Re: Big, fast and low
Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:20 pm
Some detail on the "taboo" tailwheel-
Re: Big, fast and low
Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:17 pm
Kdmoo wrote:8)
I have often wondered if the touched up photo was a marketing tactic to make the B-60 look as sleek as the BUFF. That makes as much sense as trying to make a recip powered WW II design into a jet.
About a year ago I really got into the B-60 and its history, so much so that I created "what if" drawings of the plane inservice.
First off, well it would have had to been assigned to Edwards at some point:
A 6th BW silver B-60 (instead of the real B-52Es the unit got after the B-36 days):
I always hated that the 95th BW went away when the B-52Bs went to MASDC. So a 95th Bomb Wing B-60 in the SEA scheme!
And lastly; a 95th BW B-60 with Hound Dogs! :
Re: Big, fast and low
Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:39 pm
Wonderful idea to make optional color art!
Re: Big, fast and low
Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:12 pm
Mgawa wrote:Wonderful idea to make optional color art!
Thanks! I did the same thing with the F-90.
Re: Big, fast and low
Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:52 pm
Clifford Bossie wrote:...That makes as much sense as trying to make a recip powered WW II design into a jet.
SAAB 21 and 21R:
Re: Big, fast and low
Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:38 pm
JDK wrote:Clifford Bossie wrote:...That makes as much sense as trying to make a recip powered WW II design into a jet.
SAAB 21 and 21R:
One I had forgotten.
Re: Big, fast and low
Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:15 pm
Clifford Bossie wrote:One I had forgotten.
Heh. Doesn't mean you weren't right.
The 21R was apparently outclassed as a jet, and mainly intended for ground attack.One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything.
Re: Big, fast and low
Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:17 pm
JDK wrote:Clifford Bossie wrote:One I had forgotten.
Heh. Doesn't mean you weren't right.
One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything.
That is so true. Even the turbine is far older than I had imagined.
Re: Big, fast and low
Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:58 pm
JDK wrote:One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything.
EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!!
Re: Big, fast and low
Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:08 am
AFML wrote:JDK wrote:One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything.
EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!!
And that thing is so goofy I love it!
Re: Big, fast and low
Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:53 am
AFML wrote:JDK wrote:One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything.
EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!!
Thunderscreech? A real latecomer.
First turboprop I'm aware of is the Trent powered Meatbox.
And the Meteor actually held a world speed record, unlike the Screech's daddy.
Re: Big, fast and low
Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:44 am
Don't forget about the Russians with the Yak-15. Taking a Yak-3 and stuffing a Soviet built Me-262 engine in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-15
Re: Big, fast and low
Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:32 am
JDK wrote:AFML wrote:JDK wrote:One of the great things about aviation is that somewhere, someone's tried just about everything.
EVEN PUTTING A PROP ON A JET!!!
Thunderscreech? A real latecomer.
And the Meteor actually held a world speed record, unlike the Screech's daddy.
That's a good looking bird. I didn't even know it existed.
Re: Big, fast and low
Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:38 pm
Kyleb wrote:That's a good looking bird. I didn't even know it existed.
Basically a Gloster Meteor Mk.I (this is a Mk.III, IIRC, but essentially the same):
With two RR Trent turboprops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royc ... rboprop%29
(Apparently the name Trent has been reused for some funny modern engine as well.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor
The Meteor took the world official speed record at 606 mph in November 1945, then to 616 mph in 1946.
The Yak 15:
One of these:
With one of these:
