TSR 2
English Electric Lightning
First aircraft able to supercruise. Seen one in the flesh. Basically a pair of engines and fuel tanks with a cockpit on the front.
Last edited by Larkonis Trassler; May 20 2012 at 12:48:17 PM.
probably the best 'experience' i've had in a jet was calibrating the harriers ADENs
basically, some big big chains attached, hover to 50m and fire. close to better was testing the hover-time - slightly longer chains, and hold a hover until the engine screams (about 70 seconds as of 2008). or maybe watching them drag-race down the runway. beautiful aeroplanes.
Makes you wonder why they don't have them patrolling off Somalia sinking pirates. I would imagine the gun would make nasty work on a shipOriginally Posted by RazoR
You mean "fuck, it's american air support - we should get to cover!" moment.A friend of my who did 2 tours in Afghanistan said pretty much the exact same thing. I forget exactly how he worded it the whole thing (we were pretty drunk at the time) but it was basically when you had air support come in and drop bombs, everyone is all like "fuck yeah WOOOOO", whereas everytime an A-10 did a straffing run, it was a kind of a quiet "woah" moment.Haha, is it just me or does that gun look like it flew apart?
You appear to be correct.
Hearing that thing fire is the singular most terrifying sound I have ever heard.
It does sound terrifying though.
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As much as i hate being politically correct:Makes you wonder why they don't have them patrolling off Somalia sinking pirates. I would imagine the gun would make nasty work on a shipYou mean "fuck, it's american air support - we should get to cover!" moment.A friend of my who did 2 tours in Afghanistan said pretty much the exact same thing. I forget exactly how he worded it the whole thing (we were pretty drunk at the time) but it was basically when you had air support come in and drop bombs, everyone is all like "fuck yeah WOOOOO", whereas everytime an A-10 did a straffing run, it was a kind of a quiet "woah" moment.Haha, is it just me or does that gun look like it flew apart?
You appear to be correct.
Hearing that thing fire is the singular most terrifying sound I have ever heard.
It does sound terrifying though.
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Perhaps it is because you shouldnt just fly around executing dudes with miniguns?
The world explodes in a straight line right in front of you, in the distant sky you hear the "huuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" of the A-10, like the biggest troll-face of CAS.
Watching the videos it sounds more like some mythical monster roaring in triumph.
so sexy.
Seems almost mean to weigh it down with weapons like that.
Great thread and awesome photos, would it be possible to state what the aircraft the photos are of? I'm not much of a planes expert and love to wiki the interesting looking planes.
I posted pictures of the Saab J35 Draken.
Like a boss:
A400M came to a small civilian airport near my hometown today for some tests. Tomorrow and possibly for the rest of the week they will test the A400M's ability to land on grass. Today was press day, the green runway tests are off limits anyway, so a buddy of mine with a official journalist pass went there and took some photos.
http://pics.jkphotography.de/GalerieA400M/index.html
He lets me know that the gallery will probably be gone in a week as he usually does not host a lot of stuff for longer, only his portfolio which is sports heavy.
nevar forget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_AvengerWatching the videos it sounds more like some mythical monster roaring in triumph.
Need one of these in my front yard to get rid of the squirrels.The recoil force of the GAU-8/A[14] is 10,000 pounds-force (45 kN),[3] which is slightly more than the output of one of the A-10's two TF34 engines (9,065 lbf / 40.3 kN each).[15] While this recoil force is significant, in practice cannon fire only slows the aircraft a few miles per hour.[13]
You do realize that the above pictures are the same photo, only the top one has been flipped, cropped and resized to create bunch of artifacts?
haha
E: content:
25 years ago.
Last edited by walrus; May 28 2012 at 08:16:14 PM.
It wasn't so much the size difference that I was trying to point out, although it's pretty massive. The crazy part is that the B-36 and B-29 were actually contemporaries, and made with the same technology...B-36 wasn't ready until 5 days after the war ended though, and so never saw combat. I love the big ugly bastard though, and it made up the bulk of SAC's nuclear deterent in the 50's, as it was actually more capable than the jet-powered B-47 that was supposed to replace it. Cool design history too...originally commissioned as a tran-continental bomber so that Germany could still be attacked even if England fell to invasion.
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