These Fockes aren't Messerschmitts!
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Fw_190As_in_flight.jpg
― onimo, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
high-altitude phallic symbol
http://www.espionageinfo.com/images/eeis_03_img0989.jpg
― milo z, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://lynchmob.freeyellow.com/02-john-h-p-51.jpg
p-51 mustang
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s-3b/images/S3Viking_1.jpg
S-3 Viking, AKA the plane Dubya got to play soldier on. Mission accomplished, indeed.
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
F7F Tigercat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg/250px-F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
F8F. About as badass as you can get.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/F8F1boxeroversf.jpg
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-189588-1165803100.jpeg
f-111
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
skua
http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/pictures/jpg/blackburn%20b24%20skua%20I.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
XB-70. Everything else can fuck off.
http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/north_American_XB70_Valkyrie.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
P-40 with the Flying Tigers
http://www.walnutridge-aaf.com/P40a.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
scratch one Italian battleship
http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/media/July-2.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man, I spent countless hours as a kid reading about military aircraft. Here's Romania's lone WWII fighter, the IAR-80:
http://www.casusbelli.com.ar/aire/2gm/otrasnaciones/IAR_80.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
ripped from today's headlines
http://www.jetfly.hu/rovatok/repules/katonai/hirek/topten_bombers_070518/Tu95_V.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
The incredibly ungainly-looking Saab Tunnan: http://avions.legendaires.free.fr/Images/Gj29.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Messerschmitt Me-163. Scary scary scary. Five minutes of rocket fuel and a 50% chance of exploding on you.
http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/me163b-1a_takeoff.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I see your Bear, and raise you one Peacemaker
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-36_1.jpg
(always a favorite of mine, due to stories about them from my grandpa)
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
HAI, I SUNK YR BISMARCK TOO
http://www.vectorsite.net/avsword_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Same here. When my parents first moved to California, my dad got a job at Convair working on the jet engine retrofits to the initial prop-only B-36s. Best thing I like about the B-36s is the unusual sound they made - it's like the worlds largest drone symphony. (I've got a recording of a B-36 flyby - it's wonderful)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's another B-36
http://people.virginia.edu/~rjr/engines/b36.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
oops erm 'my bad'
THIS is a canberra (or 3):
http://www.aeroplaneart.com.au/Images/JSJ_PC_English_Electric_Canberras_B_Mk_2.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The Junkers Ju-390, designed to fly transatlantic missions and bomb the east coast of America:
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/ju390_2.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Smile for the camera!
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/staff/simongray/u2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/air-ww2/beaufighterattack.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember my grandpa talking about testing the B-36s with the jet engines (and maybe JATO as well?) and counting the times he almost died (at least a dozen).
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
B-47 with full RATO packs going.
http://www.tayyareci.com/amerikanucak/postww2/b-47.jpg
Always liked the B-47 because it was the first model kit I ever built.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The second model kit I built was a B-58 Hustler
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-58_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Mig-25 Foxbat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/MiG-25_fig2agrau_USAF.jpg
I didn't realize until years later that the NATO codenames all began with the same letter (Foxbat, Fiddler, Flogger, etc.)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Mig-29
http://lankapage.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/air_mig-29_lg.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
F4F Wildcat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/F4F-3_new_pitot_tube_of_later_model.jpg
I love the old-style AAC insignia.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Blohm und Voss wins the WWII WTF contest. Here's the BV-141. Yes the cockpit is on the wing
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/aircraft/showimage.php?id=7108
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
OK what?
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
BV-142
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/bv142-2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Attack/Ov10From2oClock.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The idea was that the asymmetrical layout would give better visibility (and it did) and that the added drag on one side would be offset by the torque from the motor (it was). However the initial engine wasn't powerful enough and by the time a better engine was outfitted, the FW-189 was on the scene.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a FW-189
http://www.afwing.com/combat/Normandie%20Nieman/fw189.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
F-107
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/f-107_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I see Ned was right!
The B58 is hands down the best-looking warplane the US has ever designed.
I used to have the Monogram 1/72 scale B36, I never did finish building & painting it, it was too big!
That Junkers 390 IIRC did a one-off test flight and got pretty close to the US coast. The other "Amerika-Bomber", the ME-264 was a sinister looking machine:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/lrg0067.jpg
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
XP-67 Bat. Looked great, but not much of a performer
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/061024-F-1234P-031.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Weird and fucked-up looking the old bv141 might have been, I'd still put the JU287 up at the top of the luftwaffe WTF league:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/ju287-1.jpg
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/021230.jpg
The Jets are gonna win...TONIGHT!
― Abbott, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Vultee XP-54 "Swoose Goose" (yes, that was the official nickname)
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~ccarey/pages/images/p54-5.jpg
I think the idea was for a pusher-prop/canard airframe that could handle a pile of guns in the front.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Curtiss' version: The XP-55
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/photos/xp-55_2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd still put the JU287 up at the top of the luftwaffe WTF league
Yeah, the only way to beat that is with the Luftwaffe's Antarctic Saucer Squadron or that Horten bomber that never made it off the drawing boards.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Sukhoi Su-100/T-4
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/SU-100_T4.JPG/800px-SU-100_T4.JPG
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://fotodj.com/wallpaper/images/B-17G%20Flying%20Fortress%20-%20Willow%20Run%202004.jpg
B-17
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
XF-85 Goblin. Designed to be carried inside a B-36
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin_USAF.jpg/800px-McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin_USAF.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, luftwaffe saucer squadron, wthe rubbish you have to sift through in order to find the actual real Luftwaffe flying disc, the Sack AS6:
http://www.luft46.com/misc/as6-1.jpg http://www.luft46.com/misc/as6-6.jpg
I don't think it actually got off the ground. Unlike the American equivalent:
http://home.cinci.rr.com/estople/weirdair/v-173.jpg!!!
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Heinkel He-111Z "Zwilling" Two He-111s put together to tow gliders.
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/he111z-2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/x-15_3.jpg
x-15. not so much a plane as a manned missile.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Convair Sea Dart. Supersonic sea plane
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/performance/speed-record/sea-dart1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link