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ab0z posted:How could you leave it? I would have been clutching it in my hand with a big grin for like a year straight. my dad's got a huge picture on the wall with the signatures of about two dozen famous aviators, including Hartmann, Galland, and Yeager  His squadron (1st Airlift Squadron) had a meet and greet with a ton of absolutely epic pilots.
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Crop dusting looks like a lot of fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvlr8ngwOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jWufkTHbj8
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azflyboy posted:After the airplane landed, the airport manager came out to see what the hell had just showed up on his ramp, only to be met by a figure wearing a space suit gesturing and yelling "Quick! get gun, guard airplane! Very Secret!" in heavily accented English. The Cold War was so awesome (terrible).
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slidebite posted:Those had to be blanks, or at least I hope they were. Ah but it's New Zealand, there's nothing there to hit except for the sheep. e: and the hills.
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azflyboy posted:On August 3, 1959, a Taiwanese pilot on a training mission experienced a total engine failure over Colorado at night, but the pilot was able to dead-stick the airplane into the Cortez airport (due to its' runway lights being on), despite it not appearing on his charts. Since the U2 is pretty much a glider with a jet engine, I'd imagine it's a hell of a lot easier to dead-stick than just about any other military plane in recent history. Still, I'd imagine the pilot (and airport manager) was pretty freaked out.
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Boat posted:Since the U2 is pretty much a glider with a jet engine, I'd imagine it's a hell of a lot easier to dead-stick than just about any other military plane in recent history. Still, I'd imagine the pilot (and airport manager) was pretty freaked out. Its incredibly hard to land because it generates so damned much lift, but no doubt it still glides better than any other aircraft, making it so much more resilient to engine failure and the ensuing stalling that would follow CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jun 6, 2010 |
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Yeah, and because of that and the fact that the pilot was on a training mission, and dead-sticked a U-2 on an uncharted runway in the middle of the night with no ground team guiding him in, it's safe to say that pilot was god damned AWESOME.
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The U2/TR-1 is also difficult to fly at altitude. There is about a 10 knot difference between stall and overspeed.
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ApathyGifted posted:Yeah, and because of that and the fact that the pilot was on a training mission, and dead-sticked a U-2 on an uncharted runway in the middle of the night with no ground team guiding him in, it's safe to say that pilot was god damned AWESOME. That would explain the DFC.
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So there was an airshow at the little airport here, which I misse (and the weather was lovely anyway) but a buddy who refuels airplanes (and had nothing to do this evening) called to let my roommate and I know that a couple planes were parked, including a B-25 Mitchell, and that he can get us on the tarmac to check them out. So we did. B-25:      F7F-3:     You can see more pics and these unresized here.
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Those are absolutely beautiful
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slidebite posted:This is the way airshows should be done, live ordinance and all. Truly awesome, but seeing that old footage with all those old planes, and then a C-130 in the middle of them makes you realise just how long that drat plane has been flying. I realise that pretty much all the internals are no longer the same, but it still looks like the same plane.
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Orange Someone posted:Truly awesome, but seeing that old footage with all those old planes, and then a C-130 in the middle of them makes you realise just how long that drat plane has been flying. I realise that pretty much all the internals are no longer the same, but it still looks like the same plane. And that, right there, is the biggest reason the Herc is so goddamned  .
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When you can't stand the look on the face of the guy with the R/C SR-71 anymore.
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Nebakenezzer posted:When you can't stand the I hate to burst your bubble, but I prefer my r/c B-29s with launchable X-1s.
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Kinda just impulse bought this, any suggestions as to what to do with it? I might just mount it on the roof of my work truck.
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blambert posted:Kinda just impulse bought this, any suggestions as to what to do with it? I might just mount it on the roof of my work truck. Bellytank Lakester  +Edit: Or...   LOO fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Jun 8, 2010 |
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LOO posted:Bellytank Lakester
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Nebakenezzer posted:When you can't stand the Awesome model, but should have put 4 blade props on it, it would no doubt give some more thrust and make it look more authentic Boomerjinks posted:I hate to burst your bubble, but I prefer my r/c B-29s with launchable X-1s. Jesus christ it actually SOUNDS like a mini B-29 too! CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jun 8, 2010 |
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oopsie http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/06/08/von.antique.plane.crash.cnn?hpt=T3
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Here's some shots my dad has taken over the years from the end of a runway. SR71 landing  Concorde taking off
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Your dad is pretty awesome.
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ab0z posted:Your dad is pretty awesome.  I agree, with bonus F15 runway shot. 
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Lightbulb Out posted:Is this off the side of the B-52 that is at Sheppard AFB?
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CommieGIR posted:Is this off the side of the B-52 that is at Sheppard AFB? Probably not, he took it in the late 70s as far as I know. He's done a bunch of newer stuff, but he mostly just goes to Oshkosh every year and shoots for EAA.
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This is probably my favorite airplane video. Mass Launch at Red Flag 09-2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNugoJLPHQw F-16s look so badass in aggressor colors.
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Boomerjinks posted:I hate to burst your bubble, but I prefer my r/c B-29s with launchable X-1s. OK, that beats mine. Yours has retractable landing gear, too. Going by youtube, lots and lots of people are trying to claim the crown of "world's largest RC plane."
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Nebakenezzer posted:OK, that beats mine. Yours has retractable landing gear, too. World's largest would therefore have to be larger than that.
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grover posted:Army Air Corps made real B-17s R/C in WWII. JFK's brother was killed on one, actually. (Rather ironic to be killed piloting an R/C plane, I know.) Hah! I forgot all about the BQ-17 Aphrodite remote bombs! Was kind of a sucky idea, it never really worked like it was supposed to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jun 9, 2010 |
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It was a good idea undone by the fact that radio controls and all the electronics needed weren't there yet.
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slidebite posted:oopsie Looks like the brakes were jammed on. "Feet alive" is an important pre landing checklist point for a taildragger pilot so I suppose it's possible that one of the pilots inadvertently held the brakes down, but I bet it was a mechanical failure.
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Here's some pitcures I took at Red Flag 1989-90-ish. Please excuse the poor quality, these are scans of 20 year old photos. All taken from a KC-135A LOO fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Jun 10, 2010 |
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oxbrain posted:Crop dusting looks like a lot of fun. From the "related videos" I got: "Hot Sexy Girl Pilot Sprays Her First Field". 
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Just saw this on a History doco: the NB-36H. Pure 
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 Someone may have mentioned this earlier in the thread, but I still like it.
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Man the Peacemaker is loving ugly, no wonder the B-47 kicked its rear end.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Man the Peacemaker is loving ugly, no wonder the B-47 kicked its rear end. Shut your dirty mouth, that looked awesome.  I like the quote from wiki: quote:The B-36 was not a particularly enjoyable aircraft to fly. Its overall performance, in terms of speed and manuverability, was never considered sprightly. Lieutenant General James Edmundson likened it to "...sitting on your front porch and flying your house around." I giggle imagining that.
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That picture was a little unfair. That picture should have had at least one of the engines on fire. That's when it looks the most
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