Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

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perdu

4,884 posts

198 months

Tuesday 15th September 2015
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Yank it back up and give it a dash of T-Cut

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Eric Mc

121,768 posts

264 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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IroningMan said:
Vigilante - lovely looking thing.
An extremely advanced design for its time and hugely influential.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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Eric Mc said:
IroningMan said:
Vigilante - lovely looking thing.
An extremely advanced design for its time and hugely influential.
US version of the TSR2 in some ways.

Eric Mc

121,768 posts

264 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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I wouldn't quite go that far. However, I would nominate another advanced North American Aviation project as the American equivalent of the TSR2, this -



especially if you are comparing the politics and outcome.

MartG

20,619 posts

203 months

Friday 18th September 2015
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Martin-Baker “swing arm” concept, circa 1944, designed to assist pilots to vacate their aircraft at high speeds. The concept did not pass beyond the model stage - the model still exists to this day in the Martin Baker factory in Denham.

Quite what a pilot would have thought about being attached to an airborne trebuchet...... eek

james_tigerwoods

16,287 posts

196 months

Friday 18th September 2015
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MartG said:


Martin-Baker “swing arm” concept, circa 1944, designed to assist pilots to vacate their aircraft at high speeds. The concept did not pass beyond the model stage - the model still exists to this day in the Martin Baker factory in Denham.

Quite what a pilot would have thought about being attached to an airborne trebuchet...... eek
I'm not sure whether a test pilot would have wanted a go either. And what if the plan was upsidedown? Eep

Eric Mc

121,768 posts

264 months

Friday 18th September 2015
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james_tigerwoods said:
And what if the plan was upsidedown? Eep
To be honest, the same would hold true for an ejector seat.

CanAm

9,114 posts

271 months

Friday 18th September 2015
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Eric Mc said:
james_tigerwoods said:
And what if the plan was upsidedown? Eep
To be honest, the same would hold true for an ejector seat.
Unless it was an F-104 eek (only some of them, I know).
If it was a normal WW2 fighter, I suppose the pilot would just release his seat harness instead of ejecting.

MartG

20,619 posts

203 months

Saturday 19th September 2015
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P-51D Mustang 68-15796 undergoing tests at China Lake in June 1974 with a 106mm recoilless gun attached to each wingtip

MartG

20,619 posts

203 months

Saturday 19th September 2015
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Loose access door on the Chinook at today's Southport airshow


Pic credit Andrew Ratcliffe

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Sunday 20th September 2015
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MartG said:


Martin-Baker “swing arm” concept, circa 1944, designed to assist pilots to vacate their aircraft at high speeds. The concept did not pass beyond the model stage - the model still exists to this day in the Martin Baker factory in Denham.

Quite what a pilot would have thought about being attached to an airborne trebuchet...... eek
That'd do well at Alton Towers...smile

hidetheelephants

23,731 posts

192 months

Sunday 20th September 2015
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Beach bum has posted some interesting pics of abandoned ex-Olympic aircraft on this thread.




Dave46

454 posts

138 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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So I need way more practice but here's I few I took yesterday

Eurofighter Display RAFConingsby by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
Spitfire RAFConingsby by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
22-9-15 (2) by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr

Edited by Dave46 on Wednesday 23 September 18:42


Edited by Dave46 on Wednesday 23 September 18:50

hammo19

4,897 posts

195 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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Arrow picture nicely composed.....well done Dave

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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Technique question.

When I took airshow pictures back in the eighties. I used to use the camera (Canon AE1) on manual and take an exposure reading from the grass in front of me, which was generally an acceptable result even on slide film. While all the people who used automatic ended up underexposing the undersides. Never having used a digital SLR, do modern metering systems cope with these situations? Is there a particular mode that is recommended?

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

197 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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PRTVR said:
It's a pitot tube , air speed indicator , I think I read that cosford were having major changes to the display hangers, maybe they have removed some to give a balanced display.
Or a laser gun if the person you are taking round is 6 wink

Dave46

454 posts

138 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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hammo19 said:
Arrow picture nicely composed.....well done Dave
Thanks

james_tigerwoods

16,287 posts

196 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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rhinochopig said:
Or a laser gun if the person you are taking round is 6 wink
I'm going to use that smile

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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RobDickinson

31,343 posts

253 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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This is a bit incredible..



Boeing Model 853-21 Quiet Bird in Test Lab

"The Quiet Bird was a version of the Boeing Model 853 which started out as an Army observation airplane study, this version of the 853 study was used to test materials and shapes that would reduce radar cross sections (RCS). The model was built and tested in 1962- 1963 at Boeing Wichita, these test were on a radar range and no actual flight testing was done. The tests reportedly achieved excellent results in reduced radar cross section, but it was a bit ahead of its time and did not generate interest from the military. The lessons learned on Quiet Bird probably did influence the design of the Boeing AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile. Internally Boeing continued to work on the non-metallic structures aspects that were pioneered with Quiet Bird, and that effort eventually lead to the use of increasingly larger and more complex composite structures in Boeing aircraft."

http://www.boeingimages.com/Package/2JRSXLJBF7A9

A stealth test plane (never flew) built in 1962 before the concept of stealth was even really understood. looks very 90's
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