flateric said:Scott - If you will be lucky to get to USAF Museum Restoration area and make walkaround of YF-23 PAV-1...
ask whatewer you want from me...
Orionblamblam said:I am not sure how much time I will have for the USAF museum... I'm hoping more than one day, but can't say (this is a "wandering" vacation with family... we get where we get when we get there). So, no promises.
Orionblamblam said:I like redheads, but wouldn't turn my nose up at hot blondes or brunettes (female, of course... ). But barring the ability to send me some Russian Mail Order Brides... how's about $0.75 per photo of your designated "target?"
flateric said:Russian girls are WOMD that barely can be compared to anything. Phrases spoken after buying for her Guess? jeans for USD 500, like 'I've calculated how much you earned last year we were together - aren't you already must have enough to buy Mazda3?" sometimes make you think that she misses sums spent on her in calculations)))
flateric said:But they are so cute that you forgive them everything. Also, our postal service are much worse than even Canadian. Seriously - 0.75 is quite a good price. Agreed!
flateric said:Seems that Scott digged something very interesting...no news for a long time...
Apophenia said:I came across an article about this from few years back -- http://www.aircrash.org/burnelli/neam1.htm
Some good details but....
"We have previously written how the Smithsonian Institution removed America's most important aeronautical genius, Vincent Justus Burnelli, from America's aeronautical heritage by eliminating any mention of him..."
NASA attributes the conception of the lifting-body aircraft to one of its own engineers, despite abundant empirical evidence and scientific facts that Vincent Burnelli invented and reduced to practice the lifting body principal of design with his 1921 RB-1 aircraft.
The only conclusion we can draw from NEAM's reluctance to restore the only remaining Burnelli plane in existence, or to permit the Burnelli Company the right to do so, is that NEAM has joined the Pentagon, NASA, the Smithsonian and many others, including the Flight Safety Foundation. They wish to prevent the CBY-3 from ever flying again...
Orionblamblam said:flateric said:Seems that Scott digged something very interesting...no news for a long time...
Nothing of aerospace interest for a long time. Been wandering the Northeast. *Tomorrow* I go to the Bell/Niagara Aerospace Museum.
Orionblamblam said:... Snort. Kelly Johnson couldn't make that wreck fly again.
sferrin said:... keep an eye out for the Hughes Model 385 / XV-9A "Hot Cycle".
BTW do coyotes and tumbleweeds really count as neighbors?
+Bell Aircraft archive
=Oh, my...710 photos
Orionblamblam said:Arrived in Dayton this afternoon. Just enough time to drop by the USAF museum and get some basic info. In short... the restoration facility is only open on Friday, you need to sign up in advance, and this Friday is already booked solid. So, if you want photos from there, you're SOL. Will be going to the Presidential & X-Planes hangar, though. If anyone wants somethign in particular photoed from the museum, now's the time to speak up.
Wandered around the outdoor air park taking about 300 photos (amazing how fast you can take pics with a good digital camera). About 200 of them were of the Midgetman launcher.
sferrin said:There is this one and the one at Hill...
, do you know if any examples of the other design (the one done with Caterpiller) exist anywhere?
flateric said:Scott - If YF-23A out of reach - Tacit Blue, BoP and YF-22 then...
flateric said:Err...Scott, did you mean 1250 photos just of YF-22, BoP and The Whale? I just need to check my wallet, pal)
flateric said:Strange shots angle - you have used tripid to the maximum height?