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@jegga He's German? Weird watching him go on about a Halifax.
youtube purged a bunch of his videos because they featured swastikas on the planes.
Military Aviation History
Christoph Bergs: Does airpower, likes archives, prefers cockpits over lounge chairs...
FFS. It's a part of history he isn't promoting it. That is how they were painted.
Yeah they did it to a lot of history channels in the last purge . I think he’s German and already seemed a bit sensitive about it .
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a bit sensitive about it .
Understandable.
"Speedbird" are British Airways (wank, I know).
Reminds me of this:
Ground controller: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land." -
a bit sensitive about it .
Understandable.
"Speedbird" are British Airways (wank, I know).
Reminds me of this:
Ground controller: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."Nice , reminds me of this
“When Motorhead toured the Bomber album the stage set featured a Lancaster bomber, which hung over the stage.
When they played Dresden in Germany, Lemmy strides out onto the stage, points to the Lancaster and says :
"Good evening Dresden. I bet you haven't seen one of these for a while."
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Not quite the Japaneses in the Jungles, but still!
The one that was found just before Hiroo Onoda never got a pension like Onada did because he was Taiwanese .
I never knew there were so many holdouts . Nutters
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Just Casually Towing a Multi-Million Dollar Russian Attack Jet
It doesn't even need a transport trailer.
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@jegga WTF? How does this work?
"crew of two and unusual for combat jets, the crew members sit side by side in the cockpit."
How skinny are these guys? More like sit on each others lap but probably bigger than it looks.
Anyway, nice that they are naming their aeroplanes after rugby positions.
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@jegga WTF? How does this work?
"crew of two and unusual for combat jets, the crew members sit side by side in the cockpit."
How skinny are these guys? More like sit on each others lap but probably bigger than it looks.Anyway, nice that they are naming their aeroplanes after rugby positions.
In other photos it looks pretty big so being anorexic probably isn’t a requirement to crew it .
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@Snowy they have form. The SU-27 was nicknamed the Flanker
Yeah -The Flanker was the Sukhoi 27 as in the article (also known as F15 or 16 killer by the Russians had a nickname like the "Crane" - no idea why) which the Su 34 fullback is descended from (according to the article which mentions both positions).
The SUK 69 Hooker should be awesome.
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@Machpants said in Planes:
@Snowy dude it's got a toilet and gallery behind the crew!
A fricking gallery! Who puts an art display in a plane? Crazy Ivan.
But right you are then. Thought it was some sort of fighter derivative. I'm not allowed in anything with a bang seat as I would get two amputations above the knees.
Always thought the SU27 was cool doing the cobra:
Then there was this:
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@Machpants said in Planes:
@Snowy was there for the Fairford coming together
Nasty, and bloody lucky. MIG 29's?
Yeah, glad I wqasn't lounging o the wing of the orion, was dicey there!
@Machpants said in Planes:
@Snowy was there for the Fairford coming together
Did you ever come across that guy who was shot down in his harrier by the Serbs ?
F16 dude? No, but we were briefed on the incident and his E&E efforts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O'Grady
Probably all classified still but this bit probably give hints "As the second Sea Stallion landed, a figure with a pistol who turned out to be the missing pilot appeared running towards the Marines"
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@Machpants said in Planes:
@Machpants said in Planes:
@Snowy was there for the Fairford coming together
Nasty, and bloody lucky. MIG 29's?
Yeah, glad I wqasn't lounging o the wing of the orion, was dicey there!
@Machpants said in Planes:
@Snowy was there for the Fairford coming together
Did you ever come across that guy who was shot down in his harrier by the Serbs ?
F16 dude? No, but we were briefed on the incident and his E&E efforts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O'Grady
Probably all classified still but this bit probably give hints "As the second Sea Stallion landed, a figure with a pistol who turned out to be the missing pilot appeared running towards the Marines"
Nope the harrier pilot
Teruo Nakamura - Wikipedia
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