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Combat Warplanes / Re: Interesting movies
« on: April 24, 2008, 09:08:02 PM »
No.1 it looks like that last video has been removed. 
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Fw 190A-5
« on: April 24, 2008, 09:05:59 PM »
Excellent, just laying there waiting for someone to find it!
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Combat Warplanes / RAF destroys £10m spy plane in Afghanistan
« on: April 23, 2008, 11:04:28 AM »
The RAF deliberately blew up one of its own £10 million spy planes after it crash landed over Taliban territory in Afghanistan.
Faced with the prospect of the technology falling into enemy hands, commanders immediately despatched an elite unit to remove "sensitive items" from the unmanned Reaper spy drone
The items were thought to be a high-intensity camera and memory chips.
When the elite unit had done its job and left the area, a RAF Harrier was called in to destroy the remains of the crashed plane with a 1,000lb laser-guided bomb.
A military source said: "There was no way we could take even the slightest risk of the Taliban getting hold of any parts."
The top-secret Reaper, which had only been in service for six months, is thought to have suffered an engine failure before it was forced to land in southern Afghanistan on April 9.
The Ministry of Defence has refused to discuss why the 66ft wingspan, single-engine Reaper was forced to crash land, but ruled out enemy action.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We can confirm that on 9 April, a Reaper UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] made a forced landing whilst on an operation over a remote unpopulated area of southern Afghanistan.
"Sensitive items were recovered and the remaining wreckage was destroyed.
"The reason for the forced landing is under investigation, however mechanical issues are suspected."
The RAF bought three of the US-made Reapers last year. they announced in November that it had started using them to gather intelligence on Taliban activities in Afghanistan.
The Reapers are used to relay real-time information about the enemy's position back to battlefield planners.
Defence analyst Charles Heyman, a former British Army major, said it was a mistake to think that the Taliban could not learn lessons if they got their hands on a crashed Reaper.
He said: "It's wrong to think of the Taliban as not being sophisticated technologically. Certainly there are people in the Taliban's ranks who are just as technologically capable with information technology as anyone in the world."
According to the US Department of Defence Security Cooperation Agency, Britain is looking at buying another 10 Reapers as part of a wider £540 million deal.
Source - Telegraph on-line
Faced with the prospect of the technology falling into enemy hands, commanders immediately despatched an elite unit to remove "sensitive items" from the unmanned Reaper spy drone
The items were thought to be a high-intensity camera and memory chips.
When the elite unit had done its job and left the area, a RAF Harrier was called in to destroy the remains of the crashed plane with a 1,000lb laser-guided bomb.
A military source said: "There was no way we could take even the slightest risk of the Taliban getting hold of any parts."
The top-secret Reaper, which had only been in service for six months, is thought to have suffered an engine failure before it was forced to land in southern Afghanistan on April 9.
The Ministry of Defence has refused to discuss why the 66ft wingspan, single-engine Reaper was forced to crash land, but ruled out enemy action.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We can confirm that on 9 April, a Reaper UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] made a forced landing whilst on an operation over a remote unpopulated area of southern Afghanistan.
"Sensitive items were recovered and the remaining wreckage was destroyed.
"The reason for the forced landing is under investigation, however mechanical issues are suspected."
The RAF bought three of the US-made Reapers last year. they announced in November that it had started using them to gather intelligence on Taliban activities in Afghanistan.
The Reapers are used to relay real-time information about the enemy's position back to battlefield planners.
Defence analyst Charles Heyman, a former British Army major, said it was a mistake to think that the Taliban could not learn lessons if they got their hands on a crashed Reaper.
He said: "It's wrong to think of the Taliban as not being sophisticated technologically. Certainly there are people in the Taliban's ranks who are just as technologically capable with information technology as anyone in the world."
According to the US Department of Defence Security Cooperation Agency, Britain is looking at buying another 10 Reapers as part of a wider £540 million deal.
Source - Telegraph on-line
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Combat Warplanes / Re: The identify the plane thread
« on: April 20, 2008, 11:54:30 PM »
Klemm Kl 35
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Forums Works / Re: Let Let Let Warplanes will going down
« on: April 09, 2008, 01:32:52 PM »
Again No.1, thanks for keeping us informed
As samuraj77 states sounds like a good idea. I like the idea of a gallery area, I have seen some sites were they automatically add a water mark to each image uploaded.
I'm sorry that I cannot help with translating, its taken me nearly 50 years to understand English. and I'm still working on that.
Looking forward to the rebirth of LetLetLet
As samuraj77 states sounds like a good idea. I like the idea of a gallery area, I have seen some sites were they automatically add a water mark to each image uploaded.
I'm sorry that I cannot help with translating, its taken me nearly 50 years to understand English.
and I'm still working on that.Looking forward to the rebirth of LetLetLet
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Warplane Art / Re: Abstract
« on: April 09, 2008, 11:47:29 AM »Thats cool No.1!Reminds me of the time wrap in "The final Countdown"
The basic plot of the movie
The setting is the year 1980. Captain Matthew Yelland (Douglas), commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, has been ordered to take on a civilian observer, Warren Lasky (Sheen) during a training mission in the Pacific Ocean. Lasky's boss, Mr. Tideman, watches Lasky's departure from inside a limousine, his face concealed from both the audience and Lasky, who has never actually met him face to face. Tideman helped design the Nimitz, and Lasky's assignment is to watch and make recommendations while the ship goes on exercises near Hawaii. When Air Wing Commander Owen (Farentino) mildly confronts him about disrupting the ship's operations that are working just fine, Lasky replies, "There are always alternatives, commander."
The ship encounters a strange storm vortex, which disappears after they pass through. Then they find that all the usual communication with shore has been cut off. There is only static, even from the White House, except for World War II broadcasts, and a very old Jack Benny radio skit. One of the crewmen overhears the senior staff's bewilderment before Yelland dismisses him, and he panics as he tells a disbelieving buddy that World War III has begun.
Yelland dispatches an F-8 Crusader (Identified by the variable-incidence wing) to Pearl Harbor, and two F-14A Tomcats to patrol locally. The Tomcat pilots are surprised to encounter two "mint condition" Japanese A6M Zeros, as are the Zero pilots to see jet aircraft. They also fly over a pleasure craft, which has fictional Senator Samuel S. Chapman (Charles Durning), his secretary Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross), her dog, Charlie, and Chapman's friend, Harvey, on board. They marvel at the speed of these "rocket planes," and Chapman wonders about the American insignia. His position in the Senate keeps him informed of all military hardware, but he's naturally never heard of anything like the Tomcats.
The Zeros strafe the boat to kill the passengers, so that they cannot warn Pearl Harbor of foreign aircraft. Chapman, Laurel, Harvey and Laurel's dog manage to dive off before the Zeros make another pass, which hits the ship's fuel tank causing it to explode. When the Zeros turn for another run, Chapman and Laurel remove their life vests so they can duck underneath the water's surface. They escape, but Harvey does not. Unwilling to remove his life vest, he shouts "I can't swim" a few seconds before being shot up.
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_(film)
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Messerschmit Me.263
« on: April 08, 2008, 09:02:43 AM »
The Messerschmitt Me 263 was a rocket-powered fighter aircraft developed from the Messerschmitt Me 163 towards the end of World War II. Three prototypes were built but never flown under their own power as the rapidly deteriorating military situation in Germany prevented the completion of the test program.
The Me 163B had two main shortcomings. One was a limited flight endurance, the second was the lack of a retractable landing gear. The latter meant that the aircraft had to land on a retractable skid. Both shortcomings prevented it from becoming an efficient fighter aircraft.
The Me 163C was an improved design with increased fuel tankage but still lacked retractable landing gear.
The project was then handed over to Heinrich Hertel of the Junkers company. This resulted in the aircraft becoming the Junkers Ju 248.
The design of the Ju 248/Me 263 started after the Me 163C because the Me 163C was not considered an adequate successor to the Me 163B because of its landing skid. The Ju 248/Me 263 took the wings and tail section of the Me 163B while the Me 263 was a completely new design.
Source - Wikipedia
The Me 163B had two main shortcomings. One was a limited flight endurance, the second was the lack of a retractable landing gear. The latter meant that the aircraft had to land on a retractable skid. Both shortcomings prevented it from becoming an efficient fighter aircraft.
The Me 163C was an improved design with increased fuel tankage but still lacked retractable landing gear.
The project was then handed over to Heinrich Hertel of the Junkers company. This resulted in the aircraft becoming the Junkers Ju 248.
The design of the Ju 248/Me 263 started after the Me 163C because the Me 163C was not considered an adequate successor to the Me 163B because of its landing skid. The Ju 248/Me 263 took the wings and tail section of the Me 163B while the Me 263 was a completely new design.
Source - Wikipedia
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Magical Machine Movement
« on: April 07, 2008, 12:17:19 PM »See how the Harrier Jet hovers through production
But that's what Harrier should do, HOVER
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Allied Intelligence on Axis Forces - German Aircraft and Armament - 1943
« on: April 07, 2008, 12:01:24 PM »
This secret stuff makes me laugh. Who were the Allies keeping German armaments secret from? I imagune the germans had a pretty good idea abput what their armaments and capabilities were. The US still classifies informatio about the Indian Wars as "Secret" Thosw wars were over in 1890. Pfui !
During WW2 the Allieds kept secrets from each other.
The Russians did this a lot, but the UK and the USA also kept information back from the Russians and each other.
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Arado Ar234 Blitz
« on: April 07, 2008, 11:55:17 AM »
Is my mind failing me (again) or did I read somewhere that Arado(or perhaps someone else) was working on a swept wing version of the Blitz. What a great night fighter it could have been!
Leo,
You could be thinkin of the Junkers Ju 287.
The first prototype was put together with the fuselage of a Heinkel He 177, the tail of a Junkers Ju 388, main undercarriage from a Junkers Ju 352 and nosewheels taken from crashed B-24 Liberators. Two of the Jumo 004 engines were hung under the wings, with the other two mounted in nacelles added to the sides of the forward fuselage.
A total of 17 flights were undertaken with the prototype, this lead to the production of a second prototype a Ju-287-V2, this one had retractable landing gear, the nose gear retracting backwards and the main gear into the wings towards the fuselage and was to be powered by six BMW 003A turbojets, arranged in clusters of three under each wing.
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Arado Ar234 Blitz
« on: April 05, 2008, 04:31:13 PM »I just wait for that page on AirRecce
Hopefully soon, very soon
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Arado Ar234 Blitz
« on: April 05, 2008, 04:19:22 PM »
The Arado Ar 234 Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet powered bomber. However, it was used almost entirely in the reconnaissance role. At first the Ar 234A series was designed without landing gear, it took-off my means of a large trolley which it would jettison, then on landing, skids would extend beneath the fuselage and under each engine.
The Ar 234A made its first flight in June 1943 and had an estimated maximum speed of 485 mph at 19,700 ft, an operating altitude of 6,100 ft and a range of 1,240 miles. The main A-series production was cancelled, even after the production had been stopped, seven prototypes flow, with V7 becoming the first jet aircraft to fly a reconnaissance mission.
Work started on the Ar 234B series and the first prototype was flown in March 1944, the first production version, the Ar 234B-0 followed in June of that year. Twenty B-0s were produced, next the B-1 was a limited production run of a reconnaissance only version. The B-2 quickly followed, this could be configured to fly either reconnaissance and bombing missions. The recce version could be equipped with two Rb 50/30 or Rb 75/30 cameras (mounted in the rear fuselage, with the aircraft configured to carry two extra fuels tanks under each engine if required. It was reported that the Ar 234B were flying reconnaissance missions over England and Europe in late 1944.
The prototype C-series flow in late 1944, with the Ar 234C-1 being the reconnaissance version. However, the main production plant was destroyed in 1945 before being captured by the advancing Russian forces. The total number of reconnaissance versions delivered to the Luftwaffe was 210 Ar 234Bs and 14 Ar 234Cs.
In April 1945 the Luftwaffe list only 24 reconnaissance versions left in service.
Source - Airrecce (pages not yet posted)
The Ar 234A made its first flight in June 1943 and had an estimated maximum speed of 485 mph at 19,700 ft, an operating altitude of 6,100 ft and a range of 1,240 miles. The main A-series production was cancelled, even after the production had been stopped, seven prototypes flow, with V7 becoming the first jet aircraft to fly a reconnaissance mission.
Work started on the Ar 234B series and the first prototype was flown in March 1944, the first production version, the Ar 234B-0 followed in June of that year. Twenty B-0s were produced, next the B-1 was a limited production run of a reconnaissance only version. The B-2 quickly followed, this could be configured to fly either reconnaissance and bombing missions. The recce version could be equipped with two Rb 50/30 or Rb 75/30 cameras (mounted in the rear fuselage, with the aircraft configured to carry two extra fuels tanks under each engine if required. It was reported that the Ar 234B were flying reconnaissance missions over England and Europe in late 1944.
The prototype C-series flow in late 1944, with the Ar 234C-1 being the reconnaissance version. However, the main production plant was destroyed in 1945 before being captured by the advancing Russian forces. The total number of reconnaissance versions delivered to the Luftwaffe was 210 Ar 234Bs and 14 Ar 234Cs.
In April 1945 the Luftwaffe list only 24 reconnaissance versions left in service.
Source - Airrecce (pages not yet posted)