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Happy Birthday Martyn!

Nice looking aircraft!

Doing it at night would be fun! In that video, it looked like you would have got the rear gunner a tad wet!

Great shots Charlie!

Nice shots Alan!

Yep - the KC-135 is still going strong - the replacement is the KC-767 project that 'beat' the Airbus offering. I think EIS is 2017 for them

I seem to be the bearer of bad news at the moment http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/05/03/photos-u-s-military-plane-crash-in-kyrgyzstan/#1

Not strictly aviation, but: On 4 May, German officers came to the Tactical Headquarters of Montgomery's 21st Army Group on Lüneburg Heath and signed a surrender document for all German forces in North-West Germany, Denmark and Holland, to be effective from the following day. Various local surrenders took place elsewhere. On 7 May General Eisenhower, with representatives from Britain, Russia and France, accepted the unconditional surrender of all German forces on all fronts, to be effective from 0001 hours on 9 May. But the fighting was effectively already over. Allied troops, fully supp

Interestingly, the FedEx crash in Tokyo was reported here, but not this one. Prehaps it's because it's from a military base carrying military equipment? Either way, the crew were still cilivians

A very red panel there James!

Superb shot Jankees!

It is indeed the Handley Page Hampden - AE436 by the looks of it. A nice webpage: http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/RAFe/RAF024-AE436.html and quite a few photos here:http://silksheenphotography.co.uk/resident-aircraft/hampden-ae436-gallery-history/

Not that I'm afraid Alan - right era...

Here are my three for this month: A Lancaster waits at it's dispersal, waiting for the Peenemunde operation in 1943 A Mosquito making a dsah across the North Sea for home And finally - is this the end of manned fighter aircraft? Or the beginning of a new era?

Here's the next one folks!

A National Air Cargoe 747-400F crashed yesterday after a reported load shift shortly after take-off from Bagram, Afghanistan. Video of crash - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c32_1367332518 More details - http://avherald.com/h?article=46183bb4&opt=0

General Dynamics F-16XL - looks quite nice really!

Great shots Soya!

Great shots - but what is it like to fly?

Beautiful shot there Phil!

Yes John - the Bugatti 100P. Same source as last time. Over to you John!

There is some debate about whether it flew before the war started or not......

Right folks, here is the next one:

Can't remember them in passenger service, but have seen the one at Duxford - beautiful aircraft, at least DM has made an excellent model

Love the last one!