Boeing Pleione C.Mk.1

[Knightflyer]

Here you go - refound photobucket   wonders never cease

ps thanks to Captain Canada for helping me out to find the correct way of uploading

[Captain Canada]

Oooh nice !

When you hit the 'get links' button, select the last one, it's an .img code. Paste it here and voila !

Hope to see some more !

[sandiego89]

A "lightning bolt" always looks great.  Well done.

Hey wouldn't a few of those with a drouge been a lot cheaper than the RAF tanker lease?     

[PR19_Kit]

A "lightning bolt" always looks great.  Well done.

Hey wouldn't a few of those with a drouge been a lot cheaper than the RAF tanker lease?     

Probably not as they'd have cost dollars, and at least the cost of the Voyager's wings comes back to UK.

[Knightflyer]

Probably not as they'd have cost dollars, and at least the cost of the Voyager's wings comes back to UK.

Well Rolls-Royce would have been happy - an imagine a world where the bean counters for the RAF took BA's approach to buying British / European ?

[PR19_Kit]

Probably not as they'd have cost dollars, and at least the cost of the Voyager's wings comes back to UK.

Well Rolls-Royce would have been happy - an imagine a world where the bean counters for the RAF took BA's approach to buying British / European ?

They are anyway as the Voyagers have R-R Trent engines.

But the RAF's heading the BA way anyway, what with C-17s, F-35s, RC-135s etc. etc.

[Knightflyer]

But the RAF's heading the BA way anyway, what with C-17s, F-35s, RC-135s etc. etc.

Mmm....so with Westland being part Italian now does that make the Hawk the last 'All-British' aircraft in the RAF?

PS ....no-one has queried the Pleione's name ...either we're all classically educated, or no-one gives a   

[Leading Observer]

Greek Goddess protecting sailors?

[Rheged]

Greek Goddess protecting sailors?

Either that or a rather nice orchid.

[PR19_Kit]

PS ....no-one has queried the Pleione's name ...either we're all classically educated, or no-one gives a   

Or perhaps we're still trying to pronounce it? 

Didn't she marry Titan?

[Knightflyer]

Or perhaps we're still trying to pronounce it? 

True ..... I must admit that I don't know! I say (in my head at least) Plea-o-knee! 

Greek Goddess protecting sailors?

Either that or a rather nice orchid.

Correct deity, and the orchid was named after her (not a lot of people know that ...or care!) ...

The reason I chose it for the name of the aircraft type, (which is seeming more and more obtuse! ) is I was thinking the individual aircraft might be named after her daughters...who were better known as the SEVEN sisters, and what model of Boeing is it? (maybe I should have just gone with Boeing Septimus!)

Either that or a rather nice orchid.

As a side thought....how many aircraft are named after flowers De Havilland Daffodil anyone ?

[Rheged]

As a side thought....how many aircraft are named after flowers,    De Havilland Daffodil anyone ?

There's this one for a start!!

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花) "cherry blossom"; the rocket powered human-guided anti-shipping kamikaze attack plane.

[Knightflyer]

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花) "cherry blossom"; the rocket powered human-guided anti-shipping kamikaze attack plane.

I had remembered that one  any more though? Douglas Daisy, Supermarine Sunflower perhaps 

[PR19_Kit]

CAC Aspidistra? 

[Captain Canada]

But the RAF's heading the BA way anyway, what with C-17s, F-35s, RC-135s etc. etc.

Something oft overlooked in the whif world.....large, modern UK designed and built transports...either civil or RAF. Had a few thoughts on the subject but it's so hard to differentiate between Boeing/ Airbus already how do you modify either to look more 'British' ?