The plane enthusiasts thread

[Drago]

One goes into combat to win, not to play fair. You don't catch the SAS giving the bad guys a count of one hundred whenever the storm an embassy.

 

[Cycleops]

That is one thing but relishing the idea of combat with a massively disadvantaged foe?

Sounds rather like IS's own MO.

 

[Drago]

The Iraqi Army had huge manpower, training and material superiority, but they soiled themselves and ran off, leaving huge stockpiles of modern weaponry for ISIS.

 

[Drago]

Yes, because God will judge their enemies, but it's down to them to arrange the meeting.

 

[classic33]

I was looking through some old Observer books of aircraft from the 60's and found an aircraft similar to the Osprey but with a horizontal rotor on the tail, it was made by Canadair, a CL84 Dynavert. I found it in a 1968 book, I also managed to find a video of some flights on the net.
One of their test aircraft crashed .

RC version

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAbS515-Egk

 

[Drago]

According to Wiki it was a very capable machine, but politics and geography meant hoped for orders weren't forthcoming and the idea was scrapped. Shame.

 

[Illaveago]

According to Wiki it was a very capable machine, but politics and geography meant hoped for orders weren't forthcoming and the idea was scrapped. Shame.

I think that happened to another promising Canadian plane, I think it was called the Avro Arrow. The test pilot was so angry with its cancellation that he resigned.

 

[DaveReading]

I think that happened to another promising Canadian plane, I think it was called the Avro Arrow. The test pilot was so angry with its cancellation that he resigned.

Avro Canada only ever built one successful aircraft - the CF-100 Canuck fighter jet.

They came close with what was very nearly the world's first jet airliner (it first flew only two weeks behind the original Comet in 1949) but it never went into production.

 

[classic33]

Avro Canada only ever built one successful aircraft - the CF-100 Canuck fighter jet.

They came close with what was very nearly the world's first jet airliner (it first flew only two weeks behind the original Comet in 1949) but it never went into production.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada

 

[Cycleops]

The discovery of this Japanese WW2 seaplane on a Pacific island might be of interest to some of you:

http://dailym.ai/2vE9A3D

 

[Drago]

Looks like Avro Canada had a history of building great prototypes that either died through government interference, or that no one simply bought. Shame.

 

[ozboz]

Must admit , never heard of this , looked pretty good though ,

 

[Cycleops]

Like the CF-105, would make a great flying model.

 

[classic33]

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Must admit , never heard of this , looked pretty good though ,

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuZtk8uPP0

 

[classic33]

Like the CF-105, would make a great flying model.

V-22?


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hly5w457cD0