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Postby manesag » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:04 pm

What is your favorite recon plane!
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Re: Recon plane

Postby UU » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:17 pm

Google Earth :)
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Re: Recon plane

Postby Fozzer » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:25 pm

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Re: Recon plane

Postby Ravang » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:38 pm

None of the above...

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Re: Recon plane

Postby Formula_1 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:47 pm

What, no F9F-6P? :-/
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Of those listed, I chose the TU-95 RT
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Re: Recon plane

Postby Rich H » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:42 pm

Quite hard to say really, like the E-3 and U-2 are very different planes.
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Re: Recon plane

Postby Steve M » Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:45 pm

SR71, This hot little lady actually leaked fuel on the tarmac untill its skin heated up by air friction. Impressive plane to me, but not cheap!

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Re: Recon plane

Postby OVERLORD_CHRIS » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:16 pm

You know with all the "E" planes listed those are more of Airborne Early warning planes, not so much as spy planes.
Now the "R" planes on the other hand were  recon configured i.e.: RC-135, RC-130, MR2,
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Re: Recon plane

Postby machineman9 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:23 pm

The E3 is AWACS isn't it? Detection more than recon I would've said.

I do like the U-2 though.
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Re: Recon plane

Postby expat » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:31 am

Google Earth :)



Beats them all, and the resolution is getting to be better too ;D

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Re: Recon plane

Postby C » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:39 am

Anyone other than the USA made any recon aircraft? ;) (Tu-95 excepted)... ;D
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Re: Recon plane

Postby expat » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:57 am

Anyone other than the USA made any recon aircraft? ;) (Tu-95 excepted)... ;D



English Electric Canbera. 50,000 feet plus during it's day was not to shabby.

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Re: Recon plane

Postby Hagar » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:22 am

Anyone other than the USA made any recon aircraft? ;) (Tu-95 excepted)... ;D



English Electric Canberra. 50,000 feet plus during it's day was not to shabby.

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Nothing else could touch it. That's the reason for it being built under licence by Martin as the B-57 & the RB-57 being developed from it. http://www.internetmodeler.com/awn/97-december/rb-57.htm
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Re: Recon plane

Postby expat » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:48 am

Anyone other than the USA made any recon aircraft? ;) (Tu-95 excepted)... ;D



English Electric Canberra. 50,000 feet plus during it's day was not to shabby.
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Nothing else could touch it. That's the reason for it being built under licence by Martin as the B-57 & the RB-57 being developed from it. http://www.internetmodeler.com/awn/97-december/rb-57.htm


The RB-57, that is name of it. I was surfing like a daemon for it this morning but could not find the dam thing. I guess I was not asking the correct question ;D
I had no idea how many variations (51) there were or the number of countries that operated (20 including some you would have neve guessed) and 60 RAF squadrons :o. It has see action in just about every conflict or war since it entered service up until the Gulf

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Re: Recon plane

Postby C » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:14 pm

It has see action in just about every conflict or war since it entered service up until the Gulf


Gulf II that is, and Afghanistan if we consider the RAF Canberras. :)
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