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Old aeroplane photo's.

Hi ARKRITE; if you study drawing it has a single tail poss? TORNADO ?
 
Big Gee said:
Hi Cadeau,

I read recently that a restored one should be flying some time this year in the USA. Lovely looking plane!

Big G
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Big G, there is one flying around somewhere as I have seen it pass over my place in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg but I can't find out where it came from. I think that it was on a tour of air shows just over the border in Germany.

Graham.
 
I to think the Super Connie was the prettiest ever commercial plane. A programme on sky in the last year or so had a bunch of Aussie plane buffs recovering one from the States and flying it back to Oz.
 
Cadeau,

Here's 'your' Connie! Flown out of Switzerland to European airshows.

I just Googled and there are seven or eight airworthy Connies around the world.

Big Gee
 
"Poetry in motion" Seems that there isn't enough money to keep this Dutch KLM 'Connie' in flight; shame as it's so near to me here.:cry:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9LDAVDy0w"]YouTube - Lockheed Constellation L749 N749NL Comeback[/ame]​
 
Thanks Big Gee. This thread is getting addictive.
Liberty10 ,sorry for the delay.....I just turned my piza from a thing of beauty into a blackened frizzbee.:cry: On looking at the picture yes only one rudder and I dont see an arrester hook, I think you may be right..Tornado.
 
Hi BIG GEE; I know of two based at Camarillo California, I did a limited edition of 100
prints for the owner of one of them. ( USAF RC 121 D) The one with all the radomes
on it used in Vietnam to locate targets VC etc.

To CADEAU; If you love Connies so much the ultimate book on them civvies & mil.
Lockheed Constellation by Dominique Breffort. You can get from Amazon for £ 20 ?
 
Cadeau...It really is amazing that 50 of these aircraft have , in whatever condition, have survived. Normally economics dictate out of date commercials of that size go for scrap and recycled. I think the Connie may have been the love affair of some very wealthy men. Sorry ladies, I just cannot imagine females allowing something that old and motheaten not to be thrown in the bin. No, Its A Man Thing:love: us daft old duffers.

You just have to admit it though...the old girl still got that something special.
 
Hi,I remember there was quite a bit of rivalry between Neville Duke in the Hunter, and Mike Lithgow flying the Supermarine Swift,with the record passing between them on,it almost seemed, an almost daily basis.I always rooted for the Hunter,always has been one of my favourite aircraft,one tiny criticism,please don't call them a 'plane,they're an aeroplane,or an aircraft,.....Mal.
 
OK MallyB2, as of now they're an aeroplane, aircraft or machine. I stand corrected and rebuked. Comes of reading piles of pre-war flying magazines where they very often used the expression " 'plane " with a hyphen.

Was it also Neville Duke who flew the Fairey Delta 2 at 1132mph?

Big Gee
 
Big G, don't know the aircraft, but off hand I cannot think of one "pusher type" aircraft that was a success, I could be wrng of course. Eric
 
Hi Greywolf,

Your Mustang is, I think, a P51B in Nationalist Chinese insignia. Nice drawings.

Wish I could draw...

Big Gee
 
cookie273uk said:
Big G, don't know the aircraft, but off hand I cannot think of one "pusher type" aircraft that was a success, I could be wrng of course. Eric
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Hi Eric,

The only successful pusher I can think of is the de Havilland DH2 of WW1, and the only reason they stuck the engine at the back was to avoid shooting off the propeller.

Although...thinks...wasn't there an Italian flying-boat with pusher engines, between the wars? And the B36 bomber?

The aircraft in my photo is a Curtiss Ascender - there is a pun in the name of the plane if you pronounce it ass-ender... And you're right, it was never built in quantity.

Big Gee
 
mallyb2 said:
Big G ,that is a p40,I think they were called a Tomahawk,....Mal.
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By Jingo, you're right! I had to made an adjustment or two, because it was very faint on my VDU, but now I can see the above-cowl intake for the oil-cooler of the Allison engine. Which the original P51 Mustang also had, hence my silly error. I think they flew as The Flying Tigers if my memory of John Wayne films is anything to go by...

You know your aircraft, mate...

Big Gee
 
Thinking a bit more (always dangerous,I know) wasn't that aircraft that flew round the wourld not-stop also a pusher,of the vari-easy type?.....Mal
 
mallyb2 said:
Thinking a bit more (always dangerous,I know) wasn't that aircraft that flew round the wourld not-stop also a pusher,of the vari-easy type?.....Mal
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It certainly was, Mal. I think it was a Rutan design. He designed the Vari-Viggen, also a pusher.

You really DO know your aircraft, mate.

Big Gee
 
cookie273uk said:
Big G, don't know the aircraft, but off hand I cannot think of one "pusher type" aircraft that was a success, I could be wrng of course. Eric
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Would you call the Supermarine Walrus, as used by the Royal Navy before and during WW2, a success? It did look and was past its sell by date before delivery. But the Royal Navy had a way of getting the best out of what they were given.
 
Fairey Gannet,despite it's appearance, it's a twin engined aircraft,with twin 'Mamba' turbo-prop engines,with counter-rotatig props.Enormous aircraft,much bigger than you would take it to be from looking at the photograph,....Mal.
 
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