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[Dave6T4]

Was that Sabre engine sleeve valve?

 

[polywideblock]

tempest 11

 

[Photon440]

This is a Hawker Tempest II. I've never seen that ducted spinner shown earlier. Interesting. For this design, they copied what they found on a captured FW-190 and put a gear driven fan inside the cowling for increased cooling around an anular radiator.. I think the German design spun at 130% prop speed, I don't know what Hawker did.

 

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[Duckmanreno]

 

[polywideblock]

The Hawker Typhoon's devastating rocket armament was effective against tanks, gun emplacements, buildings and railways. Coastal shipping was another target, including this unfortunate tug caught in the Scheldt estuary in September 1944. In this case the shell splashes from the aircraft's four 20mm cannon assist the pilot in correcting his aim before unleashing a salvo of RPs.

 

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[Photon440]

The IAI Lavi prototype.

 

[Richard Cranium]

How cool is this .....

 

[dadsbee]

Real cool and sad at the same time. Huge money spent to get it airworthy again, after sitting 20+ years, just to be flown to Arizona. Like it's twin that did a couple flights this Summer just to be hauled out and stuck in a museum.

 

[Basket case]

The Philippine Mars hasn’t flown since 2007, when Coulson Aviation bought it, not 20+

 

[dadsbee]

Okay, so 17 years...

 

[64BEL]

I came across this one a few months back that was converted to a water bomber.

 

[Photon440]

I came across this one a few months back that was converted to a water bomber.

The Philippine Mars shown in the taxi video was also a water bomber; all four remaining Martin Mars seaplanes were converted to this purpose in 1960. The Hawaii Mars and the Philippine Mars used to be parked together, and had the same paint job.

That dark blue navy paint was put on twelve years ago, that's when it was originally supposed to be transferred to Florida.

Here they are at Coulson Forest Products in BC...

 

[Photon440]

From the "what if" department...
In 1996, Lockheed had written a thirty page study on a large commercial airliner, bigger than Boeing's 747. Called the VLST, for Very Large Subsonic Transport, it was envisioned to carry up to 950 passengers.

Nine years before Airbus launched their A380, this plane would have been larger yet.

 

[Floyd]

Someone posted this over on the C-body forum.

 

[Photon440]

Someone posted this over on the C-body forum.View attachment 1770957

I remember that, Bladecutter was talking about it:

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