yea she looked like shitGosh, the Tu-104 was a looker wasn't she?
Cold War Aviation Porn
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High Voltage
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It looks great apart from almost certainly dying in a fire ball I'd've liked to have flown on it
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Perhaps the finest application of Area Rule in a transonic aircraft, resulting in the fantasticly stable high speed - low level strike platform that regularly beat the yanks on home turf in the red flag exercises
The F-5 was probably a more successful appliction of Whitcomb's Rule - over 2,000 built and still in service 60 years on.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Yes. The idea is that, at every point along the length of the aircraft, CAT scan style, the cross-sectional area should be the same.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
OK, so it can vary in shape as long as the cross section is the same area as the rest of the fuselage
Got it.
Thanks, learned something today.
* heads off to design a superfast jet *
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Modern GPS/IR/Laser guided weapons have rendered low level strikes pointless.
The Buccaneer's relative (red air was F-5s flown according to Soviet GCI tactics, F-4s would have had them for breakfast) success at Red Flag 77 dominated RAF doctrine for the next 15 years with low level strike attack being the only game in town.
When it came to actually deploy these tactics in a war where the unsporting enemy shoots back in Iraq 1 they lasted about a week before reverting to medium altitude PGM drops.
Talking of Sukhois, I always thought the Flagon epitomised Soviet cold war jets
Look at the size of that Radome!!, soviet sets where still using Valves but considered to compare well performance - wise with the more modern Western sets of the time...... just big and heavy
The flagon was a powerfull Interceptor thatcould carry a formidable Missile load
Hard to find decent pics of it
Look at the size of that Radome!!, soviet sets where still using Valves but considered to compare well performance - wise with the more modern Western sets of the time...... just big and heavy
The flagon was a powerfull Interceptor thatcould carry a formidable Missile load
Hard to find decent pics of it
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
LOL. They've even got gopniks on the carrier.
i don't know what that is
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Bogans of the world unite.
T & P
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Russian equivalent of the chav stereotype. Allegedly very fond of Adidas branded clothing, flat caps, go faster stripes and squatting down instead of seating or standing.
i see
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
And now for something completely different.
Savoia Marchetti bombers of the air force of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta fly over the Vatican City.
(Post-war Italy allowed the Order to use its bombers for ostensibly "humanitarian" purposes in order to keep them flying while still abiding by the letter of Italy's postwar peace treaties).
Savoia Marchetti bombers of the air force of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta fly over the Vatican City.
(Post-war Italy allowed the Order to use its bombers for ostensibly "humanitarian" purposes in order to keep them flying while still abiding by the letter of Italy's postwar peace treaties).
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I think Blazing Adventure might have been a poorly chosen phrase for talking about F-104....
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I didn't think they tended to burn until after they'd hit the ground
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I do love how much of a moveable feast the 'edge of space' is. Depending on who's selling you what, it can be anything from as low as 18 km up (Concorde), 22-25 odd km for various high altitude fighter or spy planes, 50-60 km for amateur balloons carrying a Lego figure on a cake, or 82 km for Virgin Galactic style experience gigs.
Anything that doesn't make your vomit fly in microgravity (and not achieved through vertical dives either) shouldn't have the right to use that sentence in my book.
Anything that doesn't make your vomit fly in microgravity (and not achieved through vertical dives either) shouldn't have the right to use that sentence in my book.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on this film is well worth watching.
I recall in the sixties it seemed like there was a West German F-104 Starfighter crash on the news weekly.
iamwithnail
Well-Known Member
I bet it was an absolute pig to fly that 747 with the shuttle on.
