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Anyway, in the end, all together, not a such bad thread...

Both are record breakers. ;o)

The Hughes was of particular relevance to this thread as the last 'non military' world speed record holder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-1_Racer

Ahh! Nice unexpected link!
I didn't know anything about the hughes, interesting stuff

Anyway, in the end, all together, not a such bad thread...

Well, if end it is, if not will be nice to know something about the Royals golden boys, I mean related to war, war machines and gossips about that on magazines.

I think most of posts aimed at Wayne seem to miss what he's saying, especially Dicki's.

Personally I have no problem with people posting pictures of planes that were designed and built to kill people, if that's how they get their rocks off - I don't get it myself. But it seems perfectly valid to post pictures of the carnage they cause - surely it's all about the design, form and function (part of which is to kill people). My kids like the Imperial War Museum, so do I, we go there two or three times a year. They love to look at the tanks, the planes, the submarine simulator - but we always visit the gallery of war paintings and sculptures. It provides a bit of context .

Chance Vought F4U

Listening to that audio, the chap says the wings were bent to strengthen the undercarriage.

I always thought it was to accomodate a bigger prop (airspeed). Notice the prop height at taxi.

possibly the folding wings needed strengthening at deck contact point - undercarriage

[strike]The puns are always a good indication of when a thread has started to get Bahrain.[/strike]

Spotter is clearly part of a crack sniper unit...

...clearly

Has this been posted yet?

Interesting thread, I'll have a sift later! In the meantime I'd just like to put this here (sorry if it's a pea):

P.S. the tags here are fucking jokes. Sad cunts.

What should I take from !jordancarroll is tynan! o.0 ?

deal with it?

deal with it?

I'd love to, just have to find out what it means first.
So again...

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ

The fuck is wrong with you?

I'm actually trying to help...

I assume you're saying just ignore it, but that's not particularly what I feel like doing.
I'd like to know if I'm being insulted and by whom.

P.S. the tags here are fucking jokes. Sad cunts.

MEGA FUCKING LOZZLES.

C real S E.

mega fucking lozzles.

C real s e.

why are we tynan dammit!

MEGA FUCKING LOZZLES.

C real S E.

Is that an admission (tags) ?

More Elektroplan shizzle:

The Caspian Sea-monster - YouTube

That look like the MD-160 Lun-class ekranoplan that still in it's original dock (start of video) rotting away;

Lots of photos;

http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html

^ We need the Soviets, goddammit!

The Soviet have a spacecraft launcher as well, but got scrapped (AFAIK).

http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/other/wsl/img/wsl_3.jpg

How could that launch into space?

1.) It's stuck in WIG mode (transporter)

2.) Jet does not have extra fuel capacity