Another fun video

Some nice AAR shots of the X-47b.

the X-47B once again made aviation history by successfully conducting the first ever Autonomous Aerial Refueling (AAR) of an unmanned aircraft

Sure it was.

Tu-214R over Syria with Flankers in escort.

The radio was bad enough I couldn't translate the Russian and I don't speak Arabic.

Stayed Frosty

Now THAT'S a crosswind.

One hell of a bird strike dent at the 5:19 mark.

Jumbo jet tetris:

Streaming Lightnings:

Oh, so close....

This is how you kill an anti tank missile:



(mutters, it flies, it counts...)

a reply to: anzha

It's damned unnatural to see a single engine that big...

Speaking of unnaturally big things, here's the Hughes XH-17

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Tied with the Rotodyne as the VTOL craft that would win my "most likely to feel at home in a Gerry Anderson show" award...

a reply to: Barnalby

So I know this may fit more into the spaceflight forums but screw it, it's still one of my favorite mysteriously successful canceled projects.

a reply to: surrender

That's what I get for not paying attention because the page was loading so slow.

It looked like it, but it was hard to tell for sure.

originally posted by: Zaphod58

I was giggling first 3 seconds that video scares me every time I hear that sound or have a small plane fly over me i get scared I would swear in my past life I died in submarine and being shot dead by one of those

EDIT : you should have a ghost planes thread

a reply to: Bfirez

Not so mysteriously. The first test ban treaty excluded allowing exploding nuclear weapons in space.

The US tried to negotiate an exception for use in propulsion.

The Soviets didn't buy it. Ban it or no treaty. The US accepted the ban.

I wrote an alternate history once about it.

thedragonstales.blogspot.com...

It was more fun than real.

a reply to: anzha

I always got the sense that Orion was one of those "we know it works, so let's put the designs in the archives and save them for a 'rainy day'" sort of deals.

One of the only redeeming parts of Deep Impact, for me, was that it was pretty clear that the ship the US and Russia throws together to get to the comet was supposed to be an Orion.

a reply to: Barnalby

There is some interesting Orion related info here as well.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

a reply to: Barnalby

It also had to do with the costs.

Each nuke would cost about $2M. And it needed thousands of them.

And the fact it'd trash the non military sats in orbit.