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OK - This is one of my all time favorite USAF bombers.

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/nuch_ss3.../b58Bendix.jpg

It's the Convair B-58 Hustler. Our first mach 2 bomber! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

Nuch

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One of the great names too: "Hustler." John Denver's father (real name Dutchendorf) set at least one speed record in a B-58 and later flew his son's Learjet.

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In the movie "Failsafe", the bombers are refered to as "Vindicators". The B-58 Hustler is an American aircraft. The Vindicator is a British plane, like the one in the James Bond movie "Thunderball".
I wondered back then why the discrepency. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Andy,

Honestly, who else knew the difference before the age of
cable TV & the internet...... Only geeks like us I guess. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif

Bill,

About John Denver's father - I saw that a man with that last
name did set a speed record in the B-58, but I just didn't
make the connection. How in the world did you? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif

Nuch

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Just one of those little bits of information I learned over the years.

By the way, the British jet bomber used in "Thunderball" was the Avro Vulcan.

As for the name Vindicator, the real Vindicator was a US Navy late 1930s-early WWII single-engined dive-bomber similar in appearance to the Douglas SBD. The Vindicator saw use at Midway in June 1942 but was already obsolete.

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Closer look at the C-17 I posted pics of https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...lanes/C17b.jpg

This 1/9th scale radio-controlled C-17 model was built in the United Kingdom. To date it has about 20 flights. It was built as the centerpiece of a 15 program television series produced in the U.K. for the Home and Leisure satellite TV channel. Built with the aid of three friends, it took one year to build and is powered with 4 Jetcat P-120 turbines with a total thrust of 108 lbs. The models weighs over 250 lbs fuelled, and carries 12.5 liters (3.3 US gallons) of 95% kerosene and 5% turbine oil fuel. Ot! her det ails include 5 Futaba PCM receivers, 16 battery packs (93 cells), 20 Futaba servos, on board air compressor, electro/pneumatic retracts, etc. Wingspan is 20 feet 8 inches, and the top of the fin is 74 inches (6 feet 2 inches) above the ground. Takeoff weight is 264 lbs. The rear cargo doors open and they drop an r/c jeep on a pallet, as well as 2 free-fall r/c parachutists. The model also has smoke systems both of the inboard turbines, and uses 2.4 GHz data link to provide real-time data to a laptop computer on the ground while in flight, this data includes airspeed, turbine RPM, EGT, fuel consumption, etc. It is covered in fiberglass and epoxy resin. Built mainly from balsa and ply, with many glass and carbon fiber moldings to reduce weight. This C-17 Globemaster III is one of the largest jet models in the world today! Complete with retractable landing gear and pneumatically operated flaps

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My sentimental fave-B29 "Dina might"
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/804337...odel_rc_plane/

4 160cc rotax engines-sounds like it is optioned with NC8 too https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

It's scary how close the pitch is on approach to the real one..we used to be into the RC planes pretty heavy back in the day,but never had one that needed one guy working a futaba on throttle and the other flaps https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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Bill, thank you for setting me straight. I just blame the meds for the holes in my memory. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/stupid.gif
I still don't know why it's called a Vindicator in the movie, though. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/confused.gif

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OK so someone tell me what this is and whats its out of https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...o/P9073181.jpg

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JATO from a B-47? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Nope https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

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JATO from a B-47? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Here's what a JATO takeoff of a B-47 looked like.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...hotos/JATO.jpg

JATO = Jet Assisted Take Off. The 47 would accelerate up to about 100 knots, fire the aft-mounted JATO system, and lift-off into a steep (for those days) initial climb. The JATO system expired at about 2000 feet altitude and the bomber continued under its own power. The JATO system helped the B-47 get off the ground at high gross weights or from short runways. I think the Boeing B-47 was the only operational USAF aircraft to use the JATO system. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

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X-1 Rocket Engine?

Dave

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OK so someone tell me what this is and whats its out of https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...o/P9073181.jpg

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I know Jeff! That is the insides of my new Electrolux vacuum https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

Nuch

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If there are four thrust nozzles there, I would have to guess
that it is out of an early X-plane varient. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif

Nuch

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SR-71 https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif

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Commando Cody's Jet Pack with out the Cover... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/shocked.gif

Ken https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Or...the actual jet thruster from the "Thunderbirds"

http://www.reelfilm.com/images/tbird6.jpg

With Lady Penelope...of course!

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/20...b__200x262.jpg


Okay Jeff...what do I win? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif

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https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...m/P9073182.JPG

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Hickam has some visitors over the weekend to celebrate its 60th ANV..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9.../TB17Small.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...o/P9133573.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...nice2Small.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...o/TB1Small.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9.../TB19Small.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9.../TB30Small.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9.../TB46Small.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...00112Small.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...00123Small.jpg

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Cool pics of the "other" Thunderbirds! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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X-1 Rocket Engine?

Dave

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Looks like you nailed it Dave! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Thanks! Once I saw the number of chambers, I remembered back to when I read Yeager's book a few years ago.

Dave

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I have this problem with Hornets around my house https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif

F-18 Hornets that is https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Hornet buzzing around

Nuch

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This one will wake you up https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/ooo.gif

Wake up pass

Nuch

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This one will make you cry!

B-52 crash

The ultimate sacrifice..... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

Nuch

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This one will make you cry!

B-52 crash

The ultimate sacrifice..... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif


Nuch

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This mishap is sad on so many different levels. Foremost, it was a COMPLETELY avoidable event. Pilot was a known flat-hatter and supervisors never came down on him hard enough - just passed the problem-child along to the next supervisor. He was an accident waiting to happen. Very strong indicators prior to mishap that he should have been boarded out. Flat-hatting in a single seat aircraft is taboo. Doing it in a multi-place aircraft is inexcusable. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...thumbsdown.gif

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Oh man....

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Sam - what's a flat-hatter?

Nuch

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Sam - what's a flat-hatter?

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Sorry Nuch, it is a show off. In the military it is a loose cannon, a non professional aviator.

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My place up in Wisconsin is due south of the Hardwood Air to Ground Missle range. ANG train up there every weekend. They come in at near treetop...so friggin cool and each and every time I hear one I still run out with my son to look. We visit the range several time in the summer...one of the wildest sounds I have ever heard was the gun practice of an A-10 Warthog...indescribable.They still use live ammunition on gun and small smoke bombs on their bomb runs...

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It's crazy on the B52 crash video...after the plane crashes...you can still hear the engines racing...just for a second.

Too bad https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

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Sam - what's a flat-hatter?

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Sorry Nuch, it is a show off. In the military it is a loose cannon, a non professional aviator.

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More specifically, a show-off who flies his aircraft so low over the assembled brass and dignitaries at the change-of-command parade that their hats get flattened.

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His squadron commander chose not to ground the guy, he decided to fly with him to ensure nothing like this happened and died as a result of his decision. The really sad part is that the Sq CC's wife and kids witnessed the crash.

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It's crazy on the B52 crash video...after the plane crashes...you can still hear the engines racing...just for a second.

Too bad https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

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The pilot of that B-52, the loose cannon who could not be controlled, was so dangerous that it was getting so that nobody in his squadron would fly with him. For the airshow demo practice the squadron commander flew right seat for this guy and two more senior officers rode in two other positions on the airplane. The crash occurred because the pilot pulled the airplane up into a fighter-style pitch-up after a low pass. He leveled the airplane on downwind, opposite the direction of landing, but he had run the airplane out of airspeed during this maneuver and the B-52 immediately stalled and began to enter a left spin when it impacted. If you look closely you can see the (squadron commander) copilot's ejection system beginning it's sequence as his cockpit election hatch leaves the airplane over the copilot's seat. Sadly, his seat fired as the airplane hit the ground and he did not clear the fireball. The squadron commander, who had tried to get this guy grounded, had his own family there to watch the demonstration practice and they saw the whole thing.

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His squadron commander chose not to ground the guy

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Because the mishap pilot had friends in high places and was close to retirement. The squadron commander could not ground him without suffering a career setback himself so he chose to go along and get along. It was all wink-and-nod stuff and career political BS and it got three good men and one idiot killed.

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You know Bill, no one ever thinks that playing politics can
cost someone the ultimate sacrifice. Hell of a price to pay.

Nuch

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You know Bill, no one ever thinks that playing politics can
cost someone the ultimate sacrifice. Hell of a price to pay.

Nuch

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You can bet your last dollar that there was one hell of an ass-covering scramble as the investigators discovered all the cover-ups by higher-ups that kept that hot-dogging B-52 pilot on flight status. More than one career was terminated over this crash because of all the buddy-buddy back-slapping by the mishap pilot's higher-ranking pals. About the only consolation that came out of the B-52 crash was that a few of those officers, the ones who over-ruled the squadron commander's desire to ground the mishap pilot, had their own careers ended.

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how did the pilot screw up in that crash?

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One other good thing to come out of it was that thru the use of this example it was beaten into the rest of us that "hotdogging" would not be tolerated, no matter how good or how many friends you had in high places.

Just goes to show you, there are bold pilots and there are old pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

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He thought he was Sierra Hotel.