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Maybe these airplanes can be merged into those?

Mergatron is always up for merging, maybe we should ask officially?

It couldn't hurt. Could it?

Or maybe we should ask a combat hovercraft thread to be merged in here?

But hovercraft don't fly, so I dunno.

Hovercraft float on a cushion of air. I'm sure that will be sufficient.

So they can be brought in bed for a sweet dreaming?

I think so, though sometimes I like more than sweet dreams with my hovercraft.

I must try, at the moment I use only latex pillow, anyone knows if they are a good kind?

Brun for a start.

It's true, I need new trousers after watching those A-10 videos. Kinda like the people in them, but for quite different reasons.

Not surprising that this thread had taken off (sorry) on a cycling forum. Very early planes used bike tubing and lot of the planes here have reynolds steel tubing in them, the expertise developed for aircraft tubing was used in the development of 531 so there's a nice synergy between bikes and planes.

[SIZE=3]From the Reynolds site .....'But again through intimate knowledge of aircraft steel the Company was ultimately able to develop a super-light, high strength, steel tube for cycle construction, which still holds its place amongst all the material available for this purpose. The tubing was "REYNOLDS 531", which became world famous. '
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke7r3SBC-z8

One of my favourite X planes because it featured Aeroelastic/Wing Warping. Back to the roots of flight. Also inherently unstable and could not be flown without computer control.

I'm confused, is this a plane or a hovercraft?
The homemade flying hovercraft - YouTube

Universal Hovercraft - UH-18SPW Hoverwingâ„¢ Flying Ground Effect Hovercraft - YouTube

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I used to be friends with a kid who's family owned ran the Fairey company.

Mine's bigger than yours :)

The Anatov AN-225 Mriya, the world's largest and heaviest aircraft at 640 tonnes. Once used to fly 216,000 German ready meals to Oman for US troops and originally built to carry the Russian shuttle Buran around:

I grew up spending a lot of time at a local air museum (my dad was one of the founders). I spent a lot of summers hanging around, sitting in old aircraft and generally digging about old wrecks too. I spent a lot of time sitting in a Vulcan, watching visitors and giving them the odd tidbit of information. I still remember the smell of old leather and aviation oil permeating from the crew compartment.

#csb

Mine's bigger than yours :)

How ironic, the antiquated Vostok provailed.

the guppy as it was nicknamed
no idea why

my bad this was the guppy

and the beluga while we are on the subject of silly looking transporter planes

Suppositories thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sweet flightsim screenshot.

Speaking of flightsims checkout this : http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/