Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

FACs - round since the world was square....

 

YA we dumped those POS X-wings when the Navy upgraded to Wildcats. I heard they got sold as surplus to someone out of country....

 

Yes - fake - but nicely done. The airport (Aberdeen) is real.

 

totally legit - even if deadly to pilots.

(Gee Bee Model R - Wikipedia)

 

Park down by the hanger they said - you'll get a better view of the air show they said...

 

and finally, just for fun

 

I saw that fly at an airshow. Amazing

 

Poor Tiger Moth....

 

That red and white I've seen in a museum .
Proof you can fly a brick if supply enough power.

 

What hath the Military-industrial (and Congressional pork) wrought?




(Ryan XV-5A Vertifan, circa 1950)






yup - even the Navy was drinking the Kool-aid.

 

Ya, Italian. And it really, really sucks wind.

 

People tell me how ugly the F-22 is - I'll tell 'em, you don't know ugly.

(The Nord 500 was a company-funded aircraft designed to test the efficacy of ducted-fan propulsion in Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) applications)


The NORD CAdet, baby brother to....

 

Just for the record - not a chance in Hell would I ride that thing....

 

NASA played along


it actually flew - in COLOR!

 

All that ducted fan stuff was a search for a VTOL aircraft.

This is what the Army finally purchased:

 

1960's UK manufacturer Hawker Siddeley

 

Then again , No autorotation factor helicopter:



Quick way to die.

 

Ya think ya know a guy, then not only does he stab ya in the heart, he's makes sure he gives that blade a good twist as well