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
You used to be able to get a 1/72 model of that!
USAAF wtf equivalent of the JU287, the Cornelius XFG1:
http://www.aerofiles.com/corn-xfg1.jpg
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
What was that weird-looking delta-winged US navy carrier fighter from the '50's? Google is not helping.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Not the skyray
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech"
Potentially the fastest propeller-driven plane, but quite possibly the loudest airplane ever built. On engine warm up, the propeller blades traveled at supersonic speed creating a complex spiral of rapidfire shock waves that were, er, detrimental to ground crews. Normal ear protection made no difference and an unprotected person even at a distance was subjected to a battery of shock waves that caused spasms, vomiting, and spontaneous bowel loosening.
The Edwards guys demanded that Republic test the plane on the opposite side of the lake bed and no USAF pilot ever flew it. Two were built, but only one flew (and that was for only ten hours.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/XF-84H.jpg/800px-XF-84H.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
woah
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The F7U Cutlass?
http://avia.russian.ee/pictures/usa/chance_cutlass.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The F7 "cutlass"!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/F7UCutlass.jpg/741px-F7UCutlass.jpg
Wikipedia is good for something....
I really like all these '50's and '60's planes, there's a real sense of anything-goes about the designs.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, xpost.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The Sea Dart makes me think of the EKRANOPLAN
http://www.intrepidearth.com/tour/07/01/24/images/antishipping.jpeg
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Ye old PB-Y
http://www.uscg.mil/History/WEBAIRCRAFT/AC_PBY_V189overSanDiego_300.jpg
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I heart the little Korean War-era jets. There's such a great simplicity to them and the WWII-era dogfighting tactics when nothing was bogged down with missiles, anti-missile systems, etc. etc.
F9F Cougar
http://www.lemoore.navy.mil/vfa-146/Images/F9F-8.jpg
Mig-15
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/mig-15_1.jpg
P-80
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/eb/250px-P80.600pix.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Bell P-39. American pilots didn't really go for it (they didn't like the car-style doors, the mid-engine, and it's squirrelly behavior) so they gave them away cheap to the Soviet Air Force who loved it and used them with great effect as a tank buster.
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/p-39_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 September 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/a6.jpg
There was a film about these things starring Willem Dafoe. I was somewhat obssesed with it as an eight year old.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Friday, 7 September 2007 07:21 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost-What is that? A De Havallend or sommat? Time to step it up with this bad boy:
Okay this thread took off (v bad pun. Sorry)
I love the Tunnan!
I've got a recording of a B-36 flyby - it's wonderful
YSI?
I see Ned was right!
Re. Elvis Telecom? OTM. Seriously Elvis, loving it!
I think that this is a pretty cool pic:
F18
http://www.grahamowen.com/images8/C-F18-sonic.jpg
― kv_nol, Friday, 7 September 2007 08:18 (sixteen years ago) link
LOLZ @ Accidental misfire:
http://www.grahamowen.com/images8/D-wrongbutton1-2.jpg
http://www.grahamowen.com/images8/D-wrongbutton2-2.jpg
― kv_nol, Friday, 7 September 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Tu-22 Blinder. One of the first Soviet supersonic bombers, it was a pain to fly, maintain, and use operationally. The Soviet Union ended up selling them to Iraq and Libya.
http://www.enemyforces.com/aircraft/tu22_2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 September 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
<img src="http://www.heritageflight.org/images/Aircraft%20Photos/A_10_burning_tank.jpg">
NEED MOAR WARTHOGS
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 7 September 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.heritageflight.org/images/Aircraft%20Photos/A_10_burning_tank.jpg
AGREED
http://jetpix.com/wingsoffreedom/A-10_800.jpg
― joygoat, Friday, 7 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The Jaguar
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031207/spectrum/flight3.jpg
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
F5E (Swiss Airforce)
http://www.airshowaction.com/axalp/axalp159.jpg
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I can just see the accidental misfire pilot being dressed down by a bald headed squadron captain. And then him buzzing the tower after his next successful mission.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Cheating a bit but the Bristol 'Fighter'
http://www.carpages.co.uk/bristol/bristol_images/bristol_fighter_t_08_11_06.jpg
To make up for it the F16
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:sQkK6WAzzlMWgM:http://www.usu.edu/afrotc/images/f16%2520loaded.jpg
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Hope this is bigger:
http://www.usu.edu/afrotc/images/f16%20loaded.jpg
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:54 (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 (1 year ago) Bookmark
Footage of the weird thing actually flying:
― Pashmina, Saturday, 22 November 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
wow millenium falcon plane
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, the Germans (Blohm und Voss in particular) worked on some really crazy asymmetrical designs during the war.
Personal faves:
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6741/ta152h138wx.jpgFocke-Wulf Ta 152H, WW2's premiere high-altitude fighter
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/AIR_MiG_144_Display_Top_lg.jpgMiG 1.44 flight test prototype from the now-abandoned MFI program
― Millsner, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, I somehow seriously messed that one up.
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6741/ta152h138wx.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/AIR_MiG_144_Display_Top_lg.jpg
― Millsner, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― Grady: The Myspacee Password Expert (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Saunders-Roe SR.53. Equipped with both jet and rocket motors. Hit the rockets to quickly get up to bomber interception altitude and then return with the jets. The SR.177 was going to follow on from this but was scrapped as new SAMs came on-line.
http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/saunders_sr-53_1.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
It was Air Force Los Angeles day last week and I took these on the way to work
B-1
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/3030588154_dab1ac1604.jpg
B-52
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/3029753725_9040c15168.jpg
And coolest of all... A U-2
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/3030590034_47e828f2be.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Took the pictures I mean. Can't quite take a U-2 to work yet.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hehe
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't believe I forgot this one... Saab 37 Viggen
http://www.xplanefreeware.net/barry/X-Plane%208.0/Viggen%20AJ_screenshot%20815.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
A Saab Viggen and it's replacement. The Gripen.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/viggrip.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/aircraft/F-104.jpg
― gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Prefer the Draken...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Saab_Draken.jpg/800px-Saab_Draken.jpg
― snoball, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/SAAB_DRAKEN.png
― snoball, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing that pic of the B-1 reminded me of its Russian big brother, the Tu-160:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/tupolev_tu160_blackjack_l3.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/Tu-160_57.jpg
And yeah, Drakens are great! I always loved the look of those intakes and the compound delta wing. The steeply raked tail just screams "I go fast".
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/dkntps1l30a1b40wi6.jpg
― Millsner, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
on a similar design tip...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/F-16XL_afg-041110-016.jpg/300px-F-16XL_afg-041110-016.jpgF-16XL
― snoball, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Totally badass: Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III. Capable of Mach 2.9, but the windscreen would have melted had it actually gone that fast.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/db_4501_07.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/f8u-3_12.jpg
― Millsner, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Not forgetting the crusader's younger brother, the corsair, I used to love these when I was making shedloads of model planes:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/A-7E_Corsair_II.JPEG/300px-A-7E_Corsair_II.JPEG
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Sunday, 23 November 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
speaking of model planes, I had one of these...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Jaguar.sideon.arp.jpg/800px-Jaguar.sideon.arp.jpg
― snoball, Sunday, 23 November 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
When I was eight/nine I planned to make a full squadron of thesehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Red.arrows.single.arp.750pix.jpgusing a rather excellent Japanese import kit, but lost interest after two.
― snoball, Sunday, 23 November 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the first models I remember building as a kid was of an F-4J I got for my 8th birthday, with markings just like this one:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/c182.jpg
A favourite later on was a Bf 109G-10. Sitting next to the other planes on my shelf, you really got an appreciation for how sleek and deadly it looked compared to, say, a P-40.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/1278951.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/071017-F-1234S-032.jpg
― Millsner, Sunday, 23 November 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
let's try the F-104 again
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/airdef/f-104-E-5071.jpg
― gabbneb, Sunday, 23 November 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link