Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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Voldemort said:
That reminds me of a joke which I'll adapt for the Galaxy...So a Galaxy pilot is flying from A to B minding his own business when a fighter jock in an F/A-18 flies past and gets on the radio.
"Hey heavy fella, watch this - I bet you can't beat it"
Fighter jock proceeds to perform his audition display for the Blue Angels.
"Well whaddya think?" says the jock.
Galaxy pilot says: "Pretty fancy but can you do this?"
...flies straight and level for 2 mins...
Fighter jock: "What was that?"
Galaxy pilot "I just got up for a walk to stretch my legs and got coffee and danish*".
Caruso said:
hat reminds me of a joke which I'll adapt for the Galaxy...
So a Galaxy pilot is flying from A to B minding his own business when a fighter jock in an F/A-18 flies past and gets on the radio.
"Hey heavy fella, watch this - I bet you can't beat it"
Fighter jock proceeds to perform his audition display for the Blue Angels.
"Well whaddya think?" says the jock.
Galaxy pilot says: "Pretty fancy but can you do this?"
...flies straight and level for 2 mins...
Fighter jock: "What was that?"
Galaxy pilot "I just got up for a walk to stretch my legs and got coffee and danish*".
It was an early ambition in aviation - So a Galaxy pilot is flying from A to B minding his own business when a fighter jock in an F/A-18 flies past and gets on the radio.
"Hey heavy fella, watch this - I bet you can't beat it"
Fighter jock proceeds to perform his audition display for the Blue Angels.
"Well whaddya think?" says the jock.
Galaxy pilot says: "Pretty fancy but can you do this?"
...flies straight and level for 2 mins...
Fighter jock: "What was that?"
Galaxy pilot "I just got up for a walk to stretch my legs and got coffee and danish*".
LotusOmega375D said:
I remember posting up on here that my Dad used to cycle to Bruntingthorpe to watch the JATO B47 take-offs.
I just searched the original post and it was back in 2011.
Must have been quite a sight.I just searched the original post and it was back in 2011.
My Mum grew up in a farmhouse at the end of the runway - she was quite friendly with the base commander's daughter as they were both mad on horse.
She used to comment that it was a ridiculous people complaining about noise from Bruntingthorpe when she compared it to how it was as an operational base...
Dont like rolls said:
eccles said:
Swept wing, underslung engines.
Well the Arado 234 takes that for underslung jet engines.Dont like rolls said:
eccles said:
Swept wing, underslung engines.
Well the Arado 234 takes that for underslung jet engines.The swept wing on its own was not revolutionary either. The theory of sweeping wings to help alleviate the compressibility of air near transonic speeds had been known since the 1930s and was being incorporated in other designs before the B-47.
What was revolutionary about the B-47 was the combination of a number of features -
1 - ultra thin wing to assist in achieving a high subsonic cruise speed
2 - sweepback for the same reason
3 - podded underslung engines mounted FORWARD of the leading edge of the wing on pylons
The positioning of the engines on forward raked pylons was done deliberately to allow the wing to be thin.
Swept wings exhibit a number of undesirable aeroelastic twisting effects - chiefly the tendency for the leading edge to want to rotate upwards. One solution to counteract this is to make the wing fairly thick with a deep wing spar. Look at the leading edge of a Vulcan, for instance, or even a Comet.
Boeing wanted a thin wing for performance. They discovered that by hanging the weight of the engines not only under the wing but also a fair bit ahead of the leading edge, you could counteract the twisting motion and retain a thin, lightweight wing.
It was such an elegant solution that most airliners today, over a certain size, use this technique to some extent.
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