Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Voldemort]

from https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[MartG]

Ten Olympus engines...

[Ayahuasca]

[Stickyfinger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBx2Bu-jnOs

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[Fastdruid]

Ayahuasca said:

That's a cruise missile (prototype) not a plane!

[tight5]

MartG said:

Ten Olympus engines...

Gives a good impression of the size of TSR2.

[MartG]

Eek !

Note the fluid ( fuel or hydraulic ? ) spraying from the broken pipe !



https://imgur.com/bCEgUfY

Edited by MartG on Friday 27th October 11:14

[FourWheelDrift]

"You've entered, the Twilight Zone"

[hidetheelephants]

Fastdruid said:

Ayahuasca said:

That's a cruise missile (prototype) not a plane!

As carried on the amusingly named USS Growler.

[Trevatanus]

Just found this old photo of an An22 on the ground at Heathrow in 1988, collecting releif supplies for Armenia after the 1988 earthquake.
There was also a 124 parked to its right.
Had never seen one before and rushed to Heathrow after it flew over my house.

[Eric Mc]

That was the same year an An-22 turned up at the Farnborough Air Show. It flew in carrying a spare engine for an An-124 which had blown one of its engines.

[Ayahuasca]

Fastdruid said:

Ayahuasca said:

That's a cruise missile (prototype) not a plane!

Yep. Regulus 2 UAV. Built by Chance Vought. The Regulus1 carried the seaborne US nuclear deterrent before Polaris. It was designed to be the same size as a normal aircraft so that off the shelf components could be used, thus reducing costs. Prototypes were fitted with landing gear. It was guided by radio control, the 'radio' being the radar system of the launching vessel. It was a (distant) development of the Nazi V1 (known to the US Navy as the Loon). All it lacked was an on-board pilot.

[Eric Mc]

Did it actually enter service?

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

Did it actually enter service?

The Regulus did; it was however top secret until quite recently so not that well know. The Regulus 2 did not because it still required the submarine to surface to launch it, so when Polaris came along it was obsolete.

[Eric Mc]

I knew about the existence of the Regulus. When I was a kid in the 1960s we used to buy sweet cigarettes (very un-PC) and they came with sets of picture cards. One set was called "Space Age" and I remember that one of the cards showed a Regulus. There was at least one plastic kit of the Regulus -

[h0b0]

hidetheelephants said:

Fastdruid said:

Ayahuasca said:

That's a cruise missile (prototype) not a plane!

As carried on the amusingly named USS Growler.

I have been on that Growler.........

It is part of the intrepid museum in NYC. (Well in the Hudson River attached to NYC)

[jmorgan]

h0b0 said:

I have been on that Growler.........

It is part of the intrepid museum in NYC. (Well in the Hudson River attached to NYC)

Ditto, interesting bit of kit.

Edit. Hang on, Growler in NYC has 577 on its sticking up bit?

Edited by jmorgan on Friday 27th October 16:39

[MartG]

jmorgan said:

h0b0 said:

I have been on that Growler.........

It is part of the intrepid museum in NYC. (Well in the Hudson River attached to NYC)

Ditto, interesting bit of kit.

Edit. Hang on, Growler in NYC has 577 on its sticking up bit?

Edited by jmorgan on Friday 27th October 16:39

574 was USS Grayback, the only other member of the class

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayback-class_subma...

[Tango13]

MartG said:

jmorgan said:

h0b0 said:

I have been on that Growler.........

It is part of the intrepid museum in NYC. (Well in the Hudson River attached to NYC)

Ditto, interesting bit of kit.

Edit. Hang on, Growler in NYC has 577 on its sticking up bit?

Edited by jmorgan on Friday 27th October 16:39

574 was USS Grayback, the only other member of the class

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayback-class_subma...

There was also the nuclear powered USS Halibut that could carry five Regulus I or two Regulus II missiles. Once the George Washington class became operational it went on to spend 11 years between 1965-76 on 'Special Operations'

[eccles]

Eric Mc said:

I knew about the existence of the Regulus. When I was a kid in the 1960s we used to buy sweet cigarettes (very un-PC) and they came with sets of picture cards. One set was called "Space Age" and I remember that one of the cards showed a Regulus. There was at least one plastic kit of the Regulus -

Revell had a lovely range of missiles from the 50's/60's. I built most of them as a kid in the 70's. I sold my 1976 Revell catalogue a few years ago for a surprising amount of money! The had a great range of models then, lots of missiles, merchant ships, cutaway models.....happy days!