David Hingtgen Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 6 hours ago, Thom said: Even have the crew's helmets! That's how you know it's the two-seater! Quote
electric indigo Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Aviators must have reeeeeeally sharp eyes to notice these details while in a dogfight... Quote
electric indigo Posted March 24 Posted March 24 So the new Chinese heavy attack chopper is an Apache. Quote
Thom Posted March 25 Posted March 25 No, totally different. The tail rotor is on the wrong side. Nothing to see here. Quote
David Hingtgen Posted May 19 Author Posted May 19 Never been this close to a -22, never seen one on static display. Quote
kalvasflam Posted May 19 Posted May 19 (edited) Very nice, where was this? Langley? FF tailsign would indicate that, but suspect FF tailsign fly all over the place. Interesting, the canopy is transparent, the last time I saw -22 was in Honolulu, it had a gold cockpit. Edited May 19 by kalvasflam Quote
Chronocidal Posted May 19 Posted May 19 Still looks gold to me from the side, might just be dependent on the lighting and atmosphere around. I forget if we saw one on display out here or not, but I know I've seen one or two at Edwards before. Quote
David Hingtgen Posted May 19 Author Posted May 19 This was at the Duluth show. It was parked just so, that you could see individual skin panels "turn silver" as the sun slowly moved. Doubly rare that it was a front-line squadron's plane on display, not an OT/Test-Eval etc one. Quote
Thom Posted June 13 Posted June 13 'Marge' has been found! About three weeks passed, but searchers found the P-38 of Richard Bong, named Marge, that was lost for 80 years. It was identified by its serial number, and sadly the image of Marge herself is long gone. But what a find! https://www.flyingmag.com/news/u-s-wwii-ace-richard-bongs-p-38-believed-found/ Quote
MKT Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Don't really know where to put this, as we don't have a diecast aircraft thread. But I'm pretty excited that a 1/72 diecast YF-23 is finally getting made. Always wanted one as a companion piece ever since picking up a Yammie YF-21 years ago. https://x.com/specialdiecast1/status/1808441574063259861 Quote
kajnrig Posted July 10 Posted July 10 I remember hearing in a random video or magazine article or something that in response to a late ATF requirement, McDonnell drafted up designs for a thrust vectoring YF-23. Anyone know if this is the case and/or if it ever made it to any form of visual representation? Getting a model or a Ace Combat mod based on even prototype artwork would be cool to see. Quote
Knight26 Posted July 10 Posted July 10 1 hour ago, kajnrig said: I remember hearing in a random video or magazine article or something that in response to a late ATF requirement, McDonnell drafted up designs for a thrust vectoring YF-23. Anyone know if this is the case and/or if it ever made it to any form of visual representation? Getting a model or a Ace Combat mod based on even prototype artwork would be cool to see. In short, sort of. The original ATF requirement called for thrust reversers and that was pulled late on, so the YF-22 never had them, but the first YF-23 did. The second one did not, and because of the lost weight could outrun pretty much everything else. A thrust vectoring F-23A and NATF were drawn up and proposed during and after the competition. Quote
kajnrig Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Oh wow, that is a funky-looking design, not at all what I expected. I thought it would basically just make the bottom exhaust look like the top so you'd have this like three-pronged tail end sticking out the back with the exhaust nozzles seeming to be set into the airframe. Quote
Valkyrie Hunter D Posted July 10 Posted July 10 8 hours ago, MKT said: Don't really know where to put this, as we don't have a diecast aircraft thread. But I'm pretty excited that a 1/72 diecast YF-23 is finally getting made. Always wanted one as a companion piece ever since picking up a Yammie YF-21 years ago. https://x.com/specialdiecast1/status/1808441574063259861 We have one, it's just slow. Definitely getting that YF-23. Quote
Knight26 Posted July 10 Posted July 10 58 minutes ago, kajnrig said: Oh wow, that is a funky-looking design, not at all what I expected. I thought it would basically just make the bottom exhaust look like the top so you'd have this like three-pronged tail end sticking out the back with the exhaust nozzles seeming to be set into the airframe. So the one of the left is the Production F-23A concept. It would not have had thrust vectoring, focusing more on stealth and speed (YF-23-2 was so slick and fast nothing could catch it, not even the chase F-15). A thrust vectoring F-23B(?) was discussed at NG but never made it far because they lost the ATF Competition. The NATF concept is on the right, and had a couple of iterations, that is the first one, with canards (super sexy) and thrust vectoring. The later iterations ditched the canards but were externally pretty similar. Thrust Vectoring was never a requirement for the ATF Competition. But, LM put a lot of research and development into it so incorporated that into the (Y)F-22 because they wanted to give it more agility. ANd it added an extra wow factor at the competition. Quote
Uxi Posted July 11 Posted July 11 I've wanted a 1/72 EMD F-23A forever. Die cast, kit, whatever. Quote
Raikkonen Posted July 11 Posted July 11 On 7/10/2024 at 10:32 AM, MKT said: Don't really know where to put this, as we don't have a diecast aircraft thread. But I'm pretty excited that a 1/72 diecast YF-23 is finally getting made. Always wanted one as a companion piece ever since picking up a Yammie YF-21 years ago. https://x.com/specialdiecast1/status/1808441574063259861 I've always been tempted by Hobby Masters, but when holding the final product, I don't feel the $100.00 plus pirce-tag, and the quality of the pilots and missiles most times is borderline bootleg looking. But this, in diecast, is hard to pass up on. It will be great if they go the extra mile by adding the missile bays... Quote
Big s Posted July 24 Posted July 24 (edited) 5 hours ago, electric indigo said: brrrt summer This summer’s got me burnt out, I’m ready for Ernie wintergonna watch some Airwolf by the air conditioner Edited July 24 by Big s Quote
MKT Posted August 25 Posted August 25 Just came across this awesome pic. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dpednr7m7o Quote
F-ZeroOne Posted August 26 Posted August 26 I honestly thought that was a Jaguar at first and my first thought was "But who is still flying those?!"... Quote
David Hingtgen Posted September 11 Author Posted September 11 Finally a Phoenix fleet-defense successor: Quote
Knight26 Posted September 12 Posted September 12 2 hours ago, electric indigo said: Are the pylons pointing outwards? Yes, always have, it is just more obvious with larger weapons. With those on it handles like a pig however, figure they are just shy of 2000lbs each. Quote
captain america Posted September 12 Posted September 12 15 hours ago, David Hingtgen said: Finally a Phoenix fleet-defense successor: Nice publicity pic, but in reality, I doubt you'll ever see the Superhornet carrying more than two of these at a time in anything other than full-on war. It might be able to take-off with that loading, but it sure can't land with it, especially on a carrier at sea with a pitching deck. Quote
F-ZeroOne Posted September 12 Posted September 12 The Tomcat couldn't do that if I recall, at least not the early ones with six Phoenix(es?) due to carrier weight landing limits. I know the missiles are getting all the attention, but thats not a Hornet colour scheme one sees often is it? Quote
Knight26 Posted September 12 Posted September 12 28 minutes ago, F-ZeroOne said: The Tomcat couldn't do that if I recall, at least not the early ones with six Phoenix(es?) due to carrier weight landing limits. I know the missiles are getting all the attention, but thats not a Hornet colour scheme one sees often is it? That's Vandy-1, it is a bird that flies pretty exclusively out of CHina Lake for flight test purposes. The coolest flight test bird flying. Quote
F-ZeroOne Posted September 13 Posted September 13 Thanks, for a moment there I thought someone had found an old stash of paint they used for P-61s lying around... 😄 Quote
jvmacross Posted October 7 Posted October 7 "Loyal Wingmen"....sounds familiar.... https://www.slashgear.com/1680874/ai-piloted-f16-against-human-dogfight/ Quote
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