Aviation, Imagination of the Future from the Past

[Arjen]

I think keeping the aircraft carriers properly aligned - in three dimensions - would be near impossible in anything but dead calm.

 

[Archibald]

I was briefly tempted to post the Nelson "HAW HAW" meme of The Simpsons fame, but even as a boomer I realized there's no redeeming value in that, so instead I decided to waste some internet bandwidth and storage capacity with this nearly information free message.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDuLHEoS45s

 

[hesham]

A strange idea ?.

Instead off that,they can make extended surface to the aircraft carrier ?.

 

[hesham]

Another strange idea.

 

[hesham]

From Aeroplane 1955.

 

[hesham]

From Air Force magazine 1945.

 

[hesham]

From, Western_Aviation_Missiles_and_Space 1945,

I have ever seen such like this beauty airplane !!!.

 

[hesham]

From Popular Machenics.

 

[hesham]

From, Western_Aviation_Missiles_and_Space 1940.

 

[hesham]

From Aeroplane 1946,

here is a FSW aircraft hypothetical project,maybe a fighter ?.

 

[martinbayer]

From, Western_Aviation_Missiles_and_Space 1945,

I have ever seen such like this beauty airplane !!!.

Just goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

 

[Charlesferdinand]

From, Western_Aviation_Missiles_and_Space 1945,

I have ever seen such like this beauty airplane !!!.

Which way is front?

 

[starviking]

A strange idea ?.

Indeed!

I imagine steaming line astern at that separation would be impossible at speed, and the varied pitching, rolling, and yawing of the ships making up the line would make takeoff challenging, to say the least.

 

[Justo Miranda]

From Aeroplane 1946,

here is a FSW aircraft hypothetical project,maybe a fighter ?.

Shooting Star fuselage??

 

[Charlesferdinand]

The How and Why Wonder book of Rockets and Missiles (loved that series when I was a kid) had this nuclear missile launching VTOL in 1969

 

[Antonio]

The How and Why Wonder book of Rockets and Missiles (loved that series when I was a kid) had this nuclear missile launching VTOL in 1969

I already posted it years ago. I can upload a better rez version if needed

 

[F.L.]

Le livre How and Why Wonder de Rockets and Missiles (adoré cette série quand j'étais enfant) avait ce missile nucléaire lançant VTOL en 1969

The text is interesting, because it shows the nuclear madness of the time. When using nuclear weapons was not only a deterrent.

 

[Charlesferdinand]

The How and Why Wonder book of Rockets and Missiles (loved that series when I was a kid) had this nuclear missile launching VTOL in 1969

I already posted it years ago. I can upload a better rez version if needed

Oops, I missed that.

 

[hesham]

From, Western_Aviation_Missiles_and_Space 1945,

I have ever seen such like this beauty airplane !!!.

Which way is front?

Here is the front.

 

[paralay]

There were drawings of futuristic airplanes in the books, if I remember, I'll try to find them

 

[paralay]

It is necessary to look in the old magazines "Technology of youth"

 

[F.L.]

Still no "capitalist" aircrafts.

 

[paralay]

There is!

translation:
- Quiet!
- Hey! Hey!
- Human
- Hello
- Capitalist country (assume)

Яндекс — поиск по видео

yandex.ru

 

[hesham]

From Aeroplane 1943.

 

[southwestforests]

From Aeroplane 1943.

So, did Aeroplane magazine tell the world what happens as a result of asymmetric thrust when that flying wing loses one of its wingtip engines?

 

[Hood]

 

[Justo Miranda]

From Aeroplane 1943.

So, did Aeroplane magazine tell the world what happens as a result of asymmetric thrust when that flying wing loses one of its wingtip engines?

Hi

 

[southwestforests]

Yep, those wingtip ramjets are something I've always questioned the sanity of.

 

[hesham]

From American Aviation 1949.

 

[hesham]

From American Aviation 1949.

 

[hesham]

From this journal of 1958.

By the way it had some Navy projects,such as "submersible tanker".

 

[southwestforests]

Coming by to look at the latest post and once again seeing the ramjet equipped P-15/F-51 in the 25 March post brought to mind a USAF book my USN Dad gave me about 7/10 of the way through the previous century.
A photo in there was what let to my questioning the sanity of wingtip ramjets and their off center thrust.
Dad and his father were both pilots and I'd heard from them and read in books and magazines accounts of the problems with asymmetric thrust.

To this day I wonder whether those ramjet flames were actual or painted in.

 

[hesham]

From Popular Science 1953/2.

 

[southwestforests]

That thing with using the buoy as a brake looks a bit more fanciful than practical.

 

[archipeppe]

From Popular Science 1953/2.

The floatplane in the first picture should represent the Convair F2Y "Sea Dart" while, in reality, depicts the wartime DM-1 glider.

 

[southwestforests]

while, in reality, depicts the wartime DM-1 glider.

Nope, it doesnt; it depicts a plane which has a free-standing, aft hinged, bubble canopy that the DM-1 does not possess, nor does the Sea Dart, and the Sea Dart's canopy is nowhere near that close to the vertical stabilizer.

In that respect it draws far more inspiration from the Convair XF-92A than either the DM-1 or the Sea Dart, https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-080-DFRC.html

 

[Hood]

No health and safety issues with this design...none at all...

 

[southwestforests]

No health and safety issues with this design...none at all...

I want to do a movie scene where the antagonist's propellor ski troops are about to cut off the hero at the pass when one motor backfires and triggers an avalanche which blocks them and allows the hero to escape.

 

[Nik]

Movie ?? Okay, disbelief duly suspended for ~90 mins...
IIRC, the Geo site that often reports snow avalanches takes care to mention they're usually caused by 'weak slab' conditions, failure triggered by 'mechanical' rather than acoustic disturbance...

 

[starviking]

No health and safety issues with this design...none at all...

Bit like the blocking troops mentality.

”Straight towards the enemy comrade… don’t think of bugging out!”