Little known / experimental aircraft

[Beans]

"Prior Permission Required?" Really, NASA? No shit, Sherlock.

Why do I get the impression that this was probably like the CV-1 approach? Yeah, there's a "plate" for it, but by the time you actually have to shoot it, you basically know it by heart.

Probably PPR for the practice approaches in the gulfstream...

 

[nittany03]

Probably PPR for the practice approaches in the gulfstream...

Still. That's like needing a PPR to land at homefield.

 

[wink]

The glideslope is ridiculous, too. Just proves that something that looks like a brick... glides like a brick.

FAF (10k) to touchdown in 40 secs!

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

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Here is the approach plate for the space shuttle approach back to earth. Note the missed approach instructions. View attachment 14551

That MSA: 2700' for three quarters of the area, and then it jumps up to 16k' for that balloon. Not that big an issue for them, though, since they're still up in the flight levels at the 180 point.

 

[RobLyman]

How about this one? Saw it at Pima.

 

[jmcquate]

How about this one? Saw it at Pima.

That's a Fairey Gannet. It went into production for the Fleet Air Arm. If you want to see some weird, find a picture of it folded up.

 

[BusyBee604]

That's a Fairey Gannet. It went into production for the Fleet Air Arm. If you want to see some weird, find a picture of it folded up.

Yeah, back in '61 when I was in VA-55 on USS TICONDEROGA, we participated in "cross-deck" flight ops with HMS VICTORIOUS in the So. China Sea. We ran Skyhawks and Demons through their deck, and they ran Gannets and Scimitars through ours for 2 days. What a show!

Gannet & Scimitar photos below.

BzB

 

[nittany03]

Just goes to show recce 101: if it's ugly, it's British. If it's weird, it's French. If it's ugly AND weird, it's Russian.

Edit:

After considering and discounting the Rolls-Royce Tweed turboprop, Fairey selected an engine based on the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba: the Double Mamba (or "Twin Mamba"), basically two Mambas mounted side-by-side and coupled through a common gearbox to coaxial contra-rotating propellers. Power was transmitted from each engine by a torsion shaft which was engaged through a series of sun, planet, epicyclic and spur gears to give a suitable reduction ratio and correct propeller-shaft rotation.

Good grief; the mechs had to have just loved that thing.

 

[Pags]

Yeah, back in '61 when I was in VA-55 on USS TICONDEROGA, we participated in "cross-deck" flight ops with HMS VICTORIOUS in the So. China Sea. We ran Skyhawks and Demons through their deck, and they ran Gannets and Scimitars through ours for 2 days. What a show!

Gannet & Scimitar photos below.
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BzB

And a wyvern.

 

[BusyBee604]

We ran Skyhawks and Demons through their deck, and they ran Gannets and Scimitars through ours for 2 days. What a show!

I recall vividly... the Demon & Scimitar looked remarkably alike, bulky and UGLY!
BzB

 

[busdriver]

Good grief; the mechs had to have just loved that thing.

That description fits a multi engine helo pretty well.

 

[Homer J]

Alexander Lippisch's Aerodyne, a wingless experimental aircraft. The propulsion was generated by two co-axial shrouded propellers (1968).



Blohm & Voss BV 141, a World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry.



Hyper III, a full scale lifting body remotely piloted vehicle, built at the NASA Flight Research Center in 1969.



De Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle flying platform, designed to carry one soldier to reconnaissance missions (1954).



Libellula, a tandem-winged and twin-engined British experimental plane which gives the pilot an excellent view for landing on aircraft carriers (1945).

 

[RobLyman]

Another odd aircraft. This one I saw in storage at Ft. Rucker a few years ago.

 

[wink]

Another odd aircraft. This one I saw in storage at Ft. Rucker a few years ago.

What was the proposed mission?

 

[jmcquate]

What was the proposed mission?

Pure test bed for high speed (300 mph) ridged roter............I think.