Cold Warriors

[Al Czervik]

[Dric902]

9 hours ago, Eric said:

Don’t know that one

Needle nosed, was that supposed to be an updated F-16?

 

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[SC Tiger]

The topic is "cold warriors"

 

 

They look plenty cold.

[tous]

1 hour ago, Dric902 said:

Don’t know that one

Needle nosed, was that supposed to be an updated F-16?

That aircraft, and they only made a prototype, was designed at the same time as the F-16.

Behold the Boeing 908, Boeing Aircraft's entry in the Air Combat Fighter program of the very early 1970s.

Ugliest aircraft ever conceived.

The danged wings are too long, the vstab too tall, only one engine and it doesn't have a hook.

Yet another, You five companies make one, we'll fly 'em and then choose a winner, deal from the Air Force.

The F-16 won.

Edited July 26, 2018 by tous

[Al Czervik]

57 minutes ago, tous said:

That aircraft, and they only made a prototype, was designed at the same time as the F-16.

Behold the Boeing 908, Boeing Aircraft's entry in the Air Combat Fighter program of the very early 1970s.

Ugliest aircraft ever conceived.

The danged wings are too long, the vstab too tall, only one engine and it doesn't have a hook.

Yet another, You five companies make one, we'll fly 'em and then choose a winner, deal from the Air Force.

The F-16 won.

Looks like they stole the wings off an F-8 and glued them on too low.  ?

[Dric902]

1 hour ago, tous said:

That aircraft, and they only made a prototype, was designed at the same time as the F-16.

Behold the Boeing 908, Boeing Aircraft's entry in the Air Combat Fighter program of the very early 1970s.

Ugliest aircraft ever conceived.

The danged wings are too long, the vstab too tall, only one engine and it doesn't have a hook.

Yet another, You five companies make one, we'll fly 'em and then choose a winner, deal from the Air Force.

The F-16 won.

I was only aware of the F-16 and F-18 variants. I’m glad that one didn’t make the cut

[SC Tiger]

13 hours ago, Eric said:

It looks like the plane on the left, and the drawing on the right, are two different aircraft.  Note the way the wings blend into the fuselage on the two planes, plus the wingtip missile launchers on the plane on the left.

[SC Tiger]

2 hours ago, tous said:

That aircraft, and they only made a prototype, was designed at the same time as the F-16.

Behold the Boeing 908, Boeing Aircraft's entry in the Air Combat Fighter program of the very early 1970s.

Ugliest aircraft ever conceived.

The danged wings are too long, the vstab too tall, only one engine and it doesn't have a hook.

Yet another, You five companies make one, we'll fly 'em and then choose a winner, deal from the Air Force.

The F-16 won.

I beg your pardon?

 

And it looks like Boeing cheated off of General Dynamics' paper for the 908.

Edited July 26, 2018 by SC Tiger

[Cubdriver]

4 minutes ago, SC Tiger said:

I beg your pardon?

 

And it looks like Boeing cheated off of General Dynamics' paper for the 908.

I suppose the bright side is that from inside the cockpit you can't readily see how fugly that thing is!  Does it get airborne because the ground doesn't want to be seen with it, and repels it?  Yeek!

-Pat

[Cubdriver]

Or as an alternate question - what was the father, how long is the gestation period, how big is the expected litter and when is it due?

-Pat

Edited July 26, 2018 by Cubdriver
Typo

[Dric902]

Minuteman III is gonna be replaced

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/07/26/air-force-to-have-operational-new-nuclear-armed-icbm-by-late-2020s.html

 

good thing, they were designed in the ‘70s

 

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[Dric902]

2 minutes ago, Cubdriver said:

I suppose the bright side is that from inside the cockpit you can't readily see how fugly that thing is!  Does it get airborne because the ground doesn't want to be seen with it, and repels it?  Yeek!

-Pat

The lifting body went a long way toward developing the Nighthawk and the Spirit bombers

[SC Tiger]

Guess what this is?

[Cubdriver]

5 minutes ago, SC Tiger said:

Guess what this is?

A Boeingski Superfortresskaya?

-Pat

Edited July 26, 2018 by Cubdriver

[tous]

18 minutes ago, SC Tiger said:

I beg your pardon?

 

And it looks like Boeing cheated off of General Dynamics' paper for the 908.

And one wonders why LockMart won the JSF competition.

As stated, Boeing should stick to the big ones.

I can't believe that that tubby thing with huge delta wing can get to MACH, much less beyond it.

As far as stealth, that thing has to have an RCS of a battleship.

[Al Czervik]

22 minutes ago, Dric902 said:

The lifting body went a long way toward developing the Nighthawk and the Spirit bombers

Have Blue's first flight was in 77.

B-2 in 89.

Monica's was in 2000.

[SC Tiger]

18 minutes ago, Cubdriver said:

A Boeingski Superfortresskaya?

-Pat

Pretty much.  Basically we had 3 B29s that had to land in Russia during WWII.  The Russians kept them for a while and copied them to make that thing.  A Tupolev Tu-4.

[Cubdriver]

8 minutes ago, SC Tiger said:

Pretty much.  Basically we had 3 B29s that had to land in Russia during WWII.  The Russians kept them for a while and copied them to make that thing.  A Tupolev Tu-4.

Yeah, I remember reading about that.  Seem to recall something about a delegation touring some high tech machine shop in the US wearing shoes with very soft soles in order to collect chips for metallurgical analysis way back when, too.

-Pat

[willie-pete]

[tous]

The Douglas C-54 was a great aircraft.

Imagine a President of the United States organizing a Berlin Airlift today. 

It would take fourteen years, nineteen Congressional hearings, six continuing budget resolutions and 10,000 hours of numpties that don't know anything and can't actually do anything appearing on TV to explain why it's a bad idea and will certainly cause World War III.

[willie-pete]

[Dric902]

45 minutes ago, willie-pete said:

Is that Frank Powers

[willie-pete]

Yes; I would call him a Cold Warrior

[Eric]

[tous]

I want one.