How about those Seahawks!

Posted by: joerand on 23 December 2012

Time for a REAL football post on this forum .

 

The Seahawks are playoff bound for certain.  With a rookie QB and looking better each game.  Should be an interesting post-season.

Posted on: 23 December 2012 by Tony Lockhart
A Royal Navy Seahawk: Tony
Posted on: 23 December 2012 by joerand
Originally Posted by Tony Lockhart:
A Royal Navy Seahawk:

Nice try, but this one is a North American bird that hails from Seattle.

Posted on: 23 December 2012 by Tony Lockhart
Posted on: 24 December 2012 by RoyleBlue
Go Packers!
Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Mike-B

I prefer Tony's Seahawk

Proper stuff made in GB who made airplanes look so beautiful that they have become porn for old farts like me who saw them in their hayday when the annual pilgrimage to Farnborough was de rigueur for every snotty nosed erk.    

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Clay Bingham

Without taking away anything from the beautiful British airplane of the same name, the football Seahawks were spectacular last night. The playoffs promise to bring some great games.

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by BigH47

We had Buccaneers too 

 

 

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Cbr600

What about the old English electric lightening?

Anyone got a photo of that beauty?

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by BigH47

Cbr

 

 

Plenty, but I think we were trying to link to NFL teams as well as classic aircraft.

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Sniper

Captain Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) is a privateer, one of several Sea Hawks, who on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I keep the shipping lanes open


One of the greatest film scores ever composed too - by Erich Wolfgang Korngold


Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Mike-B

Far too modern Jamie  & its a johnny foreigner design to boot.

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday
Originally Posted by Mike-B:

Far too modern Jamie  & its a johnny foreigner design to boot.

It first flew in the sixties! And is only a bit frog.

 

The Buccaneer stopped flying mid nineties.

 

I think it fits.

 

Better than a Texan anyway.

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday

Happy now?

 

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Tony Lockhart
I worked on RAF Buccaneers and Hunters. So there Tony
Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday

Sorry you're disqualified under the rules. There are no teams called The Hunters in the NFL. Unless you count the Redskins.

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Cbr600:

What about the old English electric lightening?

Anyone got a photo of that beauty?

A phenomenal aircraft - Youtube "English Electric Lightning Tribute" for a great short film which I was watching with my father just the other week.  He remembers its arrival at RAF Leuchars with great fondness for an engineering era long gone.  G

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Tony Lockhart
This is THE Lightning video. Just watch that altimeter on the left turn into a gyro. One revolution of that needle is 1,000ft.... http://youtu.be/VC8CsVpg64o Tony
Posted on: 24 December 2012 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Tony Lockhart:
This is THE Lightning video. Just watch that altimeter on the left turn into a gyro. One revolution of that needle is 1,000ft.... http://youtu.be/VC8CsVpg64o Tony

Blimey!

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by joerand
Originally Posted by RoyleBlue:
Go Packers!

My son is a big Packers fan.  We're hoping for a Seahawks/Packers rematch.  Aaron Rogers has some amazing accuracy.  Discount double check!

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by joerand
Originally Posted by BigH47:

Cbr

 

 

Plenty, but I think we were trying to link to NFL teams as well as classic aircraft.

There's got to be an aircraft named the Falcon, doesn't there?

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by Hook

The Lockheed S-3 Viking is used the US Navy for anti-submarine and, of course, anti-Packer warfare.

 

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday

Not British. Otherwise you may as well include these...

 

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday

And one of these...

 

Posted on: 24 December 2012 by JamieWednesday

And that.