QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith "The Flying Bedstead" This is one NO ONE will get... the bead in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" or the first VTOL aircraft experiment
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith "The Flying Bedstead" This is one NO ONE will get...
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QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith "The Flying Bedstead" This is one NO ONE will get... the bead in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" or the first VTOL aircraft experiment OK I'll give you this one, The VTOL is right and once again i keep forgetting that the same nickname can apply to more than one aircraft. That VTOL the one that the astronuats trained on and almost killed Niel Armstrong? the "Flying Bedstead" I was refering to was the Fairley Swordfish. Britains most common carrier based plane throughout the war. A bi-wing open cockpit wire braced throwback to WWI. It looked like a flying bedstead, so the pilots called it. The Brits never developed a replacement for it prior to the outbreak of war but they soon discovered it had some unique advantages that allowed it to remain usefull right up to VE day. Seems that when the Germans rearmed and rebuilt their navy, they designed evrything around the latest technology. High flying high speed aircraft needed high altitude high speed AA guns to match, just like the Americans were developing. When the war broke out the germans had the most advaced navy in the world. Best example is the breakout and sinking of the Bismark. When the Royal Navy carreir Ark Royal finally caught up with the Bismark, she sent her air wing of old bi-planes to attack. the pilots soon knew they had an advantage. First the Torpedo planes could fly lower, just above the wavetops, than the german guns could angle down to shot at. Dive bombing is where this plane shined. The pilots would throw the plane into a steep dive, 70 degrees or more knowing full well that all the posts, braces, wires, and all would create so much drag that the plane speed would reach a maximum and could easily be controled. the german guns were designed for American fighters, there fire control was too advanced and could not cope with the slow planes, They actually shot past them and hit everything above them but the Swordfishes. The pilot could then almost expertly pick his target drop, then scramble away just over the wavetops. There was another incident between the Swordfish verses the Luftwaft worth mentioning. during the search in Norway for another German b-ship, the Tirpitz, While searching the inlets for the ship, the British Swordfishes spotted a squadron of Folk Wolfe's , the british fled into the narrow fjords on the deck with the Wolfe's behind them. All of the Swordfishes made it back thru narrow inlet, none of the Wolfe's did...
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon Okay.....Mr smart guy.... Slow underhand pitch across plate......Wooden wonder (WWII) and some more just for fun......non WWII Scooter Harley *** Devil's Cross
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes Here is one with a railroad angle. The Flying Boxcar, ok go for it, any guesses? Dan you cannot guess. Too much aircraft knowledge for our lowly minds.
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon Okay.....Mr smart guy.... Slow underhand pitch across plate......Wooden wonder (WWII) and some more just for fun......non WWII Scooter Harley *** Devil's Cross Hmm... Scooter...what my nephew rides Harley...what my bro-in-law has parked in his garage ( he just likes to look at it) ***..some TV show on Cable, *** guy for the striaght eye? Devil's Cross...Thats a cool Heavy Metal band that plays at the Green Door... I Give, you got me on these...
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith This is specific to a single airplane... Fat Albert...
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith Here's a couple more... BUFF... Thud...
QUOTE: Originally posted by JOdom The F105 Thunderchief, the plane that could kill stuff three ways - shooting it, bombing it, or falling on it (the latter being the most dangerous). My brother-in-law, a former military aircraft mechanic, called the A-7 "Slow Little Ugly F******". And trust me on this, you DON'T want to ask him how he enjoyed maintaining the electronics in the F4. Been there, done that, got the singed hair and blistered ears to prove it.
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by JOdom The F105 Thunderchief, the plane that could kill stuff three ways - shooting it, bombing it, or falling on it (the latter being the most dangerous). My brother-in-law, a former military aircraft mechanic, called the A-7 "Slow Little Ugly F******". And trust me on this, you DON'T want to ask him how he enjoyed maintaining the electronics in the F4. Been there, done that, got the singed hair and blistered ears to prove it. The F4 had electronics in it? Where'd they find room...huge blunt metal body, huge jet engines to propel blunt mass through air at ludicrious speed, seats for voice activated steering unit (pilot) and voice activated self loading baggage (RIO), and fuel to feed big jet engines filling rest of availble space.....no need for electronics the sight of it hurlting at you would be enough to scare away all but the most detemined enemy... But as a testament to the airframe....the Japanese, Iranians (quite proficiently) and Israelis still use it.
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by JOdom The F105 Thunderchief, the plane that could kill stuff three ways - shooting it, bombing it, or falling on it (the latter being the most dangerous). My brother-in-law, a former military aircraft mechanic, called the A-7 "Slow Little Ugly F******". And trust me on this, you DON'T want to ask him how he enjoyed maintaining the electronics in the F4. Been there, done that, got the singed hair and blistered ears to prove it. The F4 had electronics in it? Where'd they find room...huge blunt metal body, huge jet engines to propel blunt mass through air at ludicrious speed, seats for voice activated steering unit (pilot) and voice activated self loading baggage (RIO), and fuel to feed big jet engines filling rest of availble space.....no need for electronics the sight of it hurlting at you would be enough to scare away all but the most detemined enemy... But as a testament to the airframe....the Japanese, Iranians (quite proficiently) and Israelis still use it. Wasnt this the aircraft that the bright guys with slide rules designed to be the most advanced fighter in the world, so advanced that they left off that ancient useless thing called a gun? So advanced that when the stand off missle's missed their target and that pesky Mig got them into a dogfight , the pilots were swearing that if they ever meet the rocket scientist that decided the didnt need no stinkin gun, they would personally kill him.[?]
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith At least I know one right of the bat... Puff the Magic Dragon... a C-47 gunship used during 'nam as a ground support weapons platform. It had as I recall a bunch of 50 cal's and two Vulcan rotary guns. It would orbit around a target with ground directed targeting, and "PUFF" the target gets peppered with a hellofalotta-o-lead from all sides! Later "Puff" was transfered to a C130 along with a 75mm recoil-less cannon. Scary stuff to see in action... Spooky - I'll take a stab...F117 stealth fighter because it can come out of no where with no warning. And I know the bonus prize.... Ruptured Duck was the B-25 subject plane of the book "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" which took off from the carrier USS Hornet, bombed Tokyo, dispelling the belief that the Japanese homeland could never be touched. They flew on to China, crashed short due to fuel loss, and had a devil of a time avoiding the Japanese Occupation Force, a great many Chinese died to protect the American airmen, something the author never got over, my mom says one of the Ducks survivors was a nieghbor for a while (maybe the author but I'm not sure) back in the 50's or early 60's (not sure before my time). She said he eventually died, maybe suicide, from the experience.
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon Brickhouse......any plane with Pamela Anderson on it.
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