Apollo Leader Posted May 24, 2007 Posted May 24, 2007 To start off the new thread, Grumman actually looked into doing a pseudo Gerwalk style VTOL aircraft in the 1970's!
VF-19 Posted May 24, 2007 Posted May 24, 2007 Heh. Overtechnology be damned. Just give it to Grumman. Just think. If it wasn't for Boeing and Lockheed's dominance, we would have fully variable fighters by now!
Nied Posted May 24, 2007 Posted May 24, 2007 To start off the new thread, Grumman actually looked into doing a pseudo Gerwalk style VTOL aircraft in the 1970's! Neat! It's like if an A-10 and a VF-1 had a baby.
buddhafabio Posted May 24, 2007 Posted May 24, 2007 neat concept but, too complicated and like other moving parts aircraft would have been a maintenance hog.
David Hingtgen Posted May 24, 2007 Posted May 24, 2007 Just FYI, but I plan on going to the Rockford airshow next weekend instead of the Quad Cities. They're 2 hours futher away, but seem to be getting a lot more stuff---especially for airliner enthusiasts like me. http://www.flyrfd.com/AirFest2007PerfTemp.asp
Nied Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 So any way as I was saying before: Boo-Yah! [attachmentid=42647][attachmentid=42648] Also: [attachmentid=42649] Sorry I don't have many more aerial pics. My hands were full picking my jaw off the ground.
the white drew carey Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 Just FYI, but I plan on going to the Rockford airshow next weekend instead of the Quad Cities. They're 2 hours futher away, but seem to be getting a lot more stuff---especially for airliner enthusiasts like me. http://www.flyrfd.com/AirFest2007PerfTemp.asp Ahhhh... Rockford. Home of Cheap Trick, you know. That's where I saw my first airshow, Thunderbirds were flying. Rockford is typically a surprisingly good airshow.
kalvasflam Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 Neat! It's like if an A-10 and a VF-1 had a baby. Now if it only had a GAU-8, it would be really something. Equivalent of the gatling gun on the Valks, except a lot more powerful.
David Hingtgen Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 On that note, the only song in the world to use the phrase "alpha of a Hornet": "I wish I had a gun just like the A-10" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDRJLOfEOVE NOT work safe. Or child safe. At all. But hilarious if you get the references. Or an even funnier video: "World War III". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQzyXZTx3_A Also NSFW. For those who don't know, "Dos Gringos" are 2 F-16 pilots who also have a band. (If they've been brought up before I'm sorry, but couldn't find them via a search of the old thread)
Apollo Leader Posted May 25, 2007 Author Posted May 25, 2007 Just FYI, but I plan on going to the Rockford airshow next weekend instead of the Quad Cities. They're 2 hours futher away, but seem to be getting a lot more stuff---especially for airliner enthusiasts like me. http://www.flyrfd.com/AirFest2007PerfTemp.asp Still mean to post some pictures from the Offutt air show... yikes, it's already been three weeks! Looks like you got a good show to attend.
Nied Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 Still mean to post some pictures from the Offutt air show... yikes, it's already been three weeks! Looks like you got a good show to attend. Yeah I mean I'm posting pictures from the airshow I went to already (I'll have more on tonight BTW). There's some pictures available from the Andrews show online but I don't think I've seen anything from the Offutt show online anywhere yet.
Knight26 Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 Interesting design, doubt it could have ever flown as anything more then an X-plane, but still very interesting.
Apollo Leader Posted May 25, 2007 Author Posted May 25, 2007 ...but I don't think I've seen anything from the Offutt show online anywhere yet. Not surprised considering A)the Blue Angels were a no-show B) Saturday was canned and C) it started to rain during the F-16 demo right before 2:00. I did get over a 100+ pictures taken, but it's just a case of going back through and picking some and deciding which was to crop and reduce in size. Funny thing is the weather has been gorgeous each weekend here since...
Coota0 Posted May 25, 2007 Posted May 25, 2007 For those who don't know, "Dos Gringos" are 2 F-16 pilots who also have a band. (If they've been brought up before I'm sorry, but couldn't find them via a search of the old thread) I'm a Pilot, Squiggly Porn and Shave Dog's Ass are my favorites.
David Hingtgen Posted May 26, 2007 Posted May 26, 2007 Su-30MKM has been revealed (Malaysia). Looks identical to the -30MKI: Canards, vectoring, etc. Real question is what avionics it has.
joseph Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 (edited) Su-30MKM has been revealed (Malaysia). Looks identical to the -30MKI: Canards, vectoring, etc. Real question is what avionics it has. RKUTSK (RUSSIA), May 25 (Bernama) -- The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) will train 72 of its officers as pilots and weapons system officers (WSOs) to handle its squadron of multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA), the Sukhoi SU-30MKM. Team leader of the RMAF Sukhoi SU-30MKM project Colonel Syed Salim Syed Abu Bakar said they would be trained at the Gong Kedak airbase in Kelantan. "When the first delivery of two SU-30MKM aircraft arrives in Malaysia next month, we will train four pilots and two WSOs to handle them. "After completing the training, they will be tasked with teaching other pilots and WSOs to handle all the 18 SU-30MKM bought by the RMAF," he told Malaysian journalists here. Syed Salim, who has been stationed in Moscow since three years ago to handle the acquisition of the aircraft by the RMAF, said this when met after the handing over of the first two SU-30MKMs to Malaysia at the Irkut Corporation factory here Thursday. The two SU-30MKM jets are the first of 18 ordered by the RMAF in May 2003 at a cost of RM3.42 billion (USD900 million). Syed Salim said there was a possibility that some of the RMAF pilots and WSOs for the SU-30MKM would be sent to India for training. India had agreed in principle to provide MRCA training for RMAF officers, he added. The Indian Air Force also uses the SU-30MKI manufactured by Irkut Corporation. Syed Salim said the SU-30MKM bought by Malaysia were different as they had been integrated with the systems from several countries to coordinate their use with other RMAF aircraft. He said the RMAF SU-30MKM team had been able to integrate the system according to schedule and he hoped that this would ensure delivery of all the 18 aircraft to Malaysia by middle of next year. He said most of the avionics systems used in the RMAF aircraft were from France and that the SU-30MKM's laser and missile warning systems were from South Africa while the cryptography system from the United Kingdom. SU-30MKM pics: Edited May 27, 2007 by joseph
the white drew carey Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 Looks beefy. I was trying to come up with something that describes it, but I think you've nailed it right on the head. Another word which comes to mind is "wicked."
VF-19 Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 Makes me want to build my Academy Flanker... But I need to get a new cockpit for it; kit cockpit sucks major ***... Speaking of cockpits, I'm working on a Monogram/Revell F-101b Voodoo at the moment (fit is surprisingly very very good), and I have no clue as to how the cockpit should be painted. I'm guessing that it's a grey tub with flat/semi-gloss panels. The museum has a Voodoo (yay!) but there's no way to see into the cockpit (boo!).
David Hingtgen Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/walk-jet.htm Several 101 walkarounds, no GOOD cockpit shots, but this may help: http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1...t/F-101B_29.jpg
VF-19 Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 I've already looked at these, and like you've said, no good cockpit shots... Still, I think a grey tub with black panels should do the trick.
Apollo Leader Posted May 27, 2007 Author Posted May 27, 2007 http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/walk-jet.htm Several 101 walkarounds, no GOOD cockpit shots, but this may help: http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1...t/F-101B_29.jpg Hey, that's the F-101B at the Strategic Air and Space Museum!
Cruel Angel's Thesis Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Well this seems to be slow lets see about spicing it up. Remember DH's A-10 gun bunny well me and friend had some fun making some motivational posters of it. Since I have no URL's for them and not sure how to do multiple attachements, I'll put up my friends first then mine.
Cruel Angel's Thesis Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 And mine. The word kawaiicide attributed to Akei Arkay.
David Hingtgen Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Went to the Quad Cities Airshow today, trying out my new camera---quite pleased, these are way better pics than before. Highlights:
buddhafabio Posted June 3, 2007 Posted June 3, 2007 couple of links popped up on fark aircraft flare art http://very-bored.com/index.php?option=com...62&Itemid=1 nose art http://www.ww2planenoseart.com/Images/index.htm nsfw
David Hingtgen Posted June 4, 2007 Posted June 4, 2007 Too tired to post more, here's a couple from today: Sundowners! It was very cloudy, this was the best-lit BA shot:
Lindem Herz Posted June 4, 2007 Posted June 4, 2007 aircraft flare art http://very-bored.com/index.php?option=com...62&Itemid=1 The Russian Knights and Strezhi must give a HELL of a show. Anybody here been in one of those?
David Hingtgen Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 Finally found a pic of the restored YF-23 #2:
Apollo Leader Posted June 13, 2007 Author Posted June 13, 2007 (edited) Finally found a pic of the restored YF-23 #2: I think I saw that picture at f-16.net a few days ago on their forum. The picture was taken like sometime last year. There was also some pictures of when it showed up at the Air Force Museum for its restoration. Some sort of damage had happened to the forward part of the canopy... I think this is part of the reason why it is blue now (guess they couldn't get something more gold tinted?). But it's still confusing on what's really going on with the aircraft. Is it suppose to go on display anywhere? Where's #1 at? Supposedly the YF-23 seen on Google Earth/Maps was the full scale RCS model and NOT the real deal. Why it's just sitting out there, I don't know. BTW, I will post a few pictures from the Offutt air show soon... should probably post a few of my Blue Angel shots from last September since your's didn't turn out so well, David. Edited June 13, 2007 by Apollo Leader
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 Finally found a pic of the restored YF-23 #2: Is that the one rumored to be made into the RTA proposal? Link here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/inde...opic,209.0.html I wonder if anything concrete ever surfaced about the RTA proposal aside the desktop model and concept art.
buddhafabio Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 if you look at the lines of the fuselage the f/b23 looks like what you would get if a f-22 had mated with a f-111
Apollo Leader Posted June 13, 2007 Author Posted June 13, 2007 Is that the one rumored to be made into the RTA proposal? Link here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/inde...opic,209.0.html I wonder if anything concrete ever surfaced about the RTA proposal aside the desktop model and concept art. Make sure to sign up to be a member of that message because a lot of attachments there are only visible to logged in members. There's a lot of real cool shi... er, stuff that gets posted on the board.
HoveringCheesecake Posted June 14, 2007 Posted June 14, 2007 Well, the Blue Angels are practicing here in Fargo. Unfortunately though, the forecast is clouds for the next 4 days. I hope that changes by Saturday.
David Hingtgen Posted June 14, 2007 Posted June 14, 2007 Well, the high show and low show aren't all that different IMHO, mainly just the finale. High vs low impacts the single-ship demos more---I got the "low" Super Hornet a few weeks ago and it was half of what the high show is, and all the cool moves were omitted.
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