Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

So how many F-89D Scorpion interceptors would it take to shoot down an unmanned WW2 Hellcat ?

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/...

( article contains pics of the aircraft for the pedants )

I presume these were the unguided small rockets that the Scorpion fired from its wingtip pods?

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

MartG said:

So how many F-89D Scorpion interceptors would it take to shoot down an unmanned WW2 Hellcat ?

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/...

( article contains pics of the aircraft for the pedants )

I presume these were the unguided small rockets that the Scorpion fired from its wingtip pods?

Yes - the same ones used on many fighters at the time

[MartG]

X-29

[FourWheelDrift]

Unique photo of the builders meeting when they realised they were holding the plans upside down?

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

Yes - the same ones used on many fighters at the time

Always looked a bit crude -

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

MartG said:

Yes - the same ones used on many fighters at the time

Always looked a bit crude

Yes - definitely a 'shotgun' approach to try and down an enemy aircraft. Can't help thinking that they'd have been better off with a 20mm cannon

[Ayahuasca]

Quite a handsome machine.

[Markbarry1977]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Markbarry1977 said:

They still do reheat taxi at bruntingthorpe I think (near Leicester) along with a buccaneer. I

Banana jets don't have reheat.

Apologies you are correct. Max dry then.

[MartG]

Interesting, if a little crazy, concept from Ryan Aeronautical...

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Markbarry1977 said:

Apologies you are correct. Max dry then.

If the Speys on Buccaneer were anything like those fitted to Nimrod, then they'd be producing around 12,000lbs of thrust in max cold power.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Markbarry1977 said:

Apologies you are correct. Max dry then.

If the Speys on Buccaneer were anything like those fitted to Nimrod, then they'd be producing around 12,000lbs of thrust in max cold power.

The Avons on the Lightning produce about 17,000lbs of thrust in 'burner.

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

Interesting, if a little crazy, concept from Ryan Aeronautical...

The Rogallo wing was promoted for lots if uses in the 1960s, including bringing space capsules back to a land landing -




In the end, its main application was in early hangliders.

[Tango13]

MartG said:

X-29

It's a cut n shut F-5 iirc

[Ayahuasca]

[Dr Jekyll]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

If the Speys on Buccaneer were anything like those fitted to Nimrod, then they'd be producing around 12,000lbs of thrust in max cold power.

I read somewhere years ago it was around 11,000lbs from a Buccaneer Spey, or 7,000 each from the Gyrons on the Mk 1,

Can't really believe a Spey on a Buccaneer would be less powerful than one on a Nimrod though.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

11,700 lbs for Nimrod IIRC.

[Markbarry1977]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Markbarry1977 said:

Apologies you are correct. Max dry then.

If the Speys on Buccaneer were anything like those fitted to Nimrod, then they'd be producing around 12,000lbs of thrust in max cold power.

The Avons on the Lightning produce about 17,000lbs of thrust in 'burner.

Spent four years working on Nimrods, it was always a nervous time watching one lumber down the runway wondering if it would get off the ground.

I went as pax to Washington on the mighty rod and half way through the approch the controller asked us to confirm we were in fact a heavy jet, we were going so slow.

[Ayahuasca]

[Ayahuasca]

[Ayahuasca]

What was unusual about this missile?