๐ tbzz, thanks again for sharing your amazing photo collection, I love those twin Mustang pics. I was wondering if you (or anyone else) have any pics of Avro Lancasters dropping bombs?
What’s the story behind this FJ-4 pic? towed bombs? http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=142183
HARRIER THREADS
Nice idea bring it on, I hope more forum members add to your efforts.
Here are a selection of threads on my favourite topic, the Harrier ๐
VAAC Harrier – Easiest plane to fly ever? http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45334&highlight=Harrier
What if – Harrier for the PLA in the 1970’s http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=56237&highlight=Harrier
Harrier III? F-35B alternative fantasy http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55132&highlight=Harrier
HARRIER vs JAGUAR http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46709&highlight=Harrier
SEA HARRIER vs SUPER ETENDARD http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43809&highlight=SHAR+SuE
A few more ๐
Nimrod compared to Hornets and Galaxy and A-10, C-130 and Mustang compared.
More from the same place ๐ http://www.warbird-photos.com/
Here are some nice pics to compare USMC aircraft from http://www.warbird-photos.com/
One wonders if the day will ever come that humans will relegte total resposnibility for attack desicions to a robot, making the man in the loop expendable?
I’m waiting for a megalomaniac industrialist to stage an armed coup straight off the production line with future robot weapons ๐ฎ ๐
I have seen AAC Apaches firing 30mm cannon and CRV7 rockets in trials but I haven’t seen Hellfire in action yet.
More praise for the VAAC http://www.bizbuzzmedia.com/blogs/flight_international/archive/2006/08/25/3788.aspx
My initial attempts to hover the VAAC Harrier had been so spectacularly bad in conventional flight mode that my test pilot guide later quipped in an e-mail: โIโm very confident that you have got a good understanding of the differences of control between the old Harrier and where we are going with the JSF control laws!!โ
But if all this technology is going to make it so spectacularly easy for a pilot to fly the STOVL variant JSF, what will the next generation of pilots for these aircraft have to boast about over their peers on conventional platforms like the Eurofighter Typhoon? โThatโs easy,โ says one test pilot: โweโll still be able to hover!โ
Nice work MadRat, I hope you will do some more ๐
Some nice pics of the Dryden research aircraft fleets here http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Fleet/Small/index.html
In my opinion, the plans for a unmanned version of the JSF are further proof that the delta winged Boeing X-32 should have won the competition.
The X-32’s modular construction and high-tech simplicity would have made it much easier to make cost savings than the conventional style X-35/F-35. A new unmanned nose/intake section and the removal of the vertical tails would have been one option to reduce costs.
Sling loads are a good way of comparing sizes, check out Petros’s IMPRESSIVE SLING-LOADS THREAD http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55659&highlight=impressive+sling+loads
Here is one of my favourite pics ๐
The Chinook looks surprisingly compact compared to the Lynx in these pics.
Here are some classics compared.
I have always thought that the CVF design was too ambitious for the UK’s resources. I think fantasy overpowered reality with the decision makers on this program.