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I'll probably be setting up shop in this thread for the next... I dunno, forever.NathanScottPhillips posted:Also at the museum is Luke's X-Wing: Er, sorry. That is actually a 3/4 scale model originally built for promo purposes in Japan (get it because they are short?), but was bought and is currently being "rebuilt" by the local 501st Star Wars Costume Club. I plan on having a replica car show inside that museum one of these days. Cars always look awesome when they are inside hangars. One of my life goals is to see (and hopefully touch) every single SR-71 on display. This includes YF-12 and A-11s. My first was in Seattle, with the D-21 drone. I hopped that railing and just gently touched the metal. Totally a weird spiritual experience. I was 12, I think. I've visited the Blackbird at the SAC museum twice...  Seen, the one at the USAF museum in Dayton. The YF-12 there doesn't have any kind of barrier whatsoever and you can peer into pretty much every part of it.  I've seen the Blackbird in San Diego, and I need to spend a few days tooling around L.A. and the 100 miles around it, there are about six in that area, I think. When we re-do our 4,000 mile roadtrip this fall, we'll see six Blackbirds between Ohio, New York, D.C., and Kansas. Strangely enough, whenever I encounter one of these "awesome airplane poo poo" threads, no one ever posts the Boeing Bird of Prey.   Also, this is terrifically Automotively AND Aeornautically Insane!  
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slidebite posted:Anyone ever been to the Museum @ Hill AFB in Salt Lake City? Supposedly they have the SR71C there and I'm darn tempted to make the 10 hour drive just to see that. Wiki posted:Serial number Model Location or fate
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wiki posted:Only one crew member, Jim Zwayer, a Lockheed flight-test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist, was killed in a flight accident. The rest of the crew members ejected safely or evacuated their aircraft on the ground. edit: Ooh, top of the page. Time for me to post my "Airliners.net Favorites Collection 1!"                  
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I've spent a lot of time on Airliners.net and it's NEVER time wasted. I usually like to wait a week or so between visits and then check their highest-rated lists of photos from the last week or month. It's usually filled with loving gold. This week offers us... gently caress YEAH       You can argue about how much you love the F-22 and how it can rock the poo poo out of anything else in the sky, or how much it sucks, everything from computer failures to whether the enormous cost is justifiable in an age of cheap drones where dogfights no longer happen, but there's just one thing I'd like to say about the Raptor. There is classical aircraft beauty that you can find in things like F-4U Corsairs and Constellations, and astonishing technical design evident in Russian designs like the Su-35 and the An-225, but almost nothing can even touch the sophisted and incredibly pleasing aesthetic design of the F-22. There are times where I don't think it even exists, that the USAF paid some ILM modelmakers to take our most deep-seated childhood memories of GI Joe vehicles and Popular Mechanics future weapons predictions, and make a CG model of the perfect jet fighter for recruitment ads.  The Blackbird is still my favorite Frank Dillinger posted:welp, I just ordered a copy of Sled Driver off amazon for 15€! should be here in a few days, I can't wait! WHAT? HOW? Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Mar 24, 2010 |
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Slo-Tek posted:The best part of the Tu-4 story was the part where Russian scientists visited the engine factory in the US wearing specially-designed soft sole shoes, which they used to collect metal shavings around the different lathes. SNEAKY FUCKERS!
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You know what this thread needs? FLOATPLANES! This picture was my desktop at work for over a year. Every night I dream that this is the sort of thing I'll see every day when I'm old and retired.   This one gets double points in my book because it's a flying boat and it's ugly as poo poo!   Does anyone else absolutely adore the USCG aircraft paint stripe scheme?  You can never have too much beaver.         Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Mar 26, 2010 |
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/\ /\ My favorite plane in Desert Combat, I would fly super-low and kill my friends by hitting them with the wings. gently caress I loved that game.
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dangerz posted:I was in our plant in Marietta last year where we build the C5s. Speaking of... is there any way to get a tour of the Marietta plant? It's really the only thing I've ever wanted to see if I visited Georgia, and I'll be there in September.
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dangerz posted:I work in the Fort Worth plant and we can give tours on Saturdays between certain hours. And now I have a reason to go to Texas. GODDAMMIT
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Preoptopus posted:Its a little dated, but for anyone who has not seen it and has 2 hours to spare, I highly recommend watching NOVA's : Battle of the X planes. As Boing and Lockheed go head to head in a competition to win the military "all inclusive aircraft" contract. Ehhhhh. I really wanted to like that documentary, but the airplane fag inside me kept screaming that they shouldn't have been called "x-planes". Prototypes of a craft intended for production deserve a Y designation, X-planes are for weird-rear end experiments and proof-of-concept aircraft. You can argue, but I'll still just cross my arms and go "hrmph." edit: and for content Low rider drives a little slower 
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WB-57, basically the US bought the licensing to produce the British Canberra bomber, it sucked for what we wanted so we gunned it up, made it's engines start with a pyrotechnic charge, and then started using it for high-altitude weather monitoring, reconnaissance, and space program observation. I think it's pretty, but I also LOVE goofy-looking planes.
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quote:After several agonizingly long seconds, we made the turn and blasted toward the Mediterranean 'You might want to pull it back,' Walter suggested. It was then that I noticed I still had the throttles full forward. The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit. It was the fastest we would ever fly. I pulled the throttles to idle just south of Sicily , but we still overran the refueling tanker awaiting us over Gibraltar.
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The best thing about the touring B-17 and B-24? They smell just like an army surplus store, even from 10 feet away. When I was 11, my mom heard about the touring planes and took me to see them. When she heard that we could take rides, I was boarding the B-17 when she came screeching out onto the tarmac from one of the booths. Apparently she didn't know it cost money to fly on them, let alone the $400 they were charging at the time. Aw man. Since then, I've made sure to visit the bombers every year. These are my favorites from my 2008 visit.  I had the higher-res version of this as my wallpaper for the whole loving summer.    There need to be more pictures of WWII era planes reflected in WWII era hubcaps! 
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Previa_fun posted:
WINGS. I loving grew up on that poo poo. Everyone else came home after school and watched the Nintendo hour or ninja turtles, I sat down for an hour of Wings followed by another hour of Wings of the Red Star. The show didn't have flashy computer graphics showing 3-D views of the plane, didn't have some lame-rear end narrator trying to sound awesome, it was just production photos and stock footage, and it was loving AWESOME.
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Not a good example because the Axis powers wouldn't send a plane with their own marking to masquerade with attackers, but maybe it will provide some insight into how common this actually was. 
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Minto Took posted:Ace Combat 6 for reals, yo.
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VikingSkull posted:I think I'm partial to the Orion project propulsion. We have all these nukes, might as well use them for something. The above comment is not complete without the below link. http://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_on_project_orion.html Also, all this talk about aerospikes brings back bad memories of the X-33. They might as well have cancelled Christmas. 
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KELLER! posted:He said all of the published specs and limits were low, and they actually flew quite a bit higher than that.
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This is the greatest, most amazing pile of airplane porn I have ever seen in one sitting. I CAN NOT miss the next Edwards open house. http://home.comcast.net:80/~bzee1a/Edwards09/Edwards09.html
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I can't seem to find it now, but there is a picture of the TU-144 with NASA Dryden colors on it. I used to think the 144 was a relic of the Cold War, and was completely inactive beyond the 70s after the SST war was "won" by the Concorde. Imagine my surprise when I saw the 144 with US markings  Also... gently caress, man, 
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slidebite posted:More clever than the XB70? Well, yes, actually.
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mlmp08 posted:our SAM site. Wait, what now? Tell me more, now please!
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monkeytennis posted:Here's ANOTHER Russian take off video, will he, won't he?? Less than a full page after the last time this was posted, and I think maybe the fourth time in this thread. Jeez.   Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 11, 2010 |
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Trying to land a U-2 is a loving bitch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamnTyfkUBY
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Originally the U-2s took off with outrigger wheels that dropped away as soon at it was in the air, but then they landed they let the wingtips hit the ground when landing. I believe the wingtips are solid titanium caps, so I don't think they really care.
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River Raid posted:It's known by the RAF as a NIMROD. It's essentially the same concept as a JSTAR but far better looking Specifically the AEW3 Nimrod. The original Nimrod specialized in ASW, while the AEW3 is more about radar and early warning.  Sort of the difference between a P-3 Orion and an AWACS. Speaking of ugly-rear end British planes, I don't think any aircraft looks more awesomely monstrous than the Victor bomber. 
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Also: this picture is absolutely insane.
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The one and only time I went to the EAA air show, I was 13 and we flew there with my CAP buddies on a C-130. In-loving-credible experience for a kid. To boot, it was the 50th anniversary of the air force and the show was goddamn astonishing. Got to see a Blackbird fly-by, a B-2 fly-by, and tons of other poo poo. The fly-bys were hilarious because they completely cleared the lines for the port-a-potties. I also got Chuck Yeagers autograph, but I left it in the hotel in Greenbay. 
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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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So yesterday I was hanging around the Blackbird Airpark at Edwards AFB talking twith a former SR-71 RSO trainer. He saw my car and started yakking about his Munsters car and George Barris stories. As we were leaving, he asked if he could get a picture of the car in between the planes. He moved the stanchions and info plaques while I  'd and moved the car.It was a pretty good day. Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jul 4, 2010 |
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I just got engaged and somehow, despite me knowing the odds, the idea of having a wedding band made from a piece of an SR-71 has entered my head and will not leave... loving goddammit.
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InitialDave posted:I spy an opportunity to exchange an off-the-shelf lump of Inco 718 and some bullshit for several hundred dollars! I think I'd only want it if it was a lump that was shot at by libyans.
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The Goblin is loving amazing. If I recall, the pilot literally straddled the engine.
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I'm taking this loving roadtrip in two weeks, and thestops along the way are primarily going to be Blackbirds on display. As I'll be in D.C., I called up the CIA headquarters at Langley and spoke at length about how I am a huge nerd for the Blackbird and Oxcart, how I need to see them all before I die and that's what I'm trying to do, and asked if there was any way to visit their facility and see the A-12 they have on display (the one they ganked from Minnesota). I was politely told no. Stupid CIA always has to ruin all my fun. But the lady said she would gladly send me a pamphlet on the A-12. I accepted, and less than a week later I got a loving 55-page, full-color BOOK. Seriously. Call them up and get free Oxcart stuff.
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I got to fly in a Boeing-Stearman today. First time ever in an open cockpit. The entire was absolutely amazing. There was a little  for a bit, all the pilot got to hear over the radio after asking "you alright?" was "blaragharf.... WOOOOOOOO"
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I noticed that, too. I was completely comfortable for the entire flight, but as soon as we stopped I noticed I was drenched in sweat. Weird, but it makes sense.
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Attended a wings and wheels show. Privately-owned jet trainers are great. Privately-owned jet trainers with sass are  
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Jesus Christ. Where was this 'Rocky Mountain Air show', and how the gently caress did I miss it? Also, while working on one of the cars this weekend I spotted a B-24 flying over the city. Thank you, Commemorative Air Force, for reminding me that it's still summer. 
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