As technology improves - computers, radars, railguns, lasers - it makes you wonder if anything flying will be survivable in combat a generation from now...
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Little known / experimental aircraft
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As technology improves - computers, radars, railguns, lasers - it makes you wonder if anything flying will be survivable in combat a generation from now...
Go back 50-70 years and they were saying the same thing. We find technology to counter theirs, and they make counter moves. How it's been since Kronk invented the first extended-range spear.
Speaking of going back 70 years... Beautiful airplane, absolutely clean lines.
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/faa-deems-b-29-doc-airworthy-flight-imminent.html
Less little known aircraft and more little known aircraft LRE. From the NMNA FB page:
An F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron (VF) 1 launches from the hangar deck catapult on board the carrier Yorktown (CV 10) during her shakedown cruise in the waters off Trinidad #OTD in 1943.
I'd never heard of this capability; apparently it sounded good on paper but didn't pan out so well in practice. Had to be an interesting cat shot...like launching from Galactica.
An F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron (VF) 1 launches from the hangar deck catapult on board the carrier Yorktown (CV 10) during her shakedown cruise in the waters off Trinidad #OTD in 1943.
I'd never heard of this capability; apparently it sounded good on paper but didn't pan out so well in practice. Had to be an interesting cat shot...like launching from Galactica.
That and I think the idea was you could still conduct launches while the forward flight deck was clobbered. Remember pre-angled deck, you could launch or recover but not both at the same time. When recoveries were going on the air group was spotted forward.
From Area 51 perhaps? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...other-sign-of-the-militarys-star-wars-fandom/
The WP article is a little over the top. What's with the DoD's fascination with Star Wars? Um, they're some awesome movies; why wouldn't you be fascinated with them?*From Area 51 perhaps? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...other-sign-of-the-militarys-star-wars-fandom/
*4-7 only. No one in their right mind is fascinated with 1-3.
From Area 51 perhaps? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...other-sign-of-the-militarys-star-wars-fandom/
Yeah, but the tanker guys go apefucknuts if you don't put your droid in standby before join-up.
Bolkow BO-103 "One man, one blade". How bout that track and balance? It is an ancestor of the BO-105 which we last saw doing acrobatics in the last James Bond film.
I think it would pretty much just be balance. Easy peasy!
What possible advantage would that configuration have?
Here is a link to everything you ever wanted to know about single bade props.
http://rexresearch.com/unibladeprop/onebladeprop.htm
When I was working on my A&P in the early '70's, one of my instructors showed us pics of a Cub he had worked on years before that had a single blade prop. We all thought it was crazy.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/fli...8702&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
12 American Fighter Planes That Never Were
They flew, but never fought.
12 American Fighter Planes That Never Were
They flew, but never fought.