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The most beautiful aeroplane ever:-

#1 Post by Alisoncc » Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:34 pm

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#2 Post by Pinky the pilot » Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:22 am

I understand your choice Alison, but I would have to say that my choice has to be the Spitfire. :-bd
Particularly the Mk IX.

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#3 Post by Capetonian » Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:37 am

I too understand your choice, Alison, and having seen XH-558 in action at the Jersey Air Show I'm tempted to agree, but there are many contenders.

I think a lot of people would choose Concorde.

I considered the Vickers VC10 but ultimately my decision is partly driven by nostalgia :

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#4 Post by Woody » Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:50 am

I have to agree with Capetonian :-s , but I prefer this photo as DaddyWoody used to fly her and I was on her last revenue flight for BA .

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#5 Post by ian16th » Mon Dec 19, 2016 8:12 am

The most beautiful one I worked on was the Hawker Hunter.

A close second came the Blackburn Beverley :-o
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#6 Post by Sisemen » Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:34 am

For fluidity in form these two take a lot of beating

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#7 Post by 500N » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:01 am

Why am I seeing this message on some posts lately. Like the one above.

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#8 Post by Capetonian » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:04 am

I can't help thinking there's something ugly/beautiful about those massive Russian freighters :
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#9 Post by Woody » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:33 am

Merry Christmas Pinky

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#10 Post by Sisemen » Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:26 pm

500N wrote:Why am I seeing this message on some posts lately. Like the one above.

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Dunno. Maybe Alison has the answer. Anybody else having the problem?

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#11 Post by 500N » Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:05 pm

500N wrote:Why am I seeing this message on some posts lately. Like the one above.

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Interesting that the pictures now show up - where as before they were the name and .jpg at the end.

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#12 Post by Boac » Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:16 pm

Why am I seeing this message on some posts lately. Like the one above.

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Don't know how Alison has configured this forum, but this can happen on some fora if you try to view the attachments as a 'guest' rather than 'logged in'.

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#13 Post by Alisoncc » Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:02 pm

ian16th wrote:The most beautiful one I worked on was the Hawker Hunter.

A close second came the Blackburn Beverley :-o

Agree on the Hunter Ian, 'twas nice to work on as well. But can only suggest you were feeling unwell when you included the Bubbly. :| Perhaps I've spent far too many hours chugging away over deserts to fully appreciate them.

Think I've mentioned previously once flew in a Bubbly from Seletah, Singapore to Butterworth , thence to the Cocos Isles, Port Hedland, Alice Springs, and on to Melbourne. It took weeks before I recovered. :D

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#14 Post by admin » Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:13 pm

500N wrote:Why am I seeing this message on some posts lately. Like the one above.

"You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post."

Had a quick dig around, maybe a function of the size of the attachment. I logged out and got the same message on some images and not others, but only when not logged in. Will investigate further.

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#15 Post by ian16th » Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:23 pm

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ian16th wrote:The most beautiful one I worked on was the Hawker Hunter.

A close second came the Blackburn Beverley :-o

Agree on the Hunter Ian, 'twas nice to work on as well. But can only suggest you were feeling unwell when you included the Bubbly. :| Perhaps I've spent far too many hours chugging away over deserts to fully appreciate them.

Think I've mentioned previously once flew in a Bubbly from Seletah, Singapore to Butterworth , thence to the Cocos Isles, Port Hedland, Alice Springs, and on to Melbourne. It took weeks before I recovered. :D

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You must remember I spent virtually all of my time in Bomber Command, except for my sojourn to the South of France, which was where I worked on both Hunters & Bev's, and anything else that passed through.

Who else on this forum worked on the worlds only turboprop fighter, the Westland Wyvern? OK I only re-fuelled one, once, but it was an oddity.
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#16 Post by Alisoncc » Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:43 pm

ian16th wrote:except for my sojourn to the South of France, which was where I worked on both Hunters & Bev's, and anything else that passed through.

Suspect the South of France was one hell of a lot nicer than the deserts of Oman and the edge of the Empty Quarter in Saudi A. Still digging sand out of my ears after a Bubbly driver chose to rotate clockwise whilst taxying instead of anti-clockwise, and sand-blasted everyone in our small encampment. Even blew our resident zobbits tent away. He was not happy chappie.

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#17 Post by ian16th » Mon Dec 19, 2016 8:25 pm

Alisoncc wrote:Suspect the South of France was one hell of a lot nicer than the deserts of Oman and the edge of the Empty Quarter in Saudi A.
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To my regret, I never got to Singapore or Hong Kong. But for a 20 year old keen as mustard Cpl, a year with the Armée de l'air at Istres & Orange was shall we say, educational. I also picked up a little French o:-)

I then did nearly 3 years with 214 Sqdn Valiant's, doing the IFR trials so successfully, that we became the RAF's 1st operational tanker Sqdn. During this period we did many detachments, being single I was willing to go on all of them and I got to Luqa, Nicosia, Akrotiri, El Adem, Kormaksar, Karachi & Gan.

Then I got married and 3 months later was posted for an accompanied tour to Akrotiri, where I was assigned to the Electronics Centre. This enabled me to hone my skills for civvy st and demob.

All in all I have quite a lot to thank the RAF for. But they did get 13 years of my life, most of it I found very agreeable.
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#18 Post by om15 » Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:15 pm

Sisemen beat me to it by posting the photo of the Air UK Herald, however here is the next best thing

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#19 Post by Boac » Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:59 pm

Well, I would not rate it as 'beautiful', OM, but certainly impressive, and a great aeroplane to fly. (Even with a few 'exciting moments'!)

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#20 Post by ian16th » Tue Dec 20, 2016 8:38 pm

It were a noisy bugger.

When the Greeks & Turks started squabbling on Cyprus, Dec 63, the Turkish Air Force beat up Limmasol with a couple of F-100's.

We scrambled our Javelins from Nicosia! By the time the Javelins were airborne the F-100's were back in Turkey.

About a week later we got 111 Sqdn attached to Akrotiri.

I was working in the Electronics Centre, next to the Tower. One night when on Duty Fitter, I was off to the NAAFI for my supper and as I opened the section door, a Lightning decided to demonstrate its rather phenomenal rate of climb very close to me.

The building shook.
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