Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
I grew up near Leuchars airbase – I remember seeing the decidedly Cobra-esque Vulcan bombers rumbling past.
In my University years I'd work on a farm over the summer in Lincolshire and I remember one afternoon when a Vulcan (possibly the Vulcan, given there is only one flying) flew over the farm at a fairly sedate pace and circled the fields where I was working a few times.
Simply an amazing sight, everyone stared at it in awe. Truly a majestic aircraft.
And as we're linking piccies of our fav planes in flight, here's one of the Typhoon. Sadly I couldn't find a picture with the classic sharks tooth motif over the ram intake, that makes the plane very reminiscent of the Python Class Cruiser.
I was trying to get the background info on the actual plane, wondering if it was the same plane as in the painting Diziet Sma posted. I don't recognise the language:
I was trying to get the background info on the actual plane, wondering if it was the same plane as in the painting Diziet Sma posted. I don't recognise the language:
Different aircraft - or at least different variants of the Mosquito - things of note - painting - cowling over engine exhausts funnel hot gases backwards to aid thrust - in photo exhausts are uncowled and straight down. In painting, four cannons on the nose, in the picture it is still set up to have an observer (for its bombing role) in the nose.
Not that long ago I could have told you, or at least dug out the right books to look up the models/variants, but they're "put away" and not currently easy to get to.
Yeah but...I'm thinking the painting is imagined in combat mode, and possibly quite old. The photo is clearly quite new and there would probably have been retro-fitting to keep it flying. The cannon would have been removed, I reckon.
However, I'm no expert.
Strange that it popped-up on Japanese Wiki. It's just recently been blogged on Yahoo Japan.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
Yeah but...I'm thinking the painting is imagined in combat mode, and possibly quite old. The photo is clearly quite new and there would probably have been retro-fitting to keep it flying. The cannon would have been removed, I reckon.
However, I'm no expert.
Strange that it popped-up on Japanese Wiki. It's just recently been blogged on Yahoo Japan.
Synchronicity! I was just on that site, but hadn't thought to look at the models page. Very interesting. I was delving through the many variations and test models.
That led me to dig deeper into the P-51D. It's perfect for Oolite: The K-14 gun sight was introduced in October of 1944 to the -20NA and later blocks. This new gun sight helped the pilots score more hits especially in higher deflection angle attacks. The K-14 utilized an analog computer. The pilot had to dial in the wingspan of the enemy aircraft and the range. Then all he had to do (sounds easy) was to put the enemy aircraft in the gun sight and pull the trigger.
Regards
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
Yeah but...I'm thinking the painting is imagined in combat mode, and possibly quite old. The photo is clearly quite new and there would probably have been retro-fitting to keep it flying. The cannon would have been removed, I reckon.
However, I'm no expert.
This 418 Sqn. R.C.A.F. (City of Edmonton) De Havilland Mosquito VI was flown by Russ Bannock DFC.The aircraft received the nose character “Hairless Joe”, an Al Capp cartoon character from the “Li’lAbner Dog Patch” series.Russ Bannock was credited with 25½ victories and 418 was the highest scoring Canadian Squadron during WWII accounting for the destruction of 178 enemy aircraft.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
I doubt it, the shark motif has been used on planes for decades before the A-10 appeared. If I could find a picture of a Typhoon (or Tempest) with the Shark's motif, it would make more sense.
Found one - only not entirely sure this is a Typhoon, could be a Hawker Tornado, but you get the general idea.
