I floated up a paint scheme that one of our airframers designed. It made it to the wing, where someone said, "This is gonna add about 2,000 pounds to the plane! No way."
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I floated up a paint scheme that one of our airframers designed. It made it to the wing, where someone said, "This is gonna add about 2,000 pounds to the plane! No way."
"VP: celebrating 100 years of pissing in your wheaties."
You're trying to impart logic to this situation. This will probably be met with failure.
Seeing the MTS so close to the ground made me think ... where the hell is that 20 mm going to fit? You guys flying with that yet?
Light-attack aircraft
Maj. Jesse Smith exits a Hawker Beechcraft AT-6C after testing the light-attack aircraft's ability to perform a combat search and rescue mission Oct. 7, 2010, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. Major Smith is one of several pilots invited by the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center to fly the experimental airplane this month and provide recommendations for improving its capability. Major Smith is an A-10 pilot from the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Gabe Johnson)
Light-attack aircraft
A Hawker Beechcraft AT-6C, modified for various light-attack missions, releases flares during an operational test Oct. 5, 2010, over the Southern Arizona desert. It was the first time flare buckets, or aircraft survivability equipment, were mounted onto the airplane and fully integrated with the control system on board. A team of pilots and engineers certified that the airplane could separate the flares correctly while learning if the modification would have adverse effects on the airplane's handling. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Dave Neve)
^^^^^ I like the paint job. Interesting mission for the aircraft.
MTS wasn't as close as it looks, the high grass makes it look closer.
If only you knew how wise this is.
Those do have better clearance than the -299s ... I didn't realize that the 20 mm was going on the wing ... I had heard some talk of a low hanging mount much like the MTS. I could never really wrap my head around where it would actually mount to, though. The wings make a lot of sense.
Here are few recent sightings from a recent trip:
B-17 in Asheville, NC
We were bouncing up there when that B-17 was flying in. It was pretty sweet to hear "you're number 2...that traffic you're following is a B-17 on 2 mile final"
Google-fu + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-Boeing_V-22_Osprey = the rotor diameter is 38 ft, so length of the blade is around 19 ft (not accounting for the hub). I guess that puts the min-altitude around 20ft for full foward flight.
*DISCLAIMER* I used wikipedia, I'm nowhere near an informed party about the Osprey*DISCLAIMER*
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