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Cool/Rare Plane Spotters thread.....

Discussion in 'Aviation Chat' started by Ryan S., Mar 9, 2014.

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  1. Bob Parks

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    #176 Bob Parks, Jun 24, 2015
    Clipping the wings of a clipped wing aircraft doesn't thrill me much. It increases the roll rate but at the same time it decreases the L/D to the point were you have to fly at an increased angle of attack that increases the drag and that decreases the.....Oh, well.
     
  2. James_Woods

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    #177 James_Woods, Jun 27, 2015
    My gut sense is that the regular wing length with four ailerons would have a better roll rate anyway, plus better flying characteristics.
     
  3. jcurry

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    #178 jcurry, Jun 27, 2015
    Not unusual to see clipped wings on Reno Air Race Pitts. A few even had entirely new wings, changing the airfoil shape.
     
  4. James_Woods

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    #179 James_Woods, Jun 27, 2015
    They were made to be aerobatic planes, not pylon racers.
     
  5. F1tommy

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    #180 F1tommy, Jun 29, 2015
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    Very cool. Those Guppies are all that remains of the last 377 commercial airframes in the world. The rest were scrapped. We do still have a lot of C97/KC97's left.

    Here are a few pictures I took near Chicago on the Illinois/Wisconsin border. This is a museum just off Russell Road on the state line right off the tollway. Some strange Russian aircraft/helicopters on display.

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  6. alexm

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    #181 alexm, Oct 12, 2015
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    #182 dmaxx3500, Oct 12, 2015
    amazing story
     
  8. FiveLiterEater96

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  9. Tcar

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    #184 Tcar, Oct 12, 2015
    Supermarine Spiteful?
     
  10. alexm

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    #185 alexm, Oct 12, 2015
    Cool..
     
  11. tazandjan

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    #186 tazandjan, Oct 12, 2015
    Looks like a Mark XIV Spitfire, but could be a later model. The Spitefuls did away with the elliptical wing tips.
     
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  13. FiveLiterEater96

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    #188 FiveLiterEater96, Oct 12, 2015
    As far as I'm aware she's a Spitfire.
     
  14. Tcar

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    #189 Tcar, Oct 13, 2015
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    You're right... I was looking at the bubble canopy and 5 bladed prop and assumed Spiteful.

    So it is Griffon powered, I assume.


    It is a Mark XIV Spit (found a pic of Conmemorative AF M. XIV).
     
  15. Ryan S.

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  16. tritone

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  17. Bob Parks

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    #192 Bob Parks, Mar 4, 2016
    That looks like some photo parallax...or maybe just one lax. Hard to tell.
     
  18. Tcar

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    #193 Tcar, Mar 4, 2016
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  19. ersatzS2

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    #194 ersatzS2, Mar 20, 2016
    I suspect this photo has been on the web forever; but just pulled it off LinkedIn

    https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/4d3c88ac-0c19-4d8d-8aff-8c0e43b66144-original.jpeg

    The only picture ever taken of Concorde flying at Mach 2 (1,350 mph). Taken from an RAF Tornado fighter jet, which only rendezvoused with Concorde for 4 minutes over the Irish Sea: The Tornado was rapidly running out of fuel, struggling to keep up with Concorde at Mach 2
     
  20. Ryan S.

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