This page from the Flight review of the 1949 Paris Show (at Orly!!) is a good start… the obscure SNCAN NC 211 Cormoran is in there

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1949/1949%20-%200894.html

http;//http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1949/1949%20-%200895.html (link failed….click on RH header arrow head of above link)

the NC211’s predecessor the NC 210 was mentioned in an ‘old transport’ thread but no pics/info turned up

Any nationality but just the uncommon ones. (with pics!!)please…starters the DC-5, the original DC-7 project, the republic Rainbow….the Soviet B-29 copy airliner version…..the East German VEB jet……

The only thing I ever knew about the DC5 was the Mr Boeing had one as is private runaround.

Try a little mental workout!

A fly is flying at 5mph due south along a road. You are travelling along the same road at 50mph due north. Unfortunately you and the fly collide and the fly ends up dead and stuck to the number-plate of your car which is still travelling north at 50mph.

The question is this; if the fly was going due south and it ended up going due north at some point it must have been stationary. Does this mean that for a brief period of time during the collision your car was stationary too?

Oh…..and I know what the last thing to go through the fly’s mind was!

(a) Mass and speed of the car supercede the fly, so no.
(b) It’s bottom.

Turbofans would be an option, but would miss the mission spec point of choosing props in the first place. The only replacement engine/prop-combo inside five years or so would be the Progress D-27.

Yep, I’d go for the D27 too, and since the wall fell over, it counts as European!

I was actually thinking about directional cables when I wrote that post. The electrical signals in music change polarity up to 20,000 times a second. Surely the electrons being happier travelling in one direction rather than the other would have a somewhat detrimental effect on the sound quality rather than a positive one?!

It is, however, fun to wind up the new kids when they start in sound. I advise them to keep the multicores as level as possible because those poor little balanced signals from the mics and DI boxes on stage have a hard time getting uphill. Electrons have a mass, afterall, so why shouldn’t they be affected by gravity?
It keeps us amused for a few hours until we tell them it’s all rubbish! 😀

Paul

There are formulae that prove this point, but lets get back on soft images. 🙂

I flew out of Woodvale as a Cadet too. I remember the Meatbox well IIRC they got rid of it and replaced it with an F4 Phantom til that was binned now there is nothing. or at least there was nothing there when I last passed the gate about four years ago

Martin

No, there is no gate guard. I go every year to the Woodvale Rally, a great day out not only for the fantastic displays of RC models but the cars/ trucks /model railways and a plethora of other interesting stuff. If you go, take your own food or you’ll pay £5.00 for a burger that would leave a ****zu hungry. (Edit…..The Spell Police starred me out!! LoL, I guess you know what kind of dog that is!!)
At the end of the Sunday show, the Large model association fly the Lancs. (22 foot wingspan) This year, some of their machines had been adapted to take the Bouncing Bomb. (OK already it was a football sprayed black!!).
The pyrotechnics are superb, initially with rockets going up (Which miss the RC planes) and then “Bombs” are dropped. The final destruction looked like this. The BANG brought a warmth to your chest and it shook the horizon. 🙂

I used to use a UV filter but found it made shots softer and look out of focus, so I removed it. Try it both with and without this weekend.

Cheers, Huw:)

We could talk for weeks on the benefit of a UV / Skylight. My opinion (Even in the olde worlde days of film) is that you are putting a piece of naff glass in front of a lens that has been designed/worked/checked/honed in a dust free factory. Unless of course you pay £60 for each filter.
Now with digital, more and more opinion is that the flat piece of glass is causing a ghost reflection on the sensor. But, like all gadgetry, it is spooked by geeks expecting perfection as the norm. Like Hi Fi, “Can’t quite hear the 4th violin from the left”.
Back on the photo. Dan said “Cropped to 1024 pixels”. I hope you don’t mean cropped, I presume you mean resised with P.Shop?

The ‘new’ C-130J didn’t exactly have a trouble-free entry into service did it ??

ken

True, nor does any piece of Defence kit.

The A400 is, and will be, a heck of a lot more problematic then the J. I’ll eat my hat if I’m wrong.

The Gnat and the Lockheed Starfighter (in it’s orginal lightweight fighter form as bought by the USAF in limited nembers) weren’t huge successes.
The idea of a small cheap no avionics fighter went the way of the Spitfire.

As has been pointed out, today’s air forces need multi-role aircraft.
Witness the lack of sucess with the Lightning…versus the successes of the Mirage family, Phantom, etc.
Even the Douglas A-4, which began as a lightweight attack aircraft ended up with a load of avioncs…

It was built for the task of getting to the Bears as fast as poss, 20 minutes of pushy-shuvvy and back down again. A role it did superbly well. And furthermore, it’s top speed is still classified, and so is it’s climb rate….but nothing today has beaten it and that is all I can say on that matter.
Export sales didn’t do so well because nobody else needed it really. US had it’s own intercept platforms.