Photo Album: "Scary looking airplanes"

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“Planes that would make me get a nightmare if I saw them alone in the dark”

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Photo ID: 1234479

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Falcon Airways
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair

In Flight
UK - England, May 1979

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N80FA (cn 10273/7) Working at Southend Airport in the 'Seventies produced some great opportunities. Just before N80FA departed on its ferry flight to Texas, I was able to fix up an air-to-air session from Cessna 172 G-ATLN. We flew as fast as possible, the Carvair as slow as it could with everything down. I can still hear those P&Ws roaring over the sound of my open window and the general racket in the Cessna. I even sold my car to one of the Falcon directors who duly loaded and flew home to the States with it - truly Car-via-air as Freddie Laker originally intended. This aircraft crashed in Alaska in 1997 as N103; another of the few remaining Carvairs suffered a similar fate up there in May 2007, so now only two survive.

Photo ID: 1970897

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Untitled
BACC H-250 Tri-Gear (L-18)

Miami - Opa Locka (OPF)
USA - Florida, February 2, 1981

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N6711 (cn 18-2484) Converted from USAAF C-60A (Lockheed 18-56) 42-56011 by Howard including replacing the tailwheel by tricycle undercarriage.

Photo ID: 1290473

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Germany - Army
Vertol (VFW) H-21C Shawnee (44)

Itzehoe - Hungriger Wolf (EDHF)
Germany, 1964

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QK-571 (cn WG32/478)

Photo ID: 0979918

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UK - Air Force
BAC TSR-2

Duxford (EGSU)
UK - England, December 16, 2005

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XR222 (cn XO-4) Seen on the active ramp prior to being moved to the £25 million AirSpace Museum hangar. The aircraft had just been rolled out after completion of an 18 month restoration programme. The aircraft was the forth production airframe and was incomplete when the project was cancelled. It was allocated to the Cranfield Institute of Technology prior to being transferred to the Imperial War Museum.

Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation

Photo ID: 1090456

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Miles M-64

Woodley
UK - England, 1948

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U6 Prototype U-0253 (later U-6) first flown at Woodley on June 3, 1945. Scrapped at Woodley not long after this photo was taken

Photo ID: 0190550

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USA - Air Force
Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

Off-Airport - Fort Eustis
USA - Virginia, March 1981

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59-4975 Built jointly by USA and Canada for the US Airforce & US Army. Proved to be very unstable over anything other than level terrain. Seen here at the Fort Eustis Army Transportation Museum.

Photo ID: 1038802

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Russia - Air Force
Tupolev Tu-95MS

Monino
Russia, July 2005

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31 18mm is not enough to get this beast in full frame

Vala - Russian AviaPhoto Team

Photo ID: 0133759

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Atlant
Myasishchev VM-T Atlant

Moscow - Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) (UUBW)
Russia, June 1996

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RF-01502 This plane is used to transport the bigger parts for the russian spacecraft. An-225 now replaces VM-T as such transport.

Dietmar Schreiber - VAP

Photo ID: 0529794

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TIFS - Total In-Flight Simulator
Convair 580 TIFS

Santa Barbara - Municipal (SBA / KSBA)
USA - California, Early 1970's

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N21466 (cn 466) Wow...weirdest looking airplane ever? Make that 2 of the weirdest looking aircraft ever, together in one shot. The Convair has a 707 nose attached for experimental purposes

Photo ID: 0003214

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Germany - Air Force
Dornier Do-31E

Oberpfaffenhofen (OBF / EDMO)
Germany, Unknown

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D-9530 (cn E-1)

Photo ID: 0909032

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Atlant
Myasishchev VM-T Atlant

Moscow - Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) (UUBW)
Russia, August 18, 2005

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RF-01502 (cn 9301502) One of two specially created planes for transporting soviet shuttle "Buran" and large elements of "Energiya" rocket from plants to launch pad. Converted from 3MN-2 (Bison-B) strategic bomber and first flew in April 1982. This aircraft is fitted with "3GT" payload which is the nose and tail's fairing for the "Energiya" fuel tank. Both VM-Ts were used in 1982-1988 and performed about 150 flights. MAKS 2005

Photo ID: 0242382

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CAAC
Ilyushin (VEB) Il-14P

Xian - Xiguan (SIA / ZLXG) (closed)
China, August 1984

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666 (cn 14803050) The Devil's own transport

Photo ID: 0392878

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Hamilton Helicopter

Off-Airport - Baltimore
USA - Maryland, December 8, 1947

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NC41970 This photo was taken by my Grandfather. He was one of the engineers that designed this aircraft. This is the first prototype and it was actually flown by Igor Sikorsky on a test flight. Never went in to production. This may be the only photo that exists of this helicopter. I have newspaper and company documentation telling the story of this aircraft. 6005 Eastern Ave, Baltimore.

Photo ID: 0932589