Just some nice photos I've found

[lancer]

Great pictures, but I LOVE that new build ME262..

[kitbasher]

That first one is the SC9, the very modified Canberra PR9 used by  Ferranti for missile seeker head tests. I can't imagine what that would have been doing flying near Russian airspace.

Didn't have to be, Kit.  There are ranges notified as Danger Areas going out to 12 degrees west and extending way beyond the 12 nm limit of sovereign UK airspace.  Beyond 12 miles is high seas airspace, in which the Russians could have been applying 'due regard' for UK Airspace structures.
We do the same in other states' Flight Information regions, ditto the Americans, basically everyone else with the capability too.

[Gondor]

Great pictures, but I LOVE that new build ME262..

What are the engines they are using for it though?

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

What are the engines they are using for it though?

Gondor

The new build Me 262s use the GE J-85 engine, same one that powered the T-2 Buckeye trainer. It has about 60% more thrust than a Jumo 004 but weighs about a quarter of the original's weight!

At one stage the J-85s were to be hidden inside fibreglass replicas of the Jumo 004s but I'm not sure if the 'production' versions are built like that.

[nebnoswal]

Some more


yours truly

[scooter]

Needs a WAAF or a WASP next to the 17.  Or an Andrews Sister double...

The other two links, though, are broken.

[kerick]

Needs a WAAF or a WASP next to the 17.  Or an Andrews Sister double...

The other two links, though, are broken.

Ah heck, get all three Andrew sisters!

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

No words needed.... doncha wish you could have been there  

Ian

[PR19_Kit]

No words needed.... doncha wish you could have been there  

Jeepers! Did the Bellanca survive? 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Wish I could claim these were mine, but they aren't  - From a photographer called Sven Zimmerman, and pulled from AirFighters-dot-com. Lighting, subject composition all superb. Check the 'driver' on the first shot, looking right at the photographer !!

Ian

[PR19_Kit]

Check the 'driver' on the first shot, looking right at the photographer !!

He's probably thinking 'Who's that nutter all the way up here in the snow?!!!' 

[perttime]

Those Swiss Mountain Air Shows really look like some thing one should do at least once in a lifetime.

google "axalp", or see some photos by Peter Steehouwer:

http://www.airshowaction.com/axalp12/page1.html

[scooter]

Posted on the 177FW Facebook page-


Darts from the 119th FIS, 177th FIG circa 1970s.

[kitnut617]

Check the 'driver' on the first shot, looking right at the photographer !!

He's probably thinking 'Who's that nutter all the way up here in the snow?!!!' 

My sister who has lived in Switzerland for the last 40 years, sent me a CD of the annual airshow they have.  You actually do go up to the top of the mountain to watch it Kit, and look down on the performing aircraft. 

Pretty much what I used to do when I lived in Poole and watch the airshow off the cliffs, looking down into the cockpits of the Red Arrows comes to mind ---

[PR19_Kit]

Pretty much what I used to do when I lived in Poole and watch the airshow off the cliffs, looking down into the cockpits of the Red Arrows comes to mind ---

I've done that a couple of times too, most notably from the top of the central pier of the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits at Whitsun in 1970.

One of my colleagues working on the bridge after the disastrous fire shouted 'Look! The Red Arrows!' and we all looked up, but then he said 'Not up there, DOWN there!' pointing below us. The Reds, flying Gnats at that time, had just launched from RAF Valley and were headed south east around 150 ft LOWER than we were!