Your favourite aircraft picture

[Armes]

Here are a few of mine

http://i.imgur.com/SXo6o.jpg
Yep that's a space shuttle ^^
http://i.imgur.com/jHT8q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bAaNT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fxnkU.jpg

EDIT: I added some more on the 4th page

 

[John Lloyd]

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[OldMedic]

What is the aircraft in the middle photo with the phallic looking appendage?

 

[John Lloyd]

What is the aircraft in the middle photo with the phallic looking appendage?

That is a Myasishchev M-50 (Bounder)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasishchev_M-50

 

[grumpyoldb]

Has to be TSR2 @ cosford.

 

[John Lloyd]

Off road Phantom

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My first crash guard

 

[br9mp81]

Off road Phantom

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My first crash guard

take it its conz,must have been just before my time there 80 ish?

 

[John Lloyd]

5th March 1980. Just one little wrong switch........

BoI report.

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5F50...ED/0/maas80_04_phantom_frg2_xv436_05mar80.pdf

 

[John Lloyd]

Cyprus Dawn

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[John Lloyd]

The Noisy one

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[Malesu]

Photo's courtesy of Th'elcock



First ever Typhoon touching down at MPA (Great timing)



First Reheat Runs testing out new setup (Not as noisy as expected - but sound wave was pretty intense)

 

[Goatherdingsplitter]

5th March 1980. Just one little wrong switch........

BoI report.

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5F50...ED/0/maas80_04_phantom_frg2_xv436_05mar80.pdf

Blew the flaps down instead of extending the RAT. Trouble is they didn't need to take any such action as the aircraft had been modded to prevent what the crew feared might happen!

 

[John Lloyd]

Found in the bottom of my photo box

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[Old John]

I always liked this one

 

[sulky]

always liked that pic also, did that pilot survive the ejection?

 

[themardyrigger]

Sqn Ldr Bob Marston taken from a very large cherry picker at Gutersloh.

 

[Downsizer]

always liked that pic also, did that pilot survive the ejection?

Yep. Pretty sure he was the Head Lightning Test pilot....

 

[ady eflog]

Happiness is vectored thrust.

 

[Ex-Bay]

always liked that pic also, did that pilot survive the ejection?

Yes. Sept 62.
He was George Aird and he survived. Linky.

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

F16 Thunderbird