Boy, you're an old fart! I probably built the same balsa kit...25 years later, powered with two .40s and had a 4 ch RC. I never could sync those engines....I got to know the design very well after a few crashes.
Kelly designed it in the 30's!!! I still can't phathom that. But then again, the SR-71 was from the '60's even more unbelievable. I wonder what is being designed today?
How did you manage to get the two engines to turn in opposite directions?
There's an sr71 on a pylon outside the San Diego Aerospace Museum. Mostly covered with pigeon crap now.
Lancair IV, Sukhoi 29, any plane with cute female flight attendants.
The statistic I love to quote (probably already did in this group at some time) about the A-10 is that when the pilot pulls the trigger with the gun at its full 4,200 rpm firing rate, the recoil produces a 9,000 lb reverse thrust on the airframe, effectively canceling one whole engine. If you look closely at the nose, the gun is offset significantly to the left, because the barrels fire at the 10:00 position (viewing from the front). If they didn't offset the gun, the airframe would instantly yaw off target. As it is, the aircraft can put roughly 70% of the rounds in one 2-second (140-round) burst into a tank-sized target from two miles out. Not bad grouping.
One of my direct reports was a structural engineer for Republic before he joined my organization. He designed "wing splice 270" (IIRC) which is the point where the wing cranks upward to achieve dihedral. During Desert Storm, we cut out a newspaper photograph of an A-10 that had returned with an 18" hole right through "wing splice 270". We captioned it on the bulletin board "Ron does nice work".
I remember that picture that splice also houses the landing gear if i remember right?
A sam went right through the wing but the A-10 was so low the warhead hadnt armed and then plane had to belly land? but it still flew home and i think was a repairable aircraft after that?
I dont think anything else in the airforce except maybe a B52 could sustain that much damage and still land. THo i could be wrong
With respect to the OP, I agree. It looks like an embryonic P51 or F4; just hit it with the right hormone to get one or the other.
Speaking of F4's has anyone mentioned the double ugly? Two wrongs made a right in that case.
Bill
An aircraft sexy? I think you have a bit of a warped perspective on sex and/or sexy.
Small though.
Here's something that made a Wasp Major look small, 127 Liters, the Lycoming XR-7755 from
This huge engine was 10 feet long, 5 feet in diameter and weighed 6,050
pounds. It produced 5,000 HP at 2,600 RPM, and the target was 7,000'
** mike **On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:28:30 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, "Keith Marshall" quickly quoth:
And search for a new pair of dry undies in the meantime.
But lots of fun.
Curses, foiled again! I uploaded the wood index to my home page. Thanks for catching that for me. It's "all better now."
--- Chaos, panic, and disorder--my work here is done.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:40:29 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (daniel peterman) quickly quoth:
Which reminds me of the sexiest plane: anything run by Naked Air. 'Nuff said?
---------------------------------------------- Never attempt to traverse a chasm in two leaps
Man, you just have no soul. T
I believe it was the opening scene of "The Carpetbaggers" Gerry :-)} London, Canada
You take one lousy week off to join Thorax at the Elvis concert, and this is what happens: "Hveem" writes on Fri, 13 Jan 2006
16:49:50 -0000 in rec.crafts.metalworking :True, in one sense of the word.
But seems to me, there's no room for initiation into the Over A Mile High Club.
All depends on what you want to do, and how you want it done....
pyotr
>You take one lousy week off to join Thorax at the Elvis concert, and this is what happens: "Martin H. Eastburn" writes on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:42:55 -0600 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
B-58 Hustler, for flat out excessive amounts of speed.
How about the plane that made the Mustangs/spitfires necessary?
Focke-Wulf 190, especially the F-9 and the strumgruppen (sp) variants. I would certainly like to know what they sounded like!
I know what you are sayin about the 51's I get to see/hear them once or twice a month.
The several presidents of the corporations that held Beech over the last 10 years or so said all sorts of obscene things about the aircraft, and whoever owns them now (Rockwell?) wans them all run through the crusher. Supposedly the owners of the remaining ones have to keep them in locked hangers to keep them out of the claws of the corporate moguls who are worried about liability stretching out to infinity on a product they'll never make a buck on.
Jon
That's the BD-5, not 10. A fairly successful product of Jim Bede's. It didn't get the first two consecutive pilots to ever fly it killed.
The BD-10 would have been a HELL of a fine aircraft, if it had worked. The engine selected was a total antique, the GE CJ-618 (military designation J-85) turbojet. The performance was enough to satisfy just about anyone, though.
Oh, it WAS sexy!
Jon
It was a TOTAL disaster from beginning to end. The structural engineering was apparently done on the back of an envelope. I have all the company newsletters, which detail some of the early goofs. When the nose gear broke up on the first taxi test, and they had to admit it was bad engineering, I started to wonder what was going wrong. I've read the NTSB brief synopsis of the two accidents, just look under type BD-10, they should pop up. There was a site that had a complete post-mortem on the 2nd accident, where they took a production rear section and tested it to failure with the traditional hydraulic test rig. (Why didn't anybody do a SINGLE structural test on the plane BEFORE it flew? Huh?) They showed it failed at 80% of the design stress.
Here are a few Google hits on the search string "BD-10 crash"
Jon
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