What’s the unusual plane in your set with the RAF roundels? ( and maple leafs and tricolours!)
Patrick
Here she is, the first "single" jet engine fighter flying with the first "multi" engine fighter, Me 262 (if I recall correctly, the Vampire did not enter service until after WWII):
I think Heinkel and the Luftwaffe may have beaten DeHavilland to the single engine jet fighter.
Not looking for an argument but the Heinkel 162 flew in Dec 1944. A single engine jet fighter. Not sure just how active it was in service but it must have preceded the Vampire.
Anyway, minor point, (pedantic details), great shot and I have to admire the people that produce and keep these aircraft in the air.
In that vein, the other day a friend sent me a photo of an aircraft that I have in my logbook from training in 1959.
It is an RCAF Chipmunk now owned by the son of a Squadron mate of mine from the early sixties. He, (the son), is a skipper for American as was his dad.
It would be neat to get a ride in it and put it in my logbook some sixty odd years later.
Heck,I would settle for a photograph sitting in it. Darn Covid or I could give it a try.
Lotuselite wrote:
I think Heinkel and the Luftwaffe may have beaten DeHavilland to the single engine jet fighter.
Not looking for an argument but the Heinkel 162 flew in Dec 1944. A single engine jet fighter. Not sure just how active it was in service but it must have preceded the Vampire.
Anyway, minor point, (pedantic details), great shot and I have to admire the people that produce and keep these aircraft in the air.
In that vein, the other day a friend sent me a photo of an aircraft that I have in my logbook from training in 1959.
It is an RCAF Chipmunk now owned by the son of a Squadron mate of mine from the early sixties. He, (the son), is a skipper for American as was his dad.
It would be neat to get a ride in it and put it in my logbook some sixty odd years later.
Heck,I would settle for a photograph sitting in it. Darn Covid or I could give it a try....Show more →
Guess I shouldn't take the air show announcer comments as fact. I forgot about the He162. Thanks for the correction! Don't think I will ever get a photo of the Me 262 and He 162 in formation...
Ray Swindle wrote:
Here she is, the first "single" jet engine fighter flying with the first "multi" engine fighter, Me 262 (if I recall correctly, the Vampire did not enter service until after WWII):
A tight crop one of the shots from last week. I was inverted.....
I am done with airshows for this year. I have already written down the dates of all the BA and TB shows in 2022 in our region (300 miles radius). There 7 or 8 of them.
Douglas L wrote:
A tight crop one of the shots from last week. I was inverted.....
I am done with airshows for this year. I have already written down the dates of all the BA and TB shows in 2022 in our region (300 miles radius). There 7 or 8 of them.
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Doug, unbelievable shot! What is really amazing is that even at a shutter speed of 1/3200, the opposing aircraft is still blurred! That gives you the scale of the combined pass speed. Was this at Orange County Airport?
chas wrote:
Doug, unbelievable shot! What is really amazing is that even at a shutter speed of 1/3200, the opposing aircraft is still blurred! That gives you the scale of the combined pass speed. Was this at Orange County Airport?
Chas
Thank you Chas! Yes, it was at the Orange County show. I think the opposing jet is blurred because of the depth of field at the long focal length, other than the shutter speed, IMHO.
Ray Swindle wrote:
de Havilland Vampire. One of the first single engine jet fighters.
Ray
Thanks Ray!
Even if it wasn’t the very first single engine jet fighter is was fascinating to google it.
It looked vaguely familiar to me as a Brit but I had no idea about the details.
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