The Boys' Own Book of Aeroplanes

This is the Sukhoi Su-15. Not the almost-entirely-unrelated Su-15 “Flagon” long-range heavy interceptor of the 1960s, but a 1949 attempt to get two centrifugal flow turbojets to play together nicely.

Which they didn’t. The only prototype eventually shook itself to bits in-flight, killing the test pilot. Stalin was unimpressed and Pavel Sukhoi’s design bureau was shut-down and he was sent back to Tupolev, where he stayed until Stalin’s death in 1953.

I’m only posting this unremarkable footnote to aviation history here at-all because it looks like I feel right now…

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Phwoar.

^ From the ridiculous to the sublime :ok_hand:

Gotta love rivets

Crop dusting done properly.

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https://travelbaseonline.com/travel/flight-attendants-confess-to-playing-crop-dusting-game-when-they-need-to-fart/

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Chemtrail-spraying :+1:

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This has James Corden in it and he’s still a cunt but… what a thing;

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Ejector seat test required.

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Sans parachute

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On fire

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For both of them.

No idea if this has been posted before but Taffy was some boy :grimacing:

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If anyone is out and about today, we are right in block H so should see something being between Brize and Fairford.

I’ve just watched the Lancaster fly over my house 3 times at about 200 feet, absolutely awesome.
Of course I wasn’t prepared so only grabbed this rubbish shot. :pensive:

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The sound of four merlin engines is the best noise in the world.

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In the end we saw the red arrows and heard the Lancaster but didn’t see it from our garden.

Museum visit this afternoon





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