Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[MartG]

A couple of frames of the test launch of an AIM-47 Falcon from a YF-12A. On 22 March 1966, the crew of YF-12A number 936 successfully fired a missile from 74,500 feet while cruising at Mach 3.15. The target was a Ryan Q-2C flying at 1,500 feet.

Following the demise of the YF-12A project, the AIM-47 was developed into the AIM-54 Phoenix, and fitted first to the F-111B before finally reaching operational status on the F-14 Tomcat

[Stickyfinger]

https://youtu.be/isaWV45MkzM?t=165

Have a NATTER

Edited by Stickyfinger on Monday 9th January 21:18

[hidetheelephants]

Stickyfinger said:

https://youtu.be/isaWV45MkzM?t=165

Have a NATTER

Edited by Stickyfinger on Monday 9th January 21:18

And a Ju290 and Ju388 behind?

[Stickyfinger]

I was thinks Studebaker

[perdu]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Aside from the fact that with an icreased TOW the a/c might never 'get up on the 'step' let alone unstick from the water.

And from what I discovered when researching one for a model, it took a mile of open water to unstick off the step anyway

The Catalina does not have lift enhancing devices such as flaps or slats to aid lift at low speeds, just those big wide 'sod - off' wings

And the mighty Pratt and Whitney Twin Wopses

[Ayahuasca]

Schmokin!

[DJFish]

The middle Phantom must have double engine failure as there's no soot coming out the back.

[Eric Mc]

hidetheelephants said:

And a Ju290 and Ju388 behind?

On display in the US after the war it looks from that picture.

[Trevatanus]

MartG said:

A couple of frames of the test launch of an AIM-47 Falcon from a YF-12A. On 22 March 1966, the crew of YF-12A number 936 successfully fired a missile from 74,500 feet while cruising at Mach 3.15. The target was a Ryan Q-2C flying at 1,500 feet.

Following the demise of the YF-12A project, the AIM-47 was developed into the AIM-54 Phoenix, and fitted first to the F-111B before finally reaching operational status on the F-14 Tomcat

Instantly thought of "The Six Million Dollar Man" when I saw that!

[Stickyfinger]

[yellowjack]

Stickyfinger said:

Captured by the Japanese? Or captured by the Germans and supplied to the Japanese?

A 'C' or 'D' model leading out two later 'E' models. Have you got any more details about the photograph?


Edit to add:

A bit of Googling and I've turned something up myself...

http://usaircraft.proboards.com/thread/1067/captur... (is that where your photo came from?)

...it seems that the Japanese creatively, and painstakingly pieced together these complete aircraft through scavenging US aircraft destroyed on the ground on airfields they captured. I know the Germans, and the Allies in Europe did a lot with captured intact, or crash repaired enemy aircraft, but I wasn't aware that the Japanese had three flyable B-17s to evaluate during WWII.

Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 11th January 10:45

[Stickyfinger]

one of the sources...cool egh


The Germans certainly did.

Edited by Stickyfinger on Wednesday 11th January 14:48

[FourWheelDrift]

We did the same thing too.

[LotusOmega375D]

Ships too. This is HMS Nonsuch. It was a captured German Destroyer (Z-38) which had seen service throughout WWII. After hostilities the Allies divied up the spoils and the Royal Navy got this for evaluation. It was renamed and renumbered R40 (then D107).

My father-in-law served on it in the immediate post-War period. He only died 2 months ago but remembered it well.

[Stickyfinger]

German S Boats (Torpedo boats) were used to deliver spies into the Baltic states after the war...Airey Neave ran the operation.

Kevin Wheatcroft (owner of Donington Park) has the last seaworthy one No S130. S130 was one of those boats that attacked at Slapton Sands.



http://www.wheatcroftcollection.com/home.html

http://www.rovcom.co.uk/s130_restoration_gallery.h...

Edited by Stickyfinger on Wednesday 11th January 20:53

[AlexC1981]

FourWheelDrift said:

We did the same thing too.
[pics...]

Why do they look less evil in our livery?

[Eric Mc]

In 2010 Farnborough IPMS (the scale model club in Farnborough) put together a display of models depicting the captured German aircraft that were evaluated at Farnborough during World War 2. In November 1945, the German Aircrft Evaluation Flight at Farnborough put on a flying and static display of these aircraft. The display was open to the public.

http://www.ipms-farnborough.co.uk/html/captured_ai...

It was discussed on Pistonheads back in 2010 -

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[yellowjack]

The RAE lost a Dornier Do 335 and a senior pilot when it crashed at a local school in Cove, Farnborough, in 1946.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=7...

Crazy to think of those rare, and occasionally unique captured aircraft which are now non-existent after they were scrapped when the world moved on to jet power and there was no obvious use for them after 'we' were done with evaluating the technology in them.


ETA:

Another link, with a more detailed description of the loss... http://www.airsciences.org.uk/FASTPressRelease_70t...

Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 12th January 16:00

[Eric Mc]

This is the model of that very aircraft as built for our Captured German Aircraft Model Display -

[Stickyfinger]

Eric Mc said:

This is the model of that very aircraft as built for our Captured German Aircraft Model Display -

Last one existing is held by the Smithsonian museum