Nied Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 (edited) So as I mentioned I went to the Andrews Air Force Base Open house last month with my brand new Camera and telephoto lens. Most of my shots ended up being of the aerial performers as there were both slim pickens in the static display area and it was overcast during the first half of the day when I normally walk about the tarmac looking at planes. Here's what I've cropped and edited so far: (click to enlarge) This one's my new desktop background: Edited June 29, 2009 by Nied Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltane70 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 This one's my new desktop background: That's definitely my favorite one of the lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coota0 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 With memories of playing SWOTL and regularly wiping out swarms of B-17s at close range with my overloaded wing-tub cannon Bf-109G or Me262, it was a heck of a big change when I started playing Il-2 Sturmovik and it appeared as if the 8th AF had clones of Alvin York and Carlos Hathcock manning all the .50s Ain't that the truth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Do you like visible shockwaves? Do you like the F-22? http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photod...N-8290D-008.jpg http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photod...N-7780S-014.jpg And if you prefer thick vapor: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/366983...8948ec6e2_o.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiroikaze Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Warning----something that makes the F-35 look good/cool: http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/solution...eodasvideo.html One step closer to valk cockpits. I couldn't see the vid that you posted, they must've taken it down. By any chance is it the same video as this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9pGtIirn6g&fmt=18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retracting Head Ter Ter Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Do you like visible shockwaves? Do you like the F-22? Brings to mind the God Phoenix attack from Gatchaman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nied Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Another round of pictures from Andrews: This last one is Dale Snodgrass, he put on a great show as always and I got a lot of great pictures of him in part because he flew so close to the crowd. I thought this one was sort of indicative of his whole display, shades of that famous shot of him in the F-14 doing a knife edge pass in front of the carrier deck crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Very nice shot of that Thunderbird's F-16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Do you like visible shockwaves? Do you like the F-22? http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photod...N-8290D-008.jpg http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photod...N-7780S-014.jpg And if you prefer thick vapor: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/366983...8948ec6e2_o.jpg heh, that last one looks like its wearing a bra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 You're not the first to make that comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-ZeroOne Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 (edited) Do you like visible shockwaves? Do you like the F-22? Hey, I just noticed - the F-22 has decided that the Typhoon is so awesome it wants to change its shape into one too! Edited July 1, 2009 by F-ZeroOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anime52k8 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 heh, that last one looks like its wearing a bra. hehe, jet boobies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF-19 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 hehe, jet boobies. It's probably some engineer's idea of a joke. An awesome joke. The "bra" probably "falls off" as the plane goes faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight26 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Man, a restored L-29 crashed about 3 miles away from my house on july-4, unfortunately the pilot and passenger augered in with it. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/ViewPost/105426 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 First Australian Super Hornet to be handed over Jul 8 in St Louis. Not sure when it'll actually be delivered to Australia (or even how)----it's quite possible it'll be disassembled and flown over in a C-17 or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Porkchop Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 First Australian Super Hornet to be handed over Jul 8 in St Louis. Not sure when it'll actually be delivered to Australia (or even how)----it's quite possible it'll be disassembled and flown over in a C-17 or something. It could be "dragged" over by a tanker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalist Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) The Sukhoi Pak FA. To compete directly with F-22's and F-35's. Look's pretty badass if I do say so myself. Couple of pics look like the SU-47 with the forward swept wings and canards. It also reminds me a lot of the older "tear drop" F-19 Stealth fighter models that were out in the 80's. Edited July 8, 2009 by Fatalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 If they don't even know what the overall configuration is, then it's a LONG way from flying. It'll be another MiG 1.44...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nied Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 As the link itself says those are conjectural designs from some Russian industrial designer. As far as I know this is the only known official design taken from an NPO-Saturn (maker of the PAK-FA's engines) press release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight26 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 (edited) Like Nied said those designs are not by Sukhoi, but an outside industrial designer, I have only seen a couple images released by Sukhoi that are mostly smoke and mirrors, but the plane is suppossed to make first flight this year so the design is built, just not revealed to the public. Hey Nied can you host that image here so I can see if it is the one I have seen before? So far the only "official" image that been released is of the aircraft under a camo net. Something else to keep in mind is that there is conjecture that Sukhoi is making that Pak-Fa in multiple configurations, ala the F-35, but to a greater extreme. Some of the images from more reliable sources I have seen show aircraft with a fairly common fuselage but different wing structures, some delta, some FSW, etc... Those images posted on Gizmodo almost go along with that. Edited July 8, 2009 by Knight26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nied Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Like Nied said those designs are not by Sukhoi, but an outside industrial designer, I have only seen a couple images released by Sukhoi that are mostly smoke and mirrors, but the plane is suppossed to make first flight this year so the design is built, just not revealed to the public. Hey Nied can you host that image here so I can see if it is the one I have seen before? So far the only "official" image that been released is of the aircraft under a camo net. Durn gubmint servers not allowing you to see outside linked images! I don't believe I've seen the picture of the PAK-FA under a camo net, I'd love to see it if you could post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight26 Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Pavel Bulat (a professor of aerodynamics, regularly writing on paralay.com) put out an image of the thing masked with scrim in his may article. It looks like the photos were taken before the recent visit of the government delegation to KNAAPO. Of course the pics are heavily edited. http://www.paralay.com/stat/Bulat_12.pdf (in russian) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 If they REALLY wanted to hide the shape, they'd have built some "misleading shapes" with plywood and cardboard around the edges, THEN draped it. This was done for the F-117 during moves IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante74 Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 That's a CG pic. Look at the not so seamless ground texture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight26 Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 The translation on the images, and the article I pulled them from stated that the pictures were real, but heavily editted afterwards. I am inclined to agree with, obviously the background and floor were messed with, but modelling the scrim like that would a serious pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Yeah, but the scrim itself looks really fake... Anyways---I hope Australia does a more interesting paint job than this when it's actually on their soil: (I hate to link off someone else's photobucket, but Boeing recently changed things and made it impossible to link and hard to download media pics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Nice pic. Are the Aussie F18s able to land on carriers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Land--yeah. Catapult off of--maybe. Launch-bars are a weird issue with the Hornet--there's "working, non-working, and non-existant" options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nied Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 IIRC part of the RAAF's lease deal is the option to give the planes to the US Navy once the lease is up. I don't know what kind of modifications would be involved though. Also I thought the non-existent option was eliminated after it was found to cause all sorts of unexpected vibrations while taxiing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 I thought only Aussie ones had problems with non-existant, and were retrofitted to non-functional. AFAIK Spanish etc ones still have none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 RAAF Super Hornet time-lapse construction video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be5_1247196550 They sure seem to attach and re-attach the canopy a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynx7725 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 RAAF Super Hornet time-lapse construction video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be5_1247196550 They sure seem to attach and re-attach the canopy a lot. Hmm, that's a LOT of work. I thought it would have been a lot more automated by now... During the final hanger, it seems the horizontal stabilizers were sagging quite a bit. Is that normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddhafabio Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 geez wonder which of those blurrs was my pop i think he is on final assembly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF-19 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 RAAF Super Hornet time-lapse construction video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be5_1247196550 They sure seem to attach and re-attach the canopy a lot. Fit checks perhaps (or we're seeing another hornet being built)? I attach and re-attach a canopy on a model just as much. It would be quite a gaff if the hornet is on the flightline, ready for it's first flight, and it turns out the seats were 2 cm too high, and the canopy wouldn't close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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