Show your aircraft photos! (Airplanes, helicopters, blimps...)

[John King]

God, you must be about as old as I am I can still remember watching the moon landing on TV (as a YOUNG child !).

I can remember watching it (endlessly ... ) while stuck in Coffs Harbour, NSW with a broken crankshaft in my car. I was about 22 y.o.

The photos came to us all courtesy of Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT, and the Dish at Parkes, NSW.

 

[irishrover61]

God, you must be about as old as I am I can still remember watching the moon landing on TV (as a YOUNG child !).

I have a similar photo oriented on the nose with scorch marks etc. The guy we met at Atlantis was such a nice guy. If I remember correctly, he was in charge of vehicle readiness when the shuttle program was running. I can't recall his name of the top of my head, but he had a fantastic mustache and he gifted a special memorial coin to our daughter. What a great guy he was!

I missed out on seeing Discovery when we were in DC as we ran out of time and it had been moved from the Air and Space museum.

Actually, I grew up across the river from the space center and it was a lot more personal for me as my father was an engineer for NASA. He worked from the Redstone through the Shuttle programs.

My experience as a child was one of awe and intrigue. Back in the day during the Apollo missions, the LEM and the rover were assembled at the center and I actually was able to witness what it took produce that equipment. Actually was able to witness the assembly of the Saturn rocket and was privileged to watch a roll out of the rocket on its trip to the pad. Those memories are seared into my memory and have never forgot those experiences.

 

[Brownie]

That's a tough act to follow! I did see Apollo 16 launch in person.

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

That's a tough act to follow! I did see Apollo 16 launch in person.

I was in the movie studio for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

 

[Brownie]

I was in the movie studio for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

Were there any black helicopters there?

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

Were there any black helicopters there?

No helicopters that I saw, but loads of lizard people.

 

[Brownie]

No helicopters that I saw, but loads of lizard people.

At the studio?

 

[John King]

No helicopters that I saw, but loads of lizard people.

At the studio?

Maybe lounge lizards ... ?

 

[Brownie]

I think Harvey was dipping into the lysergic in the 60's...

 

[Barking]

Airbus G-EUOE A319-131

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From an investigation of an accident in 2013...."An Airbus A319-131, G-EUOE, was damaged in an accident at London-Heathrow Airport (LHR), U.K. None of the 75 passengers and five crew members were injured.
British Airways flight BA762 departed runway 27L on a scheduled service to Oslo, Norway. At that moment, the fan cowl doors from both engines detached, puncturing a fuel pipe on the right engine and damaging the airframe."

 

[Don W]

Don't see many pontoon-equipped aircraft around here, more common in the northern states.

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[AlterKnabe]

Coffeebreak - Seen at an air show for model airplanes

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[OldRex]

Float plane capital of the world... taken sometime after about 11:00pm i think

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[peter124]

UFO on the last picture?

 

[Brownie]

1926 Ford Flivver. Flown only by Ford's test pilot and Charles Lindbergh.

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P1061811 by telecast, on Flickr

 

[OldRex]

UFO on the last picture?

I think I posted that one in another UFO thread, but no. Just a plane taking off.

 

[Brownie]

1927 Boeing 40-B2, #285. This airplane crashed four times though there were never any injuries to the pilot or passengers. It was built as a Model 40, then upgraded to a B, then a B2, and was donated to the museum in 1938. Seems like an awful lot for 11 years!

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P1061822 by telecast, on Flickr

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

Wish I thought to adjust my shutter speed to get some propeller blur, but had everything set up for birds when this bird (osprey) flew by -

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[John King]

Wish I thought to adjust my shutter speed to get some propeller blur, but had everything set up for birds when this bird (osprey) flew by -
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Pregnant guppy, Chris?

Looks to be a very practical design to me.

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

Looks to be a very practical design to me.

You haven’t seen the half of it!