I'm gonna be one of those Peruvian DC-3's. They'll never melt me downSo you're you're next for scrapping?
Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?
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DC-3 they look beautiful
A Canadian group is restoring a Hawker Typhoon to airworthy condition and recently received a major part needed for the project.
They got their hands on a the Napier Sabre engine (only 1 of of about 40 left in the world) which now has to be restored. In order to get the Napier (relatively few were built because of the jet engine making it's mark) they traded a Merlin engine which took them 3 years to obtain and then restore. The article mentions that about 3300 Sabre were built, there were 150,000 Merlins built by the time production ended in 1950.
Typhoons are rarer than their engines. According to the wiki entry, there is only complete air-frame (originally at the Smithsonian, now in the U.K) and 5 partially complete air-frame. The one in B.C and one other are long term projects to make airworthy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...wker-typhoon-fighter-bomber-rebuild-1.6791024
They got their hands on a the Napier Sabre engine (only 1 of of about 40 left in the world) which now has to be restored. In order to get the Napier (relatively few were built because of the jet engine making it's mark) they traded a Merlin engine which took them 3 years to obtain and then restore. The article mentions that about 3300 Sabre were built, there were 150,000 Merlins built by the time production ended in 1950.
Typhoons are rarer than their engines. According to the wiki entry, there is only complete air-frame (originally at the Smithsonian, now in the U.K) and 5 partially complete air-frame. The one in B.C and one other are long term projects to make airworthy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...wker-typhoon-fighter-bomber-rebuild-1.6791024
When a Spitfire and a Curtis Warhawk love each other very much…
Nice drawings of early biplanes
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/fighter-generations.21753/page-4#post-593193
Hey!---an impact resistant drone
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-built-robotics-drone-cope-collisions.html
F-14 to Shuttle
Star Raker 2
https://www.titanssi.com/titans-spaceplanes/
MAX Q explained
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58994.0
Nice drawings of early biplanes
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/fighter-generations.21753/page-4#post-593193
Hey!---an impact resistant drone
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-built-robotics-drone-cope-collisions.html
F-14 to Shuttle
Star Raker 2
https://www.titanssi.com/titans-spaceplanes/
MAX Q explained
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58994.0
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Haha well done whoever made this..
Was not a really good movie, they however had a full scale model of the fictional aircraft that could taxi around and remote controlled flying models of the fictional aicraft... and one crashed onto a road causing chaos.. 
https://www.eightieskids.com/things...w-about-clint-eastwoods-1982-film-firefox-l4/
https://www.eightieskids.com/things...w-about-clint-eastwoods-1982-film-firefox-l4/
I miss the 80’s’.
Now class clowns like me are out of work:
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-robot-paper-planes.amp
Yeah—but can it make Donald Duck noises as it crashes?
“Uh oh”
I even made a USS ENTERPRISE that worked:
Cardboard secondary hull with wingtip pylons—each topped with a slender paper airplane for nacelles and a square airplane for the saucer up front.
It flew well….
Audio of a test
https://twitter.com/RaytheonDefense/status/1659952187773009920?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1659952187773009920|twgr^08a91973bd1badbc6d84e73bb620a4a3ffc515e0|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/current-us-hypersonic-weapons-projects-general.30673/page-43
https://www.space.com/new-hypersonic-test-vehicle-2024-flight-pentagon-funding
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230403-the-pilots-who-ejected-underwater-and-lived
Stratoplanes
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-the-planes-that-will-fly-at-the-edge-of-space
Now class clowns like me are out of work:
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-robot-paper-planes.amp
Yeah—but can it make Donald Duck noises as it crashes?
“Uh oh”
I even made a USS ENTERPRISE that worked:
Cardboard secondary hull with wingtip pylons—each topped with a slender paper airplane for nacelles and a square airplane for the saucer up front.
It flew well….
Audio of a test
https://twitter.com/RaytheonDefense/status/1659952187773009920?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1659952187773009920|twgr^08a91973bd1badbc6d84e73bb620a4a3ffc515e0|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/current-us-hypersonic-weapons-projects-general.30673/page-43
https://www.space.com/new-hypersonic-test-vehicle-2024-flight-pentagon-funding
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230403-the-pilots-who-ejected-underwater-and-lived
Stratoplanes
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-the-planes-that-will-fly-at-the-edge-of-space
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Video on the history of the ejection seat.
People might be surprised how far they actually date back - concept dates back to very early part of the 20th century, first workable design came in the 1930, first recorded ejection was by a German pilot in the middle of WWII.
People might be surprised how far they actually date back - concept dates back to very early part of the 20th century, first workable design came in the 1930, first recorded ejection was by a German pilot in the middle of WWII.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/07/europe/ukraine-an-255-cargo-plane-intl-cmd/index.html
Plans are staring to develop to rebuilt the AN-225 destroyed by the orcs in the early days of the invasion.
Plans are staring to develop to rebuilt the AN-225 destroyed by the orcs in the early days of the invasion.
That sounds like good news but wasn't it trashed beyond repair?
it didn't look like there was anything worth saving, no
So this will be a brand new build from scratch then.
the article mentioned an unfinished AN-225 they plan to use for parts.
oh interesting I just looked... Sounds very interesting
Dawn tested a nice little rocketplane recently, as did India.
Germany looks to get in on the act—very like China’s WZ-8
https://www.polaris-raumflugzeuge.de/
LoFlyte model?
Star Raker
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/QvBpGMtfwdg
Germany looks to get in on the act—very like China’s WZ-8
https://www.polaris-raumflugzeuge.de/
LoFlyte model?
Star Raker
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/QvBpGMtfwdg
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Some recent aviation developments here:
https://www.aamavenue.com/home#h.pp2hev27tvv0
A nice big BWB drone is discussed.
A wonderfully absurd contraption in line art
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/strange-british-flying-things.41391/#post-593707
Yeager
oops
https://www.aamavenue.com/home#h.pp2hev27tvv0
A nice big BWB drone is discussed.
A wonderfully absurd contraption in line art
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/strange-british-flying-things.41391/#post-593707
Yeager
oops
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China's spaceplane is back:
https://spacenews.com/chinas-spacep...re-maneuvers-with-subsatellite-data-suggests/
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...014405b62214cd4901bd39441091006eb59f1c5d4.png
Stratolaunch dropped the Talon:
AI controlled planes
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-based-approach-autonomous-robots.html
https://spacenews.com/chinas-spacep...re-maneuvers-with-subsatellite-data-suggests/
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...014405b62214cd4901bd39441091006eb59f1c5d4.png
Stratolaunch dropped the Talon:
AI controlled planes
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-based-approach-autonomous-robots.html
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