Just saw some new pics. Note the plane’s number – 119. Just like the first plane to be produced was 253, the Negev squadron number.
Also note plane 411, a Negev squadron bird.

Thanks for the series of pics, Erez. They are really neat.

I have a doubt: I did not hear that the opsec rule that forbids mentioning squadron numbers was lifted. Was it?

Ref the effect of the CFTs on RCS, everybody is reasoning like those things were made of radar-reflecting material. I’m not in the secret, ofc, but somehow I doubt that IAI did not think of it before everyone here… 😀

Meat mincer, individual, hi-maintenance, Model DH-4

Another effort in the individual helos field:

The 1956 Meat Mincer, Individual, Hi-maintenance, Model DH-4.

This one is better: it will mince not only the operator, but his buddies as well.
And a squad assault must be really interesting when the wind gusts.

Note that he takes is rifle along, on the sling. Interesting questions again…

At last, I heard that the newer version has found a use: does a great job at sweeping the barracks’ courtyard…

Any how why this Idea never revived?

Maybe because helicopters work well?
And the rotor does not saw you off in two when you try to enter?

Besides, you can bet on directional stability problems at speed. No doughnut-type craft works that well even with today’s computers. Maybe there’s a learning, somewhere.

What the hell this annul gyroscopic effect means?

A mass rotating at high speed has interesting side effects when you try to modify its orientation. Coriolis-type forces spring it back to its original rotation axis. Also polar precession and whatnot.

My 3-d mechanics course was too many decades ago…

Any How Does any one know more of This french project ??? :confused:

This is the “Soucoupe Volante” (French for Flying Saucer, d’oh! 😀 ) by René Couzinet of France. Built 1955.

Couzinet’s concept was for an “aircraft with multiple wings allowing vertical or horizontal flight”. But the govt refused to finance his research, and he had to abandon the prototype in 1956.

René Couzinet had achieved fame in the 1930s with his “arc-en-ciel” planes.

Here is an aft view of the SV concept.
HTH
DAN

Yemeni F-5 Tigers

Anyone with Yemeni F-5 Tigers?

Here are three.

Egyptian Beagle.

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Not to nitpick, but this is actually a MASCOT, not a Beagle.
It’s a Ilyushin 28U, the trainer version.

Thanks to all the posters in this thread. It rocks.

Why didn’t they use the F-4E as the strike element for the raid ?

Range with the required payload.