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Combat Warplanes / Re: English Electric Lightning
« on: February 09, 2014, 09:17:55 AM »
Great collection No.1 
Some from my collection, more to follow soon
Some from my collection, more to follow soon
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Warplane Art / Re: Blackburn Buccaneer
« on: February 07, 2014, 03:36:23 PM »
Now that I do like
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Combat Warplanes / Re: First flight trials of Taranis aircraft
« on: February 06, 2014, 07:57:33 PM »Thank you for this news mate. This platform did look sinister and as well so many team's are included in development, I guess it will be soon or later seen its operations service.
I think it will take a number of years before we see them in service, it just means less "real" pilots flying aircraft.
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Warplane Art / Re: Blackburn Buccaneer
« on: February 06, 2014, 05:29:33 PM »Laarbruch was not far from the East German border and for this reason two Buccaneers were on 24 hours alert armed with a WE.177A tactical nuclear bomb. They could be airborne within 15 minutes. It still was the Cold War!!
We were on exercise ever month for a week at a time, wearing your NBC suit 24/7 and on the last day, wearing your gas mask for at lease 12 hours, do I miss it, the answer is yes! great fun was had by all.
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Warplane Art / Re: Hawker Hunter
« on: February 06, 2014, 05:19:04 PM »
Love the Hunter, great topic No.1
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Combat Warplanes / First flight trials of Taranis aircraft
« on: February 06, 2014, 05:14:16 PM »
The most advanced aircraft ever built by British engineers made its maiden flight at an undisclosed test range on Saturday 10 August 2013 under the command of BAE Systems test pilot Bob Fraser. MOD has today revealed that the demonstrator aircraft made a perfect take-off, rotation, ‘climb-out’ and landing on its 15-minute first flight. A number of flights took place last year, of up to 1 hour in duration and at a variety of altitudes and speeds.
The Taranis demonstrator is the result of 1.5 million man-hours of work by the UK’s leading scientists, aerodynamicists and systems engineers from 250 UK companies.The aircraft has been designed to demonstrate the UK’s ability to create an unmanned air system which, under the control of a human operator, is capable of undertaking sustained surveillance, marking targets, gathering intelligence, deterring adversaries and carrying out strikes in hostile territory. The findings from the aircraft’s flights prove that the UK has developed a significant lead in understanding unmanned aircraft which can strike with precision over a long range whilst remaining undetected.
The technological advances made through Taranis will also help MOD and the Royal Air Force make decisions on the future mix of manned and unmanned fast jet aircraft and how they will operate together in a safe and effective manner for the UK’s defences. Costing £185 million and funded jointly by MOD and UK industry, the Taranis demonstrator aircraft was formally unveiled in July 2010, but only a very limited number of scientists and engineers have ever been given full access to the top secret aircraft.
Initial ‘power-up’ or ground testing commenced later in 2010 at BAE Systems’ military aircraft factory in Warton, Lancashire, followed by a comprehensive and highly detailed programme of pre-first-flight milestones. These included unmanned pilot training, radar cross-section measurements, ground station system integration and, in April 2013, taxi trials on the runway at Warton.
The aircraft and its ground station were then shipped from Warton to the test-range before being reassembled and undergoing systems and diagnostics checks. Taranis then made a number of high speed taxi tests in July before its maiden flight in August 2013.
Source - MOD
The Taranis demonstrator is the result of 1.5 million man-hours of work by the UK’s leading scientists, aerodynamicists and systems engineers from 250 UK companies.The aircraft has been designed to demonstrate the UK’s ability to create an unmanned air system which, under the control of a human operator, is capable of undertaking sustained surveillance, marking targets, gathering intelligence, deterring adversaries and carrying out strikes in hostile territory. The findings from the aircraft’s flights prove that the UK has developed a significant lead in understanding unmanned aircraft which can strike with precision over a long range whilst remaining undetected.
The technological advances made through Taranis will also help MOD and the Royal Air Force make decisions on the future mix of manned and unmanned fast jet aircraft and how they will operate together in a safe and effective manner for the UK’s defences. Costing £185 million and funded jointly by MOD and UK industry, the Taranis demonstrator aircraft was formally unveiled in July 2010, but only a very limited number of scientists and engineers have ever been given full access to the top secret aircraft.
Initial ‘power-up’ or ground testing commenced later in 2010 at BAE Systems’ military aircraft factory in Warton, Lancashire, followed by a comprehensive and highly detailed programme of pre-first-flight milestones. These included unmanned pilot training, radar cross-section measurements, ground station system integration and, in April 2013, taxi trials on the runway at Warton.
The aircraft and its ground station were then shipped from Warton to the test-range before being reassembled and undergoing systems and diagnostics checks. Taranis then made a number of high speed taxi tests in July before its maiden flight in August 2013.
Source - MOD
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Warplane Art / Re: Blackburn Buccaneer
« on: February 06, 2014, 11:24:58 AM »Thank you mate, I like to hear your personal info about this plane. I hope I will do two more profiles today and would like to hear your comments
At the time I was on II(AC) Sqn at RAF Laarbruch, our squadron was flying the Jaguar in the recce role with Nos.15 (known as XV) and 16 squadrons flying the Buccaneer. It was during my time that the Buccaneer was retired from the two squadrons and they went on to receive the Tornado GR.1
16Sqn
15Sqn
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Warplane Art / Re: Blackburn Buccaneer
« on: February 06, 2014, 11:01:25 AM »
Excellent colours on the S.2 No.1. I use to watch the Buccaneers taking off when I was stationed in Germany.
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Warplane Art / Re: Blackburn Buccaneer
« on: January 23, 2014, 05:24:05 PM »Interesting start! Just to inform you: I am working on a Warplane volume on the Buccaneer.Looking forward to it Nico.
Everything is more or less ready except for the final artwork.
Book is expected this spring! Book is already announced on the website of publisher Lanasta.
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Bf 109G-12 back in the air again!
« on: January 14, 2014, 08:45:05 PM »
Would love to see that fly 
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Hawker Typhoon IB Airfix 1/72
« on: January 06, 2014, 04:35:44 PM »
Looking very nice 