[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Not quite an airplane post but ezaircon4jc called for a cockatoo-bar landing.

Nailed it.


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Bolter, but good recovery.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Not quite an airplane post but ezaircon4jc called for a cockatoo-bar landing.

Nailed it.


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Looks like he slid off the end!

[Lady Jane]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a Viper and not a Venom. The Venom looks more like a Huey.

[M-technik-3]

Should be AH not UH typical of today's news issues. I'll just leave it at that. Should be a Z designation as well since it's a two engine not a single.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a Viper and not a Venom. The Venom looks more like a Huey.

Didn't know they were still flying those. I thought everyone had moved on to the Apache type attack helicopter.

[Josh-PA]

What's this? It just flew over my son's dorm at university of Delaware

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Josh-PA

What's this? It just flew over my son's dorm at university of Delaware

Looks like a Beechcraft Starship...

https://external-content.duckduckgo....821&ipo=images

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Josh-PA

What's this? It just flew over my son's dorm at university of Delaware

My guess is a Rutan LongEZ kit plane, like the one that John Denver perished in.....

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

Looks like a Beechcraft Starship...

The Starship was a twin engine. vreihen16 is correct.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Didn't know they were still flying those. I thought everyone had moved on to the Apache type attack helicopter.

They are also known as Super Cobras.

Historical background of 773 Sqn flying them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMLA-773

https://www.seaforces.org/usmcair/HMLA/HMLA-773.htm

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

They are also known as Super Cobras.

Historical background of 773 Sqn flying them:

They're fun to fly. I was lucky enough to score a couple of hours of stick time in an Army Cobra back in the 80's. Beautiful day. A/C ventilated seats. Good rock station on the RDF channel. I had a blast.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

The Starship was a twin engine. vreihen16 is correct.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

The Beechcraft Starship has swept canards, and the plane pictured above did not. Also, there are only six flying Starships left, so the odds are pretty low of ever randomly seeing one flying overhead.....

[Llarry]

Several days ago, the last airworthy Martin JRM-2 Mars took off from its lakefront home in British Columbia, made a stopover in San Francisco Bay, and continued on to a lake in Arizona. It will be partially disassembled and trucked from there to its new home at the Pima Air and Space Museum.

The Martin Mars served long and well.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

They are also known as Super Cobras.

Historical background of 773 Sqn flying them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMLA-773

https://www.seaforces.org/usmcair/HMLA/HMLA-773.htm

Originally Posted by M_Six

They're fun to fly. I was lucky enough to score a couple of hours of stick time in an Army Cobra back in the 80's. Beautiful day. A/C ventilated seats. Good rock station on the RDF channel. I had a blast.

We had an AH-1 Cobra support us one night when we detected a moving
vehicle on highway 1, between Go Dau Ha and the Cambodian border. The
target was moving too fast for artillery, so a nearby Cobra paid a visit. He
illuminated the target on his 1st pass and nailed it with a salvo of 2.75”
rockets on his 2nd pass. The target turned out to be a 3-wheel Lambretta,
humping ammo. The secondary explosion was impressive. Detecting
vehicles in open was a rarity for us. Our primary mission was detecting
infiltration foot traffic, and there was no shortage of that.

[3.0L]

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Llarry

Several days ago, the last airworthy Martin JRM-2 Mars took off from its lakefront home in British Columbia, made a stopover in San Francisco Bay, and continued on to a lake in Arizona. It will be partially disassembled and trucked from there to its new home at the Pima Air and Space Museum.

The Martin Mars served long and well.

I had a dream long ago of learning how to fly and in retirement selling everything and converting an Albatross into a home and just travelling the country, or more. I also dreamt of doing the same thing with a sailboat. Alas, my DW put the nix on both those dreams. She was right, of course (risk adverse and a city girl) and now retirement is spent babysitting a couple of wonderful grandkids.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a Viper and not a Venom. The Venom looks more like a Huey.

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A Huey can easily be recognized with your eyes closed: hallmark sound.

A couple of them regularly pass near one of my houses (sometimes accompanied by a Chinook). Can hear them approaching from far away through the mountain valley with those two rotor blades 'racka-tacka-tack' whacking through the air.

Bundesheer:
https://youtube.com/shorts/5dzOI3r_ta8

Trivia:

[Llarry]

Tomcat Thursday... F-14 of VF-102 "Diamondbacks"

[Llarry]

After World War II and the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons played a major role in military planning. When the USSR joined the nuclear club, I think military planners assumed that any future major-power conflict would inevitably turn nuclear. In the 1950s, the development of nuclear weapons and doctrine assumed a critical place.

Nuclear weapons were initially the exclusive domain of the U.S. Air Force. The weapons were large and heavy and required a bomber like the Boeing B-29 or its successors to carry. But research and development continued at a rapid pace and soon there were so-called tactical nuclear weapons that could be carried by a single-engine fighter or attack plane. The Air Force's Tactical Air Command, the U.S. Naval aviation and Marine Corps aviation entered the picture.

The military center of gravity of nuclear weapons was in Albuquerque, New Mexico . The Navy established a Naval Air Special Weapons Facility there, which was not large but had several aircraft of each nuclear-capable design assigned. I have forgotten where I read the story, but in one or more series of above-ground tests at the Nevada Test Site, aircraft were tested to see how close they could get to the detonation without sustaining damage. I believe it was about at this time (1956-58) that Navy and Marine aircraft control surfaces were painted white to reflect nuclear flash and minimize damage.

Here is a very early production Douglas Skyhawk YA4D-1 of NASWF in about 1956.

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by Llarry

The military center of gravity of nuclear weapons was in Albuquerque, New Mexico . The Navy established a Naval Air Special Weapons Facility there, which was not large but had several aircraft of each nuclear-capable design assigned. I have forgotten where I read the story, but in one or more series of above-ground tests at the Nevada Test Site, aircraft were tested to see how close they could get to the detonation without sustaining damage. I believe it was about at this time (1956-58) that Navy and Marine aircraft control surfaces were painted white to reflect nuclear flash and minimize damage.

Here is a very early production Douglas Skyhawk YA4D-1 (new designation YA-4A) of NASWF in about 1956.

Here's also a good illustration of the white control surfaces on a 1967-era A-4E over Vietnam. Rudder, elevators and ailerons all painted white.

And NASWF later became the Naval Weapons Effect Facility; here's a tired old A-7A in 1977.

[Llarry]

The last Gulfstream G650 has rolled off the line. Its replacement is the G800, which uses a similar fuselage but has a power increase courtesy of a new Rolls-Royce Pearl 700 engine rated at 18,250 pounds of thrust. Note that older Gulfstream engines were said to use BMW-Rolls Royce engines; did BMW's jet engine subsidiary get bought out?

The first photo is a G650 and the second is a G800.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Llarry

The first photo is a G650 and the second is a G800.

Still no leading edge slats...