De Havilland Sea Vixen. They don't make 'em like they used to:
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Good question. Don't get me wrong, the P38 and Vulcan are up there in my personal echelon. Actually a 1:48 scale P38 is the only unmade kit I possess. I've probably had it in its box for over thirty years now. Doubt the eyes would be up to it now.
Anyway, here's a Handley-Page Hampden, ugly, weird and beautiful all at once:
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Isn't that one of the things that's great about OTF? Thanks to Boris' post, instead of fretting about the UK election I've spent the last half hour learning about the Lun Ekanoplan. Marvellous.
Pedants' corner: according to the Wiki page:
Although they might look similar and have related technical characteristics, ekranoplans like the Lun are not aircraft, seaplanes, hovercraft, or hydrofoils–ground effect is a separate technology altogether. The International Maritime Organization classifies these vehicles as maritime ships.
But I'm glad you posted it.
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Evocation overload. As a 12-13 yo I went through a planespotting phase. A cousin shared the interest and lived near Heathrow and we once spent a Saturday on the roof of the Queens Building.
A British Island Airways Carvair is one of the etched memories, along with a Bangladesh Biman DC8 / 707.
I also built the Airfix kit of that surreal Blohm & Voss
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As a kid I lived for a while in Farnborough, and my bedroom window overlooked the landing path for the RAE/DRA airfield (this was before the airport started getting business). Nothing quite like seeing the enormous Russian jets banking slowly and coming in to land like floundering whales. This one in particular:
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Crusoe, what is that behemoth?
Saw a lovely old plane on Foyle's War last night and it got me thinking about classics from arguably the Golden Age of flight, the inter-world war years. It was one of these, a De Havilland Dragon Rapide:
Here's a beautiful Lockheed Electra Junior, stainless steel simplicity:
And just for fun value, and to marvel that anyone would dare fly one, a Granville Gee Bee Racer:
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The behemoth that Crusoe posted is the Antonov An-225 (a one-off monster that the Soviet Union built to transport their space-shuttle rip-off).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
It also happens to be my second-favourite aircraft of all time.
My favourite of all time is the magnificent Short Sunderland:
Which gets bonus points for being a cool plane and a cool boat at the same time.
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