Aircraft in strange places

Davidth88

Guys

I read this in the daily fail this morning .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094579/Indian-takeaway-owner-spends-5-000-aircraft-fuselage-curry-house-reception.html

Basically it's a guy who purchased an old biz jet to put in his Indian takeaway.

it got me thinking , where have you seen aircraft in strange places ?

The owner of this building on the Western Ave ( A40 ) in London used to put a Hunter on his building to p*** off the planning people in the council because they refused him permission to do something , and he wanted to celebrate Battle of Britain day

http://maps.google.ie/?ll=51.531841,-0.308733&spn=0.022238,0.038581&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.531779,-0.30844&panoid=6xpduI9Dqy6NmrPjNq3g2A&cbp=12,39.08,,0,-23.26

milanomosher

Not that strange a place, but thought it was interesting when I saw this in Leon, Spain. Think it´s a T-6 Texan.

http://maps.google.es/maps?q=avenida+espa%C3%B1a+leon&hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=42.60365,-5.58312&spn=0.003471,0.008256&sll=42.603729,-5.582993&sspn=0.000872,0.002064&hq=avenida&hnear=Le%C3%B3n,+Castilla+y+Le%C3%B3n&t=h&fll=42.602777,-5.57952&fspn=0.003471,0.008256&z=18&layer=c&cbll=42.603729,-5.582993&panoid=Nj8KscE9LIoAFj6-pZuuLA&cbp=12,312.03,,0,3.74

Davidth88

Good example milanomosher !!

Yep that's a T6 , or Harvard or similar

civdef

Seen on the road driving from Budapest into Romania - rapid wikipedia search was required to figure out what it was.

Davidth88

Whoa , that one sent me to google images straight away .......


PZL M-15 Belphagor ( to save people the bother ) , very very odd looking aircraft .

Tenger

Davidth88 wrote: »

....PZL M-15 Belphagor ( to save people the bother ) , very very odd looking aircraft .

Very odd. Only 175 made after they realised a jet agri aircraft was not efficient.

From Wikipedia:The Mielec M-15 was a jet agricultural aircraft, manufactured by PZL Mielec in Poland for the USSR agricultural aviation. It was the only jet biplane and only jet agricultural plane in the world. For its strange looks and noisy engine it was nicknamed Belphegor after the noisy demon.The aircraft was a metal twin-boom biplane, with a jet engine over the crew cab. Part of lower wings and chemicals tanks were made of a laminate to avoid corrosion. Upper and lower wings were connected with two thick columns, housing chemicals' tanks, 1450 l (377 US gal) each.......The crew was a single pilot.......The M-15 was fitted with spraying and dusting gear, powered with compressed air.

Jesus Nut

I seen an aircraft in the sky before. Was very strange :P

CaptainSkidmark

It used be a restraunt!

Lapin

Graceland. Memphis TE.

Haven't time to post a link.

280special

Well there was that mysterious disappearing twin engined aircraft, possible WW2, that was in Lough Neigh. Used to be seen and reported by other aircraft. Was apparently found by Military divers but then disappeared again shortly afterwards !

Cmar-Ireland

Apache helicopter fuselage in Lanzarote



Visible on Google Street View.
Zoom in on Las Casitas De Femés and look along the LZ-702 road.

Davidth88

Thats a funny thing to find there .


Years ago ( 1984 I think ) , I was touring Czechoslovakia / Hungary and DDR on a spotting trip .

The official guide ( you had to have a local guide ) realised what sort of thing we wanted and took us to a side of a hill in the middle of no where , we were wondering what on earth are we here for .

Anyway , we were taken down a little path and came across a pile of aircraft dumped there . Included the only LI 2 I have ever seen ( Russian built DC3 ). I wish I could remember where it was , I think it was somewhere outside Prague but I just can't remember . The photos are somewhere in the attic. The nearest airfield was miles away.

unattendedbag

A museum is not the strangest place to see an aircraft but you cant drive past this without it catching your eye.

Darius.Tr

I remember seeing a photo of an aircraft in someone's back garden, though i can't remember where... It probably was here on boards.ie cuz you rarely find these things anywhere else

mayotom

This Il 76 appears to be just parked along the side of the road in Um Al quaim in the UAE, but it turns out to be an expensive advertising hoarding

mayotom

Also there is the Jumbostay Hostel at Stockholm Arlanda Airport

mayotom

This one is in the Heart of Cordoba, Spain as part of the 2016 Capital of culture bid.

newcavanman

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

Apache helicopter fuselage in Lanzarote



Visible on Google Street View.
Zoom in on Las Casitas De Femés and look along the LZ-702 road.

Not looking to rock your boat, but i dont think thats an Apache fuselage, looks to me like an augusta A129 .

Cmar-Ireland

newcavanman wrote: »

Not looking to rock your boat, but i dont think thats an Apache fuselage, looks to me like an augusta A129 .

Did a bit more digging on this and it seems we're both wrong! It's just a replica bashed together from a load of old scrap metal.
More here...

marketty

I haven't got a pic but there's a hawker hunter in a field in meath. It's part of a paintballing course at puddenhill adventure centre. Bit of a waste cos they are a very pretty aircraft when well preserved

RadioRetro

[url=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/87742/36120.jpg[/url], posted in '06. I've seen another more recent shot of it and it isn't as pristine by a long way. Can't find it right now.

marketty

It was in a much worse state when I saw it a few weeks ago :-(

RadioRetro

A more recent shot taken in March 2010.