sunday fantasy #173: Ben Procter
November 08, 2009, 9:16pm
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
[xplanes] [at] [hotmail] [dot] [co] [dot] [uk]
Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
nobody died! friday #35: Royal Air Force F-4 Phantom crashes after nose radome comes open in flight, 3rd June 1980
November 06, 2009, 7:39pm
nobody died! friday #33
“”Machine of F. J. Courtney, winner of the London Aerial Derby was slightly injured when his machine upset while he was making a landing at Hendon. The plane is shown in the picture taken immediately after the accident was turned over upside down. It is a Martynside Semi-quaver.”
November 06, 2009, 3:06pm
“Flight Sergeant James Hyde of San Juan, Trinidad, a Spitfire pilot who arrived in Britain in 1942 to begin his training, here pictured in 1944 with his Squadron’s mascot, a dog called ‘Dingo’
Took off at 1525hrs on 25 Sep 1944, tasked with providing aerial cover during the Battle of Arnhem. Killed in dog fight over Nijmegan..”
October 29, 2009, 12:23am
“31st May 1960: The SC1 vertical take-off and landing research aircraft, piloted by Tom Brooke-Smith of Short Brothers and Harland Limited, in flight at the Royal aircraft Establishment at Bedford.”
October 03, 2009, 5:53pm
on 11th August 1954 - just a week after it first flew - the English Electric P.1A became the first British aircraft to exceed Mach 1 in level flight
(the second prototype, the P.1B, became the first British aircraft to exceed Mach 2 on 25th November 1958)
October 02, 2009, 10:49pm
following on from the success of the Short S.B.5, the English Electric Company built three “proof-of-concept” prototypes for their proposed RAF front line fighter.
the P.1A, was the first prototype, and first flew on 4 August 1954
October 02, 2009, 9:01pm
