Post pics of different planes that you come across, share stories or history.
Here's one for you to enjoy,

chl




Blackburn Cubaroo T.4 (1924) - single-engine, four-seat large biplane torpedo bomber; Blackburn Velos T.3 (1925) - single-engine, two-seat biplane bomber floatplane;

Luke keep the post up I will figure out how to post pictures sooner or
later ,hopefully this wkend. Then Watch out... Till then, Hey Paul how
Bout chimming here with some good ones?

Very nice. It has a vintage feel just by looking at the photo.

I enjoy when someone thinks "outside of the box":

That kanda looks like my 1st plane Paul, they shoot the ring they get the plane

Leroy Grumman designed this portly biplane fighter for the United States Navy. Grumman had already made a steady image for his company with the design of the FF-1, a similar two-seat biplane fighter that proved quite the speedy performer for the time. As such, the United States Navy had little reservation when it awarded Grumman a contract for his new XF2F-1. 55 Total F2F-1 production fighters were eventually delivered. An initial order of 54 was augmented by one to replace an F2F-1 that had crashed. By today standards, the F2F served a short operational life serving from 1935 into 1940, no doubt overtaken by the more advanced systems appearing in war time America. First flight of the system was achieved on October 31st, 1933 with deliveries beginning on January 19th, 1935. Design was handled by Leroy Grumman himself.


YOU'VE COME ALONG WAY BABY!

Nice planes, love the unusual and the evolution from old to new..........
Can't wait to see more of both.

chl

These are T-6 Texans. I'm in the front seat of the Army one. The picture was taken from a camera mounted on the wing tip. I had control of the plane (with the exception of take off and landing) and had just dove down from 8000ft to 4000ft, did a barrel roll around the Navy plane and tucked in next to it for this picture. The instructor in the rear seat was all over the controls to keep me "honest" and to prevent me from loosing control but he let me perform the maneuver. I even got a video of the one hour flight shot from the three cameras that were mounted on the wing tip, tail and instrument panel. I have other still shots of the plane inverted during a loop and going vertical to perform a hammer head(which you can see me almost puke from in the video! ) best b-day present I've ever gotten!!

That's a wow Jimbo... Very awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Very cool