Aviation Picture Thread
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Consider the Soviet version of the Concorde...it's pretty fucking cool
I agree. I remember doing a report on the Tupolev TU-144 back in college. Sad it barely had a service history. A few crashes, limited passenger service for a short time and then mothballed. If I recall. I believe back in the 90’s NASA and a few other contractors brought a TU-144 out of retirement fitted with new engines and flown for experiments.
The Soviets also had the Sukhoi T-4 SU-100. If I recall. It was supposed to be similar to the North American Valkyrie XB-70. It was a dud.
I agree. I remember doing a report on the Tupolev TU-144 back in college. Sad it barely had a service history. A few crashes, limited passenger service for a short time and then mothballed. If I recall. I believe back in the 90’s NASA and a few other contractors brought a TU-144 out of retirement fitted with new engines and flown for experiments.
The Soviets also had the Sukhoi T-4 SU-100. If I recall. It was supposed to be similar to the North American Valkyrie XB-70. It was a dud.
yup, SST's are just fascinating to me. Traveling beyond the speed of sound and being able to arrive at a destinations local time before you left. I remember hearing that in 1985 Phil Collins played in the Live Aid concert in London, then hopped on the Concorde flew to NY and played at JFK stadium all in the same day! I've been inside a concorde at a museum and I gotta say its pretty cramped inside. I'm 6'0" I remember to get inside the cockpit you basically had to go through a passageway with 5' headroom (exaggerating but you get the point) The fluke accident that caused the Concorde to crash and ultimately killed it off was the result of a foreign object on the runway and not mechanical failure or pilot error IIRC.
Hard to believe the Soviets even produced the TU-144 in the first place (and technically it was released before the Concorde!). I don't understand how people living in communism could even afford to spend the money to travel on such a plane. The story about Boeing's failed attempt to build an SST is interesting too.
hope this guy can make SST's a reality again
Reading about this last night. The F-16N, which was used as a purely adversary platform for the Navy and Marines. It was basically an up-engined F-16, with the barest of necessities. All unnecessary weight was stripped out (including the gun and all weapons pylons to save weight and drag), which left it with a better than 1:1 thrust to weight ratio...was electronically limited to 9G's, could supercruise (supersonic flight without after burner), and hit Mach 2.
It had some AWESOME paint schemes from over the years...
Very cool! I had no idea the Navy used F-16's as "adversary aircraft" for training excesses. It's like in Top Gun where Jester and Viper were flying in the A4 Skyhawks against the F-14's
The Navy is ditching Fat Albert, but is going to acquire a C-130J from the RAF for their next support vehicle.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...-royal-air-force-c-130j-to-replace-fat-albert
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...-royal-air-force-c-130j-to-replace-fat-albert
Longest serving F-14 "Tomcat" in the Navy. It ended it's career with STRKFITRON VF-31 "Tomcatters" on the "Last 'Cat' Standing" world tour on Teddy Roosevelt. 
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/story-longest-serving-f-14-tomcat-us-navy-history-65991
This picture here, would've been taken in 83-84 when the plane was in STRKFITRON VF-14 (Tophatters)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/story-longest-serving-f-14-tomcat-us-navy-history-65991
This picture here, would've been taken in 83-84 when the plane was in STRKFITRON VF-14 (Tophatters)
Anyone going to Oshkosh? I'm volunteering up there for my third time now and when I'm not on duty I'm taking pics and shooting videos of awesome aircraft. Here's a few of my daily recap vlog style vids from last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAVhwTqAekQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKyvv9c-K0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1oEoolrbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAVhwTqAekQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKyvv9c-K0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1oEoolrbU
Legacy F/A-18's are now retired after 36 years. This is a C model.
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The U.S. Navy Flies Its Last F/A-18 Hornet
The F/A-18 Hornet fighter flew for the Navy for 36 years.
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I believe I saw an article that they’re making the switch to super hornets pretty soon actually. I’ll have to dig it up
Martin XB-48
The Martin XB-48 was an American medium jet bomber developed in the mid-1940s. It competed with the Boeing B-47 Stratojet, which proved to be a superior design, and was largely considered as a backup plan in case the B-47 ran into development problems.
The Martin XB-48 was an American medium jet bomber developed in the mid-1940s. It competed with the Boeing B-47 Stratojet, which proved to be a superior design, and was largely considered as a backup plan in case the B-47 ran into development problems.
52 F-35's out of Hill AFB in Utah, performed an elephant walk, in a display of force. At least 50 of the planes took off during the exercise.
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Hill Air Force Base Executes The Mother Of All Elephant Walks With 52 F-35s
The huge display of sortie generation capability comes as the base's F-35 force reaches full capacity after transitioning to the F-35 years ago.
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