Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?

[Santaman]

Cool, my favorite flying tank.. and yeah, I mentioned this thing a few times.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The Mi-24 got a mention a while back - for anyone who's interested, here's a walk around video on one that's now flown in the U.S.

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The guy who made the video has a whole pile of aviation videos (seems to be his livelyhood).

Thank you for posting that.

Always liked those. Had many models of them in different paint schemes

 

[publiusr]

Excerpts from upcoming B-52 book
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=46350

China's spaceplane
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202104/26/WS608612aea31024ad0baba477.html

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Excerpts from upcoming B-52 book
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=46350

China's spaceplane
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202104/26/WS608612aea31024ad0baba477.html

That's neat.... Go china in science

 

[publiusr]

"New" footage from the Hindenburg:
https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/347089/new-footage-sheds-light-on-hindenburg-disaster

Trimese concept
http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/integral-launch-and-reentry-vehicle.html

Ferry rocket art
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=50566.0

New space books
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4175/1

Jet fuel from plastic
https://wonderfulengineering.com/th...an-convert-plastic-into-jet-fuel-ingredients/

New book on the A-12 OXCART
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=46455

 

[publiusr]

Here is a lovely new electric plane
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-all-electric-luxury-aircraft-will-take-flight-soon/
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-06-batteries-cars-horizon.html

Call me...stumpy
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=46567

Jet drone refueled
https://wonderfulengineering.com/watch-jet-gets-refueled-by-drone-midair-for-the-first-time/

 

[Scott Kellogg]

The X-3 Stilletto: What happened

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[publiusr]

Such a lovely plane….

Old airports
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/picture-the-novelverse-characters-ships-and-more.223738/page-34

 

[Marc]

And from the how no to build a supersonic bomber but the soviet union did it anway we have the TU-22 (as opposed to the TU-22M).

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On of the issues was the positioning of the engines. Now we've had aircraft with engines mounted at the rear (DC-9 for example) but the TU-22 has been the only one to mount them on top of the fuselage and there's a good reason for that.

The person who did the TU-22 video also has several others.

One is on the true story of the B-21 rescue mission that was turned in a film staring Gene Hackman and another was the engineer who accidentally took off in a British Electric Lightning.

Then they build the TU-160.

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[Santaman]

The TU-22 was indeed a troublesome aircraft..

 

[Marc]

The TU-22 was indeed a troublesome aircraft..

it's a wonder the pilots didn't drink the fluid for the air conditioner before they took off

 

[BK613]

I love it when I learn about some simple little engineering hack that solves a problem with an aircraft. Recently learned about the the simple fix they used to solve the asymmetric stall problem on the F4 Corsairs. Seems that the monster prop wash caused the left wing to stall before the right which could really go south during carrier landings. All it took to fix the problem was to install a 6" x 3" wedge on the leading edge of the right wing. This "stall strip' caused just enough instability in the right wing's airflow for the two wings to stall together. That a little piece of metal on that huge wing could have such a difference is super cool.

You can see the stall strip here part way up the folded wing (with the cockpit directly behind)

 

[publiusr]

it's a wonder the pilots didn't drink the fluid for the air conditioner before they took off

That's a myth. Kerosene not alcohol is jet fuel.

 

[Marc]

That's a myth. Kerosene not alcohol is jet fuel.

But the vodka that was used in the air conditioning system is.

 

[publiusr]

Ahh…

 

[scotpens]

Here's a bit of a flying freak: the Capelis XC-12, a badly conceived and sloppily built aircraft that was purchased by RKO Pictures and used in several movies (including 1939's Five Came Back, mentioned in the Galileo Seven thread). The studio used the plane only as a stationary prop; a miniature was built for flying sequences.

That is one butt-ugly airplane.

 

[Marc]

Here's a bit of a flying freak: the Capelis XC-12, a badly conceived and sloppily built aircraft that was purchased by RKO Pictures and used in several movies (including 1939's Five Came Back, mentioned in the Galileo Seven thread). The studio used the plane only as a stationary prop; a miniature was built for flying sequences.

That is one butt-ugly airplane.

Well I guess the studio got it's moneys worth out of the plane.

there are some planes that have no survivors and that's a sad thing but I'd say the XC-12 isn't one of them.

 

[Santaman]

Hehehe.. I very well know self tapping screws.. my frankenscooter is held together by a lot of them.. the original screws were either gone or so rusty that they were no longer usable.

That they used those on that aircraft yeah.. that's a tad eh.. much..

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That's not a pretty plane. Oh well guess they got their money's worth

 

[publiusr]

That cockpit might cut down glare though.

Concorde Jr. coming?
https://www.space.com/united-airlines-boom-supersonic-passenger-aircraft

Nice craft
https://interestingengineering.com/300-meter-nuclear-megayacht-project-aims-to-save-the-earth