Planes!

[Staggerwing]

I have it on DVD. It's wonderfully stupid.

[BanzaiCat]

1941 is a fantastic movie. It saddens me when I find people have not heard of it.

[mirth]

It's very under rated. It gets a little more love today than it did when it was originally released

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-1941-spielberg-20150319-story.html

I must have watched it a dozen times or more when I was a kid. It was a Movie Channel staple.

[Capn Darwin]

1941 is a classic. Seen it way too many times and will see it more I'm sure.  O0

[mirth]

A-6E Intruder of Attack Squadron (VA) 52 on final approach for recovery on the snow-covered flight deck of USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) operating in the Bering Sea,  Jan. 21, 1987.



http://theaviationist.com/2014/01/25/a6-landing-carrier-snow/

This is a picture of me and my B/N landing on the USS Carl Vinson in 1987 in the Bering Sea.

We were launched early in the morning to do a weather recon. They shot
us off the pointy end with more airframe icing than I had ever seen
on an aircraft. During our preflight, I called the Air Boss to discuss
this with him and his answer was, "We will just give you a few extra
knots of end speed, man up your aircraft." I anticipated that we would be very close to stall AOA when they shot us (the needle initially pegged) so I was prepared to
nurse it until we slowly accelerated and started our ascent.

We pickup up a considerable amount of icing during our climb-out. The tops were above
20,000 feet if I recall correctly. We stayed above the clouds for close
to an hour while the ice sublimated from the airframe. We then did a
high speed penetration with the speedbrakes fully extended to descend
below the icing as quickly as possible to a Case 3 recovery.

I can remember breaking out of the clouds and not seeing anything other than a
completely white flight deck. You could not see a defined landing
area. The only guidance for lineup was the faint strobe of the
centerline lighting sparkling through the ice on the flight deck. We
recovered on our first pass and flight ops were ceased for the remainder
of the day. I'm not certain but I think this might have been the only
time on our 1986 Cruise that our Airwing had one event on the flight schedule
for the day.

[mirth]

A Leoning OL-8 flies over USS Lexington (CV-2), Dec. 1928. The two-star fuselage placard and wing-strut pennant signify that this plane is the command aircraft of RADM Joseph M. Reeves. Location unknown.

[Centurion40]

1941 is a classic. Seen it way too many times and will see it more I'm sure.  O0

Fave Spielberg pic of all time!!  O0

[besilarius]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFAbHGAh7g

Horry Wood!!!

[Staggerwing]

A Leoning OL-8 flies over USS Lexington (CV-2), Dec. 1928. The two-star fuselage placard and wing-strut pennant signify that this plane is the command aircraft of RADM Joseph M. Reeves. Location unknown.

Interesting rigging on the top wing. Looks like some kind of radio antenna array.

[mirth]

I think it is. It's a special setup as a command plane.

[mirth]

Handley Page Halifax B Mark III Series 1As of No. 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit undergo maintenance at night in a T2 Type hangar at Rufforth, Yorkshire, c1943.

[Centurion40]

Great pic!!  O0

[mirth]

Mitsubishi XF-2A test aircraft carrying experimental XASM-3 anti-ship missiles and other weapons.

[mirth]

The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229, German prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in the war. Pictured is Ho229 V3, the third prototype that was unfinished. It is being restored at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.



Full gallery here:

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19600324000

[Staggerwing]

^There was a great NOVA episode (or maybe it was NatGeo?) about the serendipitous stealth capabilities of the 229. A bunch of engineers who specialize in building radar cross-section models built a full size mockup of the Horton jet with internal components designed to simulate the metal in the engines.  While it was no F-117 the tests showed that it would have a notable detection range advantage against Britain's Chain Home system.

IIRC, the ep was titled something like 'Hitler's Stealth Fighter'.