Roy's pics from TV, etc

[Royzee617]

Thanks chaps.

I have some footage of them working on the 109 at Duxford somewhere... not sure if I remember it flying tho. By the way, compare and contrast teh start up technique with that of the other carrier plane, the Corsair in my video thread.

As regards the F111s in Oz, the country is huge so how come the Pigs are visible all the time? Heard somewhere their days are numbered... Oz jocks must have their eyes on the Siper Hornet!

 

[Royzee617]

Sorry to say I can't recall which TV doc (or vid) I got the Stringbag pix from (it must have been over a year ago).

Here are some I took back then.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice stuff Roy.

 

[Nonskimmer]

I like, I like.

 

[Royzee617]

Pix from the vaults today include Antonov's giant, B17 Sally B (taken by one of my friends years ago as she overflys (ex-RAF) station Finmere in the early 80s, wrecked Spitfire... shot up in a video you can see in one of my video threads.

 

[evangilder]

Nice!

 

[Gnomey]

Nice pics Roy!

 

[Royzee617]

Not off to a gig tonight - staying in to watch 4More's West Wing...

Here's a trio of fun pix: another of the Antonov, a Goalkeeper flak gun (?) and B17...

 

[Gnomey]

The Antonov is huge! But it is so awesome! Not many where built though, I think there are only 2 or 3 in existance.

 

[Royzee617]

More of the B17 from the same sequence.

Concorde in the mirage, the prototype Kestrel, a NASA B52 getting aloft.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice pics Roy!

 

[trackend]

Nice snippits Roy, all those Stringbags going in the drink what a waste.
Its not looking that good weather wise for Duxford tomorrow but it can change and at least I can get some good ground shots on the flight line.

 

[Nonskimmer]

Nice pics. The Antonov is really something else.

 

[Royzee617]

Best of luck at Duxford - the weather here in MK (40 miles west of Duxford) has been glorious today.... fingers crossed for tomorrow!

 

[trackend]

Nice pics. The Antonov is really something else.

I saw an artical in the railnews a couple of years ago Skim where a 115 ton loco was flown from Canada to Ireland onboard an Antonov

 

[Nonskimmer]

I think I remember reading something in the paper about that. Those An-225's are massive!

 

[Royzee617]

Plus, Pink Floyd got all their gear inside one for a concert in Europe I think it was Venice.

 

[Royzee617]

More shots from the TV including the early B17 and some odd looking pre-WW2 heavyweights.... any ideas?

 

[evangilder]

Roy, that first shot is a Martin B-10, not a B-17. Cool shots though.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Roy.