Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

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[RaptorReed]

Can't find the oil leak on a P-3 or C-130 T56 engine? This is what we would do. Remove engine bay doors, tie down stand to the padeyes and send a couple guys up there to look for the leak.

[wayno]

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[datsunfreak]

Where is that? That is awesome...

 

[Z-train]

http://player.vimeo.com/video/93587997

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[a.d._510_n_ok]

Where is that? That is awesome...

no clue, bubba but damned near frame-able!

[Jesse C.]

[MikeRL411]

 

Jack Northrup was right!  Thankfully he lived long enough to see the roll out of the B2 which "coincidently" mirrors the dimensions of his original Flying Wing.  Thanks to computerized flight controls the current variety does not require constant vigilance on the part of the flight crew.

[wayno]

Jack Northrup was right!  Thankfully he lived long enough to see the roll out of the B2 which "coincidently" mirrors the dimensions of his original Flying Wing.  Thanks to computerized flight controls the current variety does not require constant vigilance on the part of the flight crew.

Thirty years later, in April 1980, Jack Northrop, then quite elderly and wheelchair bound, was taken back to the company he founded. There, he was ushered into a classified area and shown a scale model of the Air Force's forthcoming but still highly classified Advanced Technology Bomber, which would eventually become known as the B-2; it was a sleek, all-wing design. Looking over its familiar lines, Northrop, unable to speak due to various illnesses, was reported to have written on a pad: "I know why God has kept me alive for the past 25 years." Jack Northrop died 10 months later, in February 1981, eight years before the first B-2 entered Air Force service.^[12]

[MikeRL411]

The original Northrop Flying wing shot the hell out of the Air Force!  It flew from beyond Catalina Island directly towards the San Pedro AFS South of Los Angeles  radar and was only detected by the sound of its engines as it passed overhead!  Too bad its only major screen epiction was in the remake "War of the worlds" sequel.

 

By the way, at least one of the prototype Training Flying Wing aircraft still exist and are routinely flown at the Torrance CA Air Port annual open flying exhibition.  M6 is I blieve their official designation.  They were used to flying the qualification flights for the actual swept flight bomber test crews qual flights!

 

They are reatiful beautiful flying machines.  I still remember seeing the guts of this machine laying beneath the remains of a RB35 Flying Wing at the original Ontario CA location of the Museum. 

 

Let's not talk about the Japanese version of the ME262rocket interceptor  and and the local JDM version of the rocket motors displayed alongside the German version at the original Ontario Air Port site!  By the way my commandering Colonel "an original Eagle Squadron voluntrair" the Royal Air Force saw the Japanese Rocket Intercepter at the Ontario site and commented on the crude welding of the propellant tanks to one of our Aerospace Corporation consultants,  A Doctor Holman to be specific!  His reply was to the effect that Germany lost more ME262 pilots on the landing than they lost to aerial gunnery!  When asked why he knew that, he replied that he was the test pilot on the number two aircraft!  So our test pilots for manned rocket aircraft does go well beyond the Bell X1!

[Jesse C.]

Are you talking about the ME-163 Komet rocket fighter?

 

 

And the Japanese Version Mitsubishi J8M1 Shusui

[goes2fast]

The original Northrop Flying wing shot the hell out of the Air Force!  It flew from beyond Catalina Island directly towards the San Pedro AFS South of Los Angeles  radar and was only detected by the sound of its engines as it passed overhead!  Too bad its only major screen epiction was in the remake "War of the worlds" sequel.

 

By the way, at least one of the prototype Training Flying Wing aircraft still exist and are routinely flown at the Torrance CA Air Port annual open flying exhibition.  M6 is I blieve their official designation.  They were used to flying the qualification flights for the actual swept flight bomber test crews qual flights!

 

They are reatiful beautiful flying machines.  I still remember seeing the guts of this machine laying beneath the remains of a RB35 Flying Wing at the original Ontario CA location of the Museum. 

 

Let's not talk about the Japanese version of the ME262rocket interceptor  and and the local JDM version of the rocket motors displayed alongside the German version at the original Ontario Air Port site!  By the way my commandering Colonel "an original Eagle Squadron voluntrair" the Royal Air Force saw the Japanese Rocket Intercepter at the Ontario site and commented on the crude welding of the propellant tanks to one of our Aerospace Corporation consultants,  A Doctor Holman to be specific!  His reply was to the effect that Germany lost more ME262 pilots on the landing than they lost to aerial gunnery!  When asked why he knew that, he replied that he was the test pilot on the number two aircraft!  So our test pilots for manned rocket aircraft does go well beyond the Bell X1!

The ME262 was a jet, not a rocket, and the allies found that even thoug it was much faster than anything they had, it was not as manuverable, so they out manuvered it to make the kills. The German flying wing used the same engines as the ME262, which were unreliable, causing the crash of the first prototype, and the second prototype was not finished before the end of the war. They were also developing a larger bomber version that was to use 6 engines, and would have had enough range to hit targets on the east coast of the US. If the Germans could have held on another year, the out come of the war might have been much different. It's a good thing that Hitlers ego caused him to make so many bad decisions.

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If the Germans could have held on another year, the out come of the war might have been much different. It's a good thing that Hitlers ego caused him to make so many bad decisions.

Its mazing how many people dont believe that

[datsunfreak]

Or we'd have nuked Berlin too...   :rofl:

[q-tip]

Or we'd have nuked Berlin too... :rofl:

You got that right.

[MikeRL411]

Are you talking about the ME-163 Komet rocket fighter?

 

 

And the Japanese Version Mitsubishi J8M1 Shusui

 

Yes!  Late night postings tend to confuse my memory!   I saw the old California Flight Museum specimen at the Ontario site  before the museum moved to Chino.  My Air Force Colonel boss also saw it.  At a big deal reception he met Aerospace Corporation's Doctor Hohlman and discussed the poor welds on the Japanese version,  Doctor Hohlman said that was a common problem with the fuel and oxidiser tanks on the German versions also.  To misquote him because I was not there "The Germans lost more pilots and airplanes on landing than were ever shot down by the B17s" which jibes with what my Senior Master Sergeant said.  "They came up so fast that we never had the chance to aim at them.  But then they plateaued out and drifted down through our B17 formations.  They were then sitting ducks!"  By the way, Dr Hohlman was the test pilot on the number 2 ME 163!  Strange things came through with the "Paper Clip" trade of your secrets for my silence deals made after WW2 to keep German yechnology from the Russians!

 

Dr Hohlman also invented the "Holhman transfer" which is still used to launch satellites into their proper orbits.

[RatVonDude]

Yes!  Late night postings tend to confuse my memory!   I saw the old California Flight Museum specimen at the Ontario site  before the museum moved to Chino.  My Air Force Colonel boss also saw it.  At a big deal reception he met Aerospace Corporation's Doctor Hohlman and discussed the poor welds on the Japanese version,  Doctor Hohlman said that was a common problem with the fuel and oxidiser tanks on the German versions also.  To misquote him because I was not there "The Germans lost more pilots and airplanes on landing than were ever shot down by the B17s" which jibes with what my Senior Master Sergeant said.  "They came up so fast that we never had the chance to aim at them.  But then they plateaued out and drifted down through our B17 formations.  They were then sitting ducks!"  By the way, Dr Hohlman was the test pilot on the number 2 ME 163!  Strange things came through with the "Paper Clip" trade of your secrets for my silence deals made after WW2 to keep German yechnology from the Russians!

 

Dr Hohlman also invented the "Holhman transfer" which is still used to launch satellites into their proper orbits.

 

they seem like death traps, crazy story Mike

 

[MikeRL411]

Or we'd have nuked Berlin too...   :rofl:

 

Most of the scientists who worked on the A Bomb project were refugees from the Nazi "pogroms" and wanted to quit after the German surrender.  It took a major push to get them to realize that there was another theater of the WW2 operation and that the war wasn't over yet!  Hitler did more to to provide the talent to complete the nuclear race than any one.  Doctor Professor Fermi, an Italian enemy alien detainee who first suceeded in generating a continous nuclear pile reaction under the grand stand of the Chicago Football Stadium!  What's the chance of that being approved today?  It was a Carbon Pile reactor similar to the Chernobyl design if that raises any hairs on the back of your necks.

[MikeRL411]

they seem like death traps, crazy story Mike

 

 

"Wie eine ftau aber ohoh" to quote the inscription that goes with that decal!  "Looks like a Flea, but watch out!" is the closest English language translation.

[goes2fast]

Or we'd have nuked Berlin too...   :rofl:

No, they would have nuked us, that was what the stealth bomber was for, they were working on nukes, and we got their scientists after we beat them, and used them to build the nukes we droped on Japan.