Little known / experimental aircraft

[Randy Daytona]

Can’t say I had ever seen a formation flight of Concordes before.

CONCORDE SST : 10th Anniversary

 

[Llarry]

I wish Top Gun 2 was being made with the X-32.

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Widely seen as "ugly" but, if you ask me, the F-35 isn't really a looker -- all that fuel capacity, I think, doesn't do much for the looks -- and that intake has a certain charm... OK, a bit awkward on the ground, I'll grant you.

 

[Dboom85]

I’m not sure if this was posted or not but a diverter-less F16, this was done for a lot of the intake testing for the F35 I believe

 

[Hair Warrior]

How much compatibility is there between a Harrier GR.7/9 and an AV-8B?

Here’s a Harrier near Calvine, Scotland on 04 Aug 90.

 

[VMO4]

Found this in my father's stack of pics from WWII, I remember him talking about ferrying new Timm N2T Tutors from the factory in Southern California back to Corpus.

 

[HuggyU2]

Some Timm N2T airshow trivia:

One of these was involved in an airshow crash in Colorado in 1951. The pilot skipped the safety briefing and ignored some of the rules that were set in place.

The crash killed him, and 19 spectators... 13 of which were kids.

This was one of the last airshow crashes in the US to kill a spectator. I believe the last one was in 1954.
(Before someone posts it... Reno in 2011 was an "air racing" incident. Different rules in place for air racing).

 

[HuggyU2]

Follow up to post #498 that I made about the A-37...

My friend Mark is displaying it on the airshow circuit. Here's a shot of the jet at Moses Lake a few weeks ago. The dual smoke setup looks great!

 

[Dboom85]

Follow up to post #498 that I made about the A-37...

My friend Mark is displaying it on the airshow circuit. Here's a shot of the jet at Moses Lake a few weeks ago. The dual smoke setup looks great!

Very cool plane, does the owner have a build channel or anything that we could follow? Im surprised they’re able to find parts for the J85s. I’ve been hearing lately how hard it is to keep them airworthy

 

[HuggyU2]

No, there's no channel or anything like that.
But he has done a great job bringing it back flying.

 

[sevenhelmet]

No, there's no channel or anything like that.
But he has done a great job bringing it back flying.

Ran into those guys (I think) at the Great Texas Airshow in April. Good dudes.

 

[HuggyU2]

Ran into those guys (I think) at the Great Texas Airshow in April. Good dudes.

Nope. Wasn't them.
Those guys fly a T-37.
Far cry from the A-37.

 

[Randy Daytona]

The Stipa-Caproni, a 1930’s design from Italy. Interestingly, the designer (Luigi Stipa) had a degree in hydraulic engineering (as well as an aeronautical degree) and wanted to use the Bernoulli principle of which he was more familiar with from hydraulics and apply it to airplanes. Perhaps the first ducted fan?

Caproni Flying Barrel

Luigi Stipa claimed his ‘intubed propeller’ was the ancestor of the jet engine. Even in an era when aircraft designers experimented with every conceivable

www.historynet.com

 

[wink]

Taking design inspiration from Senor Stipa, this German design was recently spotted at the Munich Airport.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Nope. Wasn't them.
Those guys fly a T-37.
Far cry from the A-37.

Cessna T-37/A-37

 

[Llarry]

McDonnell's first try out of the gate -- the XP-67. Only one built and that unsuccessful. They had better luck with the FH Phantom, F2H Banshee and particularly the F-4 Phantom II