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Originally posted by earthdude
This craft looks like the UFO platform seen in China several months ago.
Originally posted by earthdude
This craft looks like the UFO platform seen in China several months ago.
Originally posted by Drunkenparrot
reply to post by byeluvolk
I enjoyed your addition of the luft'46 images and understood your contribution in the spirit intended as explained in your last post.
My intent was aimed towards making the point crystal clear for the inevitable casual reader with little interest in historical aviation who takes a quick glance and, failing understand the context of Luft'46, takes a leap in connecting non existent dots and goes on to believe and perpetuate a historical fallacy.
I have come to believe a sizable percentage of the "facts" supporting vintage UFO cases have their roots in similar beginnings and just wanted to save the innocent from possibly unknowingly contributing.
My apologies if the wording of my post led you to believe I was being critical of the information you posted in any way, that was no part of my intention.
The first aircraft in history to combine stealth with short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) capability and supersonic speed has been delivered to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., where it will conduct its first hovers and vertical landings. The Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II STOVL stealth fighter will replace U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B STOVL fighters, F/A-18 strike fighters and EA-6B electronic attack aircraft, and will also be used by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy and the Italian Air Force and Navy.
There are three different models of the F-35. The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant is the smallest and lightest F-35 version and is the only variant equipped with an internal cannon, the GAU-22/A. It is intended for the US Air Force (USAF) and other air forces, but is primarily intended to replace the USAF’s F-16 Fighting Falcon, beginning in 2013, and to replace the A-10 Thunderbolt II starting in 2028 www.gizmag.com...
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by PW229
Thanks for your comments, I thought this would be something that all of ATS would enjoy,
hence the breaking news...its actually a perfect fit.
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by PW229
Ah, you lucky man. Well some of us only get the second hand
experience.
I will have to venture over into the aircraft forum sometime, it sounds like you guys
have more fun.
Blue Origin (blueorigin.com): Founded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, the company has built a prototype spacecraft named Goddard, a rounded cone shape with four stubby legs. It took off vertically, rose 285 feet and descended successfully in a 2006 test. The company declines to grant interviews but says on its website that "Our first objective is developing New Shepard, a vertical take-off, vertical-landing vehicle designed to take a small number of astronauts on a sub-orbital journey into space."
It was awarded a $22-million NASA contract this year and has a Washington state manufacturing site and a Texas launch complex. www.tampabay.com...
A pulsejet sure sounds like it belongs on a spaceship or something, but it's actually one of the most primitive (or at least simplest) types of jet engines there is. The Nazis used pulsejets on their first generation of cruise missile, the V-1, and now Boeing is toying with the idea of getting them to power a VTOL aircraft.
WWII was a long time ago, and the Nazis did kind of lose, but there is one remaining vintage V-1 Argus pulse jet engine that still works, at the Planes of Fame museum in Chino, CA. Here it is being fired up on video; make sure and turn your subwoofer waaaaay up for this one:
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by Drunkenparrot
Oh, and one more thing...yes I do believe in fairytales, and betime ones are nice too.