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gwalchmai Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Eric said: Can I get one of those with some lift? Hold the glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Eric said: 4360 testbed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Airmotive Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Eric said: Allison’s tested for their early turboprops...prelude to the T-56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 31, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, Airmotive said: Allison’s tested for their early turboprops...prelude to the T-56 That thing has some power. It looks like all four piston engines are shut down. I wonder how fast it would have been with all five engines going at once? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Eric said: That thing has some power. It looks like all four piston engines are shut down. I wonder how fast it would have been with all five engines going at once? I think that's a prototype T-34, with, let's say 5,000 HP. Add in 1,000 HP for each Cyclone and you're looking at 9,000 altogether. I'll leave the theory to the sliderule guys but I doubt you'd get much past 400 knots before it shook itself apart. OTOH, did you ever hear about the guy at Luke who strapped a JATO bottle onto his Valiant? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 3 hours ago, Eric said: http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com/2011/01/boeing-b-17-modificadas.html This Aircraft was purpose built to check and evaluate the center engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Eric said: I remember the years when JATO was used on everything. It was the instant answer to a lot of "what ifs". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 JATO or RATO? It's butt is on fire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I believe that the B-47 used both JATO and RATO systems during their life. The picture above is using rockets, I believe. So, someone at Boeing at some meeting said, Here's an idea. Let's put big flaming things on the tail near the fuel. Someone else declared, Brilliant! I always enjoy seeing the Blue Angels Fat Albert do the JATO launch. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Yep! The Iran hostage rescue attempt showed the flaw in the plan that Jato/Rato solved all the short field problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tous Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 18 minutes ago, Eric said: Is that the Short Flyling boat? Or, it could be the a French aircraft that I can't recall the name of. Either way or no, what they accomplished in that era with those types for intercontinental travel was and still is marvelous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 9, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, tous said: Is that the Short Flyling boat? Or, it could be the a French aircraft that I can't recall the name of. Either way or no, what they accomplished in that era with those types for intercontinental travel was and still is marvelous. It’s a mid-thirties French seaplane. I forget the type. Interesting design. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 33 minutes ago, Eric said: How do you tell a Ford Tri-Motor from a Fokker Tri-Motor? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 9, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 9, 2019 5 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: How do you tell a Ford Tri-Motor from a Fokker Tri-Motor? Frenchmen are afraid of the Fokker? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 10 minutes ago, Eric said: It’s a mid-thirties French seaplane. I forget the type. Interesting design. It is a Latécoère 631. A few protypes were built, but it never went into service. By the way, I have aircraft encyclopedias detailing every aircraft built and flown from the Wright Brothers up until the late 1990s. That's where I found this one. Though I have paged through the books endlessly, no, I haven;t memorized them Just went to the transcontinental seaplane section. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 8 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: How do you tell a Ford Tri-Motor from a Fokker Tri-Motor? If you saw them side-by-side, the differences are apparent. Though the Fokker and Ford examples are the more famous, there were hundreds of distinct tri-motor aircraft in service from a variety of manufacturers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 59 minutes ago, tous said: It is a Latécoère 631. A few protypes were built, but it never went into service. By the way, I have aircraft encyclopedias detailing every aircraft built and flown from the Wright Brothers up until the late 1990s. That's where I found this one. Though I have paged through the books endlessly, no, I haven;t memorized them Just went to the transcontinental seaplane section. Accurate information has value, no matter where is came from, and sometimes a reference is more accurate than a memory. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Accurate information has value, no matter where is came from, and sometimes a reference is more accurate than a memory.Not just sometimes... usually if not alwaysSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie-pete Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 (edited) XB-70 at Carswell AFB with a F-104 chase plane. 3 months later they collided, losing both aircraft and Joe Walker and Major Carl Cross Edited September 11, 2019 by willie-pete 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 2 hours ago, willie-pete said: XB-70 at Carswell AFB with a F-104 chase plane. 3 months later they collided, losing both aircraft and Joe Walker and Major Carl Cross That is a fantastic engineering feat of simply raw power. It was incredible! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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