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Funky NATO names for Soviet aircraft

#121
*Rubber*? :hmm:
Correct, anyway. :)
The German one is a Blohm und Voss BV-40, a glider fighter, intended to be towed to altitude & power-dived at it's opponents. Like the previously-mentioned HS-132, the pilot lay prone, with his chin resting on a padded column. The windscreen was 75mm thick armorglass, IIRC.
The middle one is an atrist's rendering of the Republic XF-103, a development of the F-105- which was in turn, in some ways evolved form the P-47(via the F-84 series).
 
#122
bassteban said:
skyshark-nose.jpg

Name that aircraft! Hint: It did not go into production...
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Right click, properties. :)
 
#125
Yeah, it's the Douglas XA-2D Skyshark, a development(moreless)of the great A-1 Skyraider. They tried to add a pair of turboprop motors & an incredibly complex gearbox(to distribute the power to two contra-rotating props)to a modified version of a classic airframe. I'd liken it to trying to design a bass that looks & feels like a 54 P but has 12 strings- some single-course, some doubled & some tripled; half-fretted/half-fretless, w/a neck made of *The new carbon fiber*, w/ detuners on all tuners(& bridge), maybe w/a retractable extra guitar neck...
 
#133
okay, we gotta get back to British now, not seen enough of our planes!

Avro Vulcan
vulcan1.jpg


Handley Page Victor
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and finally the Vickers Valiant
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The are probably the last of our great bombers, I would love to have seen the vulcan fly, I've been inside them, and seen one taxi, but never seen it in the air, an amazing plane!
 
#134
Blonde Bassist said:
okay, we gotta get back to British now, not seen enough of our planes!

Avro Vulcan
vulcan1.jpg


Handley Page Victor
1360859.jpg


and finally the Vickers Valiant
1233823.jpg


The are probably the last of our great bombers, I would love to have seen the vulcan fly, I've been inside them, and seen one taxi, but never seen it in the air, an amazing plane!
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I would love to see all 3 together in the air again. I missed out on the Vulcan (I was born in the year XH558 stopped flying for the first time, and I haven't been around for any of it's shows in the last couple of years) and seeing that sheer awesome in the metal, in flight - I've seen plenty at museums, is very high on my "to-do list".
 
#136
Gotta love a V bomber. I had a friend who flew Victor tankers in the 1st Gulf War.

Coalition Refueling was done on share basis, basically find a tanker that was free and get your 'gas'. The Victor had a drogue and basket systems, compatible to the British Navy and Air Force and also the US Marines and Navy. The demand from the US pilots to refuel from the Victor was so high that he was usually out of 'gas' very quickly and then had a couple of hours to 'tool around' low level over the Gulf.

The Vulcan is a great display aircraft, famous for doing a very steep full power climb straight after rotation. Quite something to see in an aircraft of it's size. Famous from the Falklands for doing an 8000mile missions to bomb the runway at Port Stanley. I think it took something like 10 tankers to help fuel that - tankers tanking tankers to tank the Vulcan. Must have cost a fortune and after all that they missed the runway! If you read Sharkey Ward's (Sea Harrier Cmdr on Invincible) autobiography he says they could have done more damage with one harrier. Of course there was a lot of propaganda in the Vulcan mission, with the inference that the UK had the capability to reach the mainland cities in Argentina.
 
#137
Thunderitter said:
Gotta love a V bomber. I had a friend who flew Victor tankers in the 1st Gulf War.

Coalition Refueling was done on share basis, basically find a tanker that was free and get your 'gas'. The Victor had a drogue and basket systems, compatible to the British Navy and Air Force and also the US Marines and Navy. The demand from the US pilots to refuel from the Victor was so high that he was usually out of 'gas' very quickly and then had a couple of hours to 'tool around' low level over the Gulf.

The Vulcan is a great display aircraft, famous for doing a very steep full power climb straight after rotation. Quite something to see in an aircraft of it's size. Famous from the Falklands for doing an 8000mile missions to bomb the runway at Port Stanley. I think it took something like 10 tankers to help fuel that - tankers tanking tankers to tank the Vulcan. Must have cost a fortune and after all that they missed the runway! If you read Sharkey Ward's (Sea Harrier Cmdr on Invincible) autobiography he says they could have done more damage with one harrier. Of course there was a lot of propaganda in the Vulcan mission, with the inference that the UK had the capability to reach the mainland cities in Argentina.
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Black Buck was epic. So epic, I wrote a song about it...
 

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