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weird enough the USAF uses one still
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This turboprop Wilga makes my dick hard https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/261841/692DF0D6-283A-4BE6-BD00-124C16186BAD-642804.JPG View Quote |
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YC-14 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Yc14-1_072.jpg/800px-Yc14-1_072.jpg View Quote |
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I wish I could experience piloting a rocket with wings. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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X-15 has always been a favorite https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/North_American_X-15.jpg/1633px-North_American_X-15.jpg |
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Quoted: Not sure if serious The 'wing' on top is an antenna. That Boeing's advanced avionics test aircraft. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Not sure if serious The 'wing' on top is an antenna. That Boeing's advanced avionics test aircraft. Edit: A couple of people already got it. Quoted:
You know that's an F-22 nose, right? Quoted:
That's the f/22 flying testbed. I worked with one of the engineers last year |
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LTV's XC-142A tilt wing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Ling-Temco-Vought_XC-142A.jpg/1024px-Ling-Temco-Vought_XC-142A.jpg View Quote |
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/23042/100p_JPG-643475.jpg The Bughatti 100P Project. Sadly, on its last test flight, the plane suffered an unknown control malfunction and crashed catastrophically killing the pilot and completely destroying the plane. View Quote |
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Look up the Airphibian by Robert Fulton.
Three of the planes were stored in a barn very near here for years. Danny |
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Like an Enforcer or replica or is someone converting an original? The Enforcer was a sweet plane, they were testing it for CAS all the way into the 80s. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/13b_dj2015_testflight83_live-642759.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Piper-PA-48-Enforcer-Mod-P-51-D-642760.JPG ATG Javelin was another high-speed executive jet that didn't take off. I think they're trying to market it as a trainer/very light fighter now. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Javelin_Jet-642758.JPG Couple of Mike Patey projects... Turbulence (turboprop Lancair Legacy): https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Turbulence_LancairLegacy-642761.JPG Draco - highly modified turboprop Wilga https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/9c08e1b1c56b94c6053918e9d8f86e4caccd6053-642763.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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There’s a partially built turbo prop P-51 project that shows up on eBay every couple months. The Enforcer was a sweet plane, they were testing it for CAS all the way into the 80s. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/13b_dj2015_testflight83_live-642759.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Piper-PA-48-Enforcer-Mod-P-51-D-642760.JPG Or the Viper Jet civilian fighter-like jet. I think there’s a few flying but the company halted production. http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b29/1BMF/8AB05447-6C58-410B-8D70-7EAD2B343C8F_zpshlks1qzn.jpg I think they're trying to market it as a trainer/very light fighter now. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Javelin_Jet-642758.JPG Couple of Mike Patey projects... Turbulence (turboprop Lancair Legacy): https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/Turbulence_LancairLegacy-642761.JPG Draco - highly modified turboprop Wilga https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177643/9c08e1b1c56b94c6053918e9d8f86e4caccd6053-642763.JPG He actually begins reversing the prop blades before touchdown to shorten his landings ever further. Amazing aircraft. I was really surprised how big the Draco is. |
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The Northrop Grumman T-X submission which quickly and mysteriously disappeared from the competition. https://combataircraft.keypublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-22-at-08.07.30.png https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pTuZMIu7Ggk/WJL09tpes3I/AAAAAAAAGNs/qug5MilwQtgwGYQXe3aVSFnW_Fw68BQtgCLcB/s640/post-21538-0-46210700-1471763083.jpg https://www.rumaniamilitary.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NG-T-X-T-38-F-20.jpg View Quote Anyway, back on topic. This thing hurts my brain to look at. It just looks so....... wrong. ETA - Damn, someone beat me to it. |
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That missle is carrying missles.
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The C-130 modified for hostage rescue. It didn’t quite work out, but it sure was an interesting effort.
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/23042/100p_JPG-643475.jpg The Bughatti 100P Project. Sadly, on its last test flight, the plane suffered an unknown control malfunction and crashed catastrophically killing the pilot and completely destroying the plane. View Quote |
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Dash 7 modified with an "observers cockpit" and SLAR for use by Canadian National Aerial Surveillance Program. Attached File View Quote |
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/64530/7184BB12-7E44-452E-85CD-4BF5969631E3-643703.JPG Q-400 Acrobatic Edition. View Quote |
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Hmmm..........
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Rare Bear. Highly modified. Wright R-3300 engine replaced the R-2800. Some aerodynamic modifications as well. Holder of many piston engine records. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Bearcat_Grumman_F8F-2_Rare_Bear.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/77_F8F-2_Bearcat_%28N-777L%29_Rare_Bear_2014_Reno_Air_Races.jpg View Quote |
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Classic pregnant guppy
Attached File Experimental heavy lift Chinook Attached File Prototype for the HH-60 Attached File |
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No kidding? I didn't know they were even done restoring it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/23042/100p_JPG-643475.jpg The Bughatti 100P Project. Sadly, on its last test flight, the plane suffered an unknown control malfunction and crashed catastrophically killing the pilot and completely destroying the plane. |
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Restoring? It never flew. This turd was fantasy meets reality. Pretty but an aerodynamic disaster. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/23042/100p_JPG-643475.jpg The Bughatti 100P Project. Sadly, on its last test flight, the plane suffered an unknown control malfunction and crashed catastrophically killing the pilot and completely destroying the plane. A replica was built and flown, then crashed and killed the pilot. |
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What makes a plane rare/unique? Performance? Age? How about a standard/off the production floor plane that was so fast the speed record it set on Dec. 15, 1959 is still unbroken almost 60 years later? In a world where no record stands for long and ever increasing performance is the rule, it's hard to imagine a speed record set so long ago hasn't been broken by the modern fighters/interceptors. https://i.imgur.com/gsVMM17l.jpg View Quote |
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What speed record is that? The Dart's airspeed record (1525MPH) was beaten less than two years later by the F4 (1606MPH). Current record for manned, powered aircraft is still the X-15 at 4,520MPH. View Quote Means the F106 was faster in the 1950's (and 1960's) than the F16 is now. Speed was a big thing in those days. The faster they could get form the ADC bases along the Canadian border to the Russian bombers they expected to fly over the North Pole, the more chances they had to knock them down before they got here. They actually developed a nuclear warhead missile (F101 Voodoo could carry it, too) for the idea of taking out multiple Russian bombers if they could get to them before the split up coming across northern Canada. It was called the Genie. Single jet engine speed record. The took two F106's out there for the record attempt. They spent time/effort prepping one for the attempt and then couldn't use it due to some failure or other. The pilot jumped into the back up that didn't have an special prep work done to it and still set a record that stands to this day. Nothing Russia or China (or anyone else) has built with a single jet engine is faster than an airplane the US built in the 1950's. I always thought they were cool planes. |
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/105862/sea-dart1-643784.jpg Corvair F2Y Seadart. One of favorite planes as a kid. The skis retracted for flight. View Quote |
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Always one of my favorites. That particular bird (146340) went to NASA as "NASA 266" after the airframe lost to the Phantom. Very cool bird.
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