Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[NDA]

MartG said:

F-111 full loadout - though as the outer four pylons were non-swivelling this loadout would bean the mission would be strictly subsonic with wings fully forward

Apart from the obvious need to be subsonic in this case, how differently would a powerful military jet handle with a full load of arms like that? Harder to get off the ground?

Is it even possible to describe it to someone who doesn't fly?

[MartG]

Huge helicopter ?



Nope, just an Mi-26 with an Il-76 parked behind it

[yellowjack]

MartG said:

Huge helicopter ?



Nope, just an Mi-26 with an Il-76 parked behind it

I see what you mean, but Mil Mi-26? I'm still going with "huge helicopter" being the correct answer!

[FourWheelDrift]

Hughes XH-17. Largest diameter rotor of any helicopter built.

The early heavy lift chopper, flying much like his Spruce Goose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0QZ-NdAb1U

[Ayahuasca]

FourWheelDrift said:

Hughes XH-17. Largest diameter rotor of any helicopter built.

The early heavy lift chopper, flying much like his Spruce Goose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0QZ-NdAb1U

Cheers. Interesting machine. I thought it would have monster torque but apparently it had very little as the rotor was not driven by a shaft but by little afterburners in the rotor tips.

[FourWheelDrift]

From the biggest to the smallest.

The French Sablier of 1954. Wasn't the future a wonderful place to look forward to

[Ayahuasca]

Looks perfectly safe. What could possibly go wrong? He even decided to test it next to some wires that he could grab if need be.

[Eric Mc]

The first Propeller Head.

[MartG]

An RAAF F/A-18F ‘Superbug’.

Despite operating exclusively from land, Aussie Hornets still retain the catapult launch bar - due to the simple fact that a lighter nose gear causes significant shimmy vibration, therefore either dummy or functioning launch bars had to be left on to damp the vibration.

Photo - KedarKarmarkar Aviation Photography.

[MartG]

[james_tigerwoods]

MartG said:

How it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPX3_l-c3H0

[Eric Mc]

"Was" rather than "is".

[tight5]

ooops

[irocfan]

tight5 said:

ooops

so you come down the slide and then break your neck falling into the concrete ditch!

[MartG]

Some cracking photos in this link https://hushkit.net/2018/03/07/an-idiots-guide-to-...

[MartG]

[james_tigerwoods]

MartG said:

What's that thing on the right???

[MartG]

james_tigerwoods said:

What's that thing on the right???

Grenade launcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M129_grenade_launche...

[irocfan]

MartG said:

Some cracking photos in this link https://hushkit.net/2018/03/07/an-idiots-guide-to-...

great site thanks!! I'll be trawling that site quite heavily

[ReverendCounter]

MartG said:

Huge helicopter ?



Nope, just an Mi-26 with an Il-76 parked behind it

"It's just an il-il-il-yu-shin - ilyushin"