Plane Porn

[damon]

Here is some pics of planes at Castle air park

[damon]

here is some more

[Dr. MD MD]

A bit of Halloween B-17 action for ya! 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZlBre8lOeQ

[Hog]

I'll have to get my Shuttle U-2 and SR-71 pics digitized.

Good thread

peace
Hog

[KevinIsAHybrid]

Eww!

If planes are cocks!

I guess that makes gremlins STDS!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! It's COSTUME DAY!

[Yorkshire pud]

Eww!

If planes are cocks!

I guess that makes gremlins STDS!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! It's COSTUME DAY!

FUCK. OFF. YOU. NEEDY. FUCKING. LITTLE. TURD.

[whoozit]

I think the DH.89 Dragon Rapide is one of the most beautiful aircraft of that era.  Much better looking than the DH.84 Dragon.

[Yorkshire pud]

Four of my favourites. The TSR2, was a victim of its time. Too many needs required of it. The technology it needed had not yet been invented. But if it had, it would probably have been sold all over the world.

Concorde: even now looks futuristic. The engineering that went into it was amazing.

The Sea Fury: fastest piston engined aircraft the navy ever had.

The Lightning, could reach in excess of. 60000 feet: At least one flight went to 88000 feet. Rate of climb was about 20000 per minute, supersonically. This was back in the 60's.

[Dr. MD MD]

Concorde: even now looks futuristic. The engineering that went into it was amazing.

Why did they retire that one again, pud?

[Yorkshire pud]

I think the DH.89 Dragon Rapide is one of the most beautiful aircraft of that era.  Much better looking than the DH.84 Dragon.

Agree. De Havilland made visually pleasing aeroplanes. Even the Moths had a charm.

[Yorkshire pud]

Why did they retire that one again, pud?

Politics. Airbus was tasked to do the maintenance, and after the crash in France, refused to continue. The Concorde that crashed hit a piece of metal dropped from a DC8, that flipped up and ruptured a tank, which fed the portside Olympus engines on full reheat. The full story of that incident has buck passing throughout. The aircraft itself was sound. The closest that Boeing came to emulate it, was a $500 million wooden mock up. Boeing boss told Pan Am boss that if he withdrew the order for a fleet of Concordes, Boeng would build a supersonic aircaft..So PanAm boss did...and waited...and waited...and decided to instead of using the 747 for freight only, would use it for passengers too.

Anything else?

[Dr. MD MD]

Politics. Airbus was tasked to do the maintenance, and after the crash in France, refused to continue. The Concorde that crashed hit a piece of metal dropped from a DC8, that flipped up and ruptured a tank, which fed the portside Olympus engines on full reheat. The full story of that incident has buck passing throughout. The aircraft itself was sound. The closest that Boeing came to emulate it, was a $500 million wooden mock up. Boeing boss told Pan Am boss that if he withdrew the order for a fleet of Concordes, Boeng would build a supersonic aircaft..So PanAm boss did...and waited...and waited...and decided to instead of using the 747 for freight only, would use it for passengers too.

Anything else?

I seem to remember talk that it was effecting the ozone layer in some way back then. Not sure about that though. I remember Phil Collins flying on it to play multiple locations during Live Aid.

[Yorkshire pud]

I seem to remember talk that it was effecting the ozone layer in some way back then. Not sure about that though. I remember Phil Collins flying on it to play multiple locations during Live Aid.

All jet aircraft affect the atmosphere. The cockpit crews have apparently had a higher than average incidence of cancer.  It flew at 60000 feet, so would make sense.

[Dr. MD MD]

All jet aircraft affect the atmosphere. The cockpit crews have apparently had a higher than average incidence of cancer.  It flew at 60000 feet, so would make sense.

Perhaps that's why the buck was passed. Maybe the word came down from on high. They might not have wanted to publicly state that was reason back then because it would've emphasized the potential environmental catastrophe.

[Yorkshire pud]

Perhaps that's why the buck was passed. Maybe the word came down from on high. They might not have wanted to publicly state that was reason back then because it would've emphasized the potential environmental catastrophe.

That wasn't the reason for the politicking. And it would take too long to go into here.

[whoozit]

Here is a saucy little number.  A Nieuport 28 wearing nothing but a very skimp bikini bottom. Very little is left to the imagination yet the black and white photo is still more artistic than voyeuristic.

[albrecht]

All jet aircraft affect the atmosphere. The cockpit crews have apparently had a higher than average incidence of cancer.  It flew at 60000 feet, so would make sense.

Careful, YP, you are getting into some Jackstar subjects here....

[damon]

Here is some more

[Hog]

That wasn't the reason for the politicking. And it would take too long to go into here.

Supposedly funds have been located ($160millionBritish pound) to have one of the airframes flight ready for 2019.

These jets were retired just after they spent a mint on redoing the entire interior layout.

It wasnt just the  cockpit crew that was exposed to increased radiation levels, the entire crew was passengers included, though the cumulative effects would affect the cabin and cockpit crew mostly. but since the flights at 60,000 feet were so short in duration, the total dose of radiation was often less than what would have been absorbed on a much slower, hence longer duration conventional flight at say 35,000ft.
If the radiation levels at 60,000ft were too high, the flight plan would deviate to a lower atitude under 50,000ft. In a 1973 test flight, 68,000ft altitude was attained.

They are amazing birds and they had the ability to "supercruise" or cruise at supersonic speed without the use of afterburner/reheat.  they would push through the transsonic area to about 1.6 mach using the a/b, then would turn the a/bs off and slowly accelerate/climb to mach 2.0/60,000ft as the jet got lighter as the fuel burned off. 
This cruise/climb was also used in the SR-71/A-12/YF-12 and M-21 Blackbirds, though these always cruise climbed at full military power with the afterburners engaged the whole time.

peace
Hog

[ksm32]

From the 50's. The beautiful Avro Arrow.

A rather sorted story..

[Dr. MD MD]

From the 50's. The beautiful Avro Arrow.

A rather sorted story..

My dad saw a demo of it and he said it was one of the fastest planes he'd ever seen up to that point.

[WOTR]

Politics. ..So PanAm boss did...and waited...and waited...and decided to instead of using the 747 for freight only, would use it for passengers too.

*** The problems of leaving a page open too long before replying- somebody will beat you to it.
The politics...  The Avro Arrow is still a sore spot for most Canadians...

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

If you're into fantasy plane porn, there's nobody better than Bruce McCall. He also created some explicit, yet exquisitely elegant, WWI tank polo erotica that set a standard that aficionados of the genre vehemently claim will never be equaled.

[WOTR]

First plane to hit 1000KPH, and the only rocket plane made.  My grandfather flew one in WWII (and like almost every pilot to fly one, crashed one.)  Supposedly one of the most dangerous planes around (not to the enemy- but to the pilot.)

[Yorkshire pud]

First plane to hit 1000KPH, and the only rocket plane made.  My grandfather flew one in WWII (and like almost every pilot to fly one, crashed one.)  Supposedly one of the most dangerous planes around (not to the enemy- but to the pilot.)

Eric 'winkle' Brown, the most decorated RN pilot ever, test flew a 163 after the liberation in WW2. The German ground crew absolutely forbid him at first because it was lethal to its pilots (excess fuel on landing could splash on the pilot and literally melt him alive), but Brown not only flew it, but had it returned to the UK. By the time of his death earlier this year, he'd flown more different types of aircraft than anyone in history, (nearly 500) he also has the unassailable record of over 2200 carrier deck landings, and over 2400 take offs. He was the first to land on a carrier in a jet aircraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot)

[zeebo]

Four of my favourites. The TSR2, was a victim of its time. Too many needs required of it. The technology it needed had not yet been invented. But if it had, it would probably have been sold all over the world. .

Ok I don't know anything about flight dynamics but if I didn't see a pic of that actually in the air I would question it could get off the ground.   

[zeebo]

Why did they retire that one again, pud?

I thought there were complaints about sound?

[Yorkshire pud]

Ok I don't know anything about flight dynamics but if I didn't see a pic of that actually in the air I would question it could get off the ground.   

I think the same about the Starfighter. 

[Yorkshire pud]

I thought there were complaints about sound?

At first yes. Its why it flew subsonic until well over and above the sea. I'm certain though that if Boeing had had their own version, the noise complaints would have evaporated. 

[whoozit]

I think the same about the Starfighter. 

I'm sure both have the glide ratio of a stick.