Most Beautiful Aircraft

[GrumpyWasTooCheerful]

Give over, Staveley. You'll drop your oppo, Cpl Parkinson.

@Conniesdad thanks.

Tinniswood is a neglected genius.

 

[Conniesdad]

@Conniesdad thanks.

Tinniswood is a neglected genius.

I thought it was the funniest thing I had seen on TV.
"Very young executive"

 

[Cold_Collation]

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Blimey, how do they manage to fly so close?

 

[GrumpyWasTooCheerful]

Blimey, how do they manage to fly so close?

The leader's pheromones....

 

[Chef]

Give over, Staveley. You'll drop your oppo, Cpl Parkinson.

Have a gold star for spotting that allusion.

 

[Bodenplatte]

Blimey, how do they manage to fly so close?

They were trained by London bus drivers.

You wait an hour for one, then sixteen turn up at once.

 

[GrumpyWasTooCheerful]

Have a gold star for spotting that allusion.

Aye, well, hmm.

 

[ExAuxBalloonCorps]

Give over, Staveley. You'll drop your oppo, Cpl Parkinson.

By ‘eck Uncle Mort I didn’t know you cared.

 

[GrumpyWasTooCheerful]

By ‘eck Uncle Mort I didn’t know you cared.

The books are even better.

 

[Chef]

It's not concomitant Carter.

I'm glad the series and Peter Tinniswood are still remembered.

I do like the way these threads drift.

Here's a pretty aeroplane.

Bugatti Model 100 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[rampant]

 

[CaptainRidiculous]

Mmm, might I suggest anyone interested stays at home?

 

[Cold_Collation]

Mmm, might I suggest anyone interested stays at home?

OMD Walt.

 

[BaronBoy]

It's not concomitant Carter.

I'm glad the series and Peter Tinniswood are still remembered.

I do like the way these threads drift.

Here's a pretty aeroplane.

Bugatti Model 100 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Unfortunately there appeared to be something very wrong with it. The replica crashed killing its pilot very early in its life. The original is in the EAA Museum in Oshkosh.

 

[CrabfatBILL]

Off the wall choice, the little Skymaster "Oscar Deuce" forward air spotting / psycops twin propper.

Often in the thick of it, over 170 lost in Vietnam (all causes) I recall one called in the big Napalm ending to the Apocalypse Now film even...

Forward Air Controller Took Death-Defying Risks To Aid Special Forces | Historynet

Air Force Capt. John P. Calamos received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroic actions calling in air strikes to save Special Forces in Vietnam

www.historynet.com

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Noisy little bu**ers.

CFB.

 

[Bordon/hants]

Mig 17 (not 15) .....classic shape of it's time

 

[RNR Stoker]

@Conniesdad thanks.

Tinniswood is a neglected genius.

He was very fond of 'jutting breasts'

 

[GrumpyWasTooCheerful]

He was very fond of 'jutting breasts'

Aye, lad. We all are.

 

[Soluton Architect]

Mig 17 (not 15) .....classic shape of it's time


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Quite an advanced wing design too, same concept as the Victor's crescent wing. Gently reducing sweep out to the tip which prevented transonic pitch-up

 

[rampant]

Never left the drawing board, but loving the Gerry Anderson aesthetic