Whether you control it by a ground-based set of flight controls (remote pilot), or by telling it where to go, and letting it figure out the details (unmanned).


(that said, I don't know whether that's the distinction in that case.)

A drone is being flown 4000 miles to be put on static display?! As in, it's flying? Not being flown inside another aircraft?

Hell, if it's in flying trim, heavy that fucker up, and send it to the sandbox, don't waste it!

About an hour ago Donald and Theresa held a press conference at Chequers which I watched on TV.
Shortly after it ended POTUS departed in one of the two Sikorsky VH-60N helicopters en-route to Windsor Castle for tea and cucumber sandwiches with HMQ.
That left three V-22 Osprey aircraft on the lawn. The drama over I went a made a cup of tea.
A few minutes later I heard a lot of airborne noise and, being fleet of foot, (stop laughing) nipped outside just in time to see two of the Ospreys at fairly low level.
I don't know if I'd missed the third craft or whether that had gone somewhere else, but I was astonished at the speed of the things. They must have been doing the best part of 200 knots.
The ever reliable Wiki says they have a max speed of 275 knots at sea level.
A very impressive sighting, if somewhat brief.

This is from the Farnborough air show of 2012.

Yes, fast and loud. I've seen dozens of them fly and I'm always impressed, even after helping build them.

I don't know what the French version of the British 'hats on, no tea and biscuits interview' is, but I suspect one took place.

On Bastille Day of all days! :D

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The first Dwellar to express surprise that they weren't all streaming white, will be asked to leave. ;)

More here:

LINK

:smack: :biglaugha :biglaugha :biglaugha



"Tu n'avais qu'un travail..!"



("You had one job...")

You can tell when the ground crew isn't happy with the pilot.

:D

But is it the pilot's fault or the crew that loaded the color? He wan't in the wrong location.

All is explained. The French flag has been redesigned.
If only they'd said.

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As you were.

~Pilot

The Nazis blow...

Well, I knew they sucked...

So did their buddies...

I never tire of these, especially the custom ones by Alan the Leopard...

The smallest airplanes...

P-61 over the Alps...

Took me a sec to determine if I was looking at the top, or the bottom.

Cute lake hopper...

The Wrights do it right...

The first Military Plane...

This your Captain speaking:

"Nope."

This C-130 was built (modified) to land and take off with a full load of hostages on a 600 ft soccer field in Iran. The hostages were released before it was ready.
TURN THE SOUND DOWN.

RAF Mustang MK 1A at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation.
Wood wheels were used during manufacturing until it was ready for flight tests.

I have a vague recollection of a project to re-engine and refurbish Mustang aircraft with the view to selling them to the air forces of developing nations.
That would have been about 1970 (giving my age away) and I have a feeling that nothing came of it beyond a couple of test examples.
It was an American firm behind the project but I can't recall the name or much else!

I had a similar memory specifically of Central America.

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-...hts-180956250/

The last dogfights between piston-engine, propeller-driven airplanes weren’t fought in the skies over Germany in the 1940s or even Korea in the 1950s. They occurred in Central America in 1969, and all of the combatants were flying U.S.-built Corsairs and Mustangs.

The dogfights were among the final acts in a brief but bloody four-day conflict between Honduras and El Salvador, commonly (but misleadingly) known as the Football War. Although a pair of soccer games between the two nations sparked the initial riots, the war was the culmination of longstanding tension over immigration and land reform.

Thanks for that link, Griff! :thumb:
It led me to the Cavalier Mustang which is the name I couldn't recall.

Much more on the military versions in this Wiki article:

Link

Nightstalkers! In the daylight, even!

:devil:

Snoopy flies again!!<---Facebook link, sorry.

But did they buy the bridge? ;)

They're Nightstalkers...They took it.

That was well worth seeing.......Thank you.

JR

Good stuff!

Serious stuff. SAM 26000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASFY...youtu.be&t=188

This Day In Aviation History
 

On this date in 1933, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in midair over/near Chesterton, Indiana. The explosion was determined to be an act of sabotage, the first proven instance of such in aviation history.

The tail section was found mostly in tact almost a mile from the crash site.

Hurricane Michael [may have] Mangled at Least 17 F-22 Raptors That Failed to Flee Their Base [due to being grounded by maintenance issues]

I almost didn't post this link, but it goes to a page with better links peppered throughout the article.

Duck.

'World War II Nazi warplane' falls outta the sky and crash lands on California's 101 freeway.

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Explanation?

Wormhole.:3_eyes:

Used by the Finnish, British, and Australian Air Forces, plus the US Navy...

Wasn't that plane manufactured in Willow Grove during the war? I seem to recall it was.

Yes, that was one of the three plants, one in Jersey and I think the third was in NY State.

If ever there was an aircraft where they started with the engine and worked backwards, that was it.

I've never flown a tail dragger but I imagine that thing wasn't the easiest aircraft to handle.

I bet a carrier landing concentrated the mind wonderfully. :eek:

The Brewster Buffalo did not acquit itself well. It was poorly designed and unpopular with the pilots. The few that were made, I think, were relegated to training duties or maybe they were sent to the Soviets.

I also seem to recall reading that the Brewster company was one of the only ones to actually go out on strike during the war.

509 built and used by the Finnish, British, and Australian Air Forces, plus the US Navy.




And the beat goes on...

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That's a lot of heavy lifting, Precious.

Silent plane with no moving parts makes 'historic' flight

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Zoom...

That reminds me of the "warp drive" that distorts space in front of the ship.

Boeing was building this XCH-62 heavy-lift prototype when the contract was cancelled before it flew.
It was loaded on a barge and floated down to Fort Rucker then lifted to the museum by a CH-47.
In 2005 someone ordered it scrapped.

Ze plane! Ze plane!

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...and I shall call her Galloping Gertie.

Can you imagine riding in something like that???:lol2:

Oldies...

Flying cars...

Is that Bob Hoover?

How high?

19.58 miles. Now you know.

Only 1,180 to go and it would have been in low Earth orbit.

F-15 Eagle with inspection panels open:

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Oh man, out in the open like that, what if bird droppings get into one of them? :eek: