The Aviation Thread [Contains Lots of Awesome Pictures]

[Correspondent75]

Tu95 power....

 

[Nugget]

Wow.

 

[Heathrow]

Amazing how an airplane set the record nearly 20 years before its own first flight!

Yeah, all that amazing new technology, like fly-by-wire.
Well that or a typo, anyway.

:lol:

 

[jasonof2000]

Tu95 power....

And yet it is so noisy that submarines can hear them coming...

 

[KaJuN]

Finalgear group buy?

 

[Heathrow]

Finalgear group buy?

Hmmmm?

Yeah, OK!

(Can you keep it at your place in Suffolk? )

 

[PelicanHazard]

Finalgear group buy?

I'd love it if it had the winglets of an MD-11, but those big-ass windows will have to do.

 

[geekindisguise]

May I also ask for a digitized copy of the sled driver? Thanks!

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May I also ask for a digitized copy of the sled driver? Thanks!

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It was a combination of OCR and editing, i rearranged the book a bit to fit a pdf/tablet layout, all of the formatting i tried to copy as much from the original but it was tedious and slow going

May I also request for a digitized copy of the sled driver? Thanks

 

[Copycat]

 

[SpitfireMK461]

That is an epic sound and an epic sight.

 

[Hatmouse]

 

[Correspondent75]

Is that from an album of Tintin?

Edit :
I've found it : "vol 714 pour Sidney"

 

[Hatmouse]

Is that from an album of Tintin?

Edit :
I've found it : "vol 714 pour Sidney"

One of my favourite Tintin's ever, just because of that jet.

 

[Nocturnal]

From the desert earlier this year:
http://img713.imageshack.**/img713/4738/sunsettyphoon.jpg

 

[RdKetchup]

Beautiful!

Would it be possible to have a copy in wallpaper resolution?

 

[Nocturnal]

Unfortunately not; although I took the picture the Crown holds copyright. I'm only allowed to share it under the open-Government licence, which unfortunately is restricted to low-res. Frustrating I know, but you should see some of the shots I'm not even allowed to release at all!

 

[Viper007Bond]

Unfortunately not; although I took the picture the Crown holds copyright. I'm only allowed to share it under the open-Government licence, which unfortunately is restricted to low-res. Frustrating I know, but you should see some of the shots I'm not even allowed to release at all!

That's quite odd. I like how the US Government approaches these things -- we (the taxpayers) are footing the bill therefore we own it (for non-commercial use). That means lots and lots of gorgeous, insanely high resolution photos for us to play with.

 

[jack_christie]

Boeing 787 Dreamliner
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel...hould-allow-it-back-in-the-skies-8564660.html

[video=youtube;tbd0mq8-iJE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tbd0mq8-iJE[/video]

 

[flyinhawaiian]

That looks like how I feel a few hours after eating Mexican food...

 

[Nocturnal]

That's quite odd. I like how the US Government approaches these things -- we (the taxpayers) are footing the bill therefore we own it (for non-commercial use). That means lots and lots of gorgeous, insanely high resolution photos for us to play with.

Unfortunately, the way the RAF as a whole handles its PR is "poor" at best; we spend most of our time battling civilian photographers for what is inherently work in our remit.

The RAF do occasionally release high resolution imagery which is all completely free, but that's the decision of the folks in London and not the guys who take them. All we can do is share them once they've already become open-source. It has to be said, the Royal Navy and British Army are leagues ahead of us in terms of the way they handle their media footprint.