Thread: What planes are these?

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I didnt know some of those were rotary,Ijust picture a Mazda,Must really scream!

Dave I did not know you were a PJ. That explains a lot! Good on ya!

Pat

Here's a couple cool shots from the air show

and what the heck a few more.......

Damn! they are just to close.wow how do the pilots do that? man not me.ever hear of a downdraft?

It's pretty wild to think they can fly so close at such high speeds. Damb fine pilots with a lot of trust in eachother!

Found these in Oregon.

Got lots of these but these are the best.

Can't afford to crash any of these.

The B-52 has crashed twice. Rather there have been two of these crashed....rather spectacularly to say the least. Complete with real fire and fire trucks. Pilot error.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/32062/b52_crash/

there are more videos of this.

This one went in too but has been since been made again. The owner/pilot is one of the best around. I've seen the show and he is great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVxSn9P568

Mcminnville OR! The new home of the spruce goose! Very cool museum with the spruce goose taking up the entire building! Went there 4 years ago on vacation.
http://www.sprucegoose.org/

Great R/C videos Bentwings! All my stuff is on VHS tapes
Do you fly at Tri Valley? or what field.
The closest flying club down here is 55 miles away in cookville. I should start up one closer to me. A guy I know has 400 acres, half woods, cows on the other half.

Pat

Hemi T ,

The GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun found on the A10 Warthog is in fact a 30MM, not a 50 cal. The 50 cal round at .500 is less than half the size of the A10 Gatling guns 30MM which is 1.18110. Thought a plane guy like yourself would want to know that.

RS

Heres some up close.

RS

I do know that,
I don't know why I put 50cal, I must been thinking of other stuff when I wrote it! I know air planes, not an expert on all weapons, just know the ones I have, and not an expert on them! I have built many dummy scale guns and missiles (some that actually lanch) for planes I have built.
I'm more interested in the way the complete plane is designed, most of the left & right side parts are interchangable, the offset front gear(because of the cannon) makes tighter right hand turns then left hand, the fact that the plane was designed around the gatling cannon, which was orignally a 2 speed gun and then changed to a set speed , but takes a second to come up to speed. The way the wing is honey comb and skinned so that it can take hits and not fold a main spar as in basic aircraft, it has a tub around the 5' drum that holds 1,200 -1,500 shells to protect them from hits which would explode if hit. That it only flew just under 350 mph and as slow as 125mph. It's large tires so it could land & take off on rough ground, like the Jaguar, as most jets had weak landing gear, and it's ailerons were out and large for better & quicker control, the high ratio lift wings made it able to fly slower, unlike that of most jets that have a thin wing (low ratio) which needs speed to keep in the air and fly faster. And the shark teeth design they used on the A-10 were put on everything from cars to pistols.

No! I did not look up this stuff on the internet, I don't need to! I read books on all the planes I build, I build them as close to scale as I can.

Pat