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Nebakenezzer posted:Ah, thanks. Pretty sure that's a Navion with the optional wing-tip tanks. The giveaway being the tail surfaces scaled straight down from those of the P-51 to appeal to post-war wannabe fighter pilots.
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BalloonFish posted:Pretty sure that's a Navion with the optional wing-tip tanks. The giveaway being the tail surfaces scaled straight down from those of the P-51 to appeal to post-war wannabe fighter pilots. Thanks. Have a comet? 
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Nah let's have a Cronenberg-ed out Nimrod
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BalloonFish posted:Pretty sure that's a Navion with the optional wing-tip tanks. The giveaway being the tail surfaces scaled straight down from those of the P-51 to appeal to post-war wannabe fighter pilots. Seconding Navion.
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vessbot posted:Nah let's have a Cronenberg-ed out Nimrod  A fine boi  He chomnk  MEGACHONK
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HookedOnChthonics posted:
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While the flared base keeps it from getting stick, sadly, it doesn't prevent it from exploding.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Thanks. Have a comet? Gratefully received. For all the stupid, mis-managed, badly-conceived and arrogantly-proposed projects the British aircraft industry produced in the post-war period, we could make a great-looking plane. The Comet 4 is one of the best. I await the Fairey Gannets, Handley Page Victors, Short Skyvans and De Havilland Sea Vixens in response, of course, but the Vickers Super VC10 puts the account in a lot of credit by itself 
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ReelBigLizard posted:something something flared base 
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It’s presenting, the shameful harlot.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Ah, thanks. Looks like a Navion. Edit: Jeez, got sniped by a whole page.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:so am i correct if i interpret this as a non-issue? Practically, yeah I'd say so. Maybe very low key issue. Probably more an issue of why hasn't ANA done the EEC software upgrade yet, since they've had a year. But it might be really low priority or Rolls might be charging for it as a performance improvement mod or some other reason.
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Inacio posted:
Stationing some top motivated political advisors close to a country which might need some political advice quite soon?
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BalloonFish posted:Gratefully received. For all the stupid, mis-managed, badly-conceived and arrogantly-proposed projects the British aircraft industry produced in the post-war period, we could make a great-looking plane. The Comet 4 is one of the best. I think the VC10 looks good, though I actually like the look of the Gannet, Victor, and the Shackleton, kind of a brutalist dieselpunk thing. Also, the Bristol Britannia:   I was thinking about the Airspeed Ambassador, but looking at pictures it's kinda like a C-119 and the Connie had a bastard child:  OTHER:  
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360 degree panorama of an SR-71 cockpit. Click the little Windows-looking icon on the bottom left to see the whole catalog of cockpit panoramas. There's some cool stuff in there.
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dupersaurus posted:The finest twin ever made I think the picture is a Mosquito. The Hornet's nose didn't extend past the props, had slimmer engines and the fuselage flowed into the rudder.
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dupersaurus posted:The finest twin ever made No that award goes to Emily or her sister from when I was in high school, sorry.
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dupersaurus posted:The finest twin ever made In any category I'd say there's strong competition, but considering its times and purpose I am easily recruited to your team. Read a book by a Norwegian pilot, he said he was strongly warned in twin training to never turn into a dead engine, but the Mosquito was so nice to fly he did so just fine while landing it. Just carry a bit of extra speed. I wonder what it could cost today to recruit some grand piano woodworkers to build a 360 mph piston twin.
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Ola posted:In any category I'd say there's strong competition, but considering its times and purpose I am easily recruited to your team. Read a book by a Norwegian pilot, he said he was strongly warned in twin training to never turn into a dead engine, but the Mosquito was so nice to fly he did so just fine while landing it. Just carry a bit of extra speed. I wonder what it could cost today to recruit some grand piano woodworkers to build a 360 mph piston twin. It did inspire imitators. Y'all know about the Ta 154 Moskito (I mean way to not give the RAF the power, Germany) but I just heard of this guy. TL;DR Argentina sorta built their own mosquito copy and operated them in the 1950s. PS> Is the Mosquito the only British aircraft to be used by the Americans during WW2?
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joat mon posted:I think the picture is a Mosquito. The Hornet's nose didn't extend past the props, had slimmer engines and the fuselage flowed into the rudder.  Honorable mention: Tigercat
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Ola posted:In any category I'd say there's strong competition, but considering its times and purpose I am easily recruited to your team. Read a book by a Norwegian pilot, he said he was strongly warned in twin training to never turn into a dead engine, but the Mosquito was so nice to fly he did so just fine while landing it. Just carry a bit of extra speed. I wonder what it could cost today to recruit some grand piano woodworkers to build a 360 mph piston twin. My uncle's uncle (my great uncle? I guess?) flew a variety of planes during WW2 including the Mosquito and he had nothing but praise for it. We have some of flight camera footage that I posted in the mil history thread where he's strafing flak boats Norweigan fjords; the stuff you could do in that plane is unbelievable. I saw that an air enthusiast club managed to build a flying Mosquito in the last 5 years, which required scrounging for parts across the entire Commonwealth.
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Nebakenezzer posted:PS> Is the Mosquito the only British aircraft to be used by the Americans during WW2? Spitfire; DH Tiger Moth and Avro Anson had USAAF designations assigned, though I don't know if they were actually used by the US. Also for my money nothing beats the XA-14/A-18 for sleek twins.
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Dreylad posted:My uncle's uncle (my great uncle? I guess?) flew a variety of planes during WW2 including the Mosquito and he had nothing but praise for it. We have some of flight camera footage that I posted in the mil history thread where he's strafing flak boats Norweigan fjords; the stuff you could do in that plane is unbelievable. I saw that an air enthusiast club managed to build a flying Mosquito in the last 5 years, which required scrounging for parts across the entire Commonwealth. Post history is a bit iffy these days, please repost here!
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Nebakenezzer posted:It did inspire imitators. Y'all know about the Ta 154 Moskito (I mean way to not give the RAF the power, Germany) but I just heard of this guy. TL;DR Argentina sorta built their own mosquito copy and operated them in the 1950s. The Mustang 
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Carth Dookie posted:No that award goes to Emily or her sister from when I was in high school, sorry. 
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Spitfire; DH Tiger Moth and Avro Anson had USAAF designations assigned, though I don't know if they were actually used by the US. The US used a several squadrons of Spitfires in Europe and the Mediterranean, there was one reconnaissance squadron that operated RAF recce Spitfires until their P-38s showed up, while the others were either "Eagle" pilots transferred to the AAF, or squadrons that had their Airacobras replaced because the RAF considered it unsuitable for the ETO/MTO. Another small squadron was formed in 1944 by the US Navy for D-Day, consisting of the observer pilots off of BBs and CAs that were taken off the ships and retrained on Royal Navy Spitfires, since the float planes couldn't survive against German aircraft and it took less time to fly to and from England than to launch and recover the float planes.
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slidebite posted:Looks like Germany turfed the F-35 from their Tornado replacement competition. Yeah they’re buying more Typhoons. The F-18 has no shot, they just need something to make it look like it’s competitive and so the Typhoon looks like it has operational strengths and it’s not entirely political. Mazz fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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So who's still committed to buying F-35s at this point? The USA, the UK, and like...Australia maybe? It seems like basically everyone else has backed out. e: huh, there's way more than I expected. Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Japan...welp Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Honestly the number has gone up, not down. Japan/Israel have both increased their buys and pretty much every NATO F-16 user is getting some now. For the most part the program did turn a corner, the CPFH is still high and it’s still got some poo poo to solve but it’s in a lot better place than it was say 5 years ago. AFAIK the latest lot buy was only 89.2 million, that’s only like 15-20% more than a new build F-16.
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Sagebrush posted:So who's still committed to buying F-35s at this point? The USA, the UK, and like...Australia maybe? It seems like basically everyone else has backed out. And by "committed to", we're talking "have received" Isreal, Netherlands, and UK are already doing photo-shoots. Looking forward to the Netherlands Demo unit in a few years.
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Mazz posted:Honestly the number has gone up, not down. Japan/Israel have both increased their buys and pretty much every NATO F-16 user is getting some now. For the most part the program did turn a corner, the CPFH is still high and it’s still got some poo poo to solve but it’s in a lot better place than it was say 5 years ago.
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slidebite posted:As a side, is the F16 still being produced for the USAF? I suspect there are still some for export but I would think that's winding down? Thy haven’t bought/built any in at least 10-15 years. There’s a decent chance the more recent ones get SLEP’d to make up for F-35 delays/costs. EDIT: On a side note, if they do SLEP some they’re dumb if they don’t put the CFTs on the Block 50/52s. I know people hate the way they look but from what I’ve read they’re so much better than slinging drop tanks all the time; they’re like a 50% increase in fuel for very little drag increase comparatively. Also those later ones are already configured to take them. Mazz fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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slidebite posted:As a side, is the F16 still being produced for the USAF? I suspect there are still some for export but I would think that's winding down? Not for the USAF, Iraq and Bahrain are the current customers according to wikipedia.
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slidebite posted:As a side, is the F16 still being produced for the USAF? I suspect there are still some for export but I would think that's winding down? Block 70/72 my friend. https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f-16v-viper-fighting-falcon-multi-role-fighter/
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slidebite posted:As a side, is the F16 still being produced for the USAF? I suspect there are still some for export but I would think that's winding down? The US F-16 line is dead, but for export it keeps hanging on, barely. Lockmart is proposing moving the line to India in a bid to sell up to 200 F-16s to India.
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