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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Gotta agree with you there, Nameless, at least for its time. If this first jet fighter had been produced in enough volume, used as a fighter, and not been made so near the end of the war, it could have really had an impact on the duration and outcome. It's a sleek little bird, and by all accounts was great to fly. Too bad it was from the side it was from.
TM _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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SixtyFo Registered User
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Daytona Beach
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Seriously looking into getting a Private Pilots very soon, and my current fav is the Columbia 400 - 200+ knots in a piston single? whats not to like! |
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The Silver Coyote Registered User
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 491 Location: Rogue River Valley, Oregon
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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<smiles> Whatever happened to starting slow and stepping up? You like to start at the top, huh SixtyFo?
SC
(Who still loves a Champ. Slow, cramped, and drafty, but it goes upside down as easily as it goes right side up, and what a view!) _________________ =====
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kcmack Registered User
Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 142 Location: S.W. Missouri, US
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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I always loved the look of the SR-71 Blackbird.
I always think I would love to learn how to fly, but considering that I have never landed safely in a flight simulator game.........I think I will let others do the flying lol. _________________ "'Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!'
'Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2044 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:45 am Post subject: |
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kcmack wrote: | I always loved the look of the SR-71 Blackbird.
I always think I would love to learn how to fly, but considering that I have never landed safely in a flight simulator game.........I think I will let others do the flying lol. |
Yeah...what's not to like about an aircraft that leaks JP-7 on the ramp when it's cold!
Gotta remember-Navy pilots don't land, it's more of a controlled crash onto the deck!
Kellan _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Nicolai Borovskaya Registered User
Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Wherever the fictons carry me
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I agree with pretty much everyone here, those are all awesome planes.
My all-time favorite? The Rutan Defiant. A sleek little four passenger push-pull twin. I've always been a fan of Burt's designs and I think that's one of his best.
For an executive bird, the Beech Starship, which was a Rutan design. Too bad it flopped, from where I sit, it sure looks like Beech blew it big time. Not any fault of the bird or its design.
For the light single? The Montagne Mountain Goat. Economy cruise at 160 kts and stall at ~25 kts? What's not to like?
WWII fighter? It's a toss-up between the P-38 Lightning and the Hawker Sea Fury.
Attack plane? The A-10, hands down. One of the best designs in the last half century, imho.
And a new category: seaplane: The Catalina PBY, one of the most beautiful planes I've ever seen. Wish I could get a ride in one. _________________ Nicolai
When you talk about damage radius, even atomic weapons pale before that of an unfettered idiot in a position of power. |
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Kaeto Registered User
Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 87 Location: Lincoln Park, Mi. U.S.A.
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Fighter: F4U Corsair
Bomber: B 17 G
Attack: Bristol Beaufighter W/ the self loading 6 lb cannon _________________ Beware of strong drink for it can make you shoot at tax collectors... And Miss. |
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Kaeto Registered User
Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 87 Location: Lincoln Park, Mi. U.S.A.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Yeesh! I make one post and the thread dies! _________________ Beware of strong drink for it can make you shoot at tax collectors... And Miss. |
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The Silver Coyote Registered User
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 491 Location: Rogue River Valley, Oregon
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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We're all trying to think of something better ... and not coming up with anything.
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D.F. Thompson Registered User
Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 430 Location: Back home in Jenks
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Nicolai Borovskaya Registered User
Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Wherever the fictons carry me
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Heck, there was an aeronautical engineering senior in my college dorm, way back when. He took a bet and made a coffee can fly.
He took a 3# coffee can, took out both ends, put an 049 engine inside along with rudder and elevators, ran some string and flew it as a tethered model. It worked pretty darned good. Won him $50, as I recall. No landing gear so it had to be hand launched. He landed it without damage, though.
An old, and pleasant, memory. Thanks for bringing it up.
Nicolai _________________ Nicolai
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Great choices, D.F. The Phantom indeed needed all that power to get aloft. recall how the wings bent in the middle, and the horizontal tail surfaces were instead downward at a pretty steep angle? I was watching a show on the Military Channel that said that was done to solve all teh aerodynamic problems with the original design.
The Hustler was a beautiful aircraft, and way ahead of it's time.
The A-7. What was the saying, ugly but well hung? Great attack aircraft.
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Tiger Rider Registered User
Joined: 08 Sep 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Western Washington
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:15 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the great pics, TR, and welcome to the forum!
TM _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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D.F. Thompson Registered User
Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 430 Location: Back home in Jenks
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