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Sturgeon Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Facebook caption: "A Tu-95 'Angel Flight' in formation with a T-34C Turbo Mentor" Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Facebook caption: "This is the QPX-16, the latest Chinese airliner. It uses solar cells in the nose to provide all the power it needs, while the cabin is so spacious that there are even seats in the tail! A US Navy F-32 JSF has been scrambled to intercept. Like if you don't want are Navy to harass the Chinese airliner industry just because they've gone past using oil!" LoooSeR and Belesarius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 21 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: Facebook caption: "A Tu-95 'Angel Flight' in formation with a T-34C Turbo Mentor" 11 minutes ago, Collimatrix said: Facebook caption: "This is the QPX-16, the latest Chinese airliner. It uses solar cells in the nose to provide all the power it needs, while the cabin is so spacious that there are even seats in the tail! A US Navy F-32 JSF has been scrambled to intercept. Like if you don't want are Navy to harass the Chinese airliner industry just because they've gone past using oil!" Not sure which one I like better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 Wat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 5 hours ago, Belesarius said: Wat? I have never seen a picture of a production F-22 with the outer pylons attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 Yeah, I think it's one of the early test models, testing missile integration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 Additional nose instrumentation speaks to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 6 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: Additional nose instrumentation speaks to that. Also, apparently the blue stripes on the AMRAAMs indicate test equipment/dummy missile. http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4037 Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 This is the Boeing XB-39: This was an early B-29 prototype, but the Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engines were replaced with Allison V-3420s. What is an Allison V-3420? Why, it's two Allison V-1710s glued together, of course! Seriously. That's what it is. It's two V-1710s glued together. Was @Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect an engineer for Allison in a past life? The Germans tried something similar with the DB 610, which was a pair of DB 605 engines paired together to a single output shaft. However, by all accounts the Allison design worked reasonably well and the Daimler-Benz design did not. Using the Allison engines in the B-39 would have caused delays, so the Army Air Corps decided to stick with the Wright R-3550. Switching to the Allisons might have been a good idea, however, the Wright engines were very advanced, powerful and efficient, but they were not very reliable. The V-3420 engine was also used to power the Fisher XP-75 Eagle. The engine was located behind the pilot, very similar to the configuration of the P-39 and P-63: Xlucine, Belesarius, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 3, 2017 Report Share Posted June 3, 2017 Clarke Gable at the waist gun of a B-17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted June 3, 2017 Report Share Posted June 3, 2017 MiG-31 over Moscow. Bronezhilet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sturgeon Posted June 3, 2017 Report Share Posted June 3, 2017 You can embed multiple images in one post, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted June 4, 2017 Report Share Posted June 4, 2017 5 hours ago, Zyklon said: That's a whole lot of radar energy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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