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ya know.... the more you look at one, the more it dawns on you just how UGLY the JU-87 was...:D

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1 hour ago, kajnrig said:

tl;dr - A B-17 crashed shortly after takeoff at a Bradley International Airport, multiple dead, police commissioner can't confirm exactly numbers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vintage-b-17-plane-crashes-erupts-flames-bradley-international-airport-n1061161

This hits close to home for me. Nine-Oh-Nine is owned by the Collings Foundation who have their armor museum and headquarters near where I live. The plane alongside their B-24, B-25, and several other vintage aircraft were on a "wings of liberty" tour of New England. I was actually supposed to see them a couple weeks ago before I went on vacation, but the friend I was going to take got sick and never went.

 

I'm absolutely devastated and heartbroken right now. :(

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6 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

This hits close to home for me. Nine-Oh-Nine is owned by the Collings Foundation who have their armor museum and headquarters near where I live. The plane alongside their B-24, B-25, and several other vintage aircraft were on a "wings of liberty" tour of New England. I was actually supposed to see them a couple weeks ago before I went on vacation, but the friend I was going to take got sick and never went.

 

I'm absolutely devastated and heartbroken right now. :(

I saw Nine-0-Nine first hand many years ago. Even climbed inside and checked out all the crew positions.  Really sad and tragic news this is. Lives lost and a rare WWII classic destroyed. :(

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A Japanese company is working on a hybrid jet/rocket engine for spaceplanes.

From the article, with the help of Google translate.
"The company is equipped with a unique engine that can switch between jet combustion and rocket combustion. A spacecraft development venture that aims to expand. Currently, the development of the aircraft and the engine is in a good condition for the trial of reaching an altitude of 100 kilometers in 2020 with an unmanned experimental aircraft."
https://newswitch.jp/p/19700

Pretty snazzy paint scheme on their demonstrator aircraft.

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3 hours ago, AN/ALQ128 said:

A Japanese company is working on a hybrid jet/rocket engine for spaceplanes.

From the article, with the help of Google translate.
"The company is equipped with a unique engine that can switch between jet combustion and rocket combustion. A spacecraft development venture that aims to expand. Currently, the development of the aircraft and the engine is in a good condition for the trial of reaching an altitude of 100 kilometers in 2020 with an unmanned experimental aircraft."
https://newswitch.jp/p/19700

Pretty snazzy paint scheme on their demonstrator aircraft.

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Overview of the company via an English language PDF.

15 employees, and $7M in capital doesn't seem like a lot for what they're planning on doing, but I guess a small company is better suited to quick decision making.

https://pdas.co.jp/en/documents/Company_Outline_EN.pdf

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Props for going all-out with a lot of little details that mimic the real Super Hornet, when there's zero need for a "not intended to be a true-scale-detail-model" for its purpose. 

(gear doors, mainly---they could be greatly simplified, I imagine, or left off entirely) 

Interesting that ANA is sponsoring it, and not JAL.  (though AFAIK, ANA is their biggest airline now, not JAL) 

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Do you guys remember Paul G. Allen, the billionare from Seattle with the interest in WWII aircraft and vehicles? His legacy foundation has been funding deep sea scanning to find historically significant ship wrecks via the RV Petrel. Not too long ago they found the USS Lexington from the Battle of Coral Sea.

 

Well two days ago they found the Kaga after she was sunk at Midway, and as of about four or five hours ago they found the Akagi too. All that's left to find is the Hiryu and Soryu.

Here's ROV footage of the Kaga.

 

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17 hours ago, AN/ALQ128 said:

A Japanese company is working on a hybrid jet/rocket engine for spaceplanes.

 

That image immediately reminded me of the stillborn British 1980s "HOTOL" project; a couple of people that worked on that that are now working on "Skylon", which is a similar concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_HOTOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

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It'll be an amazing, if not practical, accomplishment if the Brits successfully develop Skylon.  While it's capacity is significantly less than the STS orbiter, a single-stage aerospace plane would revolutionize how we move payloads into space in the foreseeable future. I wish them every success.

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23 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Do you guys remember Paul G. Allen, the billionare from Seattle with the interest in WWII aircraft and vehicles? His legacy foundation has been funding deep sea scanning to find historically significant ship wrecks via the RV Petrel. Not too long ago they found the USS Lexington from the Battle of Coral Sea.

 

Well two days ago they found the Kaga after she was sunk at Midway, and as of about four or five hours ago they found the Akagi too. All that's left to find is the Hiryu and Soryu.

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7 hours ago, electric indigo said:

The Skylon still looks like a design from "Thunderbirds", which might not work entirely for it's advantage...

Funny you should say that, I've seen promotional videos which have the Skylon moving past very "Thunderbirds" looking spaceport hangar buildings, which was almost certainly deliberate. The name is also of an era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(Festival_of_Britain)

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While we're on the topic of Skylon, Reaction Engines have just passed a major milestone as well.

https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news/reaction-engines-test-programme-fully-validates-precooler-hypersonic-heat-conditions

"During the latest series of tests, Reaction Engines’ unique precooler successfully quenched airflow temperatures in excess of 1,000°C (~1,800°F) in less than 1/20th of a second. The tests demonstrated the precooler’s ability to successfully cool airflow at speeds significantly in excess of the operational limit of any jet-engine powered aircraft in history. Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of Concorde and over 50% faster than the SR-71 Blackbird aircraft – the world’s fastest jet-engine powered aircraft."

 

 

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3 hours ago, Sildani said:

The Su-57, neé PAK-FA, neé T-50, has finally been given its ultimate designation by NATO: “Felon.”

https://theaviationist.com/2019/11/01/nato-code-name-felon-su-57-gets-its-reporting-name-and-it-couldnt-be-better/

Are you serious?  Felon?  Who the hell came up with that.  Of all the F names that could have been used, Felon?  That is literally criminal.

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On 11/5/2019 at 1:35 AM, kalvasflam said:

Are you serious?  Felon?  Who the hell came up with that.  Of all the F names that could have been used, Felon?  That is literally criminal.

Ehh. Fishbed wasn't exactly flattering either. With names like Fulcrum, Foxhound, Flanker and Fullback, "Felon" is just meh.

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