Your favourite photos taken of/from a plane?

[jastel]

Short Belfast C.1, former RAF. Has been the subject of a payment dispute in Cairns for some years.

Haha it didn't last an hour...

That is correct...it is called "Hector", a Short Belfast, there are 2 left in the world out of 10 made.
The other one called "Enceladus", they were all named after Gods, is at RAF Cosford in England, nicely restored. The guy there didn't believe me there was one rusting away a few kms from me in Australia.

After the RAF stopped using them in 1976 some were scrapped and some were used by private companies for freight operations. This one was used by Heavy Lift flying mining equipment into PNG for years, I have seen it land at the CNS airport many times. The mining died off and the company abandoned the plane in Cairns in about 2011.

Currently the parking fees are hundreds of thousands of dollars. CNS Airport towed it away to a quiet corner and I guess would LOVE to get rid of it...many museums in the UK would LOVE to have it...but it is not airworthy anymore. I did hear a rumour that HARS at Woollongong was looking into it but.....

If you are ever in the CNS DOM Qantas club you can see it across the runway.
Or from the highway side turn off the highway into the general aviation bit and head left.

 

[Meggsy]

Haha it didn't last an hour...

That is correct...it is called "Hector", a Short Belfast, there are 2 left in the world out of 10 made.
The other one called "Enceladus", they were all named after Gods, is at RAF Cosford in England, nicely restored. The guy there didn't believe me there was one rusting away a few kms from me in Australia.

After the RAF stopped using them in 1976 some were scrapped and some were used by private companies for freight operations. This one was used by Heavy Lift flying mining equipment into PNG for years, I have seen it land at the CNS airport many times. The mining died off and the company abandoned the plane in Cairns in about 2011.

Currently the parking fees are hundreds of thousands of dollars. CNS Airport towed it away to a quiet corner and I guess would LOVE to get rid of it...many museums in the UK would LOVE to have it...but it is not airworthy anymore. I did hear a rumour that HARS at Woollongong was looking into it but.....

If you are ever in the CNS DOM Qantas club you can see it across the runway.
Or from the highway side turn off the highway into the general aviation bit and head left.

Haha, I must confess, I spent a few years working at the airport fire station right next to the apron it is parked on. Thanks for the extra information. Helps to fill in a few blanks.

 

[jastel]

Well you would have seen it every day then...there was a DC3 there for a long while as well but that has gone now.

 

[RB]

Rotarua Scenic Flight 2010

 

[jastel]

The 7 positions of Aircrew in a WW2 Halifax Bomber.
Imagine flying in this for 6-10 hours, carrying 6 tons of highly explosive bombs, unpressurised, freezing cold and getting shot at.
A third of people who did never came back.

Pilot
Bomb Aimer
Navigator
Mid Upper Gunner
Wireless Operator
Flight Engineer
Tail Gunner

 

[Coops1]

Adding in a couple of light plane trips over Tassie. Camera went mad but these are 10 of the best photos

Strahan 2018 - Day Trip. It was a spectacular day, hardly a breath of wind and no clouds...great birthday trip!

Straight line from HAP to Strahan takes you to the southern side of Frenchmans Cap. Amazing views in the morning and afternoon!


Looking west over the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park


Strahan Airport from above and on the ground




Taking off from Strahan with Macquarie Harbour alongside



Wineglass Bay 2019. A light plane trip with a family friend pilot.


Looking over the top of The Hazards to Wineglass Bay


Wineglass Bay ahead......from the backseat


Aerial view of Orford and out to Maria Island

 

[JohnM]

Barreling up the Zambezi; up and over Kariba Dam and pax taking in the inland sea of Lake Kariba. Zambia 2014.

 

[JohnM]

Then, The Smoke That Thunders - in the high-flow season this time.

 

[RooFlyer]

Aerial view of Orford and out to Maria Island

Nice pics! My neck of the woods ..

 

[OATEK]

Been a long time since one painted like this graced local skies - taken at Mascot 2006.

 

[Coops1]

Been a long time since one painted like this graced local skies - taken at Mascot 2006.

Austrian Airlines actually flew into Sydney back in March undertaking a repatriation flight. It was the longest direct flight Austrian had ever made.....the 2006 flights were via KL and Singapore.

 

[ninin]

OOL to MEL back in 2014.

 

[trooper]

A different angle....Sorry.......lol (There was an IMAX camera in the other aircraft...)

 

[OATEK]

Might be we never see 2 QF A380s together like this again.

 

[RB]

2014 approaching Porto from Frankfurt



Into & out of Bangkok 2014

 

[codash1099]

Favourite in-plane sight. QF8 earlier this year, escaping from COVID ridden USA. (for the uninitiated swill, that's in first class)



Home port, in 2014

 

[RB]

Think I was lucky with the timing of this one as we left Bangkok in 2015

 

[Scarlett]

A different angle....Sorry.......lol (There was an IMAX camera in the other aircraft...)

The smart way to travel in an Indonesian herc: wearing a parachute.

 

[jb747]

Somewhat obviously, I have lots of aircraft pictures. This one is a little different. I took it from the back of a USAF KC135 (707 tanker) in 1981. The aircraft is a USN A-7, somewhere near Diego Garcia.

 

[Cossie]

A few helicopters, first one, a Hind in a persons backyard in Latvia. Others from museums in the old east Germany.





and some planes at Cottbus. Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus e.V.