Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[MB140]

Tango13 said:

AER said:

I wonder how long before computer vision-based visual guidance systems are in use, if they aren't already.

The Pershing II missile system used a rader/video system for terminal guidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II

Anybody else seen the documentary about the Allies who trained pigeons to tap on pads to put a cross over a target in reward for food. In reality this tapping on the pads was altering the control surfaces on a bomb in free fall in effect becoming a guided bomb.

Not sure if it was ever used but what a mental idea if it had worked to improve accuracy. One of the issues was that it would have required daylight bombing raids.

https://youtu.be/mnKyOfNuSoo

[highflyer]

Not sure this counts being Rotor but taken last year as a dare

[MartG]

[mko9]

That is a big set of propellers!

[irocfan]

MartG said:

I can't be the only one who thought this....

[JeremyH5]

irocfan said:

I can't be the only one who thought this....

Correct, you weren’t the only one!

[RicksAlfas]

Not amazingly cool photos, but amazingly cool aircraft. I snapped these two on a recent trip to the US.

56 years and 4,500mph between them!





Not it's usual operating environment. A-12 on a carrier with snow on it's wings...



Trump's helicopters:



I also saw a Boeing Dreamlifter but wasn't quick enough to grab a pic.

[RicksAlfas]

Thanks for the info. It was almost like an operational prototype for the SR-71 wasn't it?
It was slightly smaller and lighter, but consequently slightly faster than the SR-71!

[JuniorD]

RicksAlfas said:

Not amazingly cool photos, but amazingly cool aircraft. I snapped these two on a recent trip to the US.

56 years and 4,500mph between them!



Not it's usual operating environment. A-12 on a carrier with snow on it's wings...

I've seen X-15A-2 (Ser. No. 56-6671) at the USAF Museum, at Wright-Patterson yet never realized until now that the vertical stabilizer is wedge shaped like that.

Worse still, I've been on the The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and never twigged that aircraft wasn't an SR-71.

[Eric Mc]

Worth a read -

[blueg33]

JeremyH5 said:

Correct, you weren’t the only one!

There was more than two with the same thought

[RicksAlfas]

Eric Mc said:

Worth a read -

Thanks Eric. Only £9 from Ebay or Amazon so might treat myself.
It can go with my SR-71 Flight Manual!

[blueedge]

JuniorD said:

I've seen X-15A-2 (Ser. No. 56-6671) at the USAF Museum, at Wright-Patterson yet never realized until now that the vertical stabilizer is wedge shaped like that.

Worse still, I've been on the The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and never twigged that aircraft wasn't an SR-71.

The AF Museum also has a YF-12 next to the X-15 -

[MartG]

blueedge said:

JuniorD said:

I've seen X-15A-2 (Ser. No. 56-6671) at the USAF Museum, at Wright-Patterson yet never realized until now that the vertical stabilizer is wedge shaped like that.

Worse still, I've been on the The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and never twigged that aircraft wasn't an SR-71.

The AF Museum also has a YF-12 next to the X-15 -

Looks like a D-21 at the left too

[XB70]

Any more photos of my favourite aircraft? Username gives it away!

[blueedge]

XB70 said:

Any more photos of my favourite aircraft? Username gives it away!

Absolutely, it's a lot more accessible and easier to photograph since they moved it to the new hangar:

[Eric Mc]

USAF Museum is one of my bucket list items.

[blueedge]

MartG said:

Looks like a D-21 at the left too

The R&D/Presidential Hangar has so many cool aircraft in it, these two are a couple of favourites of mine parked close to the YF-12:

[Ayahuasca]

[tog]

XB70 said:

Any more photos of my favourite aircraft? Username gives it away!

I saw this B-70-based SST proposal on Twitter the other day:



That would have been quite a way to travel!