Steve's Aviation

 Hi There Folks, It is said I have a small passion for Aircraft, so I have decided to put a little piece of the net aside for this purpose. On this site I have placed a few pics of some Aircraft that have captured my imagination. I have tried to add a variety, although some info may be scarce I have tried to put in as much as I can in a small space. To the best of my knowledge no pics on this site are in breach of copywrite, if anyone can inform me otherwise I shall remove them without delay. I have also had a go at building a home cockpit, any comments on this would be welcomed, it is of course on the flight sim page :).

 I should also state that another (more important) passion in my life is my family, My Lovely wife Pauline, and my children - Kelly, Tammy, Troy, Jason, Elizabeth, Matthew, Rebecca, Jessica and Tom.  You will find this bunch of characters floating around the site acting as links to other pages or perhaps just plain acting :).  We live in Ipswich, about 30 kms from Brisbane in the state of Queensland, Australia and where I might add is very close to the Amberley Air Force Base where I spent some time working, so I still get a very close view of various aircraft.  Anyway, here  are a few pics of my favorites.  Thanks Paul for some great backgrounds.

North American P-51 Mustang--Max speed 730 kms

Ceiling 12,780 M.  Range-2092 Km's, 

Powered by Rolls Royce V 1650 Merlin 1950 hp V12 engine.

F1-11, One of the finest in it's class, this aircraft has served both the USAF and the RAAF well, and will be sadly missed.

                "Owww" !  What a runway, some more hair perhaps ?

                My beautiful wife Pauline !! 

 Stearman (591) Used by U.S. Army .
Usually powered by Continental W-670  
-7 Cyl radial engine .                           

Republic P74D Thunderbolt

Max speed 690 kms

Ceiling 12,810 m

Range 1488 km.

Powered by - Pratt & Whitney xr 2800-21-18 cyl engines .

 

 

                               Piper Cub (J3) Maz speed 85 mph

                              Range 190 miles,   Ceiling 9000 Feet. 

                                   F18 Super hornet. 

 

After losing a wheel this F1-11 from RAAF Base Amberley made a very skillful landing, performed by a very skillful pilot.  A good days work by any stretch of the imagination.

 

              My son Matt, he will take you to the next page.

       Some links....    www.avsim.com              www.simviation.com           www.airliners.net

 

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