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Northrop Grumman unveils fuselage for next U.S. fighter
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| Saturday, October 27, 2007.
| ALLISON GATLIN
Posted on 10/27/2007 1:50:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: knarf
The Lost Squadron - I have the video. Amazing story.
During WWII - my dad helped to build the P-38. It’s always been my favorite aircraft.
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posted on
10/27/2007 10:41:38 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(America: THE GREATEST FORCE for good in the world!)
To: 2111USMC
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posted on
10/27/2007 10:47:46 PM PDT
by
kAcknor
("A pistol! Are you expecting trouble sir?" "No miss, were I expecting trouble I'd have a rifle.")
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'd love to see them reopen the A-10 production line. I know that Rockwell Aviation has gone out of business in the years since the last A-10 was built, but Boeing purchased most of their assets and Lockheed-Martin is upgrading the A-10's to the new C model.
I went up to the Air Force Museum in Dayton last fall and saw a couple of A-10's doing some touch-and-goes at Wright-Patterson. They'd scream over us at just a few hundred feet, which was just WOW!!! After about fifteen or twenty minutes of this, they flew over us one last time, waggled their wings in farewell, and headed off toward the north. I managed to snap about a dozen good pictures of them as they were showing off. I'll post them, if I can find them.
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posted on
10/27/2007 11:14:57 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:40:30 AM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts...)
To: Tallguy
"The Brits might have put Merlins in their P-38s"Don't think so, the supercharged Allisons worked fine and there were other places for the Merlins to go.
P-40 "F" and "L" ran Merlins without much improvement in performance...Google tells me that those were later re-engined back to the Allison.
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:47:21 AM PDT
by
norton
(Go ahead, vote for Hunter, you know you want to.)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
They shot down Yammamoto off Bougainville.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
McDonnell bought Douglas, Boeing bought McDonnell-Douglas as well as Rockwell (B-1) which had previously picked up North American (F-86).
Northrup-Grumman bought TRW.
PS: Boeing built a pot load of fighters between the wars. One of the first kills in WWII was by a Philippine NG P-26 on December 8th.
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:55:31 AM PDT
by
norton
(Go ahead, vote for Hunter, you know you want to.)
To: norton
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:57:01 AM PDT
by
norton
(Go ahead, vote for Hunter, you know you want to.)
To: TLI
Yea, right. That has been parroted for decades. Isn't going to happen.
Oh it be happenin'. The abilities of RPV's and drones is growing by leaps and bounds. Between costs, reluctance to lose pilots and the limitations imposed on performance by fragile humans it's coming soon.
Speaking as a former USAF member with time as an F-4 crewman.
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:59:26 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: okie01
Hmmmm? You and I seem to have a few glaring similarities vis-a-vis this thread. We possibly share a birth year, and freerepublic birth year, knowing where we were when six years of age, love of old airplanes, the Texas flag, the only difference is I knew why I was in Germany in 1946. Your airplane memory overshadows your reason for being at the Ponca City Airport, except for the fact you couldn’t drive, so I’m betting you were there with parents which mirrors my reason for being in Germany.
I too would love to have one, (Lightning) but who can afford the parts the fuel, the maintenance, the etc. Next best thing, a yearly trip to Oshkosh, WI. To see and drool over the few that remain, and know that somewhere somehow, there are people who not only want one, but can afford what comes with it. God bless them for keeping the memory alive.
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posted on
10/28/2007 8:01:11 AM PDT
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: norton
I recall stories about how cranky the superchargers were on the P-38’s that were used in the Pacific. I don’t recall the specific models. The superchargers were also very vulnerable to battle damage positioned as they were on the topside of the booms.
I wasn’t aware that the Merlin was put in the P-40, but it stands to reason since the Brits used a lot of Warhawks in North Africa. I wonder if the P40’s aero design was just a little to draggy to take maximum advantage of the Merlin’s power at altitude? Worth checking out.
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posted on
10/28/2007 8:12:11 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Climate is what you plan for, weather is what you get.)
To: af_vet_rr
Sounds like there’s going to be a traffic jam with all the UAV’s flitting around at various altitudes in the battlespace. I’ve read that there is already a struggle going on to decide which service is going to ‘control’ the UAV’s operationally.
I don’t know if we’ll be looking at a modern-version of the Key West Agreement or simply a recognition that 1 service, probably the USAF, will control the air tasking for everything operating above xxx altitude.
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posted on
10/28/2007 8:19:48 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Climate is what you plan for, weather is what you get.)
To: BenLurkin
Ben:
I can remember being on the beach on Guadalcanal and watching the P-38's and Zero's in dog fights. They were mostly done at night, and the search lights would light up the Zeros but not the 38's or 51's. I think that those of us that use to watch those dog fights are getting much smaller. I am now 83 going on to 84 and am still in good health, but I know that a lot (many) my age are failing and passing away. I was in the Third Marine Divison, Ninth Marines at the time.
Good evening and the very best to you and yours.
Semper Fi
Tommie
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posted on
10/28/2007 8:27:18 AM PDT
by
Texican
(This FORMER MARINE will never in his life time "Cut and Run" I dig Dagny Taggart)
To: knarf
My favorite P38/GoreBULL warming story ... enjoy
I just saw Glacier Girl at the Wings Over Houston Airshow a few weeks ago.
That is one beautiful aircraft!
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posted on
10/28/2007 10:26:01 AM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: chaosagent
Did someone say "Glacier Girl"?
Taken at the Reno Air Races this year
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posted on
10/28/2007 11:58:01 AM PDT
by
hattend
(300 million people in the USA and we get to choose our President from a pool of 15 weasels.)
To: Texican
Thank you for yor service.
To: NonValueAdded
Don’t know, but it should.
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posted on
10/28/2007 1:20:00 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(I will not submit.)
To: magslinger
My dad flew one of those beauties, photo-reconnaissance, in the Pacific in WWII.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
(Ling-Tempco-Vought - who grew up from the Vought Naval fighters), who had bought Convair (builder of out Fort Worth of the B-36 and eventual builder of the F-16), Actually the Fort Worth Division of General Dynamics (previously Consolidated Vultee Aircraft -- or Convair) was bought by Lockheed before the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta.
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posted on
10/28/2007 3:54:56 PM PDT
by
VRWCmember
(Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
and then later bought Douglas - Continental out of St Louis (Douglas created the DC line of planes, but who was "continental - the airline?) - That part was incorrect. McDonnell Douglas was bought by Boeing.
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posted on
10/28/2007 4:00:23 PM PDT
by
VRWCmember
(Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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