Cool airplane photo thread

"SKIRT" ? Gotta be a woman, right? I hope.
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"Blue Angels winter training practice" 2-11-2021
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That's a GIB, "Girl In The Back."

 

What kind of plane ?

MDS

 

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The slow guy sets the pace

 

Photo taken before Ready Switch (1977) when all the Nellis AFB F-111As of the 474 TFW went to Mountain Home AFB, the F-111Fs of the 366 TFW at Mountain Home went to RAF Lakenheath, and the F-4s from Lakenheath went to Nellis. WA is the Nellis identifier.

 

Six B-52H Stratofortresses fly in formation enroute to RAF Fairford in Norwegian airspace on Aug. 22, 2020. (photo provided by the 23rd Bomb Squadron)


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Some old family stuff,
My uncle, a young pilot and working for Lockheed back in the 30’s was assigned responsible for the maintenance on their Model 8 Sirius when Lindbergh and Anne flew into Japan 1931. These family pictures show my uncle Don Hilles and Charles Lindbergh on the Sirius wing working the check list. Accompanying the photos we also have a home movie of the landing and the couple getting off the plane. My uncle spoke Japanese and served as an interpreter for the Lindbergh’s. The Sirius went back to Japan for Expo 70 and is now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Don received his twin engine certificate at 84.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/14/archives/plane-lindbergh-flew-is-returning-to-japan.html

Third picture was his WACO I believe. Used for Barnstorming and delivering the mail.


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Some name-dropping you can be proud of.

 

Fantastic history. Something of which you can be very proud. Thanks for posting this.

 

And I sit here at 94.75 and remember working on the XB-52 in 1952. Unbelievable that this airplane will live longer than I will.....maybe. A magnificent piece of engineering.

 

Mother in laws seat

 

Bob- With the reengine project ongoing, the BUFF will likely outlive both of us. Turning into an arsenal aircraft now, with hypersonic weapons on the horizon.

 

That is going to require some careful engineering, I think.

 

Ltn Friedrich Kempf's Jasta Boelcke Fokker Dr.I 213/17, WN 1932. KEMPF on top wing and Kennscht mi noch? (Remember me yet?) on the middle wing. Winter/Spring 1918. Kette leader's streamers attached to the wingtip skids. Triplanes were a bit hard to land and the skids protected the wingtips.


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Bob- They decided to go with 8 smaller engines and that simplifies the engineering somewhat.

 

Thanks, I haven't been able to follow this program so I don't know what they are doing. larger heavier engines would play hell with the dynamics of the thin and flexible wing.

 

A rare gathering of six Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and a Consolidated B-24 Liberator at the 2010 Thunder Over Michigan airshow.

(Sadly, 2 of the -17s are now gone.)

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I thought that it was a Piaggio but it's not. What is it? It's beautiful.

Thank you in advance.