Minto Took posted:

This is what I've wondered. I know a B-52 served as an engine test bed for the 747-100's engines, but I've heard is nearly impossible to re-work the B-52 fleet to move from 8 to 4 engines. Are the plumbing/electrical/mechanical connections so complex that the Air Force can't swap out the current layout for four engines with better economy and higher thrust?

VOR LOC posted:

Do you work for Netjets, Loo?

Godholio posted:

I wouldn't be surprised if a CFM56 variant is what finally ends up replacing the TF-33s. That's exactly what happened to the KC-135. And foreign military 707 sales (ie, foreign E-3s).

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.

Lilbeefer posted:

Looks awesome, but is there any reason why camo would be painted on in non organic square shapes?

buttcrackmenace posted:

Got a larger version of this one?

Skyssx posted:

Ground penetrating radar with satellite uplink and camera.

quote:

The General Atomics AN/APY-8 Lynx is a high-resolution, all-weather, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) radar system. It produces photographic-like radar images with maximum resolution of 4-inch (approx. 10cm) with the SAR spotlight mode, and tracks ground moving targets using the GMTI mode.

quote:

• Color daylight camera with zoom lens
  
• Laser designator with LRF
  
• Mono daylight camera with spotter lens
  
• Laser illuminator
  
• IR with high magnification 4-step zoom
  
• Eyesafe laser rangefinder

FEMA summer camp posted:

This seems as good a place as any to ask; how long do those decoy flares dropped from combat aircraft burn for?

quote:

There are two types of flares, pyrotechnic and pyrophoric.The pyrotechnic flares produce highly visible white light and smoke. When ejected they ignite and produce a large amount of infrared energy for 5 to 10 seconds to distract and confuse the missile’s seeker.

Oneiros posted:

AnimalChin posted:

From CNN:

Iran unveils squadrons of flying boats


http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/iran-unveils-squadrons-of-flying-boats/?hpt=Mid

Really?



Yep.

I think this fits as "Aeronautical Insanity"


Quote: "The craft, dubbed the Bavar 2, is armed with a machine gun and carries surveillance cameras, according to a report from the Iranian Student News Agency."

A machine gun? Good luck with that.

"Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the few countries which managed to design, build and use flying boats in a short time," - You're kiddin'! No way!

These things look like lovely home-built experimental ultralights.

Quote: "bloggers poked fun at Iran’s so-called stealth technology, saying the flying boat looked like something anyone could buy in kit form from mechanical magazine ads."

Yep!

PatrickBateman posted:

Jet fuel is very hard to burn. Needs compression or high heat to work best. Story floats around that you can put a cigarette out in a bucket of jet fuel and it won't burn. Never tried it, but I can imagine. Compression ratio inside the combustor of a modern turbofan is in the 300-400 psi range.

I've had engines leaking fuel inside the cowling, dripping back towards the exhaust nozzle, no fire. Puddling at the gate on a cold day, no fire.

Airbus considers 300 degree brakes to be hot and you cannot take off, I think they are rated to 5-600 degrees c before they're on fire/melting. They blew a bunch of tires on this one as one of the pic shows.

They really were lucky they went and troubleshot all the ECAM messages, and lost/burned a bunch of fuel off. They landed way heavy anyway, long down the runway, barely before the end. Word is they had a bunch of fuel in the tail tanks they couldn't transfer, and there may be an issue with the fuselage being a little bent due to this. A330/A340 are very restrictive on hard/heavy landings, I can imagine the A380 is very similar. There is even a report that the ACMS will generate so maintenance knows how far out of limit the aircraft was when it landed.

Geoj posted:

So wait, did the satellite actually catch that Sikorsky in flight?

Also; http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=32.175031,-110.867393&spn=0.007129,0.015525&z=17

Apparently the Air Force has money in the budget to maintain a golf course in the loving desert

Any idea what these are? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=32.169389,-110.866619&spn=0.00063,0.00097&z=21 Obviously experimental aircraft of some kind, just kind of surprising to see them in a boneyard.

ursa_minor posted:

I'd love to get my hands on the little T-37 Tweet next to it.

quote:

Most of it is from the real aircraft. I had to build the throttle, the control column, center control stand, aircraft interior, overhead framework, seat and upholstery (Boeing flame retardant original pattern material), the shell, and the glareshield.

The control yoke is from an American 727, the instrument panel from a Lufthansa 727, and some of the radios are from TWA, Air France, and Continental. The radios are the only modules marked with an airline name. I don't know why this is.

The yoke is from a 727 that the previous owner flew on a regular basis for more than 30 years. The instrument panels were marked DLH.

Some parts like the eyeball vent and some wiring components and switches are from Aircraft Spruce. Others from e-Bay and BPB Surplus. APHS ran by the 30 year American pilot provided a lot of parts for this as well as some flight instruction and how some of the logic operated.

This is FS9. This flight model in not available for FSX. Five systems running XP and XP Pro and running various client/server applications make it all work.

The interface cards are from Hagstrom Electronics and Beta-Innovations LLC. The software go-between is Peter Dowson's FSUIPC latest release that features a mouse capture function for unsupported keyboard commands on third party aircraft. This in turn allows a switch to command a mouse-only function where no keyboard command has been coded.

Godholio posted:

Fifty Feet.
Twenty five.
Ten.
Five.
Setting gear down.
*bump*
Three locked and green.

MA-Horus posted:

POST THE BUFF-IEST PICS YOU GOT

Boomerjinks posted:

NNNNGH do you have that in HUGE?

Delivery McGee posted:

Showing off to the Navy

Exi7wound posted:

I'll just leave this here.



My '05 300C Hemi at Castle AFB Museum with SR-71 #61-7960