Them Northrop flying wing bombers?
Yep. Those are YB-35's... the radial engined version. 3 of which were converted to YB-49's with 6 jet engines.Them Northrop flying wing bombers?
Yes - but honestly, it is pretty tough to keep a large model like that together on a rough field in gusty winds.An impressive rc model. Perhaps a shame the landing was rather eventful.
Yes! And one of the few combat aircraft we have ever bought from a foreign country. In fact, NASA still flies 3 of 'em for high altitude research.One of the most successful, most overlooked or underrated aircraft of the postwar era?
Hi Raymond,Canberra. But no idea what variant - presumably a bomber? One of the most successful, most overlooked or underrated aircraft of the postwar era?
Hi Raymond,
when I was at BAC we had a Canberra that was used as a flying test bed for several different Bristol jet engines.
When it had two Bristol Olympus (Concord) engines mounted in place of it's stock Rolls-Royce Avons it'd vertical climb until it pierced the cloudbase.
The Canberra is high up on my list of all time favorites.
His son, Henry J. Deutschendorf Jr. was more commonly known to the world as John Denver
C'on Jim everything has a positive....................It was just a flat battery, jump start and away it went....................the pilot wasn't hurt................only worms were killed when it ran off the runway, 36 to be exact and 100 hospitalized with 10 in ICU, all expected to make a full recovery. The grounds man doesn't have to mow that area for weeks saving money on overtime................Positive news?
A bit more too it than that...Ha! Really? And to think John Denver died in a plane crash because he didn’t know how to switch gas tanks on his Burt Rutan custom built plane.
A bit more too it than that...
Denver was actually good pilot by all accounts. He had over 2500hr, owned and was type rated in a Lear Jet.