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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #60 on: October 09, 2005, 11:59:10 am


The plane that really won the BoB.
 

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Reply #61 on: October 09, 2005, 12:23:01 pm
Ahhh... the Hurricane iirc? Joint built English/American venture.

They were lovely planes, I still think the Spitfire had the edge in combat performance, but they were expensive and slow to build, so there were a lot more Hurri's in the air than Spitfires :)
 

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Reply #62 on: October 09, 2005, 01:07:04 pm
I knew there was something I forgot to mention about the A-10:  the first one was put into service in 1975, and the latest plans have it staying in service until at least 2028. How's that for longevity? :D

Edit:  And may I say that that B-52 vid kicks extreme amounts of ass?
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Reply #63 on: October 09, 2005, 02:55:10 pm
I did open it in WMP. Right after Winamp only played sound. And I still only got the sound. Now, back to my original question, what codec does it use?
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Reply #64 on: October 09, 2005, 03:09:52 pm
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must have been realy good pilots to have painted all them bullseyes on there plane and take it into combat like that. :)
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Reply #65 on: October 09, 2005, 03:18:37 pm
lol!



I love the Falcon.
 

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Reply #66 on: October 09, 2005, 03:19:08 pm
:lol:  @bob
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Reply #67 on: October 09, 2005, 04:05:10 pm
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IMO the most elegant plane ever constructed SR-71.



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I like the YF-23:

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Reply #68 on: October 09, 2005, 04:48:10 pm
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must have been realy good pilots to have painted all them bullseyes on there plane and take it into combat like that. :)


Aye, we're just that good.

(to be fair, IIRC the top Ace in the BoB was a Pole.....)
 

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Reply #69 on: October 09, 2005, 05:43:53 pm
Ahh, the good old days...

These were my babies before they got scrapped:

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Reply #70 on: October 09, 2005, 06:18:48 pm
Does that missile have missiles?
 

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Reply #71 on: October 09, 2005, 06:19:23 pm
You're all wrong. Nothing compares to the sublime elegance of the Super Guppy.




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Reply #72 on: October 09, 2005, 06:21:05 pm
Ahh, the Super Guppy; a 747 with a nasty infection.
 

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Reply #73 on: October 09, 2005, 07:02:11 pm
The Super Guppy is based on the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, actually... :)

There is the "Mega Guppy" coming soon, thoguh...




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Reply #74 on: October 09, 2005, 07:11:24 pm
Damnit, you start worrying when your in-game spaceships need more polygons than real life planes....
 

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Reply #75 on: October 09, 2005, 07:27:06 pm
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You're all wrong. Nothing compares to the sublime elegance of the Super Guppy.

Is she sexy or what?

Eew, it looks like a *****! :p
  

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Reply #76 on: October 09, 2005, 08:23:58 pm
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I like the YF-23:

http://archive.cs.uu.nl/pub/AIRCRAFT-IMAGES/YF-23_two_shipper.jpg


Yeah I agree with you there, the YF-23 was and looked awesome.

This was another awesome airvraft that was scraped.



Check out this movie, this was probley the most manuverble aircraft ever made.

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/X-31/Medium/EM-0036-05.mpg
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Reply #77 on: October 09, 2005, 08:26:29 pm
Me... I like the F-4U Corsair :D
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Reply #78 on: October 09, 2005, 08:52:05 pm
WeatherOps, I did an internship at Nasa Dryden where the X-31 and the XB-71 are kept, and I know they weren't scrapped they were only experimental airframes.  IIRC The XB-71 was discontinued because I believe they had a prob with the wingtip vortices interfering with the vertical stabilizers to the popint of it either cracking or snapping completely off during flight.  The thrust vectoring nozzles on the X-31 are what gave us the f-22 and JSF.  Even better is a billion dollar F-15B called the F-15 Active.  Not only is it based on the best looking airframe ever designed, they stuck a couple canards forward of the intakes and it has full 360 thrust vectoring, unlike the f-22 which is just up and down.

this is prob the coolest looking airplane ever designed to study one of the most boring subjects: laminar airflow

the f-16 xl

 

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Reply #79 on: October 09, 2005, 09:27:00 pm
Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. But, yeah the F-15 Active was a very cool fighter. Would loved to see it in a showdown against the F-22.

Yeah, the XB-71 caused a F-104 to be sucked into it, crashing both it and  the fighters, and also I think it got canceled because it would be very expensive to montain.
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