Acrobatics are what people do, aerobatics are what aircraft or aeroplanes (not “planes”) do.
Pedantic mode off, but the BBC should know better!
Is the French aircraft a Flamant?
I thought the Shackletons were bought by a private person – perhaps he abandoned them a long time ago.
Kaman also produced the forerunner of the Osprey – google up the Kaman 16B to see it – an incredible machine base of a Grumman Goose, with a tilting wing and two enormous propellers!
Kaman Huskie at MAM
Kamans, featured in the “other” magazine this month, by coincidence. Very ingenious, eliminating the tail rotor.
There’s one tucked away at MAM Baginton which I captured earlier this year:
Could be Ryanair’s next gimmick!
Courtesy of Aerofiles, the best quick reference source on the Web for American aircraft!
HUP-2, -2S 19?? = 550hp Continental R-975-42; rotor: 35’0″ length: 56’11” v: 105/x/0 range: 340. Autopilot. POP: 339 [128479/128600, 129418/129522, 129978/130085, 134434/134437], of which some with radar as HUP-2S for anti-sub warfare. Redesignated as UH-25B in 1962.
Piasecki HUP-2 Retriever, if I am not mistaken.
Yeovilton September 2005
Nice line-up from last year . . .
Bahrain 1968
Some nostalgic pix that always reawaken memories for me – mostly of those bl**dy flies! And the scorpions who lived under the 40 gallon diesel fuel drum for the Houchin that powered my personal UPS-1 radar set. Happy days!
Nice day out on HMS Nubian, though.
6 June was Sweden’s National day – we all got a holiday and there were blue and yellow flags everywhere!
Is St George’s day celebrated as a holiday in England? (I haven’t lived there for 30 years!)
6 June was Sweden’s National day – we all got a holiday and there were blue and yellow flags everywhere!
Is St George’s day celebrated as a holiday in England? (I haven’t lived there for 30 years!)
Just remembered that I chatted to an officer on HMS Munter who told me there were 8 crew on board. It reminded me of the 27XX series Air Sea Rescue boats I once worked on, doing radar repairs and maintenance, they were about the same size – but a lot faster, we could make 33 knots, but at that speed you had to hold on with both hands!
HMS (Swedish) Munter
Greetings again Ja!
Here she is just after firing a bunch of mortars (or dummies perhaps), they made some satisfying cracks, anyway. I just don’t understand why they use such little “bombs”, surely they can’t harm a submarine. Perhaps they are for scaring away Russian submarines, like the one that was stranded outside Stockholm some years ago!
Yes, I have been “around the block” a few times, among other things been resident in Bahrain (courtesy of Her Majesty, in the RAF), France, Italy and now Sweden (twice, totalling 30+ years). My work as a technical author and translator keeps me up to date with technology, but not much of a military nature these days.
Is this one? Taken at La Ferte Alais last year.
Varsagod! (or whatever you say way up there in the frozen North!)
Det var mitt nöje!