Scyla Posted March 23 Posted March 23 11 hours ago, azrael said: Technically they did; the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet...which they inherited when they bought McDonnell Douglas. I was talking about the F/A-XX program: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-XX_program I should be more careful with my answers on a message board full of aviation geeks.
Thom Posted March 24 Posted March 24 Look like we've experienced.... 16 hours ago, Raikkonen said: When can we expect the first flight of this F-47? I don't know, seeing as Boeing has been having a hard time just building airliners. Until I see something from a far more accredited source, it's pipe-dream. Kinda like...
captain america Posted March 24 Posted March 24 (edited) On 3/22/2025 at 2:34 PM, electric indigo said: That might explain the first american fighter with canards. Hopefully it'll incorporate active flow control. Edited March 24 by captain america
Thom Posted March 24 Posted March 24 42 minutes ago, captain america said: Hopefully it'll incorporate active flow control. Also keep in mind, that is an artists interpretation. Despite the word from You Know Who, there is really nothing to fly yet.
Chronocidal Posted March 25 Posted March 25 I really just want them to reveal that the Air Force changed their minds, and decided they actually want the YF-23 this time.
Thom Posted March 25 Posted March 25 2 hours ago, Chronocidal said: I really just want them to reveal that the Air Force changed their minds, and decided they actually want the YF-23 this time.
505thAirborne Posted March 25 Posted March 25 2 hours ago, Chronocidal said: I really just want them to reveal that the Air Force changed their minds, and decided they actually want the YF-23 this time. I forgot where I read this, but I remember seeing a comment about the YF-23 saying something like "Northrop/Mcdonnell Douglas accidently built a Gen 6th aircraft 30+ years ago." LOL I mean seriously, redesign the rear section for "Thrust vectoring" engines, a one-piece canopy, modern day radar systems, improved RAM, perhaps a larger interior missile bay and you have yourself one vicious stealth fighter that's kind of sort of ready to go vs. this NGAD which is guaranteed to run, way over budget and perform decently. Just my opinion, yours may vary.
David Hingtgen Posted March 25 Author Posted March 25 4 hours ago, Thom said: I don't recall the -23 being so rivet-y around the intakes...
Thom Posted March 25 Posted March 25 6 hours ago, David Hingtgen said: I don't recall the -23 being so rivet-y around the intakes... Quite possibly an artist's rendering, now that I think about it.
F-ZeroOne Posted March 25 Posted March 25 US Navy may be about to select its next-generation fighter: https://www.twz.com/air/navy-f-a-xx-stealth-fighter-selection-this-week-report The most important thing we need to know about this one: Does it go up to... three? 😉
505thAirborne Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Since were having fun with the YF-23 at the moment, Growling Sidewinder presents to you, The F-23. While I get that these are DCS, you have to respect that the 23 with zero thrust vectoring can give the 22 that much of a run for the money in both a 1 & 2 circle fight.
Thom Posted April 24 Posted April 24 Well, we'll see if it performs half as good as it looks, and if the F-47, whenever that get's made, is twice as good...
M'Kyuun Posted April 25 Posted April 25 On 3/24/2025 at 5:00 PM, Chronocidal said: I really just want them to reveal that the Air Force changed their minds, and decided they actually want the YF-23 this time. God, yes!
Old_Nash_II Posted April 25 Posted April 25 https://www.airdatanews.com/turkey-aims-to-sell-kaan-fighter-to-brazil/ New Brazilian airfighter, and I only found out about the development earlier today. It looks very similar to the F-22, since it is a joint venture with Turkey, which was prevented from having the F-35 fighters (almost the same XD)
F18LEGIOSS2 Posted April 25 Posted April 25 3 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said: https://www.airdatanews.com/turkey-aims-to-sell-kaan-fighter-to-brazil/ New Brazilian airfighter, and I only found out about the development earlier today. It looks very similar to the F-22, since it is a joint venture with Turkey, which was prevented from having the F-35 fighters (almost the same XD) Personnaly I prefer big bulky fighter jets like the F15 strike eagle and the SU 30 SM. Oooooooooooh boy don't mess with those
mechaninac Posted April 26 Posted April 26 11 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said: https://www.airdatanews.com/turkey-aims-to-sell-kaan-fighter-to-brazil/ New Brazilian airfighter, and I only found out about the development earlier today. It looks very similar to the F-22, since it is a joint venture with Turkey, which was prevented from having the F-35 fighters (almost the same XD) Basil tirando uma página diretamente do roteiro chinês... por que desenvolver um projeto original quando os Estados Unidos já fez o trabalho difícil? E o nome do caça me faz pensar no grito do capitão Kirk em A Ira de Khan.
Big s Posted April 26 Posted April 26 12 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said: https://www.airdatanews.com/turkey-aims-to-sell-kaan-fighter-to-brazil/ New Brazilian airfighter, and I only found out about the development earlier today. It looks very similar to the F-22, since it is a joint venture with Turkey, which was prevented from having the F-35 fighters (almost the same XD) Looks very lime candy
Big s Posted May 13 Posted May 13 Saw this and it gave me a little laugh in all seriousness, I do hope nobody gets hurt during these accidents and do feel bad when that does happen
F-ZeroOne Posted Wednesday at 06:39 PM Posted Wednesday at 06:39 PM This year marks the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. In the UK the Spitfire, and to a (sadly) lesser extent the Hurricane [1], are the symbols of the Battle but over the past few years I've become a little bit fascinated with an aircraft that is much less well known: the Boulton-Paul Defiant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Defiant Now don't get me wrong - I'm not one of those people who is going to claim that the Defiant was some kind of latent super-fighter that could have taken on a F-22 and won - but I just find its story interesting. The main reason I've bought it up is that it never ceases to amazes me the little undiscovered side-alleys that still wait to surprise the fan of World War II military history, and one of those I only discovered today was that the Defiant had a single seat, forward firing gun armed [2] variant planned, which somehow I'd never heard of before!: https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_boulton_paul_P94.html [1] If one were really reaching, one could also class the Blackburn Skua and Roc as "Battle of Britain" fighter aircraft... [2] The Defiant could fire forward, if the gunner locked the guns in position, but only the pilot could then fire them but as he had no gunsight...
renegadeleader1 Posted Thursday at 02:43 AM Posted Thursday at 02:43 AM 7 hours ago, F-ZeroOne said: This year marks the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. In the UK the Spitfire, and to a (sadly) lesser extent the Hurricane [1], are the symbols of the Battle but over the past few years I've become a little bit fascinated with an aircraft that is much less well known: the Boulton-Paul Defiant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Defiant Now don't get me wrong - I'm not one of those people who is going to claim that the Defiant was some kind of latent super-fighter that could have taken on a F-22 and won - but I just find its story interesting. The main reason I've bought it up is that it never ceases to amazes me the little undiscovered side-alleys that still wait to surprise the fan of World War II military history, and one of those I only discovered today was that the Defiant had a single seat, forward firing gun armed [2] variant planned, which somehow I'd never heard of before!: https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_boulton_paul_P94.html [1] If one were really reaching, one could also class the Blackburn Skua and Roc as "Battle of Britain" fighter aircraft... [2] The Defiant could fire forward, if the gunner locked the guns in position, but only the pilot could then fire them but as he had no gunsight... If the Boulton Paul Defiant breaks your brain you should look up the Bell YMF-1 Airacuda, a twin engined pusher "bomber destroyer" that had gunner positions in the engine nacels in front of the motors. The USAAC had a squadron's worth of these things operating with the USAAC/USAAF at the start of the war before those in charge realized how much of a deathtrap it was and quietly removed them from service and scrapped them all two months in. If you need more obscure WWII aircraft there's also the B-32 Dominator which was the backup from Consolidated should the B-29 fail, and the Brewster SB2A Buccaneer a dive bomber so terrible the Navy and USAAF chose to send most of them directly to the junkyard for scrapping rather than use them as trainers or target tugs after they failed miserably at those jobs. Probably one of my favorite obscure aircraft is the Curtiss-Wright AT-9 "jeep" trainer. It looks like a cartoon come to life looking a half used toothpaste tube mixed with a Japanese style super deformed Beechcraft Model 18. It was deliberately designed to fly like crap so as to simulate adverse flying conditions brought on by battle damage.
electric indigo Posted Thursday at 08:23 AM Posted Thursday at 08:23 AM 5 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said: It was deliberately designed to fly like crap so as to simulate adverse flying conditions brought on by battle damage It's not a bug, it's a feature 😁
F-ZeroOne Posted Thursday at 02:43 PM Posted Thursday at 02:43 PM Renegadeleader1, I’m familiar at least in passing with the aircraft you mentioned (the thing that always gets me about the Airacuda more than anything is where did they get that name from?!) though I hadn’t heard of the AT-9 before.
Thom Posted Thursday at 02:55 PM Posted Thursday at 02:55 PM 12 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said: .... Probably one of my favorite obscure aircraft is the Curtiss-Wright AT-9 "jeep" trainer. It looks like a cartoon come to life looking a half used toothpaste tube mixed with a Japanese style super deformed Beechcraft Model 18. It was deliberately designed to fly like crap so as to simulate adverse flying conditions brought on by battle damage. That's a plane that, from the nose to the beginning of the tail, looks like it needs to be stretched by about 10 or 15 percent to make those curves work.
pengbuzz Posted Thursday at 03:49 PM Posted Thursday at 03:49 PM 51 minutes ago, Thom said: That's a plane that, from the nose to the beginning of the tail, looks like it needs to be stretched by about 10 or 15 percent to make those curves work. Yeah, this is pretty messed up alright...
Thom Posted Thursday at 05:34 PM Posted Thursday at 05:34 PM 1 hour ago, pengbuzz said: Yeah, this is pretty messed up alright... I love the tail on it!
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