:20:13 pm »
Ah yes, an absolutely big plane, considering it was made out of wood.  Saw it when I went to long beach in 1990.  Certainly was a big plane.  Not sure what's happened to it now as I think it got moved from long beach where the queen mary is.

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2005, 09:20:14 pm »
There is only one aircraft that can ever be mentioned in this kind of thread.

It won us the war, but it wouldn't get far now. Imagine that as your QRA in Iraq or somewhere.
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2005, 09:20:36 pm »
No better plane than this......
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2005, 09:26:25 pm »



and of course these
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2005, 09:28:01 pm »
No better plane than this......

Reminds me of the Wonderwoman joke:

Superman's flying over Metropolis and sees Wonderwoman lying stark naked on the roof with her legs akimbo. Never one to miss an opportunity he flys down and gives her a good seeing to at supersonic speed then flys off.

Wonderwoman says "Jesus what was that?" and the Invisible Man says "God knows but my arse is sore".
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2005, 09:30:07 pm »
Reminds me of the Wonderwoman joke:

Superman's flying over Metropolis and sees Wonderwoman lying stark naked on the roof with her legs akimbo. Never one to miss an opportunity he flys down and gives her a good seeing to at supersonic speed then flys off.

Wonderwoman says "Jesus what was that?" and the Invisible Man says "God knows but my arse is sore".

Why?
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2005, 09:35:47 pm »
The Spruce Moose.
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« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2005, 09:39:53 pm »
Fucking hell, those picks all remind me of Top Card Trumps ;D

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2005, 09:41:46 pm »
have to be helicopters for me, and i love these beasts

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« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2005, 09:45:31 pm »
have to be helicopters for me, and i love these beasts

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2005, 09:46:34 pm »
Apache, F14, F-Stealth whatever it is (2 lazy to remember and look on google) and the Beluga (how ever you spell that.) I see it taking off over me house and you just think how the fuck?
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« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2005, 09:50:54 pm »
Beluga (how ever you spell that.) I see it taking off over me house and you just think how the fuck?

What is it?
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2005, 09:52:41 pm »
Definitely the B-2 stealth bomber. Can you even imagine the numbers of inbred feckers who thought this was a Alien craft in the testing days.


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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2005, 09:54:21 pm »
What is it?

BAe use it to move bits of Airbuses round. Big, ugly cargo planes. Really don't look like they should be able to fly.

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #30 on: September 20, 2005, 09:56:25 pm »
Definitely the B-2 stealth bomber. Can you even imagine the numbers of inbred feckers who thought this was a Alien craft in the testing days.




Yes!! Would you not if you were:

A- American
B- From the middle of nowhere in Texas or something (most likely to be tested in remote places)
C- Hadn't heared that an odd plane would be seen in the skys, which could be mistaken for an Ailien craft.

Added to the fact that even now you are vert unlikely to see one of these, and so really can't admire it properly.
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2005, 09:57:44 pm »
BAe use it to move bits of Airbuses round. Big, ugly cargo planes. Really don't look like they should be able to fly.

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Oh them!! I see one of them about every fortnight over my school
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #32 on: September 20, 2005, 10:00:22 pm »
I remember a great programme on Discovery or whatever about Lockheed and Boeing going head to head for the contract to produce the successor to the F-15. It was great to see how they tweaked things and how certain things didnt work etc...a fine ending for Lockheed was this beaut...

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #33 on: September 20, 2005, 10:01:19 pm »
Called the Raptor?
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #34 on: September 20, 2005, 10:01:51 pm »
Purely for the look of it, this one.


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« Reply #35 on: September 20, 2005, 10:02:44 pm »
Called the Raptor?

F-22 Raptor, aye.
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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #36 on: September 20, 2005, 10:03:00 pm »
What's good about it? I think it's ugly personally.
Purely for the look of it, this one.


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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #37 on: September 20, 2005, 10:04:37 pm »
Not a big fan of things that fly but always thought the Vietnam Hueys looked excellant.

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Re: Favourite Aircraft
« Reply #38 on: September 20, 2005, 10:04:56 pm »
F-22 Raptor, aye.

What can it do? Let's consider the Tornado can do roughly mach 2.2 at altitude.
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« Reply #39 on: September 20, 2005, 10:05:58 pm »
The Raptor? Ugly?

I think its a beaut, its also got all the technological bits and bobs odds and sods to make it the cats meow. I think - going from memory alone - that it was special because of the lines and edges that made it undetectable or something or other.

I got a soft spot for it though because of that programme, seeing it go through its stages and all that business.
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