Aircraft pics with buckets!

[stona]

Not to be out done by our armoured brethren I have been keeping my eyes open for aircraft pictures featuring buckets. After much trawling of references (not really) I came up with two images which fit the bill. You wouldn't want to be smoking around these guys!

First,refuelling a Bf109...with bucket:

(From "German Fighters over England" Bryan Philpott)

Second,refuelling an Fw190,it's obvious why the bucket is there:

(From "Fighters defending the Reich" same author)

Enjoy

Steve

[spanner570]

Oi Steve, you fly boys 'ave a nerve. You can't go around nickin' "Our emblem"...get yer own!! What about a chamber pot?LOL

[stona]

Oi Steve, you fly boys 'ave a nerve. You can't go around nickin' "Our emblem"...get yer own!! What about a chamber pot?LOL

Don't worry,I've yet to find anything actually flying with a bucket! Doesn't mean I'm not looking though!

Many fighter aircraft,as their range and mission length increased,were fitted with the tactfully named "relief tube" so a chamber pot was not really necessary though you might need one with a couple of 109s on your tail.You'd only want to use the tube once as iceing was a problem and you could end up wearing what you were hoping to evacuate!

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

As this one is descending to the gutter (!) doesn't the chap by the 109 look like he's having a crafty one into the bucket? )

[yak face]

Don't worry,I've yet to find anything actually flying with a bucket! Doesn't mean I'm not looking though!Many fighter aircraft,as their range and mission length increased,were fitted with the tactfully named "relief tube" so a chamber pot was not really necessary though you might need one with a couple of 109s on your tail.You'd only want to use the tube once as iceing was a problem and you could end up wearing what you were hoping to evacuate!

Cheers

Steve

steve, when i did my 1/32 revell beaufighter , i scratchbuilt the whole interior front to back and it was complete with two pee tubes with bags,a bit like a funnel attached to a hoover bag,( which i made from heat stretched cotton bud stems) .As i was saying to ron in another post,the pics were all lost when the old laptop went haywire!, ill see if i cant manage to get some real close ups through the canopy. I was gutted when i lost them cause the interior will never be seen now,only i know whats inside! As for the bucket on a plane , we'll have to see! watch this space, cheers tony

[yak face]

buckets,chamber pots,pee tubes

Here we go , not brilliant focus but you can make out the pee tube and bag in the cockpit and observers position.I wonder who got the job of emptying them on return from a long sortie?!!just for an idea of scale heres also a picture of the big brutal looking beast ( and hes holding a plane ,too!!!!!) cheers tony

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[Guest]

I take it that picture 2 is an example as to how you emptied these thing lol. Looks great in that cockpit Tony..... Whoops, 'cockpit'... oooerrrr, sounds rude now given the topic :cheeseygr

[stona]

Nice one Tony, I really don't know but I expect that the aircrew emptied them themselves.