Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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etchacan said:
I went to Yeovilton, and saw a thing... Rare experience these days, seeing something at an airshow I've never seen before, very impressed!
AW609 commercial tiltrotor
Another of those bloody awful eggwhisk things; do these set themselves ablaze as readily as the Osprey? I can see the military imperative, nothing else has the capabilities a tiltrotor does but the complexity and failure modes make it a step too far for civil use. If economy of horizontal flight is such a priority they should revive the Rotodyne, they should have all the material they need in the company archive.AW609 commercial tiltrotor
I guess it's a sort of modern day equivalent of the Fairey Rotodyne idea to fly fast and land in confined city spaces but without the ear splitting ram jets on the ends of the main rotor.
The failure modes are much more benign though, which is something of a priority for flying fat b
ds to and from oilrigs, perhaps less so for lugging captains of industry about or long range SAR where nothing but a tiltrotor can do the job. If a tiltrotor goes wrong in transition it's in a lot of trouble, if in hover mode you've a good chance of a explodey fiery death. A Rotodyne just decends like an autogiro.
ds to and from oilrigs, perhaps less so for lugging captains of industry about or long range SAR where nothing but a tiltrotor can do the job. If a tiltrotor goes wrong in transition it's in a lot of trouble, if in hover mode you've a good chance of a explodey fiery death. A Rotodyne just decends like an autogiro.etchacan said:
I went to Yeovilton, and saw a thing... Rare experience these days, seeing something at an airshow I've never seen before, very impressed!
AW609 commercial tiltrotor
Did you also see it puncture/knock the tyre off the rim on landing? That's why it sat on the pan for ages ruining the following display before sloping off back to its home base.AW609 commercial tiltrotor
yellowjack said:
Let's play "spot the difference"...
(Yeah, yeah, I know! Plenty of differences. But an overall striking similarity between two ostensibly unconnected designs meant to perform a similar role)
Shouldn't be too difficult to find similar looking Russian aircraft to US ones........(Yeah, yeah, I know! Plenty of differences. But an overall striking similarity between two ostensibly unconnected designs meant to perform a similar role)
Tootles the Taxi said:
NM62 said:
Tootles the Taxi said:
Isn't that Fairchild's competitor to the A10 Warthog?
Northrop made the YA-9 (pictured) and that lost to the Fairchild Republic A-10.NM62 said:
No need Tootles - it's just that I am old enough to remember the competition and I have always liked the A-10.
In all honesty I get the impression that the only people who don't like the A10 are the generals who were likely to miss out on industry kickbacks/sinecures because the 'hog did everything it said on the tin and was (relatively) cheap
irocfan said:
NM62 said:
No need Tootles - it's just that I am old enough to remember the competition and I have always liked the A-10.
In all honesty I get the impression that the only people who don't like the A10 are the generals who were likely to miss out on industry kickbacks/sinecures because the 'hog did everything it said on the tin and was (relatively) cheap
CanAm said:
NM62 said:
No need Tootles - it's just that I am old enough to remember the competition and I have always liked the A-10.
Then here's a photo of its little gun with a VW Beetle for comparison:-
Spent many a day in the 80's round Woodbridge / Bentwaters watching the A-10s operate - wish I still could.
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