I was going to be ‘that guy’ and call for a ban on 3D renders in this thread. Instead, I’m going to take a different approach and be the change I want to see in the world:
So, the seats are side by side, but not the engines. Oh you silly brits…
Then again, I doubt the WSO would much approve of being arranged similar to the engines…
Not photo shop. a very famous true crash.
the very last photograph taken of XG332, in 1962, is deservedly the most famous one. How does someone manage to take a photograph like this? Planning, quick wits and a healthy dose of luck.
Jim Meads is the man who took the picture. He was a professional photographer who lived near the airfield, next door to de Havilland test pilot Bob Sowray.
So, the story goes: Bob Sowray mentioned to Jim Meads that he was going to fly the Lightning that day. When Meads took his kids for a walk, he took his camera along, hoping to get a shot of the plane.
His plan was to take a photograph of the children with the airfield in the background as the Lightning came in to land. They found a good view of the final approach path and waited for the Lightning to return.
As it happened, Bob Sowray didn’t fly the Lightning that day. The pilot was George Aird, another test pilot working for De Havilland.
George Aird was involved in the Red Top Air-to-Air Missile programme
The scar from the crash can still be seen
DO 24 Turboprop: Great Restomod, or greatest restomod?
#BWWWHHHAAAAAAAAA
PS: I challenge you to find a better ride for the MS Xmas Fly-in. Oh, your tomcat is “Any Time, Any Place Baby”? That’s cute, now STFU. DO24 doesn’t need your Neeemets class boat to operate from the substance covering 75% of the planet. DO24 is BYO CATOBAR.
Oh my that’s a beautiful bird. I wonder if it can profit from the Wing-in-ground-effect bonus when flying low over the water.
That first one looks like it could be one style for the player’s jump-ship in Destiny 1/2.
Two things this thread will never have enough of:
#BWWWHHHAAAAAAAAA
And Superfluous Shark Teeth paint jobs:
I jumped from the TST years ago! That picture is from Teuge!
The tailcode on that double decker is so fitting 
Awesome isn’t it. Im tempted to buy the one for DCS but everytime I nearly pulled the trigger I get @smokinhole’s voice in my head telling me it not as good as it could be lol
Flight sim wishlist: A right proper Gannet, for right proper cold-starts.
#(in harmony)BWWWHHHAAAAAAAAA
#TandemTuesday
To get things burning-and-turning, first one needed to cart-start the turbine powering the forward prop, and then windmill the second prop in the wash of the first, thus giving rotations needed to spool her up. If you don’t think that sounds like a fun thing to do, we can’t be friends.
Also, like the Tadpole and the warthog, she’s so fugly she’s beautiful!
Also posted in the cutout thread, but warrants re-posting as it makes for great reading:
https://www.faaaa.asn.au/heritage-fairy-gannet/
And a profile only the engineers mother could love. Uuuffff
Funny story:
At the Hahnweide air show my kids (and my wife actually too) were blown away (no, not literally) by the Gannet. It is HUGE. And it “has funny folded wings”. 
Its sound is also quite impressive!
The b-70 was astonishingly beautiful
It really was. It looks like a space ship.
