Biplane over London

It’s a De Havilland Rapide, there are a couple used by pleasure flight companies so would imagine it’s one of them 

.....and refreshing to see the aviation industry using pronouns for aircraft

German pilot finally breaks covet after 77 years

Surely that plane is non-binary now ?

DaveMehmet said:

Hal1x said:

Gribbo said:

Kap10 said:

German pilot finally breaks covet after 77 years

Where was he for the 28 years from 1918, when biplanes were used, to 1946 (77 years ago) mate?


😉

They used biplanes, ie Gloster Gladiator, Fiat CR42 and the Arado, in the second world war.

And not forgetting the Fairey Swordfish that helped sink the Bismarck

You love a Fairey!

All planes look like that when I've had a few

Off subject but was playing golf at pedham on Friday and saw a couple of spitfires was really cool to see

Hal1x said:

DaveMehmet said:

Hal1x said:

Gribbo said:

Kap10 said:

German pilot finally breaks covet after 77 years

Where was he for the 28 years from 1918, when biplanes were used, to 1946 (77 years ago) mate?


😉

They used biplanes, ie Gloster Gladiator, Fiat CR42 and the Arado, in the second world war.

And not forgetting the Fairey Swordfish that helped sink the Bismarck

They must have had balls of steel to head off to the Bismarck in the old stringbag!

Whilst it was outmoded, I think it looks cool. The thing is, it would have been outclassed by more modern aircraft of the time but could still be effective when it was the sole aircraft in the air. The question then comes to the weapons it is able to deploy. It had torpedoes. One quality these old bi-planes had was they could take a lot of hits without going down. The bullets the bismark would have fired at them had contact fuses but the Swordfish's body was fabric so they would have gone straight through withought doing much damage.