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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #660 on: 31 March 2018, 17:40:52 »
i rather liked the X-32 myself.. it was basically a VTOL stealth A-7 Corsair.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #661 on: 31 March 2018, 20:22:48 »
The X32 with the more normal tail plane I thought looked nicer.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #662 on: 31 March 2018, 20:23:37 »
Quote from: I am Belch II on 31 March 2018, 20:22:48
The X32 with the more normal tail plane I thought looked nicer.

Would of been nice to see the Sharks mouth on the F32!
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #663 on: 01 April 2018, 00:57:03 »
....basking shark, would that be?
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #664 on: 01 April 2018, 02:27:08 »
He's just a happy, rolly-polly aircraft.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #665 on: 01 April 2018, 02:33:52 »
Quote from: I am Belch II on 31 March 2018, 20:22:48
The X32 with the more normal tail plane I thought looked nicer.

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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #666 on: 01 April 2018, 02:43:47 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 01 April 2018, 02:27:08
He's just a happy, rolly-polly aircraft.
He really is, isn't he?

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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #667 on: 01 April 2018, 03:54:49 »
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #668 on: 01 April 2018, 04:32:44 »
like i said. VTOL stealth A-7 Corsair.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #669 on: 02 April 2018, 03:00:30 »
The Doak Model 16/VZ-4 VTOL prototype tilt ducted fan aircraft from the 1950s.

Any resemblance to the Orca from Command & Conquer is purely coincidental



Okay, it actually has a whole lotta wing, not that visible in the first picture:
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #670 on: 02 April 2018, 12:45:58 »
Are the rotors fixed at that angle?
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #671 on: 02 April 2018, 21:52:06 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 02 April 2018, 12:45:58
Are the rotors fixed at that angle?

according to wikipedia, no, and it's an early version of tilt-rotor technology.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #672 on: 03 April 2018, 01:42:10 »
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #673 on: 03 April 2018, 08:48:14 »
Cue the Icarus metaphors in 3...2...1...
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #674 on: 03 April 2018, 09:30:00 »
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #675 on: 04 April 2018, 00:41:51 »
I would have been very dissapointed if that link was not Iron Maiden.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #676 on: 04 April 2018, 03:49:00 »
Such a nice photo of that Su-34
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #677 on: 04 April 2018, 06:44:50 »
Quote from: PsihoKekec on 04 April 2018, 00:41:51
I would have been very dissapointed if that link was not Iron Maiden.

And 35 years later, I still have the lyrics memorized.

Meanwhile, when I went shopping Monday I forgot about a third of what I went for.   :-[
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #678 on: 04 April 2018, 13:23:04 »
On the topic of shopping...

It's 1/48.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #679 on: 04 April 2018, 13:29:25 »
Assemble-and-paint or cast metal?
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #680 on: 04 April 2018, 14:10:19 »
Quote from: Bedwyr on 04 April 2018, 13:29:25
Assemble-and-paint or cast metal?
Assemble-and-paint, and it comes with a ton of detail parts and preprinted photoetch.  Downright gorgeous kit, but just...a 1/48 Valkyrie?!  That's Star Destroyer-sized!
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #681 on: 04 April 2018, 15:55:05 »
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #682 on: 04 April 2018, 19:53:13 »
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The F16 XL such a different but neat airplane.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #683 on: 04 April 2018, 22:58:04 »
I always loved the B-70 and remember standing in awe next to one at Wright Patterson.  I think that project back then was several billion dollars for 3 airframes, or was it only 2?  Still just such a marvelous plane that was sadly outdated by SAM technology by the time it made it off the drawing board.  Still it belongs in a sci-fi movie...
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #684 on: 04 April 2018, 23:24:46 »
Quote from: CrossfirePilot on 04 April 2018, 22:58:04
I always loved the B-70 and remember standing in awe next to one at Wright Patterson.  I think that project back then was several billion dollars for 3 airframes, or was it only 2?  Still just such a marvelous plane that was sadly outdated by SAM technology by the time it made it off the drawing board.  Still it belongs in a sci-fi movie...

Ended up only being two- the one at Wright-Pat is the only survivor, the other having been destroyed in a mid-air collision.

Quite the achievement though- and it appears to have scared the living daylights out of the Soviets. It's hard to not view the MiG-25 as a direct reply to the Valkyrie's development.

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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #685 on: 05 April 2018, 02:00:39 »
The CIA A-12 Oxcart spyplanes flying across the soviet union with impunity at mach 3+ and 85,000ft+ probably played a part too.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #686 on: 05 April 2018, 06:38:35 »
Quote from: CrossfirePilot on 04 April 2018, 22:58:04
I always loved the B-70 and remember standing in awe next to one at Wright Patterson.

The Russians liked it so much they tried making their own: the Sukhoi T-4.



Though theirs was smaller.



The sole survivor is now on display at Monino.



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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #687 on: 05 April 2018, 11:44:49 »
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Quite the achievement though- and it appears to have scared the living daylights out of the Soviets. It's hard to not view the MiG-25 as a direct reply to the Valkyrie's development.

And even worse in the early 70's: the SR-71 was actively demonstrating how hard it is to intercept a Mach 3+ plane, especially with an overly centralised air defense grid. Let alone shot down...
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #688 on: 05 April 2018, 20:32:59 »
The Tu-4 looks like a mini Tu144. That design didn't work either.
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Re: Aviation Pictures Part Trois
« Reply #689 on: 05 April 2018, 22:31:46 »
Quote from: I am Belch II on 05 April 2018, 20:32:59
The Tu-4 looks like a mini Tu144. That design didn't work either.

iirc, they shared resources in the design, so it's not a surprise that they have a similar profile and appearance.
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