The same rules apply to this thread as the other Aircraft thread.....Open discussion however is allowed.
NO FLAMING OR SAYING MINE IS BETTER THEN YOURS.

So. Those who wish to discuss aircraft....and not just add a short story to it....Feel free to post here.

Happy Wells?

Yeah, if you want a flickr page in forum-view, this is probably not the place for it.

Oh. My. God. I was just about to start this thread about 5 seconds ago.

WOOHOO!!!

Alright, let's get this started!

Frankly, one of my favorite bombers of all time. I may be a die hard American air force fanboy, but Russians make some damn sick aircraft.



Question is, are these related somehow.

Don't go there...

Yea...Tu-160 and B-1 are externally almost identical....it's just the Tu-160 is doing it on a much larger scale. Heard a story somewhere that some Russian engineers got a close-up look at a B-1 during an airshow or something like that...





Gotta love those sexy F-5 Tigers.

Well, the B-1 had its first maiden flight about 7 years before the Tu-160, but from what I understand, it had been in the works for a while. Espionage? Maybe. Similar designs? No doubt.

I must say, although it does look a bit like a swan, but also has this strange hunched over look when looking at it with the wings swept back, it makes it look as if it conquers the sky through sheer muscle rather than take to it gracefully.

Which is why it looks so sexy. Who needs grace and good looks when you can just tear the sky up?

the blackjack i believe was meant as a soviet counter to the lancer, so design criteria like variable wing geometry could be "inspired" from the b-1. then again the tupolev design was chosen by the soviets by '73, which i believe was before the b-1's first flight.

There is certainly a possibility of industrial espionage involved in the design of the blackjack, but imo if that is the case, it's probably a bit further in the past than the b-1 project. the tu-160 was somewhat based on tupolevs civilian tu-144, which is rumored to be (at least partially) a product of espionage against the french concorde designers. Espionage, that if true, was effective to such a degree that tupolevs design flew before the concorde did.


Mig-3. not the best performing fighter of ww2 perhaps, but it makes up by looking damn awesome. looking awesome wins the war, right?

I beg to differ... i think the La 5FN/7 looks better...and was probably the best fighter on the Eastern Front overall (Germans used almost no jets on the eastern front.)

Tore the living crap out of the latest German BF 109 modifications and FW190s/Ta 150s
Not to mention looks absolutely sexaaayyyy

Pfft....Who needs good looks when you're a fatty...

The Concordskii project was started BEFORE the Concorde project. In fact the design was finalised first and the Tu-160 was a direct evolution of that design even if they looked nothing alike. Basically its one of those situations where there is an 'optimal' design and both the USA and Russia figured it out. They may have peaked at drawings of each others in the process but a drawing of an airframe can only inspire ideas ... it can't produce a new aircraft.

/edit

Which looks cooler?





And yes I know the second one is glitchy.

Sorry guys, you lose.

No u

is that what Nutters flew around in when they were over the Drang?

Thats what We Were Soldiers makes you believe.

One of Gibsons & Hollywoods most 'true to the truth' movies, though still not the real truth, the uneducated masses believe that TV shows reality, and cant lie.....

Cool... an aircraft thread without oversensitive grumpy old man.

AC-130 Gunship









chicky playing with the gunship!!

Like the Lady Gunner pic, did you get that from the Girls with Guns thread (or similarly named) - located in archive/active many many months ago? She was the first 'active' (as in serving in action overseas,) service female gunner, and has good accuracy and loves the buzz - I bet she does, if she......

I forgot her name, its on the old thread I talked about....

No point giving Wells stick for closing the thread, it was originally supposedly for just pictures and talk about actually being connected to them. Though the rules stretched over time like a birds butt around an egg.

That X-31 looks like a Midget EuroFighter.

Throw all the digs you want chief. I give this thread two weeks before it melts down to an F-22/SU-27 debate and the whole thing is locked up tighter than a dolphins ass (to borrow from your line). Cheers.

Any aircraft whose wings are moving faster than the fuselage must be either no longer flying, or a helicopter, and thus unsafe.

Sez the guy who whores the Close Air Support aircraft...

There hasn't been an Su-27 / F-22 debate for a long time on these boards Wells. At least not since the debate forum closed down. There has been peaceful discussion sparked by pictures in threads like these but thats about it.

If anything the mods have been so over-zealous again that members have started disappearing ... again.

The aborted Flying Turtle/Pancake

Whats this...? Its not what it initially looks like. (Damn, just noticed the clearly readable notice board, Oh' bollox).

Looks like a VTOL Mig-25 to me.

Yeah, I know it isn't, I'm just commenting on its appearance.

Heh, at VERY first glance it looked like a F1-Tornado. Of course, it isn't. Yak-141 (Info sign in the picture FTW!)

At the Flying Pancake, it really is a shame that plane came too late in WWII. The U.S. and the Allies could have made good use of it. Really looked promising.

~Heartburn

I think the mods here do an outstanding job. They keep out most of the riff raff know it all's and wanna be know it all's. I say to them. It is funny to me though, the only ones who complain about the mods are the ones who cause the most trouble.


The Yak 52W

sport/race/trainer plane.... they use it in WWII movies alot. When WWII-era aircraft are too expensive to build for the movie.

Don't flamebait, or at least try to hide it a bit.

Leave him be. Hes likes to pretend hes a mod and starts a federal case out of nothing.

More pics less pointless banter

waiting for the cardboard connie to move so I get some fuel


Douglas SBD Dauntless, probably my favorite aircraft

Here's some pics from different aircrafts, give a guess what aircraft the pic shows


#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10


I'll give you some days to guess, before i post the answears

#1 - Tu-95

#2 - F-111

#3 - Mi-24

#4 - Ah-64

#5 - F-35

#6 - B-17

#7 - Panavia Tornado

#8 - Su-24

#9 - Su-27

#10 - Su-34

Just some quick guesses. Almost sure I got #10 wrong and just couldn't think of another aircraft and I was too lazy to really think about no#1

Freebie beat me to it. That was easy

except number 6 is B 25

and number 7 is SEPECAT Jaguar not Tornado.

#10 looks more like a SR-71.

# 6 is B-26 marauder

???

1


2


3


4


5


6


7


8


9


10

It's a B-25 Mitchell. Here's a Marauder:

I'll just do the ones that jump at me.

2. Vindicator bomber, can't remember designation though.

3. B-1B

5. Looks like a P-38 Lightning

6. Mi-26 Halo

10. Ka-25 or 27, kind of hard to tell from just the rear.

7. Looks like a "night fighter" version of a Ju 88... it had radar in the front just like that. The guns were placed pointing vertically so it can see bombers against the blue night sky and shoot them form there.

messerschmitt ME-262,


a reproduction:

So streamlined and modern for its day. Still looks really intimidating today.

1. A-4 Skyhawk
2. B-58 Hustler
3. B-1B
4. Fouga Magister
5. P-38
6. Mi-6/26
7. Heinkel He-219 Uhu
8. P-80/F-80 Shooting Star
9. Fairey Swordfish
10. Ka-25 Hormone

you nailed them all, congrats

Beagle Bulldog in swedish colors..We called them SK-61 Bulldog (SK= trainer)



And the JAS 39 Gripen


And one of my warbird favorites..
Actuallly they were used in Sweden too after the WW2 as a surveillance plane (S-31)


This pics were shot by me on a local airshow.

Edt:yeez thought that imageshack wouldnt shrink them that much!!!

And a little question for Smokey what may this be??

Hawker Hunter.

Aah of course you know that one.. It was called J34 Hawker Hunter in the swedish Airforce.

This one was the one meant to be posted.. I suppose you know which one it is too?

(Not one of my pics this time)

Saab J32 Lansen.

An 22 Cock

...You said cock.....

Can't say that was the best name ever picked for an aircraft...