Name that Boeing.

a reply to: Bfirez

They tend to get stuck during retraction. Something in the reel jams and they can't get it fully retracted so they have to cut it free.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Why don't they use a uhf link to relay to vlf from land?

Or do they have to be over the sub to get a message?

a reply to: grey580

They'd have to bounce the signal off something to get it to where the sub is. Satellites would have to be geosynchronous and many to cover enough area to reach subs just about anywhere. Aircraft are far more flexible.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: RadioRobert

YB-40

Well, you're no fun. I was hoping to trick a few of them before one of you nabbed it

a reply to: RadioRobert

Sorry. Didn't have much to do after you posted it.

Let's see who is paying attention.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Looks like a Boeing, but it isn't.

Tu-91 testbed?

a reply to: Zaphod58

looks like a guy yelling

a reply to: penroc3
Looks like he is whistling Dixie.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Tu-4 with a tu-91 double prop test bed in place of Ann engine? Incredible how perfect a copy the Tu-4 was despite the much simpler materials and manufacturing techniques used. The cockpit is almost indistinguishable from the 29.

I was wondering if you folk could find pictures of the OVIES or CUTIES?

originally posted by: Zaphod58
Let's see who is paying attention.

Well, it looks like a Boeing B-29 superfortress to me, but no idea what that is strapped to the wing

That last one looks like a Tu-4.

originally posted by: Caughtlurking
a reply to: Zaphod58

Tu-4 with a tu-91 double prop test bed in place of Ann engine? Incredible how perfect a copy the Tu-4 was despite the much simpler materials and manufacturing techniques used. The cockpit is almost indistinguishable from the 29.

It's probably NOT going to be a Tupolev in a name-that-Boeing thread.

a reply to: Imagewerx

How many American counter rotating props have you ever seen?

originally posted by: Caughtlurking
a reply to: Zaphod58

Tu-4 with a tu-91 double prop test bed in place of Ann engine? Incredible how perfect a copy the Tu-4 was despite the much simpler materials and manufacturing techniques used. The cockpit is almost indistinguishable from the 29.

And we have a winner!

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Imagewerx

How many American counter rotating props have you ever seen?

Apart from the P51 Mustang,not many!

a couple of the little guys....

a reply to: howmuch4another

Top one looks like a Peashooter.

a reply to: Zaphod58

exactly....My old hanger neighbor flew one and had some pretty harrowing tales.