#carrier plane

[admiralnelsoniii]

The Fairey Swordfish. Affectionately called the "Stringbag" by pilots was the last operational biplane in history. A carrier launched torpedo plane, the Swordfish carried out a few very important operations, including the attack on the Italian Mediterranean fleet and in crippling the mighty Bismarck's rudder, allowing HMS King George V to finish her for good. Finally avenging the HMS Hood's terrible loss.

#ww2 art #ww2 #history #wwii #art #artwork #warbird #warship #fighter #panzervor #hmskinggeorgev #hms hood #bismarck #swordfish #fairey swordfish #carrier plane #HMS illustrious #hms ark royal

[aviationgeek2024]

#military #aviacion #aviación #aircraft #aircraft carrier #airplane #planes #airport #flying #military aircraft #usaf #aviation history #fighter jet #helicopter #aviation photography #jet #jet fighters #aviation #military planes #tumblr milestone

[terkmc]

ASV "Condor"

Air-to-Air Support/Transport

and thats the last of the frames I was commed for the supplement

#art #lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #character design #mech #mecha #lancer #scifi #my art #mechanical #robot #plane #vtol #carrier

[andr0nap]

please please PLEASE tell us about your plane au, ive been SO curious about it 👀

theres like a lot and not that much going on in it, youd have to be specific bc i suck at giving general summaries of my aus

buuut the basic gist of it is that wolfwood finds a plane wreck on a scrapyard in nowhere, middle-of dating back to the space-faring age and decides to either try to fix it or sell the parts

over time he discovers that its not a normal jet and befriends the suspiciously human-sounding co-pilot ai thats been hellbent on gaslighting him into believing that hes a good person capable of kindness and deserving of love

somewhere down the line the peacemaker gets fixed enough to fly, crashes again and gets recovered by the bernardelli crew, the grand reveal happens and the ai turns out to be a plant guy that got fused into the engine and took over the whole thing, turning the plane into a biomechanical eldritch monstrosity

shenanigans ensue-

#ask #untitled plane au #the general conflict kinda follows the stampede canon #wolfwood works as a mercenary pilot for the eye #bernardelli is a logistics company and the gang work on an air base and later get a wholeass sand-cruising aircraft carrier #vash took a 100 year long nap after getting shot out of the sky by nai and got his ass glued to the seat #knives is being knives but now he can fly at mach 5 #i call his jet the popemobile

[nocternalrandomness]

1948 F8F Bearcat at the Camarillo Airshow

#Grumman #F8F #Bearcat #Vintage aircraft #WW2 fighter #USN #Carrier fighter #warbird #fighter aircraft #plane #prop #airshow

[thestarwarslesbian]

Okay but why does Iceman seem like he reads romance novels.

He seems like he would read a lot on carriers and on leave. Everyone including Slider thinks he reads action and true crime novels. I have this idea in my head that Ice would be reading at a social event like a medal cerimony that the '86 gang would all be at and there he would be reading his hardback novel with no name on it. Ice would probely leave for a few minutes to get food or go speak with someone and Mav and the others would grab his book to see what he was reading, and behold they look apon the sumttiest romance book any of them have read. But funny thing would be that Ice has read books that are more sumtty and dark conent wise. Ice is able to keep a straight face while reading it but the rest of the gang turn beatroot read after a single sentnece.

#mav would want to try some of the ideas from the books with ice later #this would also be how they found out he was gay #due to him probely reading a gay smut book on a carrier and leaving it open in his plane after being the spare one mission #top gun headcanons #iceman #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #maverick #top gun #iceman reads romance novels #icemav #but only if you squint #gay iceman

[thatsrightice]

THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ROCK

Saw this video on tik tok and loved it so much. Of course I immediately knew it wasn’t an aircraft carrier, but because I’m me I did some digging on the effects of rough seas on aircraft carriers.

I remember seeing the pitching deck covered in an episode of Carrier, a PBS documentary covering life on an aircraft carrier that I refuse to shut up about. In a previous post I highlighted the effects of the pitching deck on pilots during nighttime carrier landings and just how TERRIFYING they are by adding a video from PBS Carrier episode Rite of Passage. During that episode a pilot had this to say:

Dude, all I know was I was in close and they’re like ‘a little power’ and I look down and saw the ******* back of the ship above me and I was like AHHHHHHH!!!!

But it’s dark and we can’t really see from that one video just how much it’s moving but like holy swear word tumblr won’t let me say!

And it’s crazy because to those below deck it looks a little different. Thanks to the sheer size and intricate design of aircraft carriers, there’s nothing more than a little sway to those on board.

I mean one wrong step and you’ll be hitting something hard I’m sure.

Of course there’s more to it than that. One person stated that you really just had to time when to go up ladders like when the ship falls off of a big wave you’ll kind of float up the ladder. He also had the following to say:

The North Atlantic is a bitch during winter. On the USS Kennedy 1976, in really bad weather, the seas were very rough. The ship turns into the waves, and goes up and down, no “rolling”. I watched 6 sailors, watching the TV in the berthing compartment, rise 4 feet into the air, and fall back to the Deck. no one even moved from the chairs. They were watching the recorded “Muppet Show”. A big hit back then!

Insane.

#aircraft carriers are wild man #aircraft carriers #top gun #top gun maverick #aviation #I like planes #and aircraft carriers #PBS Carrier #gifs #video #tik tok #video from PBS Carrier #f/a-18 hornet #f-16 fighting falcon #airplanes #research #information #navy #us navy #reference #just a little thing I wrote

[dronescapesvideos]

US Navy pilots walking toward their Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats aboard the carrier USS Saratoga, 1943.

➤➤ Hellcat VIDEO: https://youtu.be/15HLOfODKGo

➤➤ HD Image: https://tinyurl.com/tf28mrym

#youtube #aircraft #airplane #aviation #dronescapes #military #ww2 #wwii #documentary #aviation history #f6f #Grumman #hellcat #fighter aircraft #aircraft carrier #plane #F6F Hellcat #USS Saratoga #wwii airplane #wwii era #wwii history #second world war #world war 2 #world war two #world war ii #pacific war #aviation photography #aviation industry #aviation daily #colorized

[ghostwarriorrrr]

Supermarine Scimitar

#military #aircraft #air force #aviation #aircraft carrier #plane #navy #royal navy #Supermarine Scimitar

[scooby-doo-exploration]

ericfrench66 - Take-off on Aircraft-carrier

#aircraft carriers #navy #military #dancer #dancers #funny #planes #airplanes #gifs #take-off #ericfrench66 #music and dance #boats & planes & trains #dance #jets

[lonestarflight]

Concept art of the Boeing X-40A Space Maneuver Vehicle (SMV) in flight atop a 747.

Boeing Images: BI218570

#Boeing X-40 Space Maneuver Vehicle #Boeing X-40 SMV #Boeing X-40 #X-40 #X-plane #NASA #spaceplane #lifting body #Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Boeing 747 SCA #Boeing 747 #747 #Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #concept art #cancelled #1990s #undated #my post

[admiralnelsoniii]

Take and build the smallest airplane around the largest possible engine and you get this magnificent beast! The F4U Corsair. The Japs called it Whistling Death. She served all the way into the Korean War

#ww2 art #ww2 #wwii art #wwii aircraft #wwii history #wwii #f4u corsair #whistling death #carrier plane

[aviationgeek2024]

#airport #planes #aviation #airplane #military #military planes #aircraft carrier #aircraft #air

[c-119]

They’re baaaack

Also, a demonstration by Dynamite

#planes: fire and rescue #planes 2 #disney planes #doodles #cabbie mchale #cabbie #the smokejumpers #smokejumper carrier #the silies #don’t comment on the carrier unless it’s a compliment please I know it’s an absolutely trash design #I know it definitely would not hold anybody at all but run with me here #Drip at the back definitely not about to do something stupid (tickle Cabbie’s feathers) #I love Avalanche’s design.. he has the big headphones!! #avian au

[runwayrunway]

No. 19 - Wizz Air

Wizz Air, whose name I regret to inform you is not short for Wizard Air, is an extremely successful low-cost carrier based in Hungary with subsidiary branches in Abu Dhabi, Malta, and the UK, and two former branches based in Ukraine and Bulgaria which are both now defunct. Their planes are a common sight at airports across Europe and beyond, so they should at least have the decency to make them look nice. 

How did they do?

I do think it goes without saying that there’s a reason I’m doing Wizz Air at this specific time. While not a pride livery, these planes are...pretty undeniably bisexual pride flag colors. In fact, here is the bisexual flag color-picked from Wizz Air planes. Guess which is which!

Well, also, I got a request after I had already written most of the post. It would feel a bit rude to not mention that. 

That is...beside the point of my actual assessment. How well designed are these planes?

The various Wizzes Air use this livery. They’re nice and colorful, standing out from what’s around them. You almost never see this sort of pink used on an airplane. The painted winglets are classy and the overall shapes are plenty alright. I always find the use of a website on an airline’s livery to be somewhat tacky, but, well...they are a low-cost carrier, I suppose. Anyway, they’re at least less prominent than on the old livery: 

And, to be perfectly honest, I really like the old livery too. There are still some planes flying around wearing it and I think the two designs are both better for the existence of the other. They feel like two parts of a whole and I love that about them. They very cleanly cover half the plane each, all the way up to the current one painting the ventral fairing while the old one leaves it white, and it feels very complete, like they’re inversions of each other. Even the logo is filled in on the old one and outlined on the new one. It’s just...it’s good! I like it! I really like these planes!

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi adds the extra bit of logo to the tail. I think it looks...completely fine and does not impact my opinion at all, which is a good thing in this case, because I like the thing it’s based on. 

image: Wizz Air Twitter

The interiors are apparently also matching Wizz Air color! It’s a small detail but it really goes a long way for establishing a mood, and it feels like something fairly often overlooked. Even other strongly-branded planes often have plain black seats. 

And the overall impression is really the thing here. All the individual parts are irrelevant compared to the holistic vibe of Wizz Air, which is undeniably pretty fun. The snappy name, the nicely composed text logo with the exclamation point, and the multiple bright colors lend these jets an exciting, bubbly feel. I’ve never flown with Wizz, so I’m not sure if they’re as fun as their planes make them look or as joyless as their direct competitor Ryanair, but these planes are some of the few which feel to me as if they’re following in the footsteps of PSA, at least visually - fundamentally upbeat, in emphatic defiance of the pasteurized nature of mass air travel. 

Grade: A

(I still wish it was short for Wizard Air though.)

#tarmac fashion week #grade: a #wizz air #region: europe #region: west/central europe #region: southern europe #region: middle east and north africa #region: hungary #region: malta #region: united kingdom #region: united arab emirates #era: 2010s #era: 2020s #a gay plane has landed #cabin fever #low cost carriers #ultra low cost carriers #requests

[thatsrightice]

I feel like the conversation regarding whatever the heck all of those plane captains are talking about would be so interesting like I counted SEVEN on this one bird.

And then there’s #7 who’s staring philosophically into the sun like—

#It feels like a ‘how many plane captains does it take to…’ joke #f-14 tomcat #aircraft carrier #aviation #airplanes #jet #plane captains #brown shirts #<- I know it sounds weird but that’s what they’re called ok #plane captains = brown shirts