kalvasflam Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 One additional thought about the composite material for the 787, I wonder what test protocols it has gone through at this point. Knowing the amount of stress it'll go through in a life time, that's going to be very interesting to see what type of accelerated age testing they did for the plane. I wonder how much of this learning can from other composite aircraft, and looking at their airworthiness over time.
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Has anyone here seen Les Chevaliers du ciel(Sky Knights in the US), or Speed and Angels? I'm trying to find a place that has Speed and Angels, the clips I have seen on the main site and youtube are amazing. I'm dissapointed that some of the cockpit footage was taken from inside a hornet when they were showing a tomcat dogfight, but I guess they had to do something for a reinactment.
Apollo Leader Posted July 14, 2007 Author Posted July 14, 2007 F-35 (not X-35) footage: http://www.jsf.mil/video/f35test/AA-1%20Montage_high.wmv Nice.
buddhafabio Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 so, in regards to the recent news on f-14s. does this mean no f-14s ever in the future in airshows? if so thaaaaat sucks.
buddhafabio Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) opps wifi cut out. Edited July 16, 2007 by buddhafabio
Warmaker Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 (edited) I'm 99% sure you'll never see a Tomcat in an airshow anymore. Maybe a gutted, display F-14, but not a flying one. Unless you're in Iran? Maybe Test Squadrons and such will have a few, but the parts will dwindle down. And they won't give them up for airshows or even static displays. Edited July 17, 2007 by Warmaker
Smiley424 Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 New season of Dogfights started last Friday. I'm pretty burnt on the WW2 stuff (it was about Kamikazes) but I'm looking forward to the shows about the Israeli Air Force (I think from watching the commercials).
Knight26 Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Anybody know of a good JSF flight simulator, I ask because I need to get to know the aircraft better since I may apply to be an FTE on it.
kalvasflam Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/...er-economy.html And I command thee to sleep.... (gotta handed to the Germans, efficiency and ... uh... well, not exactly comfort) What an interesting idea. wonder how they might handle carry ons...
eugimon Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/...er-economy.html And I command thee to sleep.... (gotta handed to the Germans, efficiency and ... uh... well, not exactly comfort) What an interesting idea. wonder how they might handle carry ons... will they pass out ambiens instead of peanuts now?
Dante74 Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Full F-22 demo. This thing can pull off some amazing stuff. Sorry if this has been posted before.
David Hingtgen Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Just FYI, not the full demo. Full demos won't happen until either 2008, or very late this year. They have a lot more planned---these are more like "teasers".
Warmaker Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I've been seeing a bunch of Ospreys in the last 2 months due to ops. When watching them fly, I suddenly thought they looked like the flying Winnebago from Spaceballs. They're like huge, flying boxes
the white drew carey Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 My parent's live in Plant City, FL (outside of Tampa) and he says when he was golfing they saw an Osprey refueling helicopters overhead. He was so excited, he called me at work. I didn't know the Osprey could do that.
Akilae Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 Not sure if this belongs here, but since it's an AA gun... I was watching Apollo 13 the other day and saw what appeared to be M45 Quadmounts with the guns stripped and equipped with cameras and other observation equipment. However I haven't been able to find any information on this. Would anybody happen to know more about it?
David Hingtgen Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 The current trend is for airlines to spend millions on new, ugly, bland paint schemes. If nothing else, it's different. QANTAS has however decided to spend money and repaint the fleet, re-logo everything from napkins to uniforms to ticket-holders, and generally waste money, for a subtle change--I present to you, the NEW logo and name for QANTAS: Definitely one of the bigger wastes of money I've ever seen.
kalvasflam Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 The current trend is for airlines to spend millions on new, ugly, bland paint schemes. If nothing else, it's different. QANTAS has however decided to spend money and repaint the fleet, re-logo everything from napkins to uniforms to ticket-holders, and generally waste money, for a subtle change--I present to you, the NEW logo and name for QANTAS: Definitely one of the bigger wastes of money I've ever seen. Meet the new boss.... same as the old boss.... what a waste of time. But still, they could've done with BA did about a decade ago, and paint their aircraft all different colors.
Knight26 Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 My parent's live in Plant City, FL (outside of Tampa) and he says when he was golfing they saw an Osprey refueling helicopters overhead. He was so excited, he called me at work. I didn't know the Osprey could do that. Let me look into it, but are you sure he didn't see a V-22 and a helo getting refueled off of a KC-130?
Knight26 Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 I checked it is a planned capability but not yet implimented to my knowledge, will have to look more, could have been a proof of concept test flight.
RFT Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 small update- the final stage of approving the purchase of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers went through a couple days ago, with the ships expected to enter service in 2014 and 2016.
F-ZeroOne Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Yes, so that means you chaps had better get cracking so that we have something to fly from them by then!
RFT Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 either that or can the F-35 already so we can get cracking on navalising the typhoon
Graham Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 either that or can the F-35 already so we can get cracking on navalising the typhoon Hear hear! Graham
David Hingtgen Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 The problem is, they seem to have gone with the ski-ramp design, with the "potential" to incorporate catapults in the future built in to the design. They are planning for the future, and since the carriers will out-live the F-35, there might not BE any V/STOL planes in the future to use, and they'll have to fit catapults to have any airwing at all. It'd be a lot easier to just include catapults from the start. Or heck, just one. Use F-35's if you've got them, but keep 1 catapult around for the E-2, or Rafale, or something. Also, catapults would allow the F-35C, which is probably going to have a much easier design process than the F-35B, and will be a better plane in the end.
Apollo Leader Posted July 27, 2007 Author Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) Just a few days after the announcement that Northrop Grumman had taken 100% ownership of Scaled Composites: Explosion at Scaled Composites test site kills three. Of course NASA's having its problems this week: NASA shaken by Sabotage, Alcohol Claims. On one good note, though, Boeing's X-48B flew for the first time this week. Edited July 27, 2007 by Apollo Leader
the white drew carey Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 (edited) Looks like it was a bad day to be in the air: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/helicopter.crash/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/airshow.crash.ap/index.html Edited July 28, 2007 by the white drew carey
hellohikaru Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 Anybody know of a good JSF flight simulator, I ask because I need to get to know the aircraft better since I may apply to be an FTE on it. There was Eidos' old JSF sim. Lots of fun there
F-ZeroOne Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 (edited) Oops - posted in wrong thread! Edited July 29, 2007 by F-ZeroOne
David Hingtgen Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 With the 21,000lb MOAB being not enough apparently, the B-2 is going to be getting the 30,000lb MOP bomb: http://www.gizmag.com/go/7669/ 30,000lbs. That's like dropping an F-16 on them.
VF-19 Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 With the 21,000lb MOAB being not enough apparently, the B-2 is going to be getting the 30,000lb MOP bomb: http://www.gizmag.com/go/7669/ 30,000lbs. That's like dropping an F-16 on them. Bet it makes a bigger boom than a F-16... Although, mind you, that infamous Thunderbird F-16 incident did make a pretty big boom too... To quote: "Jamie wants big boom."
Apollo Leader Posted July 29, 2007 Author Posted July 29, 2007 Looks like it was a bad day to be in the air: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/helicopter.crash/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/airshow.crash.ap/index.html In the case of the two P-51's colliding, at least the one pilot was fortunate to have survived. There was also another fatal air show crash this weekend at Dayton, OH: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291268,00.html
Apollo Leader Posted July 29, 2007 Author Posted July 29, 2007 With the 21,000lb MOAB being not enough apparently, the B-2 is going to be getting the 30,000lb MOP bomb: http://www.gizmag.com/go/7669/ 30,000lbs. That's like dropping an F-16 on them. I first heard about that bomb a few months ago. Obviously this bomb is intended to be used in targets buried in the mountains (like Iran's nuclear facilities, Taliban and Al-Queda hiding in the mountains of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border). About the only thing you could do next is to use nuclear weapons. Since the B-2 was designed for a 40,000 pound bomb load and they're talking about carrying two of these 30,000 bombs, I wonder what will be done for the B-2 to accomidate the additional 20,000 of weight? Imagine how much altitude the B-2 will gain in the process if it drops even one of these bombs?
VF-19 Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Imagine how much altitude the B-2 will gain in the process if it drops even one of these bombs? I imagine it will fly in formation with a Space Shuttle... But someone mentioned on another forum: "Will the bomb generate a radar return?" I'm gonna go with... yes.
F-ZeroOne Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 The old ideas are the best ones then, eh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb
David Hingtgen Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Photo of the day, and good for getting a sense of scale:
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