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[Dave6T4]

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Looks like a jet engine Hercules.

 

[Dave6T4]

Taken yesterday at the Hamilton Warbird Heritage Museum. Hamilton is Ontario, between Toronto and Niagara Falls. The pride of their collection is the one-of-two flying in the world Lancaster bomber. To support the work of the museum, they sell rides in their airplanes. A half hour ride in the Lancaster is merely $3600Can. My kids paid for a ride in their C-47, called a Dakota in Canada. Pictures of this on another thread.

 

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[Dave6T4]

More. 20 minute ride in the B-25 is $700Can. The C-47 was my ride at $275Can. for 1 hour flight. Although the Mitchell is painted with D-Day Invasion stripes, it was not actually part of this historic event. This Dakota was part, dropping paratroopers. It was a beautiful day yesterday, and museum personnel said they had 19 flights going in various historic aircraft. There were many more planes on the apron that I did not get a chance to photograph. One of the more affordable flights is $150Can. per seat in a Beachcraft Expeditor for 20 minute flight. My wife, who has never flown before, seemed interested in this one. Maybe her birthday present for next year.

 

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Nice...I see a couple of Avro Orenda powered aircraft there!

 

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[Photon440]

The other aircraft in that competition to replace the Hercules was the McDonnell Douglas YC-15. It used a DC-10 nose and cockpit and DC-8 front landing gear.

Not used in the intended role, it was developed further into the C-17 Globemaster.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Cuban Defector Flies Stolen An-2 To Florida​

By Russ Niles
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Published :October 23, 2022


A Cuban pilot defected to Florida on Friday but there won’t be much intelligence to be gleaned from the government aircraft he stole. The pilot, identified by a Spanish publication as Ruben Martinez, flew an ancient Antonov An-2 single-engine biplane at wavetop level before landing at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Everglades. “The pilot of the plane notified the Miami-Dade County tower at TNT Airport that he was low on fuel and had to land there minutes before he landed,” Greg Chin, the Miami-Dade Aviation Department’s communications director, told Local 10 news.

Martinez reportedly left El Cedro, Cuba at 7 a.m. and headed for Florida. “He told airport staff that he was a defector from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba,” Chin said. The TSA and Customs and Border Protection are, of course, interested in how the school-bus sized relic of the Soviet era was able to sneak through one of the most surveilled coastlines in the country. Martinez is being held by Customs officials. The aircraft is owned by a Cuban company called ENSA, which is a subsidiary of the government’s Cuban Aviation Corporation. It normally supplies crop-dusting aircraft but recently began carrying cargo.


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[Geff McCarthy]

Great photos of an air show or meet, probably in the 50s or early 60s when France was still in NATO! They left in 65, when i was a boy Lt just declared mission ready in the F-100. We routinely flew over France and there was a NATO gunnery range near Dijon, "Suippes". For extra credit, who can identify the big grey, high tailed jet? And in the first photo, the jet on the far end? !!

 

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[Richard Cranium]

Sent to me by a friend.

 

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[Dipstick]

This is a F-106 in the AF Museum that landed itself after the pilot ejected. The torn-up belly was repaired and the aircraft returned to service. The red arrows show where the new lower skins were spliced to the original uppers.