Cool Looking Airplanes

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

15 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

When my Father was transferred from CEPE* to Public Relations, the Golden Hawks became his main focus for a while.

I still have the shoulder patches for the team.

 

* Central Experimental and Proving Establishment. (He got to see and play with all the cool stuff!)

This, and Jim Bede's BD-5-J.  I'm also a fan of the Beechcraft B-17-D Stagger Wing and the Grumman Goose.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Cool as in "Deadly as Hell with wings", I nominate the Warthog.  I just looks evil.  

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

And the OV-10 Bronco looks cool, too.  We both got our "uniforms" in 1965.   Bronco got wings and I got an Ordnance bomb and a gold bar.  Wheee!

[Stump Water]

Interesting chart.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_aircraft_production

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

16 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Sage, were any of the data/specs from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar used in the Shuttle?

I don't know. I was in Production Engineering when I left Manufacturing and the design work was done except for Engineering fixes needed by Manufacturing. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

And the OV-10 Bronco looks cool, too

 

See those almost every day during the Summer and  Autumn.   Calfire command and control.  

 

 

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

10 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

See those almost every day during the Summer and  Autumn.   Calfire command and control.  

 

 

 

An awesome airplane. Would love to have flown one. 
 

A friend flew one as a forward air controller in Vietnam. Said it was amazing. 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

11 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

See those almost every day during the Summer and  Autumn.   Calfire command and control.  

 

 

 

 

The OV-10 has amazing landing gear... it's like a flying Citroën 2CV~!!  

 

 

 

 

 

[watab kid]

much as i hate flying there are a lot of nifty looking planes id love to fly - but i wont ever get to cause i hate flying , 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

23 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

And the OV-10 Bronco looks cool, too.

 

9 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

An awesome airplane. Would love to have flown one. 
 

A friend flew one as a forward air controller in Vietnam. Said it was amazing. 

As a young Marine, I was an Aviation Ordnanceman, and I worked on them. Good little airplane. Four M60 machine guns in the sponsons, and they could carry rockets, flares, and gun pods. The A model even had provisions to carry two AIM-9 Sidewinder Missiles. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

My personnel favourite.

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

15 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

My personnel favourite.

 

 

 

   ........ when it grows up I bet it wants to be an airplane with a tail .......  😉

[Subdeacon Joe]

26 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

   ........ when it grows up I bet it wants to be an airplane with a tail .......  😉

 

It gots TWO!

 

1937 design 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO_Ercoupe

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

3 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

It gots TWO!

 

1937 design 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO_Ercoupe

 

 ...... that's just greedy ...  🙃

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

19 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

   ........ when it grows up I bet it wants to be an airplane with a tail .......  😉

Erco Aircoupe. A remarkable little plane designed to touch down in a crab angle because it had no rudder pedals. The theory is it was safer because the pilot couldn’t cross control the rudders & ailerons when landing in a crosswind. It worked, but later versions were retrofitted with pedals because pilots found landing without them too unnerving. 
 

[Eyesa Horg]

If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

38 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.

Like this? My great grandfather learned to fly in one at the Wright Brothers flying school and then brought one back to St Louis. Orville Wright signed his pilots license. What a contraption!
 

 

 

my idea of a biplane I’d like to own:

 

[Eyesa Horg]

15 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Like this? My great grandfather learned to fly in one at the Wright Brothers flying school and then brought one back to St Louis. Orville Wright signed his pilots license. What a contraption!
 

 

 

my idea of a biplane I’d like to own:

 

That's pretty darn neat family history. 

And yes a biplane like that!

Back in the mid 80s, I had a chance to buy a 47 Travelair! They wanted $5'500 for it! Wife was not having it!!

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

That's pretty darn neat family history. 

And yes a biplane like that!

Back in the mid 80s, I had a chance to buy a 47 Travelair! They wanted $5'500 for it! Wife was not having it!!

Sweet. It probably would have broken you financially to keep it airworthy. Plus, there is a condition called AIDS - aviation induced divorce syndrome. 😁

[Chantry]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.

 

I might buy one of these.  According to the pilots, the Fairey Swordfish had no vices and one had to be incredibly incompetent to crash one.

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

6 minutes ago, Chantry said:

 

I might buy one of these.  According to the pilots, the Fairey Swordfish had no vices and one had to be incredibly incompetent to crash one.

 

AHH! A Swordfish (Or Stringbag).

The Bismarck's nemesis!

 

Side story:

As a kid, my next door neighbour, June., an English War Bride had a cousin killed on HMS HOOD when the Bismarck sank her.

[Eyesa Horg]

10 minutes ago, Chantry said:

 

I might buy one of these.  According to the pilots, the Fairey Swordfish had no vices and one had to be incredibly incompetent to crash one.

 

If you do,please,please take me for a ride!! That would be so way cool 

[Eyesa Horg]

20 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Sweet. It probably would have broken you financially to keep it airworthy. Plus, there is a condition called AIDS - aviation induced divorce syndrome. 😁

It was so cool! Only a couple gauges and a switch labeled "Contact"! Beautiful wood prop with brass tips. It started the first time he thru that prop thru. Ya could see light through the covering on the fuselage! Damn it was cool  Dark blue.

[Stump Water]

A-6/EA-6

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Beautiful wood prop with brass tips.

Cool! It was probably one of these. I keep this in the den. A little over 6 feet long. 
 

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

I’ve always been a fan of this plane - Fiesler Storch. Can take off and land from just about anywhere. 200’ to take off and clear a 50’ obstacle, land in 60’. 
 

[Eyesa Horg]

Yep!!! They are really neat to me!! 

19 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Cool! It was probably one of these. I keep this in the den. A little over 6 feet long. 
 

 

 

[DeaconKC]

I always liked the looks of the Cessna 195 with that radial engine and big spinner.

[Eyesa Horg]

2 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:

I always liked the looks of the Cessna 195 with that radial engine and big spinner.

The wheel pants are nice too.

[Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372]

Shouldn't be too long before we have listed every plane ever made....

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Kinda like cars & guns. They’re all interesting!

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

I've always liked Burt Rutan's EZ.

 

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

My personal Fave's are the YB-35 and YB-49.  Haden't been for Stewart Simington and his dirty politics, we would have been flying flying wings decades ago.  Next Bestest is the Beechcraft Stager Wing.  Gorgeous they are.

[Eyesa Horg]

A purdy WACO

 

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

The Italian Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano.