Cool Planes

[Civpilot]

rich 36 said:

Sorry, has anyone done this one yet

Yeah well the thread says planes



its a plane
kind of

Is that a WIG plane? Managed to find a description...

"Bartini's VVA-14 or M-62 VTOL aircraft. Designed for the anti-submarine role."
Edited to add a better picture...

WOW that thing is a monster??!!??

Good info on the Aircraft here...
www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm


Havent seen that one before but love the A-90 Ekranoplan and the Caspian sea monster....

A-90...

Caspian Sea Monster...

Edited by Civpilot on Sunday 31st December 23:06

[D-Angle]

Just found this rather interesting protoype. The Convair F2Y-1 Sea Dart.


The skis retracted by the way.

Apparently they even considered a submarine that could carry 3 of them! That would have been interesting popping up on your coastline!

[eharding]

D-Angle said:

Just found this rather interesting protoype. The Convair F2Y-1 Sea Dart.


The skis retracted by the way.

Apparently they even considered a submarine that could carry 3 of them! That would have been interesting popping up on your coastline!

Always wondered if the skis would work on snow...hell of a way to get your altiport rating.

Given the position of the air intakes though, I suspect that even a remotely high angle-of-attack would be accompanied by very nasty noises coming from the engine.

[F.M]

Mahatma Bag said:

Video of cool French flying, particularly cool is the pilot's use of the map at 500 knots, 15 feet over the desert.

Plane type? Dunno, guessing Mirage F1 ?

www.glumbert.com/media/flylow

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Edited by F.M on Thursday 18th January 19:59

[Mahatma Bag]

[tinman0]

D-Angle said:

Just found this rather interesting protoype. The Convair F2Y-1 Sea Dart.

iirc the reason this plane never really went any further was because the sea needed to be absolutely smooth for takeoff. if there was any waves at all, it made takeoff really really rough.

as for landing in anything other than mill pond smoothness was meant to be a nightmare for the pilot.

they did show one sea dart in a programme on tv trying to take off in fairly choppy sea, and you can say is that the pilot must of had balls of steel.

[road_terrorist]

Civpilot said:

Havent seen that one before but love the A-90 Ekranoplan and the Caspian sea monster....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6HQSNERadQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYmSnpQ360

[apache]

Mahatma Bag said:

cool pic, not so cool plane

[F.M]

MIG 19 ....lovely musical score...

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?d

[topsparks]

Mahatma Bag said:

Video of cool French flying, particularly cool is the pilot's use of the map at 500 knots, 15 feet over the desert.

Plane type? Dunno, guessing Mirage F1 ?

www.glumbert.com/media/flylow

Thats got to be some of the lowest flying I have seen,those French must have balls of steel!,don't think our boys in the RAF would get away with that! too much health and saftey!!!

Edited by topsparks on Saturday 10th February 18:23

[apache]

topsparks said:

Mahatma Bag said:

Video of cool French flying, particularly cool is the pilot's use of the map at 500 knots, 15 feet over the desert.

Plane type? Dunno, guessing Mirage F1 ?

www.glumbert.com/media/flylow

Thats got to be some of the lowest flying I have seen,those French must have balls of steel!,don't think our boys in the RAF would get away with that! too much health and saftey!!!

Edited by topsparks on Saturday 10th February 18:23

You obviously haven't been on a detachment then

[SamHH]

Mahatma Bag said:

Video of cool French flying, particularly cool is the pilot's use of the map at 500 knots, 15 feet over the desert.

Plane type? Dunno, guessing Mirage F1 ?

www.glumbert.com/media/flylow

Bloody hell, that's cool.

[tinman0]

topsparks said:

Thats got to be some of the lowest flying I have seen,those French must have balls of steel!,don't think our boys in the RAF would get away with that! too much health and saftey!!!

you need to see the videos posted on here a while back of the RAF in Oman.

[RDE]

This is one of my favourites - it has a kind of no nonsense charm I think. If we're talking about aircraft though, i'm quite fond of the F-15.

I'm sorry, i'll bugger off back to Pprune.

Ginger

Edited by RDE on Sunday 11th February 12:14

[tubbyrutter]

the mighty silverbug project, coolest ever by far!

[jimbeaux]

anhamgrimmar said:

D_T_W said:

ThePassenger said:

c6erb said:

joecooool said:

From a troop support position, these are the baddest mofo's in the skies.

And the C-130 gun ship



A squadron of these two planes would have ended WW2 in a week.

Isn't this C130 just deploying "chaff"

Yep, it's those little things poking out the right hand side of the airframe, look like sticks in the picture but they're actually 20mm Vulcan cannons, I believe either 50mm or 75mm autocannon can also be added. It's designated Spectre and as it's based on a C-130 it carries a LOT of ammunition for those weapons.

Its got 2 20mm Vulcan Cannons, 1 40 mm Bofors cannon and a 105mm howitzer which is the big dark thing sticking out the back. I remember doing a presentation when i was at school on the AC-130, rather serious bit of kit. If you have a search on google there's some great pictures of the howitzer firing

they are still using bofors? blimey, i thought they'd all been got rid of in the 80's

You keeps things that work.