Good thing Burt was still soiling his nappy when Boeing was called to action...
Was this thing real; or has it been photoshopped? If real, what was its designation; I've never seen it before.
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September 29, 2017, 09:05 AM
Hound Dog
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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Was this thing real; or has it been photoshopped? If real, what was its designation; I've never seen it before.
It's a photochop deal. It's spoofing the B-17, as if it were built like one of Rutan's Long EZ 'tail first' planes. . .
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
September 29, 2017, 09:21 AM
2BobTanner
quote:
Originally posted by Hound Dog:
quote:
Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Was this thing real; or has it been photoshopped? If real, what was its designation; I've never seen it before.
It's a photochop deal. It's spoofing the B-17, as if it were built like one of Rutan's Long EZ 'tail first' planes. . .
Thanks. I thought that was the case, but sometimes ya never know.
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"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken
September 29, 2017, 10:15 AM
kz1000
Behold, the Jimmy Durante:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
September 29, 2017, 11:01 AM
erj_pilot
Just lock the thread now. I think you won the interwebs for the day with THAT one, kz.....
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
September 29, 2017, 12:14 PM
DrDan
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Originally posted by erj_pilot: Just lock the thread now. I think you won the interwebs for the day with THAT one, kz.....
Hmmmm, South American. Used to detect drug smugglers? Shouldn't the shnoz be red, though?
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September 29, 2017, 12:35 PM
Expert308
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Originally posted by DrDan:
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot: Just lock the thread now. I think you won the interwebs for the day with THAT one, kz.....
Hmmmm, South American. Used to detect drug smugglers? Shouldn't the shnoz be red, though?
Probably. According to wikipedia (yeah, I know...) it's an AWACS bird based on a 707. Although they might also have bought a surplus one from somebody and converted it into a passenger or cargo hauler. Sure does win the ugly prize though.
September 29, 2017, 01:13 PM
PASig
Ugly but effective.
September 29, 2017, 02:00 PM
PHPaul
KZ, I was scrolling from the bottom up, checking for new posts, so I saw the image before I saw your comment.
The first thing I said when the picture came up was Jimmy Durante!
(We may be dating ourselves a bit here...)
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
September 29, 2017, 03:18 PM
Sigmund
I'm not smart enough to post pictures, but this USAF Jimmy Durante is very similar to what kz posted:
Originally posted by pbramlett: Handley Page Victor.
The more I look at this thing the more I love it.
I can't find a single pitot tube on it.
And I would love to see the checkride on it. During the walkaround "So, Leftenant, you see that horizontal stab up there that we probably put on upside down so we had to put strakes on it to make the airflow behave like every other aircraft that has it's stab installed properly? Yes? What are the holes on each side of the stab for?"
Also in the design phase. Hey, the hydraulic pumps always run hot because the engine is completely encased in the fuselage. OK, add a cooling air inlet. One? Bollocks that, one for each engine! Hey, the fuel/oil heat exchanger is running a little....ADD AN INLET! Hey, these giant fuel tanks on the wings are...ADD AN INLET!
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
September 29, 2017, 06:26 PM
trapper189
^^^^What was the Victor's vector?
quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul: KZ, I was scrolling from the bottom up, checking for new posts, so I saw the image before I saw your comment.
The first thing I said when the picture came up was Jimmy Durante!
(We may be dating ourselves a bit here...)
I saw him when I was a kid every year around Christmas on Frosty the Snowman. If you remember him from something else, you must be really old.
September 29, 2017, 06:32 PM
Flashlightboy
September 29, 2017, 06:55 PM
sigmonkey
FIFY
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
September 29, 2017, 06:56 PM
V-Tail
That looks like the box that the airplane came in.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
September 29, 2017, 08:25 PM
newtoSig765
Or the Underground the pilot took to the airport!
-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
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September 29, 2017, 09:03 PM
Scuba Steve Sig
Some of my favorite clickbait:
September 29, 2017, 09:15 PM
Sigmund
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Originally posted by Flashlightboy:
Is that the Shorts SkyVan? About 30 year ago I flew in one from Hagerstown MD to (I think) Pittsburgh on (I think) an Allegheny Air commuter.
USAF operated those (as the C-23 Sherpa) in Europe as their FedEx Air system:
Skyvans are cool. A local Dropzone operated one for a bunch of years, and it was a blast to jump out of, but the inside sure is loud as hell. Those Garrets sure aren’t helping quiet things down either.
It looks like that particular skyvan is equipped with a weather radar.
September 29, 2017, 11:24 PM
Flashlightboy
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Originally posted by Sigmund:
quote:
Originally posted by Flashlightboy:
Is that the Shorts SkyVan? About 30 year ago I flew in one from Hagerstown MD to (I think) Pittsburgh on (I think) an Allegheny Air commuter.
USAF operated those (as the C-23 Sherpa) in Europe as their FedEx Air system:
