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Ed Force One. Also flown by my favorite pilot.

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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Indeed. It was the most ridiculous decision in commercial aviation history.

If it had been an American project, it would still be flying. They said it was because of that one awful crash, that BA and AF decided to ground and mothball the whole fleet. This clearly wasn't the case. There was a time when 737's were falling our of the sky like dead birds, in comparison. They weren't grounded, because they were cash cows, and most used short haul jet, the world over.
If it had been an American project it never would have flown at all.... (because it didn't: Boeing 2707)
 
At the time they were retired they were the oldest flying airframe in BA & AF's fleets - 27 years in service is a pretty good record.
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My uncle flew on the Concorde on several occasions and said it was like sitting on a toilet for 5 hours.
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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Ed Force One. Also flown by my favorite pilot.





I f I were these guys I would have one of these babies.
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Also the A10 Thunderbolt,affectionately known as the Warthog.Simply a bad ass,tank killing piece of machinery.The 175th Wing of the Air National Guard,stationed at Martin State Airport near my home,flies these.I saw Warthogs do their thing in Desert Storm and they were impressive.




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Originally posted by Gamemako Gamemako wrote:



Yep, that one! 
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Except for the Concorde, I only see military planes.

Can I post the Messerschmit 242?


You mean this :


That's an Me262. The lesser-known Me242 was flown by Bitler in his quest to destroy the evil canine invaders from galaxy XLXII. Wink
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Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by Gamemako Gamemako wrote:



Yep, that one! 
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

The SR-71 Blackbird

I prefer this version:
 
 
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That must have been Photoshopped. but the A-10 is probably one of the most dangerous pieces of hardware that the Americans possess. Hats off !
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

That must have been Photoshopped.
No Photoshop in 1972 Wink Roger Dean grafted a real seagull skull onto a Airfix plastic model and tried to photograph it but could not achieve a natural looking depth of field, so he painted it.
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

but the A-10 is probably one of the most dangerous pieces of hardware that the Americans possess. Hats off !

I was once buzzed by a pair of those buggers (Tankbusters as we knew them in the 70s - I think Warthog was a later name) while riding my motor-cycle up a steep hill - they were terrain following at some stupidly low altitude up the other side and we sort of met at the brow of the hill - scary, but then me on a Yamaha will scare anyone, even USAAF pilots. Tongue
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

My uncle flew on the Concorde on several occasions and said it was like sitting on a toilet for 5 hours.
I could say that about sitting on any transatlantic airline for 10 hours.
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Try and sit on one of these pieces of junk for just a few minutes.Angry






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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

That must have been Photoshopped.
No Photoshop in 1972 Wink Roger Dean grafted a real seagull skull onto a Airfix plastic model and tried to photograph it but could not achieve a natural looking depth of field, so he painted it.
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

but the A-10 is probably one of the most dangerous pieces of hardware that the Americans possess. Hats off !

I was once buzzed by a pair of those buggers (Tankbusters as we knew them in the 70s - I think Warthog was a later name) while riding my motor-cycle up a steep hill - they were terrain following at some stupidly low altitude up the other side and we sort of met at the brow of the hill - scary, but then me on a Yamaha will scare anyone, even USAAF pilots. Tongue


When they were testing these ugly things back in the 70's they would remove sections of the emanage and main wing section just to see if it could sustain ground fire damage. I was talking with an armour oficer once and he said that he '' wouldn't want to be in a tank with one of those ugly f**kers around''.
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