The Boys' Own Book of Aeroplanes

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:heart_eyes: Late-evolution aero piston-engines in Connies and Stratoliners: has anything ever been more maintenance-intensive…?

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RX-7 Rotary 's ?

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Indeed, but the sound is worth it.

Nothing quite like it :+1:

Shame the $:£ rate has tanked, because otherwise I would be all over this.

Had one of these, fly very low, directly over our house, yesterday.

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After mistakenly reading your comma as a period, I thought, WTF?! :blush:

I think it’s a fake ad, that registration number can’t be found

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Engine run

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I could so imagine that would just pull the undercarriage off​:rofl::rofl:!

I’m sure it could, as it was spooled up.

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Flippin’ eck, never seen that before!

JATO - Strapping rockets to your plane, what could possibly go wrong!

http://heroicrelics.org/info/b-47/b-47-jato.html