Aircraft

[John Sellers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yes it is, and horizontal is horizontal. However the V-22 is both, or neither, or something else, but uses a different type of blade.

IDK much about military aircraft, but judging from the Wiki-article just read, I'd say both. The V-22 Osprey is a V/STOL aircraft.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes it is, take off and land vertically, fly horizontally, but the point was the blades are unlike helicopter blades.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That looks like a helicopter blade.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

...but the point was the blades are unlike helicopter blades.

[Pamela]

It IS possible that the blade in question is not actually one from a V22. It is a picture of the type of light found on the blades of a V22 as well as numerous other rotorcraft.

Sheesh! Bloody perfectionists!

[xoxoxoBruce]

My original question was does each blade have a light in the tip or only one of the three. I asked this because the light trail in the night take off picture was so clear. I don't know because that ain't my job, they were installed over in flight test. It would make sense to have all the blades the same and interchangeable, but we're talking about the military so sense doesn't count, they're libel to have a light in each blade and only power one on each engine, or some dumb shit.

OK, I had to go find out, ya whining maggots. According to the Aviationist...

the CV-22s have two NVG (Night Vision Goggle) compatible dual mode LED “tip lights” on the end of each rotor blade whose brightness can be controlled by the aircrew: one visible from above, the other from the bottom

So yes, each tip, like the helicopters.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I don't think any were saved...

[fargon]

I found this here; http://www.plus613.net/image/441

[Gravdigr]

[xoxoxoBruce]

December 7th, 1941. You've seen a million pictures of Pearl Harbor Navel Base, but here's Wheeler Army Airfield, near Schofield Barracks, in Honolulu, taken by a Jap pilot.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I don't know how fast the thing was falling, but that's a pretty good shot to snag that in the air.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Chopping up the fleet with the "guillotine".

[Pamela]

Makes me kinda want to cry....

All those venerable beauties, all that lost nose art, all that history!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, but the war was over and we had to show the world how peace loving we are. A gentle giant, the Mother Teresa of nations.



Besides, some people with friends in high places could make a fortune with that scrap aluminum.

And the military-industrial complex would make a fortune selling bigger badder bombers.

[Carruthers]

A British aircraft belonging to Imperial Airways is refuelled at Semakh, Palestine (now Israel) in October, 1931 during British rule. Transformed from a black and white original, the photo has been brought up to date by a skilled teenager working out of his bedroom. American student Jared Enos (18) from Rhode Island confessed he never had an interest in art, but found a connection with "colourisation" and the reviving of old black and white photographs.

It's quite astonishing how aviation has developed in less than a century.
From flights several taking days with stops at rough desert airstrips to flights that can whisk you to another continent in the space of a few hours.

For a high definition version of the above image, go to Wikipedia and click on the fourth image down. Handley Page H.P.42

[Carruthers]

One modern day intercontinental flight that took somewhat longer than a few hours.



http://www.birdinabiplane.com/