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The oddest fighter plane you've ever seen: Radical low cost twin tailed design
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| March 10, 2016
| STACY LIBERATORE
Posted on 03/11/2016 3:08:45 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
IIRC Cessna built a pull-push civil av. plane.
Yes the Skymaster.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:23:07 AM PST
by
Vinnie
To: sukhoi-30mki
Stick an engine in the front yet and you’ll have one of those puller/pusher twin engine jobs that Cessna used to make.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:29:30 AM PST
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
To: wny
P-38 Lightning was powerful and fast.
Huge powerful Twin Engines
4 50-caliber machine guns
20mm cannon
Extremely fast and maneuverable.
(Father of one of my high school friends flew one in WWII)
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:29:47 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: wny
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:30:29 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: BwanaNdege
I realize the twin engine design is heavier and more costly but... For operating over water or rough terrain where there aren’t a lot of options for emergency landings that extra engine is a nice safety net. I’d favor the OV-10 design over this thing. Though if cost/weight/size were primary considerations then maybe that changes things... Depends on the design constraints...
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:33:52 AM PST
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I flew to work and back in one of these in the mid 60's.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:38:49 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: bert
Bet going to the job was kind of pleasant on nice weather days.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:42:56 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wny
This thing would last about 8 seconds against a P-38.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:43:40 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: BwanaNdege
It was a joke.
Lighten up francis
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:49:39 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: BwanaNdege
I think Denver offed himself. He picked a pretty place to do it.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:52:40 AM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Tucker39
I live close to our local airport and see one of those
pusher pull planes every so often.Loud and fast plane.
To: DrPretorius
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:54:34 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: Farmer Dean
What kind of fighter plane has no visibility for a huge arc behind the pilot?
The little plane is very vulnerable to attack by other aircraft.Better have someone in a real fighter flying cover.
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posted on
03/11/2016 4:55:50 AM PST
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: BwanaNdege
Hadn’t heard about the vice-grips on the fuel selector. I think I recall it was in a very awkward to reach location and the required turn of the knob was counterintuitive.
To: ryan71
And every armored vehicle is a tank.
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posted on
03/11/2016 5:17:39 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: xkaydet65
I would say it looks more like the O-2.
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posted on
03/11/2016 5:23:27 AM PST
by
darkwolf666
("That which does not kill you, has made a grave tactical error" Someone else)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Lockheed P-38 Lightning (1942-1949)
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posted on
03/11/2016 5:29:53 AM PST
by
Stand Watch Listen
(Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
To: wny
The P-38 wasn’t a twin-tail design. It was a split-fuselage (or twin-boom) airframe. Subtle difference.
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posted on
03/11/2016 5:49:36 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It was under and behind the seat, if I recall.
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posted on
03/11/2016 5:52:43 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: lefty-lie-spy
John Denver had one. Its deadly. I seem to remember that Denver ran out of fuel....and couldn't reach around back of his seat to turn it on
It turned out that the prior owner / maker of his plane was significantly taller than Denver
Tragic loss.
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posted on
03/11/2016 5:57:09 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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