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Czech motorized glider L-13SE Vivat

My glider contribution,,caught him 2day.

Just another guy with a biplane...nothing interesting

Here are a couple from the Daytona 500 on Sunday before it was postponed to Monday due to rain. I was mainly focused on the cars and pit stuff but managed to capture Air Force One and and the F16 Thunderbirds as well.

Also one of the Goodyear blimp.

First time plane spotting.

Lubos-PM wrote in post #19011266
Czech motorized glider L-13SE Vivat

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Looks like a Blanik. I worked on a couple. Made a good fuselage out of two wrecked ones. Drilled out the rivets half way down the fuselage, stuck the good tail in place and all the rivet holes lined up great.
The guy running the glider rides towed with a Cessna 185 and when inspection time came around he asked to try to keep the costs down because he was on a shoe string budget. Later a tow line broke just after takeoff and the glider pilot had no choice but to try a turn back to the airport. She made the airport but tore up the glider on a mound of dirt left during a construction project. When I heard the news I suggested maybe they should tow with something other than a shoe string next time.

Tail feathers !

I caught this while out looking for birds.

F-16 flying past Chicago

A couple from a damp grey day at RAF Coningsby today

This guy flew over the pond where I was waiting for an eagle to show up.

Canon 90D

Ex R.A.F. Hunter called, if I remember correctly 'Indiscretion' and apparently a real cow to work on. If a panel was removed the cow was maiting up the colour for the screw heads! Owned by the now defunct Delta Jets on the ex MOD airfield Kemble. Contrary to beliefs it was never an R.A.F. station, no idea why?

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A couple from a damp grey day at RAF Coningsby today

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Great shots. Only one reheat working in the second ??

They fly around in pairs because one can read and the other one can write

It has always fascinated me in that in the early days the most difficulty part of supersonic jet aircraft wasn't the aerodynamics, but the engine air intakes and the air feed to the engines.

Jonzjob wrote in post #19032226
It has always fascinated me in that in the early days the most difficulty part of supersonic jet aircraft wasn't the aerodynamics, but the engine air intakes and the air feed to the engines.

Yeah, I recall from a website I used to frequent a few years ago, that was all about the Concorde, that this was a tremendous engineering challenge. IIRC the air would stall at or within the intakes.