The pinnacle of propeller-based piston-engined fighters/bombers.
[img]http://members.fortunecity.com/jpayne/DO335B001.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=BaconMan_lol;21357177]FUCK THE THE US. FUCK THIS COUNTRY.
Wikipedia.
The high cost of the aircraft, a lack of a clear air to air combat missions because of the lengthy delays in the Russian and Chinese fifth generation fighter programs, a US ban on Raptor exports, and the development of the cheaper and more versatile [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II"]F-35[/URL] resulted in calls to end F-22 production. In April 2009 the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_Defense"]US Department of Defense[/URL] proposed to [b]cease placing new orders[/b], subject to Congressional approval, for a final procurement tally of 187 Raptors.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#cite_note-cut-7"][8][/URL] The US Senate and House each passed 2010 budget bill versions without F-22 production funding in July 2009.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#cite_note-8"][9][/URL] Congress worked to combine these versions into one bill,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#cite_note-9"][10][/URL] and President [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama"]Obama[/URL] signed the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2010"]National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010[/URL] in October 2009, without funding for F-22 production.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#cite_note-10"][11][/URL]
Fine cancel the most bad ass fighter ever created. When the Russians start bombing the shit out of the world and Osama gets f-15s I hope they bomb the white house because America didn't have the best shit in the world.
Fucking waist of hard work and and brilliant engineering [/QUOTE]
This doesn't mean the F-22 is canceled. It means that they are [b]no longer buying any more additional units at the time being[/b] due to the above reasons. They can resume production at anytime when they want to.
Thread needs more P-38.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning_USAF.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.myzone59.com/images/stories/aviation/lightning-p-38.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Dr Smashy;21357625]Thread needs more P-38.
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Hell yeah, i got a model of one sitting next to me.
Incoming massive pic
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/P-38_Lightning_head-on.jpg[/img]
That's my wallpaper. I've seen that very plane in person on the ground :smug: asshole of a curator wouldn't let me touch it though...
Glacier Girl is Hawt :flashfap:
YES , the SR-71 is epic, it flies so fast that friction causes the entire plane to expand by about a foot.
I was in DC a few years ago for an airshow where they were showing off the Raptor, and holy crap that thing is terrifying.
Also, they had an F-22, P-51, P-38, and F-35 flying in tight formation, really cool. Can't seem to find a pic though.
[QUOTE=Saphiric;21358894]Hell yeah, i got a model of one sitting next to me.
Incoming massive pic
That's my wallpaper. I've seen that very plane in person on the ground :smug: asshole of a curator wouldn't let me touch it though...
Glacier Girl is Hawt :flashfap:
YES , the SR-71 is epic, it flies so fast that friction causes the entire plane to expand by about a foot.
I was in DC a few years ago for an airshow where they were showing off the Raptor, and holy crap that thing is terrifying.
Also, they had an F-22, P-51, P-38, and F-35 flying in tight formation, really cool. Can't seem to find a pic though.[/QUOTE]
At the Space and Rocket center in Huntsville they have a SR-71 with it's engines removed on display. :iia:
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;21327705]Nope, he works in an office.[/QUOTE]
I dont know why i laughed at this.
de Havilland Mosquito
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Mosquito_600pix.jpg[/img]
F4F "wildcat"
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/F4F-3_new_pitot_tube_of_later_model.jpg/800px-F4F-3_new_pitot_tube_of_later_model.jpg[/img]
and this weird motherfucker, the Vought XF5U "flying pancake"
[img]http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/frtypen/FRfothis/V-173.JPG[/img]
[QUOTE=Furioso;21359795]
and this weird motherfucker, the Vought XF5U "flying pancake"
[img]http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/frtypen/FRfothis/V-173.JPG[/img][/QUOTE]
Wasn't that the precursor to the flying wing design common(ish) today?
[IMG]http://www.gunslot.com/files/gunslot/images/58005.jpg[/IMG]
Fuck yea Lun-Class Ekranoplan
[IMG]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090525012703/metalgear/images/8/89/Vva.jpg[/IMG]
also Bartini Beriev
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw2bAJGgCZI&feature=related[/media]
Fucking where's my USA emote?!
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Ah, here it is.
:911:
Will someone do the AC-130 already.
Lets get some ramjets up in this bitch
[IMG]http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo232/vladislaw_photo/750px-X43a2_nasa_scramjet.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;21361547]Lets get some ramjets up in this bitch
[IMG]http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo232/vladislaw_photo/750px-X43a2_nasa_scramjet.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That's not even a real plane.
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;21342451]
[IMG]http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/military/rotorcraft/ch47d/images/US-Army-Chinook-2.jpg[/IMG]
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That looks like the coolest way ever to be extracted. Just driving your boat into a helicopter and flying away.
Reminds me of BF Vietnam.
visit site plz .... my site is waiting for you [url]http://wallcool.yolasite.com[/url]
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;21345969]Here's a slightly less-loved aircraft that I like:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Mc_202_folgore.sized.jpg[/img]
The Italian [B]Mc 202[/B]
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This is my absolute favorite plane to fly in IL2.
[QUOTE=Saphiric;21358894]Hell yeah, i got a model of one sitting next to me.
Incoming massive pic
That's my wallpaper. I've seen that very plane in person on the ground :smug: asshole of a curator wouldn't let me touch it though...
Glacier Girl is Hawt :flashfap:
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Eugh, you have no sense of asthetics. It's a painted one.
[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;21361834]Eugh, you have no sense of asthetics. It's a painted one.[/QUOTE]
Eh, it's the only surviving P-38 on public display on the east coast that I know of, I'll take what I can get.
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[QUOTE=Kill001;21360856][IMG]http://www.gunslot.com/files/gunslot/images/58005.jpg[/IMG]
Fuck yea Lun-Class Ekranoplan
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Dear God that is one of the most awesome (and retarded) but still awesome things I've seen in a long time.
But from what I understand, it doesn't really fly? it sorta...skims?
[QUOTE=Saphiric;21361981]
Dear God that is one of the most awesome (and retarded) but still awesome things I've seen in a long time.
But from what I understand, it doesn't really fly? it sorta...skims?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's part hovercraft and part jet.
Thread lacks this old girl.
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/pnl8g.jpg[/IMG]
The B-17, about the only American Aircraft I genuinely love.
About 6 years ago I wrote a letter to Robert Morgan the pilot of the Memphis Belle, and a few months before his death I got a letter back from him and a signed Illustration of the Belle.
[QUOTE=Grimezy15;21362775]Thread lacks this old girl.
The B-17, about the only American Aircraft I genuinely love.
About 6 years ago I wrote a letter to Robert Morgan the pilot of the Memphis Belle, and a few months before his death I got a letter back from him and a signed Illustration of the Belle.[/QUOTE]
Agreed, probably one of the best-built aircraft I have ever seen. Beautiful thing to see fly overhead, I can't wait to someday ride in one.
@grimezy wow, that's cool.
And my favorite helicopter..
[img]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/production/mi8_01.jpg[/img]
This thread needs more epic takeoffs.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Boeing_B-52F_takeoff._Note_the_AGM-28_Hound_Dog_missiles_061128-F-1234S-008.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=BurningPlayd0h;21352524]So they just let 30mm casings fall on people's houses? WTF, are you bullshitting us?
BTW, I love the shithook as well. :smug:[/QUOTE]
They don't eject shells, besides I live out in a sparsely populated area anyway
This thread needs moar Corsair
[img]http://www.nassanfordmemorial.com/images/Corsair.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Oceana2005/Highlights/TailhookLegacyFlightF18F4u.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Saxon;21362925]This thread needs moar Corsair[/quote]
I've never been a big fan of the Corsair. It looks nice but shit is sloooooow and it makes a noise like a diesel tractor.
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The [B]De Havilland Mosquito [/B]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/4151045931_5bf3e7dd9d_o.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.oscarpix.co.uk/a21840.jpg[/img]
A beautiful, all wood, aircraft. Versatile and incredible fast - despite its size it could outrun pretty much every Axis fighter. Worked as recon, fighter, bomber and night-fighter. This thing was essentially the special forces of the RAF; they attacked Gestapo headquaters, broke POWs out of prison and generally kicked ass.
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;21363724]
A beautiful, all wood, aircraft. Versatile and incredible fast - despite its size it could outrun pretty much every Axis fighter. Worked as recon, fighter, bomber and night-fighter. This thing was essentially the special forces of the RAF; they attacked Gestapo headquaters, broke POWs out of prison and generally kicked ass.[/QUOTE]
You could also say it was one of the first stealth aircraft every made since the wood body made it invisible to primitive radars used at the time :razz:
[QUOTE=squeaky024;21362906]This thread needs more epic takeoffs.[/QUOTE]
[quote="Zombii"][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw2bAJGgCZI&feature=related[/media]
Fucking where's my USA emote?!
[editline]11:59PM[/editline]
Ah, here it is.
:911:[/quote]
[QUOTE=jaredop;21337894]I saw a coast guard helicopter today flying over the middle of new hampshire for some reason.
I have a picture I took of a little bird with a gau 19 on it, but i can't find my flashdrive :([/QUOTE]
Okay here are the pictures I took;
[img]http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6623/dsc00706j.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7825/dsc00708p.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/8331/dsc00712ce.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4560/dsc00710p.jpg[/img]
Eh I should have made them bigger, oh well.
Littlebirds are awesome.
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