O/T Count to Infinity using Pictures: The Next 500 Edition

[wolves71]

ITN news at 5.45

[Woking88]

Robus, you are probably aware that I love aeroplanes! Going through the aircrew reallocation process on recovery from being a passenger in a car accident, I wanted to go on Phantoms which were just entering RAF service at the time. Sadly, I did not have the minimum required flying hours or general level of experience at the time. I would have loved to have operated on them!

I have never experienced anything like the amazing, unique 'air-splitting' power-sound of Concorde, having just taken off from Heathrow. When the subject crops up in conversation, it appears most people absolutely loved it - I certainly did!

The link below does not do it justice because you don't get the physical vibrations that accompanied the noise, but still impressive nevertheless! - view external link

[TundraWolf]

Fascinating link above to pic 543, thanks Wokes, made for great reading!



Turbo Tarling T-33

[Robus]

Wokes, got a look at Concorde at an air show in the mid-1970s, may have been at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. It did a pass at supersonic speed. The boom was as near the sound of Thor's hammer as I hope to hear!

I know of your background and interest in aviation, which I share. I hold a private pilot's license and have a few hundred hours in single-engine Cessnas, Pipers, and Beechcrafts. I haven't flown in ten years. At this point it's probably safe to say that I've given it up. Although...I could see myself getting into ultralights some day.

[Woking88]

Further to Tundra's T-33, this was the trainer version of the F-80 Shooting Star. An iconic aircraft, it was one of the first plastic model kits that I built.







Not to be confused with the superficially similar Northrop F-89 Scorpion shown below:



The tailplane gives it away.


Robus, I have to say that I have not experienced a Concorde sonic boom - it must be ear shattering and awesome. I have however, experienced a flight in an ultralight with a BA pilot at the controls - a bit like donning a motorised leaf! It was quit a windy day and after the final landing we had to taxi in and tie it down to concrete blocks. Brilliant landing by the pilot though in a near-maximum crosswind - he just held it off and held it off until the right moment and then eased it down onto the deck with absolute perfection!

[TundraWolf]

"He's Tall and Dark and Handsome" by Peggy English. Peggy English was her stage, her real was Jane Gray, she was a jazz singer from the 1920s.

[wolves71]

[Woking88]

I hope you're not turning into a 'tractor boy', Gav!


Italian aircraft carrier Cavour. Penant number 550.

[TundraWolf]

Chain of Japanese Sweet Shops:

[Woking88]

USS Evans was a Fletcher Class Destroyer which was heavily damaged by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft on 11 May 1945. 32 of her crew were lost.
Stricken 28 November 1945.not repaired
Sold 11 February 1947 and broken up for scrap.