A gratuitous gallery of warbirds for Memorial Day...

lonewolf-mcquade · 2016-06-01 02:16:11

A gratuitous gallery of warbirds for Memorial Day...

Celebrating Memorial Day with a trip to the National Museum of the US Air Force.

Enjoy...
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/a-b … orial-day/

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lonewolf-mcquade · 2016-06-01 02:20:37

Kelly’s Heroes: Lockheed’s five finest airplanes

Featuring Its top hits: the Blackbird, U-2, F-104, P-80, and P-38.

Enjoy further...
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/03/kel … airplanes/

PitViper · 2016-07-04 01:02:17

I had that picture of the SR-71 Blackbird as my desktop for a while. Killer shots LW.

Arkos · 2016-07-04 10:38:25

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SR71 was an reconnaissance plane.

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lonewolf-mcquade · 2016-07-05 02:08:29

a cold war icon. ^

Russ · 2016-07-05 02:24:50

Pretty sure any plane that gets 4000+ missiles fired at it can be considered a warbird http://sploid.gizmodo.com/5511236/the-t … -blackbird

Pleiades53 · 2016-07-05 03:56:58

Thats a GREAT story!
I could feel my pulse increase......unlike Walt!
LOL

Winston Smith · 2016-07-05 05:41:54

Arkos wrote:

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SR71 was an reconnaissance plane.
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I'd still consider a transport plane, DC3 for example, as a 'warbird' so long as it had a military application.

lonewolf-mcquade · 2016-07-05 05:44:25

Variants of the SR71 could carry limited munitions and were seen as potential deep nuclear strike platform.

"The YF-12 (the cancelled interceptor version of the SR-71) carried three AIM-47/GAR-9 Air to Air missiles internally. Which could be fitted with a 0.25 kiloton W42 nuclear warheads."

lonewolf-mcquade · 2016-07-05 05:48:56

Also this kid straight-up jacked one from the air force in 1985, but he was actually a humanoid robot named D.A.R.Y.L.
He was nice enough to return it safely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWwkx5XoW_0

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Winston Smith · 2016-07-05 10:27:17

Daryl!!! What did it stand for? Data Analysed Robot Youth Lifeform, or something like that. I think that was the very first VCR movie that my family rented, around 1987. Now that's a nostalgia hit!

Arkos · 2016-07-05 15:22:49

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100,000 cubic feet of air per second, somewhere else i was reading about the huge consumption, but can't remeber it.

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bud · 2016-07-05 18:01:44

Russ wrote:

Pretty sure any plane that gets 4000+ missiles fired at it can be considered a warbird http://sploid.gizmodo.com/5511236/the-t … -blackbird

Wow is all i can say. Dont know much about planes, but that was a thrill to read.

PitViper · 2016-07-06 02:02:01

The true TOP speed of the SR-71 has never been made public either. Having jet engines that can also operate as ramjets is key.

Not really related but a stat I have always found interesting is regarding the F23. The F22 won the "fighter" race...but just prior to announcing that "win" a F23 taxied onto a runway...and in front of the opposing side(F22 guys).. it hit full afterburner...took off...went ballistic.... straight up..... to 100,000 feet. The F22 beat it.

Also when you can take off against the best pilots in the world, them flying arguably one of the best planes in the world..( FA18 Hornet)
6 on 1.... and you shoot them all down before they even see you on radar.

/wrap

Arkos · 2016-07-06 12:27:41

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You are speaking from those guys then

http://team-simple.org/forum/viewtopic. … 220#p89220

And from the best fa18 in the world. Special Software and special tail empennage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPVOwBiZMv8

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Arkos · 2016-07-06 12:44:53

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let's not forget this nice toy. Max. Speed 7000+ Kmh

https://www.google.ch/imgres?imgurl=htt … gx4BvmBIo=

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15

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PitViper · 2016-07-06 13:22:54

There are great pilots all over the world that's for sure. Most would like to train at Mirimar Top Gun or be members of the Blue Angels..usually regarded as the best of the best. Pilots practicing and flying the same planes using the same tactics...it does not matter what country they are from at that level. However, none of those F18's would stand a chance against a F22 Raptor.

Arkos · 2016-07-06 14:43:44

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But you know that the raptor was never really used in hot wars. They had much technical problems. It's more a "showing muscles" plane.

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti … e-USA.html

https://defenseissues.wordpress.com/tag/f-22-raptor/

Mostly there are the aprooved planes in use.

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It depends, for what you want to use a plane. For defense against a F22 i would choose allways a Rafale.

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PitViper · 2016-07-07 04:03:51

We would not waste a resource like that on cheese. There have been many things done with them in recent and ongoing wars...we are not privy to the extent of their involvement...no one is.
We are choosy where we fly them too, as many more platforms and weapons systems are available that are or more effective without risking such an asset.
In the US...we have totally moved out of pilots in new plane development. The F22 and lessor capable platforms based on it like the F35 are the last designed "piloted" planes we will build.
The very fact we "know" of the F22 means we have much, much better.

Tech problems?...Oh yea, of course anything that complicated will have them...one was kind of funny I heard. After a mission the pilot landed and the cockpit would not open. At the time the plane was worth about a billion dollars...one of the first 3 built I think. He was stuck inside for over 6 hours while they went over code. He had to go #1 so a test was implemented as no pilot had the need and the system was at the time untested... but after 6 hours when he had to go #2...they had to cut open the canopy. A billion dollar plane and the door didn't work....shit happens....literally.

The future brings stealthy transport vehicles that can travel outside the atmosphere and reenter anywhere on earth...launch their cargo.... advanced drones...do the job, recover, and then land at the closest friendly....at sea. No humans involved...except the ones monitoring the entire shebang by sat 10,000 miles away and picking them up.

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