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rocket_350 posted:There are only three Handley Page Halifax bombers left. Two of those have been pulled out of Norwegian lakes. The third was built from sections of different aircraft. That third one lives near me, ex-chicken coop fuselage and all: http://yorkshireairmuseum.org/exhibits/aircraft-exhibits/world-war-two-aircraft/handley-page-halifax-iii/ Fairly sure part of the tailplane was being used as a shed roof too
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In further things with wings near me news, we had our weekly Osprey fly-over earlier, slightly weird that they're the military aircraft I see most often in spite of living in Northern England - night flying currency flight or something? One of them was barely visible but the other was lit up like christmas, rotor tips glowing in the light and all.
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CommieGIR posted:Check out BBC's 'The World At War', lots of primary source interviews with people on all sides: Japanese, German, American, British, etc. Agreed, it's awesome.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:39
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Tremblay posted:Agreed, it's awesome. Also from the BBC, 'The Nazis - a Warning from History' is superb, albeit utterly chilling at times, kindly old octogenarians confessing to war crimes on camera, women being multiple-raped by both sides and other such joys.
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inkjet_lakes posted:In further things with wings near me news, we had our weekly Osprey fly-over earlier, slightly weird that they're the military aircraft I see most often in spite of living in Northern England - night flying currency flight or something? One of them was barely visible but the other was lit up like christmas, rotor tips glowing in the light and all. For training missions, depending on the rules and airspace being used, at least one member of a flight will have full lights, strobes, and beacons on for collision avoidance with non-participating aircraft, even if emissions control is being practiced.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:11
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CommieGIR posted:Check out BBC's 'The World At War', lots of primary source interviews with people on all sides: Japanese, German, American, British, etc. Is that different than the one they had on the History channel in the US? Because that one was awful.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Is that different than the one they had on the History channel in the US? Because that one was awful. Yes, its different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yI9D9oZgQ&list=PL3H6z037pboEKhZaLYS879YMuDG8mGuQI There's the complete series on Youtube. There you go.
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I like the Super Guppy. Do you like the Super Guppy? Then watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYH2NlUGH34 Super.  Guppy. 
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I miss when I used to get to watch that big dumb looking plane lazily fly about al the time. Also T-38s in NASA colors look cool.
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Hermsgervørden posted:I like the Super Guppy. Do you like the Super Guppy? Anybody who doesn't like the Super Guppy should be expelled from the planet.
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This is pretty cool, Boeing released photos of the Boeing 853, a stealth demo from the early 1960s: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/boeing-publishes-photos-of-secret-1960s-stealth-plane-experiment/   There's an imgur gallery here: http://imgur.com/a/l1y6v
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Hermsgervørden posted:I like the Super Guppy. Do you like the Super Guppy? I love the Super Guppy.
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mlmp08 posted:Also T-38s I'm all  for the t38/f5. Just perfectly proportioned in every way.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:I love the Super Guppy. The Super Guppy is going to be flying some SLS hardware into Mansfield (or somewhere North Ohio-ish) I think in November. It is a bit of a trek for me, but you might could make it.
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Slo-Tek posted:The Super Guppy is going to be flying some SLS hardware into Mansfield (or somewhere North Ohio-ish) I think in November. It is a bit of a trek for me, but you might could make it. http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2015/08/12/nasa-uses-mansfield-airport-orion-hub/31553047/ posted:MANSFIELD – NASA’s huge Super Guppy aircraft will land once or twice annually at Lahm Airport the next few years with equipment needed for testing America’s next-generation Orion spacecraft and eventually the crew module itself.
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Slo-Tek posted:The Super Guppy is going to be flying some SLS hardware into Mansfield (or somewhere North Ohio-ish) I think in November. It is a bit of a trek for me, but you might could make it. Mansfield is, like, a three hour drive for me. It's super close to my home town. I know what I'm doing in November.
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Scipio Africanus posted:This is pretty cool, Boeing released photos of the Boeing 853, a stealth demo from the early 1960s: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/boeing-publishes-photos-of-secret-1960s-stealth-plane-experiment/ Is that where Iran got theirs from? Looks awfully familiar! Guppy chat - never seen a Guppy but the Airbus Belugas fly over me quite often descending into Chester. Strange but beautiful things.
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monkeytennis posted:Is that where Iran got theirs from? Looks awfully familiar! I used to see the Guppies flying in to Manchester Airport (Ringway!) a lot in the 90s.
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Scipio Africanus posted:This is pretty cool, Boeing released photos of the Boeing 853, a stealth demo from the early 1960s: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/boeing-publishes-photos-of-secret-1960s-stealth-plane-experiment/ Wow. Why didn't this thing go forward? They didn't want to give to Soviets ideas?
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Mansfield is literally an hour away from me. I'm quite interested to see it!
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Nebakenezzer posted:Wow. Why didn't this thing go forward? They didn't want to give to Soviets ideas? My guess is that without enough computing power actually making it LO wasn't possible. Also possibly instability without fly by wire (i.e. not enough computers).
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Nebakenezzer posted:Wow. Why didn't this thing go forward? They didn't want to give to Soviets ideas? My guess is that it was basically a little too far ahead of it's time, so no one really saw a need for it. The F-117 was created as a result of US losses to Soviet SAM's during the Vietnam War, and since the Boeing design dates from 1962-3, the US probably hadn't learned those lessons that early in the conflict and didn't see the need for an airplane with a low radar cross section. Since the Boeing design also dates from just before Pyotr Ufimtsev published the paper that made it possible to accurately predict calculate radar cross sections, it apparently relied fairly heavily on being small and using special coatings to avoid detection, whereas the later F-117 was able to use advances in computer technology (and Ufimtsev's calculations) to produce an airplane with a very small radar signature that was also large enough to be a useful combat aircraft.
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And also be aerodynamic enough to fly. I'm sure they could calculate low RCS shapes back then, but optimizing one into a flyable aircraft was probably beyond their scope.
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Looks like Buffalo Joe bent up another airplane today: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/buffalo-airways-plane-deline-1.3244335
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It would appear that in the late 1940s, against all sense, a C-97 and B-36 had sex, and produced this:
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It's like someone sliced off the edges of all the round parts.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:46
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Congrats on finding an aircraft so obscure it doesn't have a wikipedia page anymore.
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MrChips posted:Looks like Buffalo Joe bent up another airplane today: Engine out, landed gear up. Oops. There's usually a way to lower gear manually without engine power, isn't there?
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CharlesM posted:Engine out, landed gear up. Oops. There's usually a way to lower gear manually without engine power, isn't there? Yeah, most revert to gravity if the hydraulics go.
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gently caress. Flying C-46s are already rare. He has one or two more, I think some First Nations airline has one, the CAF flies one and beyond that it's all Everts (3, IIRC).
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SybilVimes posted:It would appear that in the late 1940s, against all sense, a C-97 and B-36 had sex, and produced this: The High-wing, low to the ground thing I can appreciate. But...it's so tiny And why four engines? Does it have one engine driving four propellers? Is this some sort of Buckmaster Fuller creation?
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Four air cooled 3.1 liter flat-fours putting out 85 hp each. The Unluckiest Plane. Nobody wanted to buy it, so the sole example went into a local aircraft museum. Destroyed by hurricane Andrew in 1992, the bits went to a different local air museum, which was destroyed by hurricane Rita in 2005. joat mon fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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So valuable that after it got flipped over onto its back at the museum, it was the only thing left behind. 
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Ardeem posted:Congrats on finding an aircraft so obscure it doesn't have a wikipedia page anymore. Googling the N number turned up this: http://theaviationanorak.blogspot.com/2011/05/languagejavascript-srchttpwww.html e: http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=501213 is pretty grim to see
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I can't breathe in this thing!
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New F-35 helmet lookin good.
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Seriously what the hell is that comically large helmet? First gen quad-NVG's?
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And what simulator is that?
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Oh look it's #1 on my things-i-barely-want-on-my-head-in-1g-much-less-3+-g's list Ed: also totally reminded me of this guy 
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