Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII

[anime52k8]

I think it's pretty cool.

[Ghost Train]

Get ready to be even more comfortable next time you fly third clas... I mean coach.

http://www.thejournal.ie/new-airbus-seats-like-saddles-1575471-Jul2014/

[mechaninac]

It's almost like those battledroid deployment racks from TPM... looks sooo comfy...

Edited July 22, 2014 by mechaninac

[coronadlux]

Get ready to be even more comfortable next time you fly third clas... I mean coach.

http://www.thejournal.ie/new-airbus-seats-like-saddles-1575471-Jul2014/

yea.. no. Not gonna happen. At least not in the U.S.

The FAA has certain crash requirements for passenger survivability. Even on short flights, planes travel way above what any human being could survive in a fall.

What's next? hand holds for standing passengers?

[Phyrox]

yea.. no. Not gonna happen. At least not in the U.S.

The FAA has certain crash requirements for passenger survivability. Even on short flights, planes travel way above what any human being could survive in a fall.

What's next? hand holds for standing passengers?

Ryan Air was planning to introduce standing passenger accommodations (hand holds) for short flights until it was nixed for safety reasons. We've gone from flight being a near-miracle way of traveling to having it be on the same level, experience-wise, as riding a bus in a little over a generation.

[David Hingtgen]

Ryanair also finally convinced Boeing to add extra exit doors and to reduce the seat spacing even further, to pack 200 people in a 737.

[Gakken85]

Took some pics from my Combat Aircraft Monthly magazine:

It's the Black Knights of Singapore.

Edited July 23, 2014 by Gakken85

[electric indigo]

That's a nice design, except that it's not exactly black...

[VF-19]

The Black Knights always triumph! Have at you!

[Shadow]

Red and White on an F-16? I like. Like Blue and Gold/Yellow on the F/A-18C, some color combinations just seem to suit the aircraft.

More from Farnborough.

Nice to see the Vulcan still making an appearance.

Edited July 23, 2014 by Shadow

[electric indigo]

It has always puzzled me why the vulcan has a camo pattern on the underside...

[electric indigo]

I stumbled upon some weird aftermarket parts for the 1/32 Skyraider kit

http://www.hlj.com/product/BRGBRL32012/Air

Here's the story of the Toilet Bomb:

http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.de/2011/03/story-behind-toilet-bomb.html

[Chewie]

I have never seen a Vulcan before. It's so awesome!

Going back under my rock now.

[electric indigo]

If you like the Vulcan, you will love the Victor:

[sketchley]

I stumbled upon some weird aftermarket parts for the 1/32 Skyraider kit

Here's the story of the Toilet Bomb:

Thanks for bringing this back to attention - that story is just as fun the second time through. And I'm heartened that someone has actually gone to the trouble of immortalizing it.

[Phyrox]

If you like the Vulcan, you will love the Victor:

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Hear, hear!

Best looking coldwar bomber by a long way.

[F-ZeroOne]

Wait - "D-Day Invasion Stripes" on the Typhoon? Did we fall out with France again or something?!

I have never seen a Vulcan before. It's so awesome!

Going back under my rock now.

I saw one take-off when I was very young; the overwhelming impression I got was that theres a certain point during the take-off climb where you can actually see gravity trying to snatch it back...

[Shadow]

I've always been impressed by the high AoA maneuvers the Hornet can make but that Super Hornet display was the best I've seen in really showing its abilities while still carrying a load of missiles.

Edited July 25, 2014 by Shadow

[David Hingtgen]

I've heard/read that a Super Hornet can match or even beat an F-22, briefly, when it comes to high-alpha manuevers.

Basically---it can't keep it up due to raw drag/less thrust, but if the pilot really wants to---he can trade all his energy for "pointing the nose" like nothing else, to get off a high-angle shot etc. Super Hornets do have an "alpha/G-limit over-ride" switch like a Flanker.

The F-22 can do high-end manuevers all day long, but a Super Hornet can do one truly spectacular move if it needs to.

[electric indigo]

Let me bring to your attention the works of Adam Tooby, whose digital paintings grace the boxes of Airfix' modern kit range.

There's a book collecting his work on the horizon, meanwhile you can feast your eyes on the pics on his Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Finest-Hour-Art/235890616429673

[David Hingtgen]

They look weird from any angle, but this REALLY shows how weird they are...

[Graham]

I had to stop and think for a moment which end is the front

[Beltane70]

I had to stop and think for a moment which end is the front

I did the same just now!

The Vulcan is definitely an impressive aircraft! I had never heard of it until I saw one in person at the RAF museum back in '07!

[David Hingtgen]

Just made me realize---straight wing, straight canards---but a swept tail?

[Gakken85]

Got the new issue of Combat Aircraft. Stoked to read it.

[Gerli]

Sorry, is not in English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gWrTcdodk

Nice design there japan

[Shadow]

Oh the backside of that Backfire.

[derex3592]

that's an awesome pic! I always loved the Backfire . Got any more???

[David Hingtgen]

Nothing cooler than blue afterburners. Backfire has about the best.

[David Hingtgen]

Went to the Quad City Airshow today:

[Ghost Train]

New quantum imaging techniques will make stealth obsolete:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2249392/The-unjammable-quantum-radar-make-present-generation-stealth-technology-obsolete.html

tl;dr version: MIT researchers using the quantum properties of photons (light particles) to detect stealthy objects, and said objects ability to fool the detector.

[Nekko Basara]

That seems like a hugely misleading article. If I read it correctly, it's talking about a technology to defeat active jamming/spoofing, not "stealth," although it repeatedly uses the term and even reports a test carried out on a stealth-bomber-shaped object.

I was under the impression that "stealth" referred to passive technologies that either minimize radar returns and/or limit them only to specific observation conditions (i.e. angles).

[505thAirborne]

Great pictures David, that Raptor is a beast compared to the P-51.

Only thing better would be to see an F-14 in that shot (yeah I went there)

[Ghost Train]

That seems like a hugely misleading article. If I read it correctly, it's talking about a technology to defeat active jamming/spoofing, not "stealth," although it repeatedly uses the term and even reports a test carried out on a stealth-bomber-shaped object.

I was under the impression that "stealth" referred to passive technologies that either minimize radar returns and/or limit them only to specific observation conditions (i.e. angles).

I think the article is written using layperson's language that often times groups concepts like jamming and passive stealth technologies together. It does make it clear that the breakthrough is with a system that can "detect and image" objects.

It raises the theoretical possibility that it can be "jammed" by intercepting and modifying the photons emitted by the scanner. Doing so changes the quantum information of the photon thus making the detector aware that someone is trying to spoof things. This is part of the "Observer effect" in physics, where any interaction (including passive observation) changes the particle.

[David Hingtgen]

Re: stealth. Technically, it refers to ALL forms of detection. Infra-red being the big one after radar. No point in having a radar-proof plane if a heat-seeker can lock on from 10 miles away. AFAIK, infra-red was another place where the -23 was notably better than the -22. (no thrust-vectoring means it could have those ceramic(?) brick-lined exhaust troughs) Plus, just plain being sleeker means less heat/friction from skin-drag.

Re: airshow. Sorry, I have almost nothing for "F-14 in flight"----just caps from an old digicam:

That was the only time I saw a Tomcat fly, Grim Reapers F-14D.