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Especially odd to see such inaccuracies in For Men Only, a periodical of reputeWeird. A Victor with all of its engines on fire and a tandem cockpit.
Especially odd to see such inaccuracies in For Men Only, a periodical of reputeWeird. A Victor with all of its engines on fire and a tandem cockpit.
Some pics from my local aerodrome...
Now say "charabanc", and "gutta-percha".Love you using aerodrome, a word sadly not in sufficient everyday usage
I can feel the G's by looking at that picture
Not so different to medivac pods, particularly on a helicopter.In today’s episode of ‘fuck that for a game of soldiers’
Man-carrying under-wing pods.
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“The exint pod was a design for a man-carrying, under-wing pod capable of being fitted to the underwing weapons pylons on military fast-jets and military helicopters. The concept was conceived by the former Acton, London based aircraft consultancy AVPRO U.K. Ltd as a method of inserting and extracting special forces operatives.
According to Flight International magazine, in the late 1990s the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency test fitted a prototype pod to a Bae Sea Harrier at its Boscombe Down research facility. It is not clear if the pod subsequently went into production and/or service, although some web sources cite it as being certified for use on Israeli AH-64 Apaches.”
Part of me would want to have a go though…
Write in and suggest it.I'm surprised Broccoli hasn't used the idea in any of the Bond films as a slick way for 007 to infiltrate enemy territory.
i think a lot of the people who might have done it got paramotors instead as they don't need you to find a large hill to throw yourself off, and modern ultralight and microlight plans look more like planes than a hangglider with a sidecar hung underneathThis is what I was looking for:
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Soviet hang gliding. "In Soviet Union, glider hangs you", or something.
Whatever happened to hang gliding? I haven't heard of it in years.
Ah, the B-58's fat, ugly cousin. Though I love it anyhow. Some of the other designs looked properly loco - one variant had the engines over/under at the inboard location. One moved the wing tip jets to the tail. Designers were crazy back then.View attachment 440513The Myasishchev M-50 October 1959.