Aviation MegaThread!!!!

I haven't done a ton of aerobatics, but what I've done has been with a 3000 AGL floor. I always thought the odds getting out if things went sideways were pretty slim.

I love that new airplane smell.

Aww, no way!

Wish I'd been driving by at the time.

That's a bloody big aircraft carrier.

If you're interested, do some googling on ejections. I had no idea how many pilots died trying to save their aircraft and missing the ejection window. Three seconds can make all the difference.

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I saw that from the terminal as I flew through last week. I'll be looking for it again tomorrow on my way home.

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Why jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane?

NE

I found this pic to use in a different post (the SR-71 thread). It is too good not to post here too.

I was amazed at how small that plans is when I saw it at Wright-Patt. Thought it would be much bigger.

I see a diferent radome/nose option, what are the little black things in front of it?

WAG -bullets for the tailgun

The big silver "thing" is a auxiliary fuel tank but are any of the others nukes?

I am not sure if this has already been posted and if it seems a little obvious but I haven't seen a photo of what many people this side of the pond regard as possibly the best looking and certainly most evocative aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire, the sound of a Merlin engine is also pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw

Looks too much like an Me-109.

Spitfire low pass.

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All I see is a nice black square. Link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YxMLkEYgT78

Fun!

the sound of a Merlin engine is also pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw

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Haaa...the SOUND...never heard a Spitfire but I was on foot on the taxiway at the Hamilton airport near the end of the runway when the museum's Hurricane flew it's first sortie following the rebuild - only there by chance on a week day, a non advertised test flight -
Wow...I still get shivers from that moment years ago. I was immediatly brought back to an earlier era and figured i was born way too late.

Sweet, thank you.

"...only suffered compression fractures to his spine..."

I'm surprised he could stand up.