“USAF F-15 Eagle Fighters Intercept Two Soviet MiG-29 Fighters Going to Canada For the 1989 Abbotsford International Airshow, August 1, 1989, State of Alaska, USA”
December 09, 2009, 5:08pm
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
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Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
“Craig Hosking of Los Angles CA. Craig developed an act there he took to the air in his S-2 Pitts “Double Take,” performed a full aerobatic routine, then landed inverted (up-side down).
He learned to accomplish this feat by repeatedly practicing take-offs inverted, landing up right, using a construction crane to pick-up the Pitts, flip it over and take-off again. After becoming comfortable with the inverted take-off he then taught himself to land up-side down..”
December 04, 2009, 9:21pm
nobody died! friday #35: Royal Air Force F-4 Phantom crashes after nose radome comes open in flight, 3rd June 1980
November 06, 2009, 7:39pm
Gary Numan in his Noorduyn Aviation AT-16 Harvard, England 1988.
Numan purchased this aircraft in the mid 1980s, and painted it to resemble a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M “Zero”. He was a regular on the UK airshow scene as part of the “Radial Pair” and Harvard display teams - often staging mock dogfights. Numan gave up display flying in the 1990s, and his Harvard has since had a new paint job and is now used for pleasure flights and training.
(photo by Derek Ferguson. related forum thread here)
October 27, 2009, 4:33pm
“Rockwell study of oblique wing aircraft for fleet air defense”
October 24, 2009, 10:12pm
“The Ames-Dryden-1 (AD-1) aircraft was designed to investigate the concept of an oblique (pivoting) wing. The wing could be rotated on its center pivot, so that it could be set at its most efficient angle for the speed at which the aircraft was flying.
This photograph is a multiple exposure showing the AD-1 aircraft with its wing swept at different angles between zero and 60 degrees.” (1980)
October 24, 2009, 8:31pm
based on the earlier KM/”Caspian Sea Monster” - and only slightly smaller - the Lun (Russian: “Hen Harrier”) ekranoplan was first launched in 1987. It is believed that the sole vessel entered service with the Soviet Navy’s Black Sea Fleet soon after.
It carried six launch containers for 3M80 Moskit ant-ship missiles on the top of it’s fuselage, and defensive armament taken from an Ilyushin Il-76M transport plane.
It was withdrawn from service sometime in the late 1990s, and can now be found here
September 10, 2009, 7:09pm
Aerolift Cyclo-Crane “proof-of-concept” vehicle flying over the Cascade Mountains, Oregon (circa 1982)
more on this soon..
September 03, 2009, 2:54pm
The Magnus Spherical Airship, Ottawa, 1981 Many thanks to Fred Ferguson, it’s creator, for the past few images. Fred’s current projects: www.magenn.com www.cargoblimp.com www.fergusontechnologiesinc.com
September 03, 2009, 6:58am
The Van Dusen Commercial Development Ltd LTA (Lighter then Air) 20 prototype, circa 1982
Also known as the Magnus Spherical Airship - named after the Magnus Effect, which shows how “a spinning object flying in a fluid creates a whirlpool of fluid around itself, and experiences a force perpendicular to the line of motion”. Rotation of the helium-filled sphere generates lift in this instance…
September 02, 2009, 11:43pm
