Aviation Stuff I Found On The Internet

[ttyymmnn]

Retired WWII, Korea, and Vietnam USAF pilot Maj. Dick Wyatt (USAF)

Two Japanese Kamikaze strikes within minutes cripple USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during the Battle of Okinawa (US Navy)

Space Shuttle concept (SDASM)

Republic A-10A Thunderbolt in its natural element (SDASM)

NAS Glynco hangar with five K-type blimps (SDASM)

Read more about NAS Glynco here

Lockheed CL-475 (SDASM)

Ground crew refuels a Hawker Tempest (SDASM)

Continental Motors Fokker F.VII (SDASM)

Top secret Soviet MiG 31 stealth fighter under construction (CIA)

Douglas presentation on spaceship recovery systems, artwork by Douglas Bono (SDASM)

A de Havilland biplane over the Thames and the Houses of Parliament (SDASM)

The wing of the Ryan NY-P, better known as the Spirit of St. Louis (SDASM)

Blohm & Voss Ha 139 D-ASTA (SDASM)

Amelia Earhart's FAI pilot license (SDASM)

The first Avro Arrow is rolled out of the hangar on October 4, 1957 after four years of work (SDASM)

USAF Thunderbirds with Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The team flew the Thud for just six shows in 1964 before switching to the F-100 Super Sabre following a structural failure that killed Thunderbird No.2 Capt. Gene Devlin (USAF)

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn said in Aviation Stuff I Found On The Internet:

Top secret Soviet MiG 31 stealth fighter under construction (CIA)

[Highlander]

@ttyymmnn Ha, my wife and Amelia Earheart share a birthday.

[ttyymmnn]

@skyfire77 I knew somebody would catch that, and figured it would be you.

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn Especially being I did the same shtick on Oppo That Was with the Flights of Fantasy series back in September.

That's a nice pic of the construction though, I had no idea MiG built planes like Morgan does their three-wheelers!

[VincentMalamute]

That MiG-31 in mid-construction looks like they're building a Blackbird.

Just ran across this

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn said in Aviation Stuff I Found On The Internet:

Douglas presentation on spaceship recovery systems, artwork by Douglas Bono

I would love to know what this was supposed to be, because I can't make heads or tails of it. Is that a reentry body (if so, it's heug!)? Are they shipping a ICBM/Launcher by sea (Why the Cone of Shame then?)?

[ttyymmnn]

@vincentmalamute Skyrocket! That aircraft eventually ended up being the Tigercat. I wrote a piece about that a/c back on old Oppo/Wingspan. I'm in the process of reposting my old Wingspan pieces here and on DT, so maybe I'll do that one next.

[VincentMalamute]

@ttyymmnn I was kinda thinking I could sneak an unknown past you. I should've known I'd fail. Can't remember how or where I ran across that F5F - was new to me.

[LooseonExit]

@ttyymmnn said in Aviation Stuff I Found On The Internet:

Space Shuttle concept (SDASM)

I get it's just a concept drawing, but that's wild. Turbofans on the Shuttle would make re-entry...uh, interesting.

[A Former User]

@skyfire77
Mig also appears to be building it in America looking at the two trucks there.
Lol.
Firefox film set prop.

[pip bip]

@highlander your wife is 97yo?