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stug3 · Jan 9, 2015

Maybe the same case with the Seafire?

Airframes · Jan 9, 2015

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 · Jan 10, 2015

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 · Jan 10, 2015

They still look good!

I think this is full size...

Airframes · Jan 11, 2015

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

Snautzer01 · Jan 11, 2015

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 · Jan 13, 2015

An Hs129 makes a low pass over the field

Wildcat · Jan 13, 2015

Great shots!

stug3 · Jan 14, 2015

Capt. Vick · Jan 14, 2015

What a brute!

Airframes · Jan 14, 2015

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 · Jan 14, 2015

HaHa, Good eye Airframes!

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Jan 14, 2015

Airframes said:
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 · Jan 14, 2015

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 · Jan 14, 2015

The tires on the main gear would be bullet proof.

Airframes · Jan 14, 2015

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 · Jan 14, 2015

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

Snautzer01 · Jan 17, 2015

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 · Jan 17, 2015

stug3 · Jan 18, 2015

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