I know # of stores are a function of length of mission, but since Harriet was so heavy, seems like I read F-35B could fly more stores on the same mission. And bring back more.
The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:
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114 years ago today, on Feb. 18, 1910 a Frenchman named Louis Paulhan made the first recorded airplane flight in Texas. Louis did it in a Farman III biplane. After the Wright brothers' controlled airplane flights in 1903, aeronautical progress… pic.twitter.com/InE60IYRD2
"Texas Kate," a Consolidated B-24 bomber during World War II. Assigned to the 7th Air Force, 30th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Squadron. Part of the inscription reads: "Captain W.S. Trewitt Dallas
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Another Texas Aggie 1937
Kate's ol man
Crew Chief J.H. Springer
"Slave Driver" pic.twitter.com/qjrhk6ySta
Anybody else imagine Ride of The Valkyries playing?BBRex said:
A pic my dad took in Vietnam, in 1968 or '69.
No Photoshop here! John Seay of Arlington, Texas in 1983. Under power lines and over fences is standard operating procedure for crop dusters. Yup. It's pretty cool to watch. pic.twitter.com/hh8ETHL0fX
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jkag89 said:
nah it was a national anthem flyover before an a&m football game, 13 years ago when i had neither a mortgage nor a family to support, and had disposable incomefc2112 said:
You must be much, much more wealthy than I if $1500 for a B-25 flight could be "worth it" - unless they were flying you to Australia or something like that.
This is a still from the greatest Texas commercial of all time.
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Those who know, know. pic.twitter.com/f3FEwAmvNP
I mean the plane has two takeoffs, one for the wings and one for the rest of the plane. At this point I simply respect these aircraft continuing to function, I assume mostly due to stubborn obstinance over any actual engineering reasons.B-1 83 said:
Old and tired B-52 is old and tired…….
My dad said he's looked out many a time and seen the wingtips above the fuselage and below the fuselage…..
This is called post buckling diagonal tension. We often go ahead and let large shear bays buckle and distribute the additional load to the frames and stringers. It's more weight efficient than making the shear panels buckling resistant.GAC06 said:
https://theaviationist.com/2019/11/20/lets-talk-about-the-b-52-strategic-bombers-characteristic-skin-wrinkles/
Not sure how you can say an F-35 is not a game changer over the Harrier. It's software capabilities alone make it lightyears ahead.GAC06 said:
Not sure what you mean by the harrier being heavy, it's a lot lighter than the F-35. Empty weight about 16k and MTOW of 32k if my memory holds up. F-35 is about 30k empty and MTOW 60ish. I'm sure it can carry more if they don't care about stealth and use external stores. USMC wanted a supersonic stealth harrier and they got it. I'm just saying it's not the complete game changer capability wise the earlier poster alluded to.