Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[RizzoTheRat]

Practical but no looker IMO. I guess it came just as the world started to switch to jets so was just too slow to really be successful.

[Eric Mc]

Yes - most were used as military transports.

[LotusOmega375D]

On a similar vein, when I was a kid back in the 1970s, we would occasionally hear a droning noise from the heavens and my dad would announce “that’s the Packet” and grab his binoculars yo verify. Anyone else remember them? I guess it would have been civil operated by then.

[Eric Mc]

Was it this one -

[Voldemort]

I didn't know this existed until 5 minutes ago!

The de Havilland Doncaster

[Eric Mc]

What was its intended use?

[Baron Greenback]

Eric Mc said:

What was its intended use?

Found this source of info https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/de-havil... and sounds like slow speed issue aided its down fall.

[MartG]

[FourWheelDrift]

Boeing 853 Quiet Bird, stealth aircraft mock-up, from 1962.



Just FYI the F-117 project started in 1975.

[DodgyGeezer]

MartG said:

[DodgyGeezer]

[tdm34]

DodgyGeezer said:

[Ayahuasca]

Where those laser weapons just experimental or did they work?

[Baron Greenback]

Tracer ammo I think.

[Zumbruk]

Ayahuasca said:

Where those laser weapons just experimental or did they work?

Lasers weren't invented until 1958 ...

[Voldemort]

Zumbruk said:

Ayahuasca said:

Where those laser weapons just experimental or did they work?

Lasers weren't invented until 1958 ...

Whoosh parrot for table 3, please.

[Zumbruk]

Voldemort said:

Zumbruk said:

Ayahuasca said:

Where those laser weapons just experimental or did they work?

Lasers weren't invented until 1958 ...

Whoosh parrot for table 3, please.

Engraved tablet of Poe's Law for Table 7, please.

[Eric Mc]

Table 8 - WHERE'S MY DINNER?"

[MartG]

DodgyGeezer said:

Northrop P-61 Black Widow

[GliderRider]

tdm34 said:

DodgyGeezer said:

"The De Havilland's and Northrop entries in the competition won by the Turbinlite Havoc, utilised fluorescent tubes, which offered redundancy, but proved unworkable in practice."




There really was a Turbinlite Mosquito

Edited by GliderRider on Monday 19th December 19:07