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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #45 - 09.11.04 at 22:25:55 In honor of our webmaster, from my trip this last weekend-
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #46 - 09.11.04 at 22:27:18 This is a nice shot, with the nice yellow flowers on the fore ground and here my Favourite PhantomII: Mc Donnel Douglas RF-4C PhantomII: Added info: 72-0156 BA/91st TRS/67th TRW. Marked 91st AMU. Landing after an early morning training mission during "Salty Bee '88" exercise.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #47 - 09.11.04 at 22:33:54 And did I mention I like Blackbirds?- Sorry about the near swerve into politics, some things get my blood boiling.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #48 - 09.11.04 at 22:56:02 Hey Gary here some nice pics of the YF-12A Interceptor: here a photo of a Hughes GAR-9 (AIM-47A) getting ready for Bomb Bay loading
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omega_supreme Full Member Offline Posts: 220 Netherlands Gender:	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #49 - 09.11.04 at 23:06:19 ZOIKS! that thing is huge, it looks like twice the size of the AIM-54.
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #50 - 09.11.04 at 23:08:08 If I recall correctly, they originally had the Idea of a Mach 3+ dogfight. It was not until they realized this Aircraft had a turn circle of no less than like ~110 nautical miles (!) at maximum speed, that this wicked Idea was abandoned Crazy people they were back in those days g
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omega_supreme Full Member Offline Posts: 220 Netherlands Gender:	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #51 - 09.11.04 at 23:10:57 That would be one hell of a dogfight. With the entire earth surface as playground
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #52 - 09.11.04 at 23:20:02 I was always of the opinion that the weapons side of the Blackbird program was a ruse to hide it's true calling- The worlds fastest spyplane. To this day a Blackbird has never been lost to enemy action, not once. By the time you know one is in the area, it's already to late to do anything about it
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omega_supreme Full Member Offline Posts: 220 Netherlands Gender:	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #53 - 10.11.04 at 00:05:55 hehe what do you expect with mach 3.2+ For this plane it only takes 3 minutes to fly over our entire country ! I know its not very big but still....Anyway does the blackbird already have stealt technologie and can it really go through earth's athmosfere?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #54 - 10.11.04 at 00:13:58 The Blackbird was one of the first aircraft to have some stealth features, I would have to pull the book I have on them off the shelf and check the details again though. I know the paint on the craft has some stealth aspect to it, there was something else though.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Reply #55 - 10.11.04 at 00:31:00

Here the russian Mach 3+ compettitors:

Mig-25 UB Foxbat Trainer version:

Mig-25 A Foxbat Intercepter version

Mig-25 R Foxbat Reconnosense version:

Mig-31 Foxhound Show-model version:

Mig-31A Foxhound Interceptor version:

Mig-31M Marines version:

01-MIG-31
Nato reporting name: "Foxhound"
Laid: 1972, Operational: 1979
Aircraft in service: 280

05-MIG-31M
Nato reporting name: "Foxhound B"
Laid: 1983, Operational: 1984
Aircraft in service: 8

here more info on the Mig31 http://home19.inet.tele.dk/airwing/aircraft/foxhound.htm

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Reply #56 - 10.11.04 at 00:53:08

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The Blackbird was one of the first aircraft to have some stealth features, I would have to pull the book I have on them off the shelf and check the details again though.

I know the paint on the craft has some stealth aspect to it, there was something else though.

yes there was indeed something else, The blackbird and YF-12 planes had triangular weges in side sloped parts of the hull as on the top side as bottom side. they are very well vissable on the modil kit version of this plane as well, my model is 1.72 scale SR-71 A Blackbird with the yellow NASA stickers on the tail fins.

and here some flower power!

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VDX

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Reply #57 - 10.11.04 at 02:43:41

Hello all, im not a huge plane fan but being in san diego you get too see quite alot, also there is a plane museum here thats pretty cool, its got a black bird at entrance as you come in just a few feet above your head
-->http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/exhibits/listing.html

so anyways the blackbird is my favorite followed by the red baron tri wing

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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #58 - 10.11.04 at 13:00:44 A bit of Aeronautic history : The World's first VTOL Transport Aircraft Dornier DO-31 First flight made in Nov 1967, Germany
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: What is your favourite Aircraft? Reply #59 - 10.11.04 at 13:14:54 Quote: A bit of Aeronautic history : The World's first VTOL Transport Aircraft Dornier DO-31 First flight made in Nov 1967, Germany Wow that looks like a space ship FalconFly , like from some 1950 Space invader movie, it looks pretty wierd too. Nice find
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