Planes/Aviation only and your comments

but please don't forget America not the only Aviation around the world many British and European died and mained in same war
 
The take off of a plane

The start learning of a plane.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcp23mtdL3A]A Day of Flying with Chris - Part II - Klarlisten - YouTube[/ame]

 
My favourite plane:
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I started flying one around the world in Flight Simulator 2002.
 
I may get to see the Blue Angels in San Francisco as I will be there during Fleet Week (to ride trains, not planes or ships :giggle:)


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metalangel said:
My favourite plane:
PBY_Catalina_NAS_Whidbey_Seaplane_Base.jpg


I started flying one around the world in Flight Simulator 2002.
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Wow, Catalina flying boat. My Maternal Grandfather was a Warrant Officer on those during WW2 in Burma. He was born in India during the final days of the British Raj and Served with the RAF. After the war he came to England and made his living as a Salesman ( my father always said he could sell snow to the eskimoes! but due to his love of gambling he never became wealthy) although he never forgot his Indian heritage. I remember building gliders out of paper and wood with him, and helping him clean his old Indian Lee-Enfield rifle. Looking back, this was probably very illegal :)
 
North American P-51 Mustang

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I spend the quieter times at work on Wikipedia reading about planes, especially the lesser known ones. Everyone knows the P-51, but what about the P-39 which was basically built around its huge, Cadillac (really) manufactured cannon?

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You can see the cannon emerging from the middle of the propeller. Thousands were sold to the Russians and they loved them. Notice where the air intake and exhausts are. The engine is BEHIND the pilot, because the nose is taken up with that big gun!

Likewise, people think of the Corsair and Hellcat but there was also a plane that did the dirty work of sinking enemy ships, the Avenger torpedo bomber:

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George H. W. Bush and Paul Newman both flew in them during the war.

The saying went that the fighter gets the glory, but the bomber wins the war.
 
metalangel said:
My favourite plane:
PBY_Catalina_NAS_Whidbey_Seaplane_Base.jpg


I started flying one around the world in Flight Simulator 2002.
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Have you been using Flight Simulator since 2002? My husband hase used flight simulator since it first came out a long time ago. My husband has a yoke and rudder pedals,and 2 computers to run his flight sim. He is also getting his private pilots license. Do you fly in real life? Also in Smyrna,Tennessee we have the Smyrna air show. It's great!
 
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Here we go Smyrna air show

This is a great air show.

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Flying in the skys
 
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Lets all ride with Canada Snowbirds

They let you see what it is like inside the plane too.



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Airbus A380 Pilot Eye - and yes, it is captioned.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HKN-FWNq0]Pilot's View of Airbus A380 approach and landing at San Francisco - YouTube[/ame]
 
Learn to fly a jet

Here is how to do it.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRTw3nLrkM4[/ame]




Wear is my parachute LOL
 
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BeckiGreen said:
Have you been using Flight Simulator since 2002? My husband hase used flight simulator since it first came out a long time ago. My husband has a yoke and rudder pedals,and 2 computers to run his flight sim. He is also getting his private pilots license. Do you fly in real life? Also in Smyrna,Tennessee we have the Smyrna air show. It's great!
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I've been using it since about 1986! When I was very little, friends and I would take turns pretending we were the pilot and the others were the passengers, with one of the very old versions Flight Simulator (where only Chicago and the Cessna 182 were available). I remember the younger of the two brothers bought into the fantasy so heavily he was terrified that if he left the room he'd fall out of the 'plane'!

I only have an old Cyborg 3D joystick and an Xbox 360 pad, I never did nor do now have the space for the proper yoke and pedals.

I've flown in real life with the Air Cadets here in Canada, and would love to get my PPL but just can't afford it. Air shows are great and you're lucky to have one right on your doorstep! I once waited over an hour after an airshow had ended at CFB Borden because the promised flypast of a CF-18 was arriving late and 10 year old me *had to* see it go past in the flesh!

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Last summer my best friend and I went to the CNE. There was a Canadian Forces display and I convinced her to line up with me (we were the only adults without kids) to have a chance to sit in an LAV-III. Once we were inside it, she loved it, and afterwards we sat in a mock-up of a CF-18 cockpit. It was amazing!
 
Jet fighter of the future



its sort of long but good.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nD63ctV0k[/ame]
 
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Alaska is a military state. The Air Force Base here had the A-10 Thunderbolt, the Warthog. It is an amazing craft. It is not pretty but says power in every way. They have a cannon on them that fires up to 4,200 round per minute. It carries a variety of bombs, air to surface missiles, and air to air missiles. It is heavily armored and has an 800 mile range. It flies around 700mph and looks like it is barely moving.
The jets are so powerful it can go from flying flat to turning on to its side with the wings completely perpendicular to the ground and just carry on looking like it should just fall out of the sky. Awesome. I feel like Alaska is much safer with a bunch of those around.
 
The depleted uranium rounds it fires from its Avenger cannon (like the P-39 above, it was built around this weapon) are the size of milk bottles.

It's a plane designed to blow up tanks using its gun. Amazing.

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I was thrilled to use it in the ground attack missions in Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 and kept on using it even when faster, nicer looking planes like the Rafale became available.
 
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