Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)

[Skywalker]

[zac510]

I found these on another forum - a bunch of pics from the show at Edwards AFB last weekend. Good quality and very thorough, worth a look!

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/Edwards09/Edwards0...

Enjoy

[Nick_F]

I never understood why they didn't finish the Wasp/Scout. Was it just that they couldn't be arsed?

[RizzoTheRat]

Skywalker said:

photos of bug mashers

Saw the Roivalk at Farnborough airshow some years back, did a very good display. Has the door gunner on that Lynx really got a bucket to catch his empties?


On the subject of helicopters I was gutted this didn't fly when it was at Farnborough a few years back, apparently the display pilot couldn't get a visa.

Lovely looking machine, though not soo sure about the idea of explosive bolts on the rotors and an upward firing ejector seats. Those rotor blades are going to do serious damage to any mates you happen to have nearby.

I like this shot too

[B Oeuf]

what the hell is that?

[Hugo a Gogo]

kamov ka52

it's got an uglier little brother, the ka50

edit: d'oh, pictured above

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Friday 20th November 09:22

[B Oeuf]

Hugo a Gogo said:

kamov ka52

it's got an uglier little brother, the ka50

edit: d'oh, pictured above

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Friday 20th November 09:22

I should have realised, Kamov like to do things differently

[Mojocvh]

B Oeuf said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

kamov ka52

it's got an uglier little brother, the ka50

edit: d'oh, pictured above

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Friday 20th November 09:22

I should have realised, Kamov like to do things differently

If you can find the Kamov pro-mo video there is a sequence when it and a Hind are flying side by side (fwds) at speed and the Kamov rotates 90° and it pointing directly at the Hind, but still flying fwds at the same speed!!

You can forget all your super Mig and Sukhoi fighter, this is awesome!!!!

Edited by Mojocvh on Friday 20th November 13:14

[Winchy]

Taken by me at R.A.F.Brize Norton.

[rem0]

The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed (worth it of course) but the camera survived this one despite being severed from its ratchet straps and thrown to the ground, and the sound device used for this one disconnected from the camera and thrown about 200 feet backwards into the pad perimeter fence (still worked!). All settings are preset manually. No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.

[Eric Mc]

What is the mission? The strap-on boosters look like they are liquid fueled rather than solid fueled.

[Oily Nails]

Mojocvh said:

B Oeuf said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

kamov ka52

it's got an uglier little brother, the ka50

edit: d'oh, pictured above

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Friday 20th November 09:22

I should have realised, Kamov like to do things differently

If you can find the Kamov pro-mo video there is a sequence when it and a Hind are flying side by side (fwds) at speed and the Kamov rotates 90° and it pointing directly at the Hind, but still flying fwds at the same speed!!

You can forget all your super Mig and Sukhoi fighter, this is awesome!!!!

Edited by Mojocvh on Friday 20th November 13:14

Youtube is our friend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_IYpHQDxk

[Lost soul]

that just looks so strange the way it points in another direction to which its travling great stuff

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

What is the mission? The strap-on boosters look like they are liquid fueled rather than solid fueled.

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta4/delta4.htm

http://www.airliners.net/photo/United-Launch-Allia...

Edited by dr_gn on Saturday 21st November 14:33

[Eric Mc]

Thanks.

A bit of research shows that the boosters are identical to the main central rocket - so they ARE liquid fueled.

Boeing are looking at using add-on Solid Boosters, apparently.

I always think liquid fueled rockets are so much more refined.

Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 21st November 15:12

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

Thanks.

A bit of research shows that the boosters are identical to the main central rocket - so they ARE liquid fueled.

Boeing are looking at using add-on Solid Boosters, apparently.

I always think liquid fueled rockets are so much more refined.

Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 21st November 15:12

Aren't they the same as the Shuttle main engines? Rocketdyne - something?

[Eric Mc]

Don't know - to be honest.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

Don't know - to be honest.

Nope:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-68

RS-24 on the Shuttle.

[Eric Mc]

Sounds like a pretty impressive beast.

[thatone1967]

anyone for some low flying....





and the story behind the pic..

http://www.phantomreunion.talktalk.net/lowfly.htm

Edited by thatone1967 on Monday 23 November 00:19