On The Deck

[stug3]

Maybe the same case with the Seafire?

 

[Airframes]

No, the Seafire is real, taken at Duxford by the look of the background. The pilot is sitting high in his seat, and wearing what looks like a Mk4 jet pilot's helmet, making him look bigger.

 

[GrauGeist]

It is, in fact, a 90% scaled replica (and a damn-good one at that) and the info is:
Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Mk26B 19-5410 c/n 068, built in 2007

Here's a much better photo of it at YWSG (apparently taken at the same time as the one I posted above, by a different photographer)

 

[Graeme]

They still look good!

I think this is full size...

 

[Airframes]

Great shot!
And yes, it's the Duxford- based Historic Aircraft Company MkV.

 

[Snautzer01]

Low-level 'beat-up'. A Halifax II, JB911/KN-X of No 77 Squadron roars low over an audience of appreciative 'erks' during air tests at Elvington, Yorkshire, July 1943.

 

[GrauGeist]

An Hs129 makes a low pass over the field

 

[Wildcat]

Great shots!

 

[stug3]

 

[Capt. Vick]

What a brute!

 

[Airframes]

Composite shot, using a model. Look at the landing gear main doors, the tail wheel, landing lamps and, of course, the prop. the latter is stationary, and has been 'blurred' in 'Photoshop' or a similar programme.
It's well done and effective though.

 

[stug3]

HaHa, Good eye Airframes!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Composite shot, using a model. Look at the landing gear main doors, the tail wheel, landing lamps and, of course, the prop. the latter is stationary, and has been 'blurred' in 'Photoshop' or a similar programme.
It's well done and effective though.

I saw this one on Tumblr the other evening and it didn't look quite right, but I didn't spend a much time looking at it.

 

[GrauGeist]

Agreed, the blurred prop kind of ruins an otherwise good composite image.

And just imagine how much those main-gear doors would weigh if those were real!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The tires on the main gear would be bullet proof.

 

[Airframes]

The other 'giveaway' is the background. Although the lighting is fairly close in regards to the background photograph and the model, and the pose is quite realistic, the landscape immediately indicates that the photo was taken in Autumn, or perhaps just before spring, with the trees being bare of foliage, and the grass pale.
By that period of 1944, or early 1945, the Typhoons, and other Allied aircraft would not normally be wearing full AEAF stripes, just lower fuselage stripes, if any - and they certainly wouldn't be clean, neat and tidy.
But as I stated earlier, overall it's well done.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Well I'll be damned...will you look at that

 

[Snautzer01]

did we see this one yet?

The photo caption says (in VO): "Lower than a snake." This is not entirely true but it really should not go lower ... at least without leaving something. Republic P-47N-15-RE "Thunderbolt" # 44-88908, date and place unknown.

 

[Wurger]

 

[stug3]