Cold War Aviation Porn

[spitfire]

 

[not-bono-ever]

nice

 

[T & P]

Obviously it is not a viable design IRL or it would have been adopted, but a self standing ship with tripod legs seems a much more logical and simpler design on paper, certainly for reusable vehicles and Moon landers. But I guess aside from the increased drag and power required to get it off the Earth's atmosphere it'd have to be a massive beast for the ground clearance and the leg span to be effective.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Im pretty sure herge used pics of experimental potential crew seats in his tintin stuff as well.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[A380]

Prototype of Convair Hustler- apparently...

 

[JuanTwoThree]

There was a French illustrated book about the Moon landings. That cartoon of Tintin greeting Neil Armstrong could be its cover.

Ils Ont Marche sur la Lune. It's a work of art.

 

[spitfire]

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Prototype of Convair Hustler- apparently...

Designers: "How pointy do you want it?"

USAF bosses: "Really pointy!"

Designers: "Can do!"

 

[T & P]

'And give it a double chin like Alfred Hitchcock's...'

 

[Septimus Rufiji]

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Prototype of Convair Hustler- apparently...

why is it being picketed by ghosts?

 

[HAL9000]

 

[Sprocket.]

There was a French illustrated book about the Moon landings. That cartoon of Tintin greeting Neil Armstrong could be its cover.View attachment 214103

Ils Ont Marche sur la Lune. It's a work of art.

That Tintin on the moon greeting Armstrong was sent to him as a congratulatory card. Apparently Armstrong was baffled as he had never heard of Tintin.

 

[A380]

Martin XB 51 Panther.

 

[spitfire]

If you like your porn dirty...



And another one for Lancman , "Sea looks a bit green skipper", "Don't worry lad, that's just algae!".

 

[A380]

 

[pogofish]

why is it being picketed by ghosts?

It’s the long exposure times needed for the photo.

 

[A380]

It’s the long exposure times needed for the photo.

Who you gonna call?

 

[DownwardDog]

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I flew a TF-104S-ASA at NATO TLP (from the front seat!). By that stage it had a very good Stability Augmentation System but still had to be flown with 100% focus 100% of the time. As we were strapping in, the Italian IP said to me, "Remember, if you make mistake we die."

 

[existentialist]

I flew a TF-104S-ASA at NATO TLP (from the front seat!). By that stage it had a very good Stability Augmentation System but still had to be flown with 100% focus 100% of the time. As we were strapping in, the Italian IP said to me, "Remember, if you make mistake we die."

Funny, that: people often say the same as they're climbing into the passenger seat of my car

 

[LDC]

I flew a TF-104S-ASA at NATO TLP (from the front seat!). By that stage it had a very good Stability Augmentation System but still had to be flown with 100% focus 100% of the time. As we were strapping in, the Italian IP said to me, "Remember, if you make mistake we die."

Surely it was if you 'maka-mistaka'?

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[likesfish]

never saw any U2's land in Cyprus as they weren't there " is that a U2"?
"you didnt seen anything ok "

 

[pogofish]

I wonder what the failure rate of the eventual F-85's would have been - apart from distressing....

I remember reading somewhere that the XF-85 was regarded as about as near to a fighter pilots "dream" aircraft as you could get - Its small size made it highly manoeuvrable exceptionally easy to fly in all the right ways for them!

 

[pogofish]

In Hullo Russia, Goodby England, Derick Robson's novel about a Vulcan Squadron, the unofficial plan of most crews was to keep flying east till the fuel was gone , bail out and try to start a new, medieval level, life in the Steppes or Tibet...

I also remember reading somewhere that, depending on target, pilots were expected to fly-on towards airfields not normally/minimally used for military purposes in Iceland, Norway or Sweden, Shetland, Orkney and even northern Scotland - This is one of the reasons the large WW2/early cold war runway at Dounreay was kept open and serviceable for so long, despite only normally being used by UKAEA/BNFL service flights in small civilian aircraft. They reckoned that none of these airfields would be considered as worthy of being first strike targets!

 

[Idris2002]

never saw any U2's land in Cyprus as they weren't there " is that a U2"?
"you didnt seen anything ok "

And you still haven't found what you're looking for.

 

[A380]

Bristol 188

 

[spitfire]

 

[dylanredefined]

Target accuracy wasn't an issue, particularly, for either V1 or V2 - mostly because they couldn't guarantee much in the way of accuracy to start with. V1 relied on techniques that were dependent on prevailing weather, and accurate reports of landings (which were in the hands of almost-entirely-turned German agents), V2 was more indiscriminate, and was pretty much just sub-orbital dead reckoning.

The point of both weapons was that they were not so much strategic as "terror" weapons - so an indiscriminate pattern served their purpose very well. Ironically, the (strategic) aim of misleading Germany that they were falling short tended to increase the (terror) component as V1s started falling on leafy Surrey villages and cosy South London suburbia,

Remembering listening to an old chap saying you could see the v2 falling a black dot and a vapour trail and then a boom.

 

[A380]

Corsairs. Apparently.

 

[LDC]

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WTF is that beast?

 

[HAL9000]

WTF is that beast?

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