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mgimp said:
At the CNE in 1963 one of the golden hawks flew a low pass at low throttle with canopy slid back and the pilot waving at the crowd. It was overtaken right in front of us with one of his partners at full throttle. One of the most impressive things I have seen and I spent 4 years tracking 104s. or as we called them "one-oh-fers".
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I saw them do that at an air show at our high school in Listowel Ontario . 1962 or 1963. we were standing on the roof of the two story school and the slow F-86 very close and looked to be about the same height as we were. a real thrill to see.
 
brownie- I was at that air show in Listowel as well. grade 9 if I remember correctly . I graduated grade 13 in June 67. I've never forgotten that low and slow/high speed pass by the F 86's of the Golden Hawks
 
Those weird striations on the vertical fin are interesting, and very distinctive. I wonder if there was some sort of treatment applied during the manufacturing process to strengthen it in specific places... Reminds me of damascus - hard and tough in some areas, soft and flexible in others.

And if we're talking about loopy-ass post-war acid-influenced aviation madness, we really need to talk about the French:

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Thunderbirds are GO!
 
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Dark Alley Dan said:
Those weird striations on the vertical fin are interesting, and very distinctive. I wonder if there was some sort of treatment applied during the manufacturing process to strengthen it in specific places... Reminds me of damascus - hard and tough in some areas, soft and flexible in others.
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On the Miles M.52? Its a wooden model, and that's just the grain of the wood.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Those weird striations on the vertical fin are interesting, and very distinctive. I wonder if there was some sort of treatment applied during the manufacturing process to strengthen it in specific places... Reminds me of damascus - hard and tough in some areas, soft and flexible in others.

And if we're talking about loopy-ass post-war acid-influenced aviation madness, we really need to talk about the French:

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Is this a real airplane? Did it fly? Why so fat?
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Those weird striations on the vertical fin are interesting, and very distinctive. I wonder if there was some sort of treatment applied during the manufacturing process to strengthen it in specific places... Reminds me of damascus - hard and tough in some areas, soft and flexible in others.

And if we're talking about loopy-ass post-war acid-influenced aviation madness, we really need to talk about the French:

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Thunderbirds are GO!
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The Leduc 0.22. Yes, it did make quite a few test flights. You can see it in the latter part of this video, starting around the 2:30 mark:

 
CV32 said:
The Leduc 0.22. Yes, it did make quite a few test flights. You can see it in the latter part of this video, starting around the 2:30 mark:

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Pulse jet with no moving parts. Not sure how he got the synchronization so good that there wasn't the signature "buzz" of most pulse jets.

It looks suicidally dangerous to fly, with the pilot right in the middle of the engine, but behind him is just a hollow tube, with the fuel in the wings, and in the video they talk about the whole cockpit being the ejection/safety capsule. I would imagine that would be an interesting ejection phase, somehow rapidly ejecting the pilot capsule from the rest of the craft. Still not very confidence inspiring, from a pilot's standpoint.
 
grelmar said:
Pulse jet with no moving parts. Not sure how he got the synchronization so good that there wasn't the signature "buzz" of most pulse jets.

It looks suicidally dangerous to fly, with the pilot right in the middle of the engine, but behind him is just a hollow tube, with the fuel in the wings, and in the video they talk about the whole cockpit being the ejection/safety capsule. I would imagine that would be an interesting ejection phase, somehow rapidly ejecting the pilot capsule from the rest of the craft. Still not very confidence inspiring, from a pilot's standpoint.
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I believe it was ramjet and used a turbojet to get to sufficient speed to bring the ramjet into power. AKA ‘flying barrel’ - Called for Mach 2 speeds — not all that frivolous an idea. I have seen some pretty impressive thinking on things mechanical coming out of France including my old ds 21 Citroens and the peugot 404 were pretty tough cars for their day
 
AP said:
I believe it was ramjet and used a turbojet to get to sufficient speed to bring the ramjet into power. AKA ‘flying barrel’ - Called for Mach 2 speeds — not all that frivolous an idea. I have seen some pretty impressive thinking on things mechanical coming out of France including my old ds 21 Citroens and the peugot 404 were pretty tough cars for their day
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Maybe this is why the dippers are (or were) crying for an end to Canada's aligned state status. Then again maybe not.
 
You can invent the wheel in only so many ways...

Even feathers on tips of Falcons wings were adopted as tiny winglets on wings of most of airliners and some smaller aircraft.We are still only imitating what God (or Mother Nature if you will) invented long ago.
 
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Gunner Kenneth Bratton, wounded in the knee by shrapnel, being pulled out of the turret of a TBF Avenger aircraft aboard USS Saratoga after a successful raid on Rabaul, New Britain, 5 November 1943.
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Poor guy. Imagine being in aerial combat & being fully aware of everything including that you could not bail out.Torture.


I am guessing the Martin Baker did not have synchronized guns what with the contra rotating props?
 
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