One for the Air Buffs

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice excursion into parachuting Steve. Loads of archive pictures on the net of the former Northern Parachuting Centre at Usworth/Sunderland Airport including this VX577 - Vickers 659 Valetta C2

VX577 Vickers Valetta C.2 msn 429 by eLaReF, on Flickr

VX577 Vickers Valetta C.2 by emdjt42, on Flickr

Neil

[Stickyfinger]

And Adeline Gray.

Hartford, Connecticut—June 6, 1942: Fifty observers from the U.S. Army and Navy watch from the ground as Adeline Gray, a 24-year-old rigger at the Pioneer Parachute Company, steps from the wing of a plane 2,500 feet over Brainard Field to make her 33rd lifetime jump. She is testing, for the very first time, a parachute made from nylon, a new strong and resilient fabric primarily used to make women’s stockings.

Normandy, France—June 6, 1944: Two years to the day after Gray’s jump in Hartford, the D-Day invasions begin. Thousands of U.S. paratroopers—undoubtedly having never heard of the courageous and talented young woman who proved that nylon parachutes could work—descend under the innovative canopies that would help the Allies win the war.

Parachutist!

Going down that rabbit hole....
https://www.acs.org/education/whatische ... ymers.html

[Paul-R]

Does this qualify as a plane on a stick?

Situated on the roundabout on the RN7 by Junction 22 off the A7 south of Orange, Vaucluse.

[Rp0thejester]

I just want to see some fat kid jump on the air pump to see it fly!!!

[LedZep]

It's the French. (Faliriko Delta, Athens)

And here in action.

[NewcastleFalcon]

More cars and aircraft, a random appearance of a GS and an Aircraft on ZX day in the ZX Story video here

viewtopic.php?p=818960#p818960

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I think the plane in the background is one of these...



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bit too many variations to do a whatsthisfromthen? unless there really are some proper air buffs so its a give away.

Moderately interesting for those who like a colourful display of warning lights. Aviation has got to move into a much simplified one pedal/ button/lever autonomous take off/fly/land mode before flying cars take off for the masses. Even one speed-o, one height-o in the dashboard is getting towards too much, AI will have to do the rest

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A short youtube film of a classic aeroplane. Just a couple of minutes.



Neil

[LedZep]

A nice one..with calendar.

[mickthemaverick]

Guess where I've been today!!

The main attraction

Flying clue

B's Grandson

B with HIS chair!

[NewcastleFalcon]

a decent guess


Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Indeed a decent guess, but wrong!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Indeed a decent guess, but wrong!!

Battle of Britain Bunker Uxbridge

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A wrong guess but a linked story to the wrong guess!
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Christies sold this Spitfire pictured outside the Churchill War Rooms, on 9th July 2015 for GBP £3,106,500.

Full details here https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5917452

Spitfire P9374 was one of a batch of 183 aircraft built by Supermarine Ltd. (Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd.) under contract number 980385/38 from the Air Ministry. After factory test flying P9374 was delivered to R.A.F. Hornchurch on 2 March 1940 and then joined 92 Squadron at R.A.F. Northolt on 6 March 1940. On 24 May 1940 P9374 was hit in action and forced to land on the beach near Calais where it remained gradually consumed by the shifting sands until re-emerging in 1980. A long restoration and rebuild was completed by the Aircraft Restoration Company at Duxford, finally returning to the skies on 30 August 2011. It is a low wing monoplane fighter aircraft with fuselage of stressed-skin construction, the wing assemblies with eight de-activated Browning machine guns.

Neil