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Captain Apollo posted:I'll just leave this here: Man, progressive scan does terrible things to propellers.
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InitialDave posted:Some do. Pretty much every wrenching configuration you can think of is represented somewhere. Fortunatly most people will never know the joy of an aircraft that's only mostly Whitworth.
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Nuclear plane is one of the few ideas where Kelly Johnson sent the R&D money back to the US gov because it didn't even work in theorycrafting.
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MrYenko posted:Are you sure? We've been trying to get that right since the USS Marcon.
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Phanatic posted:I don't understand the article about how they're entering the final stage of the search. They've searched and found them, they already dug a pilot hole and sent down a camera on a line and verified that yes, there's airplane there, so they know where a number of them already are. My understanding is that the "final stage" is that they're going to actually start excavating and digging the things up. The things people would rather have than money. God bless each and every one of them. 
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Itzena posted:I always found it amusing that the RAF had the Spitfire, which was this bleeding edge metal monocoque with stressed wings and all that...and then the Hurricane (essentially started out as a Hawker Fury biplane with the top wing sliced off) and the Mosquito (made out of balsa and plywood). How do you leave the Fairey Swordfish out of a list of British aeronaughtical shenanigans?
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Jan 8, 2013 22:10
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A lot of it has to do with regulations. "Ah, you have a warbird... with a transponder in it, excellent here are the general avation restrictions." vs "Ah, an experemental aircraft, have fun never leaving line of sight of an airport without filing a flight plan, or over a city or highway until you've jumped through all these hoops."
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Here's an anecdote from my Father: After the second world war was over an enterprising man bought a lot of the RAFs surplus Tiger Moths to ship to America and resell as private aircraft. He took the wings off, put them in shipping containers and sent them home. When they arrived he put no effort into matching the wings to the airframes, if something had broken in transit he just grabbed a part from the next one down the line. Many years later a gentleman's restoring his Moth and finds a data plate on one of the lower wing spars. Hot drat he's got #83 (I think, it was something 2 digit anyway) off the assembly line, that's gotta be worth something. So he lists it in Trade-A-Plane. And gets an angry phone call from the man who found a matching data plate on his fuselage and claims he owns #83. Who's actually got #83?
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Hey, Vampires. I always find it weird to see deHavilland rudders on a jet.
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Jan 19, 2013 23:01
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Oh god, Proctor kits, my dad used to build those. I hope you enjoy assembling ribs!
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Jan 31, 2013 03:02
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Sagebrush posted:I heard that the Domination 313 (that is what the Iranian plane is called) can go to infinity plus one feet It's just that, you know, with that 250 knot VNE, it's going to take a while to get there. *looks something up* ... The BD-5J has a VNE of 260. The James Bond minijet is faster than that thing. 
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Madurai posted:The Phantom was a half-generation ahead of everything else in the world at the time. In 1958, two missiles seemed like more than enough air-to-air warload. The F-4 carried eight*, which is still competitive today. "Tough and reliable" were not adjectives anyone would have applied at the time--it was too busy being looked at as the sci-fi superfighter. So... What's in the starter pod and special bombs?
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Feb 25, 2013 02:37
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MrChips posted:Those are some cute little firecrackers. THESE are some big missiles: That's the first picture of a Mistel where the Ju-88 still had a cockpi- ... Wait, that's a model. 
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Feb 27, 2013 22:08
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18.4 feet, or a little under 1/3 the length of a spitfire. (Every time I look something up on wolfram alpha I make it give it to me in strange units.)
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There were a couple of asymetical German bombers, but yeah twin-booms and no center section is a really rare combination.
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Mar 21, 2013 21:47
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Hmm, according to that plane's homepage, its last flight was back in Feb, but it will be traveling to Oshkosh this year.
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Mar 21, 2013 22:26
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A Skymaster at a really weird angle? 
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Mar 21, 2013 22:32
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OptimusMatrix posted:One of the original flying wings. So goddamn beautiful. Idly ponders an alt history where Northrop and Horton designed all the aircraft used in WW2.
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That poor golden eagle, it has no feet.
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Mar 22, 2013 20:42
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wolrah posted:Where are you getting mach 2 from? All I'm seeing is 500 MPH, the only mention of supersonic speeds is one reference to it carrying supersonic planes. Whups, looked up the wrong number when I was checking where mach 1 was, so slightly under. It's still an oversized Bell X-1, complete with ruler straight wings.
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Slo-Tek posted:Well, this thing is happening. The Buggati 100p replica flight folks are running a kickstarter. Hopefully that kickstarter pays for some higher quality plexi work for their canopy, that's a lot of distortion.
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Apr 7, 2013 20:55
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Sagebrush posted:The obvious solution is just to mount them overwing, like the An-72 or the YC-14. Man, replace the raydome with a navagator/bombadier's glass nose and I'd swear that thing was Russian.
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Wicaeed posted:drat I didn't realize how big Reapers (if that is what that is) are. It's the spindly little model airplane gear they've got.
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Heh, I think I've read that story twice before, once in Ben Rich's book, and once in a SR-71 book that one of my dads friends had on his coffee table. Neither one had those pictures. Wow.
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joat mon posted:It's interesting how delicate the B-24 looks from above What doesn't? Some battleships?
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Jonny Nox posted:
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I'm going to assume it was the "Computers BAD, if only some infallible human had loaded the palates correctly and some other infallible human had been piloting and used MAX POWER instead of trying for efficiency this wouldn't have happened." One. It makes my brain hurt.
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Phanatic posted:Well, Lockheed did it: Ah, the answer to the ancient question "How do you get a C-130 in and out of a soccer field?"
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StandardVC10 posted:Also, no discussion of crop dusters is complete without the PZL-Mielec M-15 Belphegor. (Not my photo.) The more pictures of that thing you look at, the crazier it gets.
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Acid Reflux posted:I fully expected the culprit to be a Cobham ELT97. I've never seen one catch fire, but they do love to spontaneously activate themselves. Sometimes with the switch in the "off" position. The Cospas-Sarsat folks really, really do not find any humor in that. In the safety recomendations the report calls out the type. quote:
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Phanatic posted:
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vulturesrow posted:I posted this in the Navy thread but I thought you guys would appreciate it as well. The air wing of the future as envisioned by my son: Fans of Cousairs and F-18s I see.
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MrYenko posted:Currently, most aircraft use magnetos, yes, and almost always have two separate mags. Mags are cool, because the ignition key doesn't energize them, it actually GROUNDS them, in the off position. In almost every way, aircraft mags fail ON. This is why my Dad's Tigermoth has an electric starter now. (Another five pounds ahead of the firewall's just gravy)
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It's probably already been posted in this thread somewhere, but the story of getting the boxed A-12 out out Burbank is an epic in and of itself.
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Kilonum posted:Wikipedia remembers So, other than Bugatti and the Wright brothers, has anybody ever managed to make a mid-engine pistion aircraft that wasn't hidious?
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Okay, the Optica is both ugly and awesome, as for the p-39... it's not a Frankenstein's monster like the P-75 was, but there's just something off about its proportions. The tail is too small, the fuselage is too long... and too tall. Maybe I'm just too used to fighters that don't have doors in the side.
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Jonny Nox posted:
I'm going to say that this is my favorite livery of the lot.
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