That's from Gundam, dude.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
??
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
you guys might like Jets'n'Guns
― kingfish, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
ha i'm gonna de-lurk for this one...
ACHTUNG!
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2006/Highlights/SpitfireCloseup.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/935206089-00.jpg
http://www.przygodoskop.pl/024/inne/adventurer02.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.oldtimerfan.nl/wp-content/galerij/gloster/meteor-f8/024dbdaabdb020423cccc415f716ee20_n.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
if this were an animal it'd be in a specimen jar on some victorian amateur scientist's shelf...
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/NorthAmerican/Aero37G7.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~mohamadi/dasilvaweb/A10.jpg A-10
― Kerm, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost-What is that? A De Havallend or sommat? Time to step it up with this bad boy:
http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/Images/f117a.jpg
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost x2 even.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
it's a canberra mr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
this isn't:
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/images/jpgs/buccaneer/buccs%20in%20echelon.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
naw mine was a meteor. canberra is big plane.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
The thread title specified jets, but screw that...
Sopwith Camel
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/images/sopwith_camel_original_500.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Fokker Triplane
http://www.airtoair.net/store/cw2/Assets/product_full/10sport-fokkera.jpg
Fokker D.VII
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI_Combat/AP4G6.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
So many choices for WWII (personal faves - the P-47, F6F Hellcat, and the Mark V. Spitfire) but this may be the overall best:
The Mitsubishi Zero
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/cafsocalphoto/zero.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Northrop XP-79
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/P79-1.jpg
Fighter version of the Flying Wing. Wasn't designed with any armaments, but with a magnesium leading edge. The idea was to ram through the tail section of your opponent with the fortified wing.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
So much of my childhood was devoted to fighter plane lust. I love the A-10. Hands down my favorite airplane ever. I was also big into WWII ones, but never really liked the early US / Soviet cold war planes - all those 50's and 60's jets never really did it for me.
Other favorites:
P-38 Lighting: http://www.kelleycows.com/images/p38.jpg
Messerschmitt ME 109: http://www.zap16.com/images/ME_109.jpg
B-25 Mitchell: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2005/Highlights/NellisB25From2oClock.jpg
And not a plane, but the most awesome helicopter ever = The Mi-24 Hind:
― joygoat, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Oops
http://www.isra.org/drawing_a_bead/mi24-hind-helicopter.jpg
― joygoat, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
F-100
http://home.worldonline.nl/~hsc/F100/F-100%20ThB.jpg
I believe this was the first operational supersonic fighter.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
P-26. One of the only fighters built by Boeing.
http://www.air-and-space.com/19780903%20Chino/31%20P-26A%20N3378G%20left%20front%20l.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
These fockes were Messerschmitts! </stan boardman>
Messerschmitt Bf 109 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/BF109BLACK6.jpg
(bah xpost, duplicate Messerschmitt)
― onimo, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Northrop built some wacky stuff. Here's the XP-56
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Northrop_XP-56_238353.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
These Fockes aren't Messerschmitts!
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Fw_190As_in_flight.jpg
― onimo, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
high-altitude phallic symbol
http://www.espionageinfo.com/images/eeis_03_img0989.jpg
― milo z, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://lynchmob.freeyellow.com/02-john-h-p-51.jpg
p-51 mustang
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s-3b/images/S3Viking_1.jpg
S-3 Viking, AKA the plane Dubya got to play soldier on. Mission accomplished, indeed.
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
F7F Tigercat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg/250px-F7F-3P_Tigercat.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
F8F. About as badass as you can get.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/F8F1boxeroversf.jpg
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-189588-1165803100.jpeg
f-111
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
skua
http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/pictures/jpg/blackburn%20b24%20skua%20I.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
XB-70. Everything else can fuck off.
http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/north_American_XB70_Valkyrie.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
P-40 with the Flying Tigers
http://www.walnutridge-aaf.com/P40a.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
scratch one Italian battleship
http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/media/July-2.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh man, I spent countless hours as a kid reading about military aircraft. Here's Romania's lone WWII fighter, the IAR-80:
http://www.casusbelli.com.ar/aire/2gm/otrasnaciones/IAR_80.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
ripped from today's headlines
http://www.jetfly.hu/rovatok/repules/katonai/hirek/topten_bombers_070518/Tu95_V.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
The incredibly ungainly-looking Saab Tunnan: http://avions.legendaires.free.fr/Images/Gj29.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Messerschmitt Me-163. Scary scary scary. Five minutes of rocket fuel and a 50% chance of exploding on you.
http://www.kheichhorn.de/assets/images/me163b-1a_takeoff.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I see your Bear, and raise you one Peacemaker
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-36_1.jpg
(always a favorite of mine, due to stories about them from my grandpa)
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
HAI, I SUNK YR BISMARCK TOO
http://www.vectorsite.net/avsword_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Same here. When my parents first moved to California, my dad got a job at Convair working on the jet engine retrofits to the initial prop-only B-36s. Best thing I like about the B-36s is the unusual sound they made - it's like the worlds largest drone symphony. (I've got a recording of a B-36 flyby - it's wonderful)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's another B-36
http://people.virginia.edu/~rjr/engines/b36.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
oops erm 'my bad'
THIS is a canberra (or 3):
http://www.aeroplaneart.com.au/Images/JSJ_PC_English_Electric_Canberras_B_Mk_2.jpg
― DG, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
The Junkers Ju-390, designed to fly transatlantic missions and bomb the east coast of America:
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/ju390_2.jpg
― Brent, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Smile for the camera!
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/staff/simongray/u2.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/air-ww2/beaufighterattack.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I remember my grandpa talking about testing the B-36s with the jet engines (and maybe JATO as well?) and counting the times he almost died (at least a dozen).
― dan m, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
B-47 with full RATO packs going.
http://www.tayyareci.com/amerikanucak/postww2/b-47.jpg
Always liked the B-47 because it was the first model kit I ever built.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
The second model kit I built was a B-58 Hustler
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/b-58_1.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Mig-25 Foxbat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/MiG-25_fig2agrau_USAF.jpg
I didn't realize until years later that the NATO codenames all began with the same letter (Foxbat, Fiddler, Flogger, etc.)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't have a lot of good insight into how the F-35 went so wrong, other than collusion between parts of the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin to force the DoD to put all its eggs in one basket.
Here's a decent piece on what might ought to happen to avoid repeating those mistakes in the future: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-air-force-could-avoid-f-35-trap-47737
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 4 September 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35947/navy-f-a-18-squadron-commanders-take-on-ai-repeatedly-beating-real-pilot-in-dogfight
Fun read.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link