Airplane Stuff I Found On The Internet

[ttyymmnn]

Avro CF-100 Mk. V Canuck of No. 410 Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario and Convair F-102A Delta Dagger

100th Fighter Squadron crew chiefs with Capt. Andrew D. Turner

Bicentennial T-2C Buckeye

Douglas C-124A Globemaster II (Bill Larkins)

Convair YF-102 (SDASM)

Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull, 1939 (US Navy)

Douglas A-20H Havoc with experimental tracked landing gear

Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation (N6217C)

Vought F4U-1 Corsair crash lands aboard HMS Victorious 1944

Gene Cernan and the Lunar Roving Vehicle. During Apollo 17, the final mission to the Moon, Cernan piloted the rover on its final sortie and recorded a maximum speed of 11.2 mph, giving him the unofficial lunar land speed record.

Lockheed F-104G rocket takeoff, Edwards AFB, 1963 (SDASM)

Lockheed R6V Constitution

Convair Model 118 crackup, 1947 (SDASM)

North American XB-70A-2 Valkyrie. This aircraft was lost in a midair collision on June 8, 1966.

Grumman F6F Hellcat from Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5) awaits the take-off flag aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), 20 November 1943

V-1 flying bomb cutaway

Vought XF7U-1 Cutlass prototype at Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River

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@ttyymmnn
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[A Former User]

What city is the SuperConnie flying over? Don't recognize it...

[ttyymmnn]

@cressida-s_kanji_4_diamante said in Airplane Stuff I Found On The Internet:

What city is the SuperConnie flying over? Don't recognize it...

It doesn't say, but commenters suggest Miami. There is super 8 home video of this aircraft at "Florida Airport" in 1955.

[doodon2whls]

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

tracked landing gear

That looks and sounds like a terrible idea.

[Jcarr]

@ttyymmnn That Super Connie. I can’t wait until the AF1 Connie is restored and makes its inevitable trip to Oshkosh.

[ttyymmnn]

@doodon2whls said in Airplane Stuff I Found On The Internet:

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

tracked landing gear

That looks and sounds like a terrible idea.

They tried it with the gigantic B-36 as well.

The idea was to distribute the weight more evenly than the massive wheels the Peacemaker originally came with. It also allowed for the B-36 to operate from rougher runways in case the bombers needed to be dispersed.

The system worked, as you can see in this video, but it was heavy and complex, and Convair opted for a traditional four-wheel bogey instead.

[doodon2whls]

@ttyymmnn Good god ! That's nuts !

[ttyymmnn]

@doodon2whls said in Airplane Stuff I Found On The Internet:

@ttyymmnn Good god ! That's nuts !

They did a lot of crazy shit back in the day with those Cold War military budgets.

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn there's some dispute over how well it actually worked:
The first and only flight of the track gear occurred on March 26, 1950. The takeoff roll was described as very rough and noisy. The aircraft circled the airfield once and came in for a landing. Parts of the track system left a trail down the runway on rollout. The track system was deemed unfit for such a heavyweight aircraft and the idea was eventually abandoned.

[davesaddiction]

@ttyymmnn Moved to Best of OPPO.