There were so many neat war plane designs of the 50s and 60s that never made it to volume production ... the BAC TSR-2, the Avro Canada Arrow ... we have our share here in the USA as well i.e. the NAA XB-70 Valkyrie and XF-108 Rapier... It's funny; it's the ones that were never produced in volume that seem to capture the imagination the most. :O
Best, Sean On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:58 AM, ANDY HOLT <andy.h...@tesco.net> wrote: > >>>> > I was born too late to see the SR-71 fly. I could still see a U-2 fly > though (those are also neat planes). There's so many cool planes, and > so little time to experience them all. (SR-71/A-12, U-2, B-52, CF-105, > Avro Lancaster, Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Messerschmitt > Bf 109, Avro Vulcan, Antonov An-225, Concorde, Mitsubishi A6M Zero, > North American P-51 Mustang, Junkers Ju 52... and that list is > incomplete.) > <<<< > > At RAF Duxford (less than an hours drive from my home) you can see > Concorde*, a SR-71, a Lancaster, a Vulcan**, one of the only two remaining > TSR-2s***, a Bf109**** and many many more. > > * This was flown in to the airfield but could never be flown out again > because the runway was then shortened for the building of the M11. > ** There's another Vulcan less than 10 miles from my home :) > *** If you think the SR-71 was killed-off with unseemly haste read the > history of the TSR-2 > **** I expect that quite a lot of Bf109s are currently being made > airworthy in time for the75th anniversary of AdlerTag … it quite surprised > me that there were more flyable than I might have guessed, but none in the > possession of the RAF or the Confederate Airforce - but I'd bet that the > Battle-of-Britain flight will have restored at least one from the RAF > museum soon. > OK - fun question, when was the last time that Bf109s and Spitfires were > in genuine aerial combat (and who flew which side)? > (Last time both were flying in close proximity was probably during the > making of the film "Battle of Britain" in 1968/9) > > Yes, I know this is OT - but does seem a popular thread. > > Andy > >
