Planes you'd never heard of

I watched two contrails fly over that weren't showing on the app, they were obviously 'in formation'. They met a third larger trail that had been circling and was showing up as an RAF tanker.
 
bluesjnr said:
A beautiful plane and after the Vulcan and Avro Lancaster my third favourite.
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Wow! Those are my two favourites! Made a model of a Lanc when I was a kid. Would occasionally see a Vulcan at Manchester Airport (Ringway, as it was then). I think I recall seeing one at the Woodford air show.

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Belz... said:
I'm Canadian. We've heard of the Arrow and we still hate everyone over this issue.
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Yep.

When I was back in Canada a few weeks ago I went to an museum that has a lot of old military aircraft. They had an Arrow display. Obviously they didn't have an Arrow (I think they've all been destroyed?) but they did have an engine from one. A guy who worked there came over and started telling us about it, and he seemed pretty bitter about the whole affair.

The best part was when he thought that Canada should basically take credit for the Apollo program.

ETA The place (The Canadian Wartime Heritage Museum in Hamilton) is pretty cool. They regularly fly a lot of their aircraft, including a Lancaster that flew missions over Germany in WWII, and it's possible to book a seat on those flights. They also had a plane that dropped paratroopers on D-Day, and again they regularly fly it and take passengers.
 
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The Don said:
It's not often that I cannot immediately recognise a plane that flies around here, there isn't much variety. Yesterday I was at the cricket in Bristol and on the horizon I saw a medium/large sized four turboprop plane with a T-tail. Unfortunately by the time I got my binoculars, it had disappeared over the horizon....
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DHC-7? If it was red, it could be the one operated by the British Antarctic Survey.
 
Dash-7s are quite common, I think. Or they were.


Airbus A400-M?
 
The DO-31 was a cracker. Two Pegasus engines with a further 8 vertical mounter engines in the wingtip modules. Very clever beastie in a day of analogue flight control systems. I've seen the one at Friedrichshafen. There's another in Munich I believe.
 
Roboramma said:
ETA The place (The Canadian Wartime Heritage Museum in Hamilton) is pretty cool. They regularly fly a lot of their aircraft, including a Lancaster that flew missions over Germany in WWII, and it's possible to book a seat on those flights. They also had a plane that dropped paratroopers on D-Day, and again they regularly fly it and take passengers.
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Here: www.warplane.com

The Lancaster is only one of two still flying; the other's in the UK and doesn't take passengers. The other might be their C-47. They've also got a flying B-25 and a bunch of Harvards (the Canadian equivalent of the Texan).

Used to be my favourite place for air shows until they discontinued them (too low profit, a single rainy day on the two-day air show weekend could apparently put them in the red). Second best is the Brantford show in August (http://www.communitycharityairshow.com/) but the parking is horrible - when we went in 2017 it took two hours to get out of the parking lot after the show.
 
De Havilland Venom

Developed from the Vampire.

here we go with the navalised version the 'Sea venom' in Australian service.

 
A specific "airplane", the Zeppelin LZ 104. Specially adapted for its one-way mission, in 1917 it flew the longest unassisted military mission in history - 4,200 miles. Took only 95 hours non-stop.
 
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wobs said:
A prototype 36 motor, 5 seat air taxi:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48297440
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The pictures in that article don't really show the unusual design particularly well. It's an odd looking beast (Very KSP):

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This: http://www.xtiaircraft.com/trifan-600/, which I have mentioned before around here, seems to be aimed at the same market and, to my eyes, is much better looking.
 
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Anyone know what this one is?

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I caught a glimpse of this on a History Channel programme about the Battle of Britain. I don't recall seeing anything looking like this in that battle.
 
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