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I also love the Hawker jets from the '50s and '60s:
Hawker Hunter
Hawker Buccaneer
Ohh I só love those!
I also love the Hawker jets from the '50s and '60s:
Hawker Hunter
Hawker Buccaneer
2. The "Tante Ju" Junkers Ju-52
I had a small model of it as a child and lately I even could fly in one of the last remaining and still in use. That's a sound!! A real workhorse and in some aspects well beyond its own time.
I had the distinct pleasure of seeing a Hunter make a near supersonic very low level pass at Whenuapai in NZ. Everybody was looking the other way and it came rocketing past and very close. Was hilarious, people got such frights they were "f-ing and blinding", every small child was bawling and crying. Very exhilarating to see.
lol That would be awesome! But then I like getting buzzed by fighter jets
There was something on the Travel Channel about a guy in England who bought a Hunter. Beautiful plane!
Hawker Hunter
I'm not really a "blowtorch" enthusiast, loving props more, but the Hunter is in my humble opinion the prettiest jet ever made.
Well, I like this one too! It's a PV-2D, yup, 8 50's pointing forward, mean machine!
Scott
Junkers Ju-87B "Stuka" Dive Bomber
Actually, that is a C model, you can tell by the 50cals under the chin, the D had the 50s built right into the chin, and the bottom of the chin could be lowered to service them, a nice arrangement. Only 35 PV2Ds were produced and only a few servive in tact today. I had the privilege of flying copilot on the PV2D N6655D that is now in the Lone Star Flight Museum at Galveston, Texas. Unfortunately she was damaged in a hurricane a few years ago! What a fun plane over 4000hp, and real maneuverable. Would love to fly a PV1, even faster and more maneuverable, they would out run Zeros down on the deck! The real unsung hero of WWII, they did the long flights from the Aleutian Islands to the Japanese Kuril Islands thus pinning down a large number of troops and equipment, that could have been used elsewhere, to defend in case of an invasion from the north! The weather was a bigger enemy then the Japanese, with many planes lost in rout!
Sorry, I got confused. BUT! We get to play with a D model with in the next year!!!
Scott
the spitfire is gorgeous
the mustang was a better plane ( as a brit i hate to say it )
the spitfire is gorgeous
the mustang was a better plane ( as a brit i hate to say it )