I used to do the Neutron Jack. But, my mom kept walking in on me, so, I kinda had to back off...:p:

Don't bullshit me, you didn't stop, just found a more secure location. :p:

I got a fucking lock on the door is what I did!:lol2:

Sounds like a misnomer to me.

A his seamen died but his building still stands.

Its chance discovery was made by a British backpacker, a keen aircraft enthusiast, who photographed a cannibalized DH9 in a new museum at the Palace of Bikaner in Rajasthan in 1995. He passed the word to an airplane restorer, Guy Black, who visited the palace in India 3 years later. But the aircraft had been moved to the palace's former elephant stables.

There, among piles of elephant saddles, was the airframe of the DH9, engineless, its timbers partly eaten by termites and much of its fabric covering missing. Along one wall, were a dozen DH9 wings. Several tailfins were nearby.

He said: "I could not believe my eyes. The DH9 are as rare's as hen's teeth now and there wasn't a single one in a collection in Britain." In the stables were the remains of three DH9s that been given by Britain to the Maharajah of Bikaner in the early 1920s to help him establish an air force under the post-war Imperial Gift Scheme.

Mr Black bought two of the rotting hulks. D5649, the plane he restored and sold to the Imperial War Museum for nearly £1 million was unveiled at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The Imperial War Museum, by luck, had a DH9 engine to install in the restored plane.

Jap dive bomber faw down go boom...

Flying disc actually worked...

I've never knowingly seen this stuff, but it was used for a number of things including Olympic torches.

LINK

The above was published in 1969, the company having been absorbed into the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co by 1965.

A check of the Companies House website shows the existence of 'High Duty Alloys Ltd' in its own right, but it now appears to be in the financial sector and is described as an 'Intermediate investment holding company'.

Much more.

The 1948 Olympic torches

Ba Concorde - Paperweight

British Aviation

Magic Helicopter

Helicopters don't really fly. They are just so ugly the Earth repels them. :)

:lol2: That's not just a random snark, it has an aesthetic basis. :thumb:

The largest private Air Force in the world, Draken in Florida.

Logistics are a bitch.

I am the Walrus, pew pew, pew pew.

I'd take that 777 out on a country road where there ain't nobody around burn it, and collect the in$urance.

It's probably a rental.

Here's a project for the aspiring aircraft restorer.
It's an ex-German Air Force F-86 Sabre (or remains thereof) currently listed on Ebay for a mere £6,500 ($7,900).

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From the description:
BiB: REALLY?

Ebay listing.

Well, he does have the wings and shit, they just have to be buffed out. I wonder who put it on the pole in Germany?

Jever was an RAF airfield post WW2 until 1961 when it was returned to the GAF and became a NATO base.
I assume that the aircraft was pole mounted, as a monument of sorts, after the type was withdrawn from service.

If I were the rental company, I'd take that 777 out on a country road where there ain't nobody around burn it, and collect the in$urance.

I think that's how this one ended up, and it buffed out fine.

This photographer has a thing for noses, here's some of them...

I like them as art, divorced from what they actually are.

Those must be some strong-assed wings.

Yep, dude built hisself an airplane using KFC buckets (and the Magnus Effect) for wings:



Skip to about the 8 or 9 minute mark for just the flying. Yes, it flies. Kinda.;)

Great experience, think of all the things he learned that won't work.;)

Well, they'll bomb you when you're trying to be so good
They'll bomb you just like they said they would
They'll bomb you when you're trying to go home
And they'll bomb you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so bummed
Everybody must get bombed

Ima get bombed. Tonight's bucket night.:jig:

Puke Bucket?

I'm on vacation in St. Augustine. The last several days I've been excited to see a biplane flying around every once in a while. I thought to myself the fourth or fifth time that I saw it that it would be cool to ride in it. And that was when I realized that that's exactly what it was doing. Giving rides.

Two days later....
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Apparently there is a company that manufacturers brand new reproductions of a classic biplane. FAA certified with modern instruments but made of spruce frame and canvas.

My wife and daughter don't like flying much, so I went with my son. A 20 minute flight. It was an absolute blast.

Why specifically do you have to wear the swimming cap things?

It amplifies the Snoopy fantasy. Curse you Red Barron.[/fist shaking] :haha:

Women can't resist a man wearing a leather helmet.

Some of those things, in black, were still in use when I went through military free fall training. I couldn't stand them.

It served three functions that I could see. First was that a strap on the top of it goes across the headphone band and snapped down on place to keep them from blowing off. The pilot also said they helped to hold your sunglasses in place if you turn your head and the wind catches the lens sideways and tries to pull them off. And finally it keeps any long hair from whipping around into you face. Our airspeed was around 80 mph or so the one time I looked at our gauges. The windscreen is pretty effective but I am tall and the top of my head was sticking out into the wind.

Oh. And there were controls in both cockpits, so we had to be very careful where we had our feet and hands. He said another pilot flipped on landing because a passenger in the front cockpit stepped on the brakes just as they touched down and the plane flipped over.

That would be so cool.

This is a long video, but you don't have to watch it.

Ha!

Tips? Wingtips? Prop tips? Justthe tips?

Holy le fucque:

Obviously James didn't listen when Q said don't touch that Bond. ;)

Don't fall out. :eek:

S70?! That's a Blackhawk. That chopper is ~65 feet long. I don't wanna be upside down in that!

Being upside down in that would go against everything in me that wants to live.:headshake

Imagine how Turkish paratroopers must feel.

Piece of cake, just whip it up to 200 mph, nose up till it rolls on it's back. Cut the throttle and the nose is so heavy it'll automatically go into a nose dive, then power on to pull up level. I'm so sure you can do it I'm going to take video from that hill over there. Best sun angle you see.

Could it fly upside down? Not just do a loop? Can the rotors be angled so that they are pushing "up" instead of the normal "down" while it is upside down and be aggressive enough to maintain altitude?

In the event of an alien invasion, that would be useful for landing on the underside of flying saucers in the antigravity environment they create.

No, absolutely no, not a chance, and somebody slap him or give him coffee. :lol: That's model builders territory.

Only if you're on LSD.

Wait for it...



Man, I hate when that happens.

Just up the road aways... No one hurt, some cars damaged.

Probably have to throw away those underwear.

That's because the pilot waited for the green light.

What? He did. Watch the traffic light before the plane comes into the picture.

Runway 10 may be out of use for some time.

Due to a vampire:

That's why you should seal your driveway every spring/summer to keep the water out of the cracks, or the first jet coming into your yard will rip it up, tear it up, Until you really don't know why, Until you don't know why. :rolleyes: