Planelopnik Facts

"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 05/30/2014 at 01:39 • Filed to: Planelopnik, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Boeing, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-17, Flying Fortress

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Fact: The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most aesthetically pleasing aircraft to ever fly.

vicariousILive > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 01:44

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Supposedly these are going to be at an airstrip in Utah this weekend, the Memphis Bell I believe it is. I'm out of town and would be a sight to behold. I hear for a cool 400 bucks you can go for a ride.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 01:50

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I provide a contender for the title of "most aesthetically pleasing"

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 01:53

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I am not going to argue with you. But it did take a few variants to get there. This is the C variant in service with the RAF.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 02:24

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These guys all beg to differ.

Bonus points to whoever can ID them, they're pretty obscure.

PowderHound > vicariousILive 05/30/2014 at 02:29

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Yup Memphis belle in heber. Possibly one of the last times it will be in flight? Can't remember my facts on that aspect

leicester > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 02:32

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Had one doing laps over Seattle lately. Those engines...

DuckDraper > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/30/2014 at 02:51

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All I know is the one on the bottom. It's Howard Hughes' right?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > DuckDraper 05/30/2014 at 03:04

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yes

Svend > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 04:45

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Aesthetically pleasing.

Blackburn Buccaneer

Handley Page Victor K2

AVRo Vulcan (this one XJ823 is the 'gate guard' at my city's airport), flypast of XH558.

f86sabre > PowderHound 05/30/2014 at 06:23

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it's not the actual Belle. That is at the USAF museum undergoing restoration.

f86sabre > ttyymmnn 05/30/2014 at 06:23

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I like the skinny tail variants.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/30/2014 at 06:36

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First 2 are de Havillands. 3 ?, 4 Hughes airspeed record plane.

Slave2anMG > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 07:19

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Because Boeing knows their shit. If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going.

Jayhawk Jake > DuckDraper 05/30/2014 at 07:39

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Top to bottom:

De Havilland DH-88 Comet. It ran some air races back in the 30s, notably the one pictured, named 'Grovsner House', won the London - Melbourne race

De Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide. It was an early airliner from the early 30s

Republic XF-12 Rainbow. A WWII concept reconnaissance plane. Probably failed because it lacked a 'Thunder'something name

Hughes H-1. Notable for being one of the first (if not the first) aircraft to use flush mounted rivets. Hughes set a couple speed records in the plane, landplane record at 352 mph and a transcontinental speed record of 7 hours and 28 minutes, an average of 322 mph

Jayhawk Jake > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 07:43

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It's got too many things sticking up off of it

The Compromiser > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 08:12

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I disagree with your statement, but accept your right to be wrong.

2222222222212 > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 08:43

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My favorite is either a P-38 Lightning, or simple planes like the T-6 trainer, Piper Cub, Beachcraft Bonanza.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 05/30/2014 at 10:52

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De Havilland DH.88 "Comet", D H Dragon Rapide (coolest aircraft name ever!), Republic XF-12 "rainbow", and of course the Hughes H-1

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > For Sweden 05/30/2014 at 16:26

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It's $450 to ride in one.....

http://www.collingsfoundation.org/cf_schedule-wo…

They'll be back in my neck of the woods at the end of August. I might just pull the pin. Plus the wife alluded to the fact it would be romantic.

Dually noted, waifu!

DuckDraper > Jayhawk Jake 05/30/2014 at 19:40

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Wow thanks for all that information! I chuckled at the rainbow name for that aircraft. It probably wasn't mainly enough for the testosterone fuled Air Force. It looks awesome though. Somewhat like a baby b29.