Picture of the day

[donor]

As I recall from literature Sukhoi T-4 shares nothing with B-70 other than specs,from technical POV it shares a lot of technology with Mig-25/31 and some with Tu-144.

It failed for the same reason M-50 failed-technology not advanced fast enough to keep up with what was expected from aircraft.

Regardless of difficulties Russian designers have a talent of making something useful using (by Western standards) outdated tech. Tu-95,Mig-29 and entire line of Antonov airframes are the best examples of just that.

Here is something from days when Russian aircraft design was far ahead from nearly everyone.Tupolev ANT-25.

 

[diopter]

Aichi D3A1 Val from carrier Akagi.

Mtsubishi A5M Claude

Mitsubishi B5M Mabel

Mitsubishi Ki-15 Babs

Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia planes at the Seoul airport, 1945

 

[Ganderite]

As I recall from literature Sukhoi T-4 shares nothing with B-70 other than specs,from technical POV it shares a lot of technology with Mig-25/31 and some with Tu-144.

It failed for the same reason M-50 failed-technology not advanced fast enough to keep up with what was expected from aircraft.

Regardless of difficulties Russian designers have a talent of making something useful using (by Western standards) outdated tech. Tu-95,Mig-29 and entire line of Antonov airframes are the best examples of just that.

Here is something from days when Russian aircraft design was far ahead from nearly everyone.Tupolev ANT-25.

Huge wing. Must have good STOL performance. What are the specs and performance of this plane? never seen it before. A contemporary of the DC2?

 

[Gibbs505]

U.S. Navy carrier aircraft attack the Japanese battleship Haruna at her moorings near Kure, Japan, 28 July 1945. Photographed from a USS Intrepid (CV-11) plane

 

[bearhunter]

As I recall from literature Sukhoi T-4 shares nothing with B-70 other than specs,from technical POV it shares a lot of technology with Mig-25/31 and some with Tu-144.

It failed for the same reason M-50 failed-technology not advanced fast enough to keep up with what was expected from aircraft.

Regardless of difficulties Russian designers have a talent of making something useful using (by Western standards) outdated tech. Tu-95,Mig-29 and entire line of Antonov airframes are the best examples of just that.

Here is something from days when Russian aircraft design was far ahead from nearly everyone.Tupolev ANT-25.

Looks to be a lot of German influence in that design.

 

[grelmar]

The Miles M.39B Libellula...

5/8th scale prototype for a carrier based fast bomber.

 

[donor]

Andriei Tupolev was very good student and a friend of Hugo Junkers (that got him into Gulag for many years) and his designs reflect that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_ANT-25#Specifications_.28ANT-25_No.1.29 specs for Ant-25.

That plane was a motorized glider.Heavy when fully loaded and grossly underpowered.Wiki says " A sloping concrete runway, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) in length, was built at Schelkovo air base".

I like this little guy.Google Tupolev Ant-2.Very "Junkers" design.

 

[grinder08]

Imprint of a Mitsubishi Kamikaze “Zero” along the side of the H.M.S Sussex, a heavy cruiser with 4.5" of reinforced steel at the point of impact

I bet a few people had to change their trousers after that one. Damn the Sussex must have had good armour.

 

[shredder]

Weird formation.

Now why in h-e-double-hockey sticks would one of our Voodoos and Freedom Fighters be flying in formation with NASA's shuttle transporter on a test flight?

 

[CV32]

Now why in h-e-double-hockey sticks would one of our Voodoos and Freedom Fighters be flying in formation with NASA's shuttle transporter on a test flight?

I believe this was part of the world tour conducted by shuttle Enterprise in 1983.

 

[CV32]

Imprint of a Mitsubishi Kamikaze “Zero” along the side of the H.M.S Sussex, a heavy cruiser with 4.5" of reinforced steel at the point of impact

Not a 'Zero' but rather a Ki.51 (Type 99, Allied nick 'Sonia') light ground attack aircraft.

 

[Bubba Yugga]

I remember being at Centennial College in Scarborough when they did the Enterprise flight over Toronto. Must have been early 1980's or so.

 

[diopter]

A friend of had this one as his main ride at Cold Lake.

 

[Bubba Yugga]

Instructor pilot I presume?

 

[Gibbs505]

The Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses British troops in the old Roman amphitheatre at Carthage, Tunisia, on 1 June 1943

 

[Gibbs505]

 

[fat tony]

Inspiration for the Vickers Wellesley?

As I recall from literature Sukhoi T-4 shares nothing with B-70 other than specs,from technical POV it shares a lot of technology with Mig-25/31 and some with Tu-144.

It failed for the same reason M-50 failed-technology not advanced fast enough to keep up with what was expected from aircraf

And:

Tommies getting into their personnel carriers ; which are 1910 London public transit buses. It is said the buses came with their civilian drivers who often became war casualties..

I have not found any pics of the post Dunkirk Invasion Crisis bus / troop transports. I have read those (whatever they were) had been used as late as the Western Desert Campaign to move troops around.

 

[donor]

I think V.Wellesley was one of the fruits of successful Tupolev ANT-25 I mentioned before.Same configuration but using geodetic construction.

Wiki mentions R100 airship ,I'm wondering if presence of parts from scrapped R100 in Nov 1931 had anything to do with Mr.Barnes design of Wellesley. Great recession was in full swing by then.

 

[x westie]

Inspiration for the Vickers Wellessley?



And:

Tommies getting into their personnell carriers ; which are 1910 London public transit buses. It is said the buses came with their civilian drivers who often became war casualties..

I have not found any pics of the post Dunkirk Invasion Crisis bus / troop transports. I have read those (whatever they were) had been used as late as the Western Desert Campaign to move troops around.

My late father talked about his battalion, 2nd Battalion Welsh Guards, using bus's to move the battalion rapidly, at the time after the evacuation from Dunkirk,as battalion transport had been lost in France, the threat of the Germans using paratroopers to lead the invasion of Britain was a considerable threat, he never did mention whether the bus's were driven by civilian or troops from the battalion, later they were issued Canadian Military Pattern trucks,

 

[XRCD011]

So clever of those Americans to dress in German uniforms..................oh wait, what?