Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)

[dr_gn]

erolb said:

Was one of the reasons it didn't fly due to the fact that the propeller shaft would have had to run through the cockpit? How would they have got around that?

dr_gn said:

A favourite of mine (even though it never flew!) The Bugatti 100P:





More here:

http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/plane.htm

Cheers,

No: There were two prop shafts (and two engines BTW ) - one under each armpit of the pilot! These fed a gearbox which drove the contra-rotating props. It never flew because the war started before it was finished. It's all in the link I posted.

Here you go:



Cheers.

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 8th July 16:30

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 8th July 16:34

[erolb]

Ahhh - Thanks for clarifying!

dr_gn said:

erolb said:

Was one of the reasons it didn't fly due to the fact that the propeller shaft would have had to run through the cockpit? How would they have got around that?

dr_gn said:

A favourite of mine (even though it never flew!) The Bugatti 100P:





More here:

http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/plane.htm

Cheers,

No: There were two prop shafts (and two engines BTW ) - one under each armpit of the pilot! These fed a gearbox which drove the contra-rotating props. It never flew because the war started before it was finished. It's all in the link I posted.

Here you go:



Cheers.

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 8th July 16:30

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 8th July 16:34

[JuniorD]

Cool aircraft, cool car, cool suit...maybe not

Edited by JuniorD on Thursday 9th July 11:53

[Roop]

dr_gn said:

Man, would I love a LearFan. Note the registrations in the pic. Suffixes are for Bill Lear and Moya Lear I like these pusher style planes. Beech Starship and Piaggio Avanti spring to ming. There's an Avanti operating out of GVA. Very nice it is too...

ETFT

Edited by Roop on Thursday 9th July 11:47

[D-Angle]

Here's an interesting aircraft I just found out about, the ADDAX STOL project from New Zealand. Sorry can't find any photos, just projections:

ADDAX-1:


ADDAX-S, with some blurb:

Edited by D-Angle on Thursday 9th July 12:21

[Matt172]

not exactly a cool picture, but did see this in Naples airport on Saturday, there was another one already parked up, bloody mahoosive

[dr_gn]

Matt172 said:

not exactly a cool picture, but did see this in Naples airport on Saturday, there was another one already parked up, bloody mahoosive

Looks like a C-5 Galaxy?

Edited by dr_gn on Sunday 12th July 22:25

[Eric Mc]

dr_gn said:

Matt172 said:

not exactly a cool picture, but did see this in Naples airport on Saturday, there was another one already parked up, bloody mahoosive

Looks like a C-5 Galaxy?

Edited by dr_gn on Sunday 12th July 22:25

That's because it is

Although they looked better in the old grey and white scheme.

[Matt172]

dr_gn said:

Matt172 said:

not exactly a cool picture, but did see this in Naples airport on Saturday, there was another one already parked up, bloody mahoosive

Looks like a C-5 Galaxy?

Edited by dr_gn on Sunday 12th July 22:25

after a little bit of shufty on google, it's from the 167th airlift wing Martinsburg WV

[Monkey boy 1]

JuniorD said:

Cool aircraft, cool car, cool suit...maybe not

Edited by JuniorD on Thursday 9th July 11:53

is this the same person?

[tinman0]

Daily Mail today.

ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-...

[Ayahuasca]

tinman0 said:

Daily Mail today.

ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-...

Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full!


Well somebody was going to say it.

[WestYorkie]

I really was going to cry "SHOP" for that pic. Jebus that's a cool pic!

[Moose.]

Forgot I had these pics taken last summer at Compton Abbas:







It's an Edgley Optica as AFAIK the only one still flying. Powered by a single piston engine driving a ducted fan so it's very quiet. It's also probably one of the strangest looking aircraft

[D-Angle]

Looking a bit like it was made from whatever parts of other aircraft they could lay their hands on, the PZL230 Skorpion from Poland.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL-230_Skorpion

[Ayahuasca]

Honey, I shrunk the SR-71

[Oily Nails]

So small they had to fit the fuel tank on the outside!

Where do you attach the weapons systems?

[JVaughan]

Oily Nails said:

So small they had to fit the fuel tank on the outside!

Where do you attach the weapons systems?

open the canopy and throw stuff out !!

[tinman0]

JVaughan said:

Oily Nails said:

So small they had to fit the fuel tank on the outside!

Where do you attach the weapons systems?

open the canopy and throw stuff out !!

erm, not sure there is any glass in the canopy...

[andy97]

Moose. said:

Forgot I had these pics taken last summer at Compton Abbas:







It's an Edgley Optica as AFAIK the only one still flying. Powered by a single piston engine driving a ducted fan so it's very quiet. It's also probably one of the strangest looking aircraft

Thje guy that designed seems to have acquired th rights to it again, & is/ was hoping to restart production:

http://www.flyer.co.uk/news/newsfeed.php?artnum=77...