Just out of curiosity - Airplane Guys

[Boog]

The Parasite Fighter, XF-85 Goblin
XF-85 Fighter: This Crazy Looking Plane Was Built To Save Bombers | The National Interest

And they ask if you've ever seen a cute fighter jet?

 

[gggGary]

Yupper.

 

[halfmile]

Some good stuff on the VFT today.

And last but not least, Bart Markel "Flying a HD". One of my all time flat track hero`s.

 

[gggGary]

An interesting talk last night by a Pilot who's Warthog took a SAM hit over Bagdad lost all hydraulics and made it back to land at her base using 2nd back up steel wire flight controls. Damage was so severe they scrapped the plane.

Steve Wittman's first homebuilt named (I'm not making this up) the Hardly Ableson.


Steve Wittman's W10 tailwind, he designed, built, and sold plans.

A very popular homebuilt. A guy in Baraboo built 4 or 5 of them.
Wittman field The Oshkosh airport where Airventure is held is named after Steve.

 

[Raymond]

That Hardly Ableson puts me in mind of a Bleriot, Anzani air-cooled engine up front.

Used to be a supporter of the Shuttleworth collection of old aeroplanes at Old Warden Airfield. A lot of vintage planes including WW1 stuff. They had an airworthy Bleriot, I think it was 1909, anyhow it was the oldest flying plane in the world. Used wing-warping instead of ailerons. Latterly, the air ministry put a condition on it's flying permit not allowing it to fly turns so all they could do with it was take off at one end of the grass runway, fly straight at 15-20 feet and land at the further end. Still amazing to see though.

Grabbed this picture off that internet:

 

[Boog]

This is me at Bagram AB in Afghanistan back in 2006. George had flown in to talk with Karsi I believe. I figured I had this one chance as an armed civilian to be this close the Air Force One, so I better get a shot of it now or no one will ever believe it.

 

[GLJ]

 

[Boog]

 

[Jim]

Ain't that the truth....

 

[Boog]

 

[Downeaster]

^^^Hence the genesis of Buttwiper: They didn't rinse out the tanks first...

 

[Mailman]

^^^Hence the genesis of Buttwiper: They didn't rinse out the tanks first...

I was wondering how they could drink stuff that came out of a gas tank! I guess if you’re desperate enough for some hootch!

 

[jetmechmarty]

I was wondering how they could drink stuff that came out of a gas tank! I guess if you’re desperate enough for some hootch!

Those tanks were single use. They dropped into the sea once empty. Beer was presumably carried in new tanks.

 

[Jim]

'Nuther fun fact... those tanks were made from paper.

 

[Mailman]

'Nuther fun fact... those tanks were made from paper.

What What What???

 

[Jim]

What What What???
View attachment 197108

Link.

 

[Mailman]

Wow! That’s really interesting, light and inexpensive.

 

[Jim]

Wow! That’s really interesting, light and inexpensive.

You might even call that the dawn of the "throw away" tech age.

 

[Boog]

Is that tree supposed to be there?

 

[Boog]

Important to know stuff right here!