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Fighter flying boats. How cool would they have been. Strategically pointless, but cool.Two Saunders Roe thingies:
The Planes that never were
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Crispy
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You could deploy air power by sea without a proper aircraft carrier?
You could deploy from an aircraft carrier and recover the plane elsewhere at sea?
Um.
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paging Boris Johnson...
He'd be a bit late:
Planned for just behind Kings Cross Station and given pretty serious consideration at the time:
My personal favourite is the proposal to build an airport over the Thames, just beside the Houses of Parliament:
Then there is the "Four Airport" plan that was actually agreed and adopted pre WW2 - Only for the Air Minister, Harold Balfour to wreck the whole scheme by performing the illegal land grab for his pal Patrick Abercrombie that foisted Heathrow on us instead. Strangely, some aspects of the current airport plans for London do echo the four airport plan to some degree.
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There is no love between us anymore.
FR1 Fireball one of only a handful of aircraft to be powered by both jet and piston engines. One of the others was the monstrous B-36 bomber.
This one tried to mix the speed of a jet with the range of a piston\prop driven aircraft. But by the time it started production turbo props were arriving solving some of the problems like range and jet were becoming too fast for mating with pistons and more fuel economical.
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Calling a plane "fireball" seems to me a bit too much like tempting fate.
FR1 Fireball one of only a handful of aircraft to be powered by both jet and piston engines. One of the others was the monstrous B-36 bomber.
This one tried to mix the speed of a jet with the range of a piston\prop driven aircraft. But by the time it started production turbo props were arriving solving some of the problems like range and jet were becoming too fast for mating with pistons and more fuel economical.
T & P
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Idris2002
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I still rate this as a "balls of steel" moment
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They made a lot of strategic sense back in the days of Suez and East-of policy. Being able to operate from sheltered water in places with little infrastructure/support. In fact most of the designs that did get off the drawing board were intended for middle/far eastern deployment, only becoming redundant with de-colonialisation.
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Idris2002
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From pinterest:
"Helwan HA-300 (1964) was a single-engine, delta-wing, light supersonic Interceptor aircraft developed in Egypt during the 1960s. It was designed by the famous German aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt. There were 6 planes in service built before termination of the project in 1969."
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From pinterest:
"Helwan HA-300 (1964) was a single-engine, delta-wing, light supersonic Interceptor aircraft developed in Egypt during the 1960s. It was designed by the famous German aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt. There were 6 planes in service built before termination of the project in 1969."
Sadly, the example they have at Schleissheim and Kurt Tank's HF-24 Marut were removed from display for now to accommodate the aircraft displaced from the main Museum renovations.
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Idris2002
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steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
I had this book as a child, Dad used to read it to me, and laugh, now I know why....
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Continuing the theme of stillborn VTOL projects, here's the Dornier 31.
The TP was the swashbuckling Drury Wood. He once landed it outside the Rolls Royce pavillion at the Paris air show, strode inside and announced, "That thing's got 10 Rolls Royce engines. Who's buying me a drink?"
Idris2002
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Cool story bro. But did he get served?Continuing the theme of stillborn VTOL projects, here's the Dornier 31.
The TP was the swashbuckling Drury Wood. He once landed it outside the Rolls Royce pavillion at the Paris air show, strode inside and announced, "That thing's got 10 Rolls Royce engines. Who's buying me a drink?"
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steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
Filed under 'why the fuck not?'.
Mil Mi-32
Idris2002
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More Buran fun:The Soviet BURAN orbiter. Only flew once (unmanned), before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Project abbondened in 1993
Only one that was built ever flew, got destroyed when the hanger it was stored in collapsed. Another one that never flew remains derelict in a hanger somewhere.
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Cool story bro. But did he get served?
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And here's the inside of it!
I couldn't get a good shot of the analog computer that was supposed to keep the whole thing in the air - Most of it may have been shifted to another gallery in DM.
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