Remember back when the UK made really good-looking aircraft?

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Yeah.

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>>35054944
Sure do

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I member

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>>35054944
Yep

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Yeah boi

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>>35054944

Yeh

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>>35054944

Too soon

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>>35054944
I do

>>35055220
overrated aesthetics
>>35056032
noice
>>35056039
only looks good from a few angles
>>35056118
twin boom is always sexy
>>35056196
lol no
>>35056224
even more no
>>35056231
mediocre
>>35056255
inferior to the Sea Vixen

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Supermarine Type 525

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Yes. Yes I do

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>>35056274
Or is it a Type 544 Scimitar? I am not quite sure...

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Props or Jets?

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>>35056285

When is open cockpit jet fighters returning?

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>>35056118
de Havilland made some mighty fine planes

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>>35056307
That reminds me
>mom I can't go play outside
>why not?
>hornets

>>35054944
>>35056118
>>35056196
>>35056224
>>35056231
>>35056255
>>35056274
>>35056285
>>35056298
>>35056315
they all look the same

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>>35056321

Then its time for you to get some glasses granpa

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>>35056039
this x1000
and this

>>35056298
oh hey fellow TSR2 fag

>>35054944
What happened to the uk? They where fairly powerful.

>>35056352

Same thing that happended in many western nations, industry was moved to countries with cheaper labour and less tax.

samefag cringe

>>35056231
Handley-Page Victor still looks futuristic.

>>35056268
>Spitfire
>overrated
don't make me cut you

>>35056392
It may have been one of the best-looking British fighters, but that isn't saying much.

>>35056352
Military industry stays alive through two avenues.
One is political corruption, where the nation funnels them any money they ask for. US or the USSR during the Cold War are example of this, the latter being an example of why it's not a surefire way to success and happiness.
The other avenue is being a successful arms dealer. Doesn't work if there are no wars being fought on your technological level (i.e. the combatants can't afford your gear). Sweden is a pretty well known historical example, France and modern Russia also fall into this category.

UK simply doesn't fit into the former or the latter category, so they simply keep up a decent navy and leave the rest to the fact that they have no use for the soldiers, anyway.

>>35056352
Nothing?

>>35056352
They lost their source of wealth: their colonies. It began with losing the US and ended with giving back Hong Kong.

>>35056458

That doesn't make sense though, as the UK is one of the biggest developers and exporters of military technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters

So saying they don't have an 'alive' arms industry is pretty stupid.

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this thing looks evil

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>>35056599

>losing a world empire in the wake of WW2's aftermath
>nothing

anyway,

thiccccer

>>35057022
i liked the sabre engined Hawkers better, Those things got over 5000 horsopoer, but at like 50 psi of boost

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Slutty vixen coming through.

>>35057013
It's a weapon of destruction, m8. It's not supposed to look cute and soft to the touch.

>>35057057
I want to fuck the Vixen

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>>35056526
The EE Lightning is so cool. Is there any other place that uses an over-under engine arrangement like that?

>>35054944
It has a certain charm

>>35056810
Like 70% of BAE's revenue comes from it's American branch though, which is closed off from the rest of the company.

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>>35058312
Fuck forgot image

>>35058320

Except that list doesn't include that as thats US export, not UK export.

That is only stuff from the UK. If it included BAE's stuff in the US it'd be WAY higher.

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>>35054944
yep

>>35056268
Thanks for your input! I know that we were all really looking forward to seeing your blogpost in this thread! Your opinions are important friend, especially when you mass reply.

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underrated plane

>>35057013
It looks like something from the set of Avatar

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>>35056298
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>>35056350
>Grandpa was chief designer of the TSR2 hydraulics at Vickers
>Tfw you find this out at his Eulogy
>Tfw you missed out on 50 years of stories from the most incredible time of technological development since the Industrial Revolution

>>35057032
But did it have VTEC?

>>35060362
it had sleeve valves...

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>>35057013
Well it came from a time when bombers had the very scary job of dropping the Nuke.

>>35057013
SIEG ZEON

>>35060386
Actually theoretically, sleeve valves should be easier to have variable timing and or lift (is it lift if it's sleeve valves?), the cam mechanism uses gears and linkages often so it's possible to add or remove parts to change linkage behavior and valve movement.

Sleeve valves just fell out of favor too fast.

>>35059003
The last great UK-Continent joint effort in aircraft design.

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>>35060043
Fuck lad, that's shite.

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this damn plane is perhaps my favourite

>>35060465
beautiful

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>>35054944
They still do.

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>>35054944
I love Hawker Hunters

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>>35057057

>>35056352
look up Suez Crisis

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>>35056785
for what it's worth, the "Second" Empire (1815-1914) did far better than the "First."

John Bull got a bloody nose in the Americas, but no matter.

He ate success for breakfast in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. That was when they got Hong Kong, India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, "Cape to Cairo" etc.

While I lament the Empire is gone and the world is not better because of it, they willingly dissolved what they could have kept of their Empire. They felt that Imperialism was hypocritical while fighting against Soviet expansionism.

Alas, if Tripartite Pact would have succeeded with the Suez operation and Eisenhower looked the other way, Britain's fortune may have reversed, but probably not; it just would have delayed the inevitable.