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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

<smiles> Whatever happened to starting slow and stepping up? You like to start at the top, huh SixtyFo?

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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! Shocked

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fighter: F4U Corsair

Bomber: B 17 G

Attack: Bristol Beaufighter W/ the self loading 6 lb cannon

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeesh! I make one post and the thread dies!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're all trying to think of something better ... and not coming up with anything.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fighter F-4 Phantom II http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-4_phantom_ii.pl Which proves that you can make a brick fly if you strap a big enough engine to it.

Bomber B-58 Hustler http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/b-58_hustler.pl

Attack A-7 Corsair II http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/a-7_corsair_ii.pl

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

D.F. Thompson wrote:
Fighter F-4 Phantom II http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-4_phantom_ii.pl Which proves that you can make a brick fly if you strap a big enough engine to it.


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. Cool

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

D.F. Thompson wrote:
Fighter F-4 Phantom II http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-4_phantom_ii.pl Which proves that you can make a brick fly if you strap a big enough engine to it.

Bomber B-58 Hustler http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/b-58_hustler.pl

Attack A-7 Corsair II http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/a-7_corsair_ii.pl


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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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:01 pm    Post subject: Aircraft Pictures Reply with quote

Hi All Just joined up and I see there are a lot of P38, P51 and Raptor fans so I thought I would throw this link in. Airshow pix, from Tacoma Narrows Collins Foundation visit, McChord AFB pictures and some WASP scans. Enjoy

OLY

Tiger Mark... got login figured out :)

http://www.olsenantiques.com/Pictures/

http://public.mcchord.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123107645
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the great pics, TR, and welcome to the forum!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here ya go took these couple of weeks ago enjoy. I know I did.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/df_thompson2000/collections/72157608801930231/

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