Aircraft pics

[427TJ]

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



It's the Convair B-58 Hustler. Our first mach 2 bomber!

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.

[ANDY M]

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.

[nuch_ss396]

Andy,

Honestly, who else knew the difference before the age of
cable TV & the internet...... Only geeks like us I guess.

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?

Nuch

[427TJ]

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.

[Late BrakeU2]

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Closer look at the C-17 I posted pics of



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

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

[ANDY M]

Bill, thank you for setting me straight. I just blame the meds for the holes in my memory.
I still don't know why it's called a Vindicator in the movie, though.

[JChlupsa]

OK so someone tell me what this is and whats its out of

[ANDY M]

JATO from a B-47?

[JChlupsa]

Nope

[427TJ]

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JATO from a B-47?

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



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.