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- Thread starter jwhc
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Interesting site on the Alaska Invasion. There are still many war relic's on site. picture heavy
http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/11/the-forgotten-battle-japanese-invasion.html
http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/11/the-forgotten-battle-japanese-invasion.html
Bubba Yugga
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Not pure magnesium, but an alloy with aluminum.
I worked on old Sikorsky helicopters made of the same crap.
Most of my airframe work was chasing cracks and corrosion.
Horrid stuff, but didn't really burn any faster than 2024 T3.
I worked on old Sikorsky helicopters made of the same crap.
Most of my airframe work was chasing cracks and corrosion.
Horrid stuff, but didn't really burn any faster than 2024 T3.
Donny Fenn1
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6 you say? Can you make any complete aircraft out of them?
Sound's like you just won a lottery
Dark Alley Dan
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In a similar role, the English had the Miles Master, a collection of ungainly dissimilar objects held together with plucky English ingenuity and optimism:
Pity the poor instructor, propped up in the wind and producing drag with his face.
Is it any wonder folks still love the Harvard/Texan. It's a brutalist bit of architecture, but not unattractive:
Pity the poor instructor, propped up in the wind and producing drag with his face.
Is it any wonder folks still love the Harvard/Texan. It's a brutalist bit of architecture, but not unattractive:
Bubba Yugga
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Reproven a quarter century later with the F4 Phantom.
Dark Alley Dan
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And yet again with the amazing F-105 Thunderchief:
Here we see one triumphing over the laws of physics and nature using tons and tons and tons of thrust and a lil' pinch of "bite me, God." And if the fire went out, it had the glide angle of a house.
Not unattractive when not hauling half the bombload of the WW2 8th Air Force:
Back in the day when pilots were hairy-chested-hard-drinkin'-steel-balls-dude-types and the jets all looked fast.
But was it maneuverable? Kinda...
Gotta think that would have been like watching a very-much-faster version of combine square dancing.
Here we see one triumphing over the laws of physics and nature using tons and tons and tons of thrust and a lil' pinch of "bite me, God." And if the fire went out, it had the glide angle of a house.
Not unattractive when not hauling half the bombload of the WW2 8th Air Force:
Back in the day when pilots were hairy-chested-hard-drinkin'-steel-balls-dude-types and the jets all looked fast.
But was it maneuverable? Kinda...
Gotta think that would have been like watching a very-much-faster version of combine square dancing.
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Bubba Yugga
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The Thud really should have been designated B105, as its original design purpose was to haul a single nuke in what could only be described as a semi suicide mission.
Really fast on the deck, but had the agility of a battleship in a bathtub.
Why the USAF ever designated this as a fighter is beyond comprehension.
Both of these statements could be used on our CF104. The role in Germany was to carry a single nuke and it was a semi suicide mission as well.
As for agility, the 104 could do rapid rolls all day long but had a terrible turning radius. I worked on them in 4 wing as an AE Tech and was lucky enough to get 2 rides. In one ride we spotted a tank in the open on a training area and did a high speed, low level strafing run on it and cranked it around for another. The pilot had to do heading reference and turn radius calculations as the intended target was out of vision during the go around. By the time we got around for another strafe, the tank was almost into the trees looking for cover. Fun times back in those days.
