Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

The gun is mounted slightly to the port side so that the active firing cannon barrel is at the 9 o'clock position and on the aircraft's centre line, with the front landing gear positioned to the starboard side.

A large, heavy and old-fashioned but dependable and robust piece of Anglo-American engineering - rapidly becoming obsolete but still loved by those who used them... and an F-4J Phantom



Yes, in the midst of all the doom and gloom surrounding Bruntingthorpe, the future is at least looking bright for some other neglected airframes.
ZE360 was taken on by the British Phantom Aviation Group a while ago now and has slowly been being dismantled to evacuate DFTDC Manston before it closes for good. After 20 years outside in the seaside air it has been putting up a fight!
When restrictions have allowed I've been helping mechanically and logistically, and managed to capture the above sunset snap during a weekend visit.

Sea Vixen FAW.2 XJ491 H/250 of 893 NAS ready to be catapulted from HMS Hermes in 1969

Sorry no pic, but I was re-watching the "The Italian Job" on Xmas and didn't recognise the aircraft that the gold was delivered to Turin in.
4-prop freighter - What was it?

Eric?

Very rare pic of the Sukhoi T4 in flight

Excuse my ignorance, but what is "that"? Is it sand hitting the rotor blades? It kinda looks like the bioluminescence you get when diving.

St Elmo's Fire (which was also a cracking song)..

I've seen St Elmo's many times from the flight deck. Pretty sure you need positively (or negatively?) charged clouds hitting the airframe to achieve that though?

Just reading the above linked Wiki on The Kopp–Etchells effect - "The effect is often and incorrectly believed to be an electrical phenomenon, either as a result of static electricity as in St. Elmo's Fire"

That's cool

Pity it wasn't a Focke Wulf Fw200 Condor - then you could say the Condor was brought down by some Condor (ready-rubbed).