Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[Baron Greenback]

Not an actual plane yet but Darpa Liberty Lifter aims to bring back heavy-lift ground effect seaplanes prototypes could fly as early as 2027.
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/darpa-liberty-lifter...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-liberty-lifter

I did check if it was published on April fools!

[hidetheelephants]

Aren't they about 80 years too late for really big flying boats?

[Zumbruk]

hidetheelephants said:

Aren't they about 80 years too late for really big flying boats?

It's an Ekranoplan rather than a flying boat, I think.

[ETA; A bit of both, having Googled.]

[aazer89]

El stovey said:

LotusOmega375D said:

Slightly off-topic, but when you drive along the E4 motorway from Gothenburg to Stockholm you pass Linkoping where the SAAB aircraft factory is located. There is a selection of their old aircraft mounted for display along the roadside spread across a distance of a few kms. You can see them on satellite maps and try and work out what they are. I think this is the whole selection:

saab 29 and 32




Saab 105 (jet) and yellow safir




Saab 340



Saab Draken and viggen

I always did love the Viggen (and now the Gripen) design

[MartG]

Rhodesian Air Force Canberra B2

[Voldemort]

[hidetheelephants]

MartG said:

Rhodesian Air Force Canberra B2

Eeep! That's a bit close, even for something as nimble as a Canberra.

[CanAm]

Voldemort said:

I never even thought about how they’d load up those things. Every day’s a school-day on PH.

[RizzoTheRat]

Me neither, looks a hell of a tight fit

[MartG]

The alternative method used was to dig a pit for the X-1

[Voldemort]

I wonder why they had two methods for loading?

Was one abandoned in favour of the other? Was it considered safer to fuel the X1 in a pit? Was one quicker or have another advantage?

[FourWheelDrift]

Ground hole method was used 1946+ the elevated photo is from 1951 so maybe they just upgraded.

Ps. Both aircraft pictured on the elevated photo were destroyed in a ground fire during defueling in 1951 after this captive (no-launch) flight had finished.

[MartG]

RAAF Canberra Mk 21 and CAC Mustang over RAAF Laverton.

RAAF pic.

[Baron Greenback]

Lockheed 'L-1049 Super Constellation'.running a bit rich on take off

[Voldemort]

[Eric Mc]

CanAm said:

Voldemort said:

I never even thought about how they’d load up those things. Every day’s a school-day on PH.

That was a bit later in the programme. Originally they used a loading pit -





I think the pit is still there.

[Voldemort]

http://airpigz.com/blog/2011/1/9/1965-super-guppy-...

[tdm34]

Voldemort said:

http://airpigz.com/blog/2011/1/9/1965-super-guppy-...

That's an amazing story, well worth a read.

[CanAm]

tdm34 said:

Voldemort said:

http://airpigz.com/blog/2011/1/9/1965-super-guppy-...

That's an amazing story, well worth a read.

The story refers to the aircraft's 300mph cruising speed, but then it hits trouble at 275mph in a V-max dive. ??

[Eric Mc]

I presume they fixed the issue because it never happened again.