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The Buffalo beat out an early version of the Gruman Wildcat, which was originally designed as a biplane. From what I've read, the Buffalo was a revolutionary design that, unfortunately, was quickly overtaken by fast pace of aircraft engineering during that time.

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ETA It's also kind of hilarious top see how dirty the exhaust from that B-52 is compared to the others. Makes me think of a POS minivan pissing oil behind it driving next to a Ferrari.

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LOL. Just FYI, I have owned a minivan AND a Ferrari 308GTSi. The Ferrari was the one that burned oil! (I carried a case of oil in the trunk. Every time i filled the tank with gas, I poured in a quart of oil. It was embarrassing whenever I'd get on it a little bit, I'd leave a cloud of black smoke. It wasn't unique to the particular one I had, they pretty much all did that, unless someone completely rebuilt the engine.) Sorry to detract from the aerial vehicle conversation!

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ATACMS




This was ERINT, the precursor to the MIM-104 PAC-3



LOSAT (it was launched from a Bradley when I worked on it)




Video of the LOSAT (turn down volume, music is pretty loud). I got to work on this one out at WSMR. Fun times.

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LOL. Just FYI, I have owned a minivan AND a Ferrari 308GTSi. The Ferrari was the one that burned oil! (I carried a case of oil in the trunk. Every time i filled the tank with gas, I poured in a quart of oil. It was embarrassing whenever I'd get on it a little bit, I'd leave a cloud of black smoke. It wasn't unique to the particular one I had, they pretty much all did that, unless someone completely rebuilt the engine.) Sorry to detract from the aerial vehicle conversation!

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yes it was. The GTSi's from the 80-82 burned oil. The early carb cars (76-79) and QV cars (83-85) did not burn oil. FTR I had a '77 and it did not burn any oil.

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This was ERINT, the precursor to the MIM-104 PAC-3



LOSAT (it was launched from a Bradley when I worked on it)




Video of the LOSAT (turn down volume, music is pretty loud). I got to work on this one out at WSMR. Fun times.

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I worked the actual PAC-3 production version.

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I was on the program when the DOD announced the downselect award of the ERINT to the PAC-3.

The next week I was on LOSAT program...

BTW, If I find the time this weekend, I'll see about posting some of my pics from all the airshows my former company sent me to...

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Whoever tested this atrocity either had a death wish or nuts the size of cantaloupes.

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Must've been a death wish. His legs are far too close together to be the latter

It was insane to even be standing as close to that thing as those men were.

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White Knight Two and SpaceShipTwo

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Convair B-58 Hustler

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I built this as a model when I was about 12-13. I had the 1st paint scheme. Awesome!

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No, that was the F4F Wildcat, which started out on the drawing board as a biplane fighter similar in design to its predecessor, the F3F.

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Didn't they just chop the top wing off of it and call it the first monoplane "fighter"? A few Marines lost their live in Midway taking that crate up against zeros.

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No, that was the F4F Wildcat, which started out on the drawing board as a biplane fighter similar in design to its predecessor, the F3F.

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Stumbled across this article this afternoon, thought maybe a few of you would enjoy reading it.

The Boeing 747 is an engineering marvel and an architectural masterpiece...


747 compared to a 707, "the biggest jetliner of its time in the 1960s"

I don't have a picture to post but coming in to work on Thursday I thought I saw the AN 225 landing at DFW.

If so it's the second time I have seen it as it was in IAH several years ago when I was driving by.

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I don't have a picture to post but coming in to work on Thursday I thought I saw the AN 225 landing at DFW.

If so it's the second time I have seen it as it was in IAH several years ago when I was driving by.

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Join the Facebook "DFW Spotters" and they post up all the good pics.

It was the Antonov 124. Imagine courtesy of Dylan Phelps.

Thanks dubi, I was trying to keep my eyes on the road. That's definitely what I saw

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I don't have a picture to post but coming in to work on Thursday I thought I saw the AN 225 landing at DFW.

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I doubt it. I work at DFW every day, and from what I hear, the 225 hasn't been to DFW in quite some time

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Somebody flagged my pictures of the blackbird. I took them, so no copyright issue and it was the only flagged photos in a big group of pictures. They weren't even consecutive, so I doubt it was accidental.

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All through flight school we kept getting promised the ARH. Then the promise was the -58F. Now I fly Balckhawks.

58Fs seem like they would be a hell of a lot of fun to fly. High risk of getting your ass shot off, but fun as hell.

Stories from Loach pilots in Vietnam have always captivated me.

An An-124 just landed at DFW. I couldn't get to the other end of our project in time to take better pics, but it's the first Russian high wing I've seen land here. Landing nose-on, you could tell it was different from several miles away

On this day in Texas history

WASPs arrive at Avenger Field, Sweetwater

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On this day in 1943, the first trainees of what would become the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) arrived at Sweetwater Army Airfield (better known as Avenger Field). Organized the previous year as the Womens Flying Training Detachment and the Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the organizations were consolidated as the WASPs in August 1943.

Under the direction of famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, experienced women pilots in civil-service status were trained to fly army planes to relieve men for World War II combat duty. For a brief period, Avenger Field trained both men and women, but in April 1943 it became the "only all-female air base in history," except for the male instructors and support crews. Fourteen classes, totaling 1,074 pilots, earned their wings in every type of army plane before the WASPs were disbanded on December 20, 1944.The WASPs flew sixty million miles for the AAF and received high praises from their commanders; thirty-eight pilots died in service.

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The aircraft in the foreground is a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Kaydet . My uncle with a couple of his Army Air Corps buddies bought a number of these as surplus after the war and started a crop dusting company. My father's first solo flight was in one of these aircraft when he "borrowed" one at 15 or 16 (he did have several hours flight time with my uncle in the plane). A few years later he would be flying F-86 Sabres. I believe the aircraft behind the Kaydet is Fairchild PT-19.

A photo of Jacqueline Cochran in front of a Northrop 'Gamma' racing plane -