30 Fascinating Aviation Pics That People Just Had To Share On This Group

What a sweet story. So thoughtful of Granpa Jim. And congrats!

This is awesome! 🩷

I see Udvar Hazy, I upvote. Your grandpa was way too cool!

That is so cool!

Nice to see that your dream came true. Your dad looks the same.

Whoa. It’s funny they include the pilots in the picture! I guess they fit inside it too.

Congrats!

this should be number 1

Great timing.

I saw the 747 with the Enterprise in '83, near Amsterdam, quite impressive

Birds of a feather…

Good write up here: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-the-only-picture-of-concorde-flying-at-supersonic-speed/amp/ Concorde had to slow down as the Tornado couldn’t keep up in supercruise - using reheat uses massive amounts of fuel.

25 missions was the number needed to rotate home in WW2. This crew (or maybe just the plane) flew over 50... Brave and Fortunate men.

Is that a Magrathean sperm whale?

Unbelievable skill of an incredibly experienced and downright intuitive pilot, Captain Sullenberger. Even though the majority of water landings do not end well, Sully managed to bring the plane down smoothly and safely, with zero fatalities—-and Sully wasn’t a young man at the time, which perfectly illustrates the priceless value of long years of experience, especially in fields where inexperience can cost lives. If anyone but Sully had been in the pilot’s seat that day, I doubt this crash would’ve ended so miraculously. If Sully had been forced to retire, and some young hot dog pilot was put in that cockpit that day, the plane would probably have crashed in a populated place and killed people on the ground, as well as everyone on board. Don’t throw people away, ignore them, or out and out disrespect them (you know, the dismissive, cruel, and derisive “OK Boomer” b******t), simply because they’re older, because you then throw away their sorely needed experience and expertise, to keep your company—-or family—-running cohesively.

Oh look, it's the Nyan Boeing.

That shot would make an awesome jigsaw puzzle.

Looks like the bottom right might have actually sneezed out a helicopter.

That's what we're paid for.

Wow. I can only imagine what a bear it was to bring this plane back in one piece with such a large hole blown in one propeller, not to mention other damage.. Must’ve made awful balance and power issues. Kudos to the crew.

Cool. It looks like the handle of a sword to me.

Yeah, that plane is just a fool to believe it has anything she needs. She's like the wind.

When I first glanced and saw all the red in the picture and the word “burst” I thought for a second that it was about a plane exploding and I thought why would they put that in. Lol

Took me a couple seconds to see the 💯 in the formation but this is amazing!

That's on the ground. I remember when you could visit the flight deck in flight!

SFO. I used to take my granny to the restaurant in the Marriott with large windows and a nice view of this landing strip over the Bay. RIP Granny 💜 I miss you.

That's going to be a very expensive bandaid or just use duct tape.

They really hate Pooh Bear then

Red nose, this the AF Rudolf?

Sad. :(

Or a Daft Punk convention.

Same here, age 62. My first job at 18 was at an airport (not an airline, no way). There is just something incredibly cool about landings and takeoffs. Back in the day, on summer evenings, I used to park in the lot at the end of the runway to sit or lay back on my car’s hood and watch planes land and takeoff. I was never alone in that. There were a lot of other people, including people bringing their kids, watching with me. Not only is there always a constant breeze at an airport, we also got a great live show—-for free! Sadly, we can’t really do stuff like that anymore, because a bunch of a******s ruined it for us. But I have some extremely fond memories of spending summer evenings like that, and the camaraderie of the other people there, comparing notes on all the different planes we watched.

Mama plane with her little babies.

You'd be surprises by how nosy and curious cows are. These ladies travelled from afar to check this out, and stick their noses into this guy's affairs.

Wow that's incredible, what great talent you have!

Who knitted that scarf?

Now they say they really see them don’t they?

THIS!! Awesome picture!

Operated by Antonov airlines out of the Ukraine

This is truly bad a*s and I love the selfie reflection in her goggles, haha! 😆

How's he going to fit those legs in to that tiny plane?? :)

I hate when that happens.

They all deserve medals for this.

hmmm.. cant be an SR-71? no, just a shadow

I had a somewhat closer view of an Emirates A380 the first week it flew into Manchester. Was driving past the end of the runway when the traffic ground to a halt. Police car presence and a whole bunch of people pointing cameras to the sky. I had the roof down and all of a sudden the sky disappeared. The A380 is one heck of a fig bucker! Regularly see it from my lounge window and you can easily identify it as it so much bigger than anything else!

Okay that's my favorite livery I've seen on a fighter.

That's an epic CRM fail! [Cockpit Resource Management, which is meant to improve crew communication to improve safety] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management

OK, I give up. I can't place that tail. What plane is this?

Another amazing photo.

F15? or a MiG?

And I got nervous riding in the car with my son driving for the first time!

I never really understood why they would have a window that opens in the cockpit of a plane, I'm guessing it's for safety/emergency purposes? Also if this somehow gets to the OP please tell your dad I said Semper Fi and congrats on retirement!

Wow. Beautiful with the bridge.I find all these pictures just awesome.

What?!? Omg. That’s an amazing picture.

The goodest one.

Imagine seeing that as you’re taking off! Or ever.

Oops.

I can't believe it even manages to get airborne. It looks like it shouldn't be able to fly.

Hope they used their card with the best frequent flyer miles points system.