Vintage Aircraft

[TXForester]

A Piper L4 Grasshopper. It is based on Piper's J-3 Cub.

 

[Muggins]

[stalker]Ah, I know where you were yesterday![/stalker] I saw the Cub shot first, and I thought it looked like OW.

Were you aware the Hurricane had a birdstrike yesterday, and they had to wash the bird off the previous birdstrike's kill marking?

Adrian

 

[Sparrow]

... of course real men are actually bi

 

[Addy101]

BTW, as a kid during the war I can remember aircraft wings on lorries being delivered to a (? carpenter's) workshop behind the local shops for repairs. I guess now that they were from Hurricanes.

Unlikely David, as the Hurricane didn't have wooden wings, the Mosquito did, so, probably those were Mosquito wings.

Thanks for that Hurricane picture, the P51 Mustang and the Spitfire might be topmodels, the Hurricane looks like the girl next door 😎

 

[Sparrow]

Unlikely David, as the Hurricane didn't have wooden wings, the Mosquito did, so, probably those were Mosquito wings.

Thanks for that Hurricane picture, the P51 Mustang and the Spitfire might be topmodels, the Hurricane looks like the girl next door 😎

.. in the battle they did very different jobs. The spitfire engaged the german fighter (pursuit) planes at high altitude, the hurricane did battle with the bombers (fighters) ... the pilots may well have preferred the p51 but then that craft was almost three years away and meanwhile the spitfire and me109 were joining in battle well above 30,000ft well above anything available elsewhere ... one must remember the British in 1940 were alone and only at the beginning of the beginning

 

[David Hughes]

A Piper L4 Grasshopper. It is based on Piper's J-3 Cub.

Thanks, I rather liked the look of it and wondered what it was. Once upon a time everyone in this village worked for either Aston Martin, a farmer or else Cranfield and so I didn't have to ask these questions and display my ignorance to the world.

Thanks again, David

 

[David Hughes]

[stalker]Ah, I know where you were yesterday![/stalker] I saw the Cub shot first, and I thought it looked like OW.

Were you aware the Hurricane had a birdstrike yesterday, and they had to wash the bird off the previous birdstrike's kill marking?

Adrian

We ought to form an OW branch of RFF. Enough of us go there to justify it. Ditto Amiens and so on.

Did they mention the birdstrike yesterday on the PA? I was being dragged round the gardens and probably missed it.

Regards, David

 

[David Hughes]

Unlikely David, as the Hurricane didn't have wooden wings, the Mosquito did, so, probably those were Mosquito wings.

Thanks for that Hurricane picture, the P51 Mustang and the Spitfire might be topmodels, the Hurricane looks like the girl next door 😎

Thanks, it's more than likely but it's also more than likely that it wasn't wings either. My wartime memories can't really be relied on.

BTW, I thought the pre-war ones were fabric covered and then changed to metal in 1939/40? Anyway, not that important...

Regards, David

 

[Addy101]

BTW, I thought the pre-war ones were fabric covered and then changed to metal in 1939/40? Anyway, not that important...

Regards, David

Nothing wrong with your memory!

 

[Muggins]

Did they mention the birdstrike yesterday on the PA? I was being dragged round the gardens and probably missed it.

No, but a friend had his radio tuned to the tower frequency so heard the pilot call it. I didn't see it, but I noticed that he seems to do his final circuit very gingerly. Luckily no damage to the Hurri this time, though the bird was a write-off!

Yes, the early wings were fabric covered - sometimes re-fitted to non-combat aircraft at OTUs at a later date, it seems, presumbaly to keep the metal ones on front-line aircraft.


Adrian

 

[David Hughes]

No, but a friend had his radio tuned to the tower frequency so heard the pilot call it. I didn't see it, but I noticed that he seems to do his final circuit very gingerly. Luckily no damage to the Hurri this time, though the bird was a write-off!

Yes, the early wings were fabric covered - sometimes re-fitted to non-combat aircraft at OTUs at a later date, it seems, presumbaly to keep the metal ones on front-line aircraft.


Adrian

Interesting, we came out of the SG just as it came over the field and road to land and I wondered why it was going so slowly and assumed it was because of where I was standing.

Regards, David

 

[mooge]

Vintage Wings in Gatineau, Quebec. 12mm Heliar + M2.

( Vought Corsair, Supermarine Spitfire and North American Harvard)

 

[Darshan]

 

[Dayrell bishop]

Remembrance day at Stow Maries ww1 airfield.

Remembrance day at Stow Maries ww1 airfield.

 

[Moto-Uno]

^ What fantastic lighting. Peter

 

[Dayrell bishop]

Thanks Peter , it was late in the day and the sun was low but still bright.

 

[maryland_fotos]

Focke Wulfe FW190 at Air and Space Museum at Dulles near Washington DC.

FockeWulfe190 by maryland_photos, on Flickr

 

[filmtwit]

(I think this is a) Grumman S2 Tracker and F4f Grumman Windcat aboard the USS Hornet. These were inline to be restored.

 

[rhl-oregon]

Cheating a bit, but those of you who know SFO airport will recognize this area. A bit of the Battle of Britain & WWI goes on overhead.

GRD III

 

[Muggins]

Ah, Peter Holloway's Storch.

You do realise it doesn't actually fly, don't you? It's so ugly that the earth repels it...

Adrian