Anybody else here unironic fans of 1950s aircraft?
Anybody else here unironic fans of 1950s aircraft?
Jordan Davis
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Liam Perry
Guess it's only me
Brayden Campbell
What were they going for
Brayden Kelly
Nathaniel Bailey
Evan Sanders
may have been 60s but developed in the 50s
Colton Diaz
I really like Gloster Meteors, even if a member of my family died in one during a training over the North Sea. He was flying at a low attitude, and it is believed that his life raft, located under his seat, unexpectendly inflated - some fishermen have apperently seen the plane suddenly go straight in the sea. The boat, after having inflated, must have pushed the pilot against the cockpit and the control wheel must have been pushed down. The plane has never been found, nor his corps. He was part of the dutch army.
Asher Harris
yes, go look on /hr/, there's a century jet thread up since 02-22-2018
Parker Moore
Corean War had some cool dogfights
Mason Carter
>killed by a lifeboat
Woooooooow
Camden Sullivan
Jose Anderson
Austin Martinez
Kayden Thomas
What the hell are we supposed to do with all these funds?
Colton Bailey
>no tunnan
Samuel Smith
It was impressive how quickly things changed in such a short period of time.
Nicholas Rivera
The MiG-19 has kind of a weird story in that, like the SKS, it found a lot more use with other communist countries around the world than it ever did with the Soviets who designed it.
Grayson Green
I also wonder if there was a secret "looks stylish" part to the contracts.
Josiah Miller
Kevin Diaz
And it was the last period where the smaller powers could compete along all types- from the most basic trainer to the strategic bomber.
Brandon Harris
Also, I liked the "hey, why not?" spirit that a lot of the designs had.
Aiden Green
>When you watch Buck Rodgers a few too many times
>but it's okay because the procurement officer does too
Jackson Jackson
Mason Sanchez
Low Mileage, some damage to front fender. Ran when parked
Camden Garcia
Joshua Evans
Jet-age aircraft are my fucking fetish
Hudson Phillips
Anthony Gutierrez
John Harris
Charles Perry
How about a prototype Swede instead?
Wyatt Hill
One of the meanest looking planes ever
Blake Wilson
Parker Cook
IIRC from a documentary I watched most designs had some lineage to pic related since it was the first turbojet.
Juan Rivera
The British of that era did a good job of alternating between brutal, weird and elegant.
Ayden Foster
That and the E.28/39 "Whittle"
Jack Turner
I absolutely LOVE Sabres and Super Sabres. But I gotta represent Ground Attack. A-26 Invader
Jackson Ramirez
jet age teebs are best teebs
Angel Wright
Rocket pods designed to more easily shoot down swarming hordes of Tu-4s and the like.
Dominic Hill
It seemed like a good idea at the time
en.wikipedia.org
Christian Sanchez
A/C BLOWS ICE COLD, LOW SERIAL NUMBER, I KNOW WHAT I GOT NO LOW BALLERS.
Here's the 20mm T171 Vulcan cannon mounted in the tail. The Hustler is peak 50s and 60s Aesthetics.
Tyler Hall
>The MiG-19 has kind of a weird story
Not really, it was designed and outmoded very quickly like many aircraft of the time. The US and Russia had several fighters put into service and then outclassed only a couple of years on in, things were moving so rapidly in the interim between Korea and Vietnam. The MiG-19 was neither better than the 17, nor obviously as advanced as the 21
David Gray
Aaron Perry
The in-line -52 cockpit looks better than the conventional cockpit that LeMay stipulated on production models
I can't believe there are 3 Vulcans on display in the US: California, Louisiana, and Nebraska
Lincoln Ramirez
IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR BROS
Thomas Hernandez
Parker Johnson
For contrast, The F-84 entered service as the P-84B Thunderjet, a straight winged high altitude day fighter without radar and mostly a gun based fighter, left service as the F-84F Thunderstreak, a swept wing low-altitude nuclear bomb delivery system and for use by NATO allies as an export fighter.
Evan Anderson
Pretty futuristic looking.
Especially once you fix its main issue.
Owen Cox
the square windows had nothing to do with its tendency to depressurize midflight
Cameron Johnson
Love the nose shape of the Comet who helped us to design the Caravelle
Grayson Ramirez
as opposed to ironically l
Hunter Torres
What the fuck Vatniks?
>The prototype was completed in December 1954 and it passed all the necessary ground tests by 10 February 1955 when it was cleared to begin flight trials. However, MAP (Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti—the Ministry of Aviation Industry) denied Yakovlev authorization to begin flight tests as it favored competing designs from Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich. A Council of Ministers
directive was issued on 28 March 1956 to terminate the program and the corresponding MAP order followed on 6 April.
Poor Yakovlev
Ian Davis
Christian Collins
Not quite the 1950s
Logan Smith
Grumman F8F Bearcat
Thomas Sullivan
Indeed, that's why they went to the trouble of completely redesigning the window shape.
Adam Brooks
thats a tigercat ya dingus
Josiah Reed
WHOA, WHAT BOOK IS THIS FROM. I recognize that font.
William Rogers
What is it?
Liam Cook
>I can't believe there are 3 Vulcans on display in the US: California, Louisiana, and Nebraska
Get a loif, bin that bombah
Owen Phillips
The Tigercat is sex, but i do have some pictures of a Bearcat too. At the airshow this year, there was 2 F8F's and one F7F
James Gomez
I'll upload a couple more. Lemme see what I can find that's relevant.
Nolan Rogers
It's interesting to see how they went from "prop plane designers trying to fit a jet engine into a classical design" to actually embracing the changes and new possibilities as the engines improved.
Basically the time period from late WWII to area rule discovery.
Aaron Wood
I like this one
Jacob Roberts
Jose Campbell
Cameron Ward
Nathan Gray
Jace Butler
Brody Hill
Isaac Davis
Brayden Gray
Colton King
I absolutely love 40's and 50's aircraft. Anything later is boring fire and forget shit, usually. I esp. love the B36 Peacemaker.
Robert Rodriguez
Easton Torres
Not Soviet shit
Noah Johnson
Tyler Hernandez
The Century Series gets me hard as diamonds, man.
Evan Johnson
Carson Taylor
I liked the original landing gear, the tires were 9'2" in diameter
There was a link pin that was supposed to be removed before flight that would lock the gear down down so it wouldn't retract, sometimes they would forget to remove it and the guy who fucked up would climb through the wing into the gear bay and have to step out onto the gear while in flight to remove it
Daniel Hall
Jose Powell
Like an arrow through times
Hudson Gray
Flying Banana anyone?
Alexander Collins
Jaxon Collins
Samuel White
Think about all the missions, conversations, intense combat, and fraternity that took place over Vietnam all those years ago... lost, like tears in the rain
Angel Butler
Also, a B-36 low pass:
youtube.com
Elijah Edwards
[ETERNAL COLD AND DARKNESS OF THE BERING SEA INTENSIFIES]
Brandon Moore
Jordan Fisher
Carter Young
Gabriel Wilson
Justin Torres
Thick Girl.
Alexander Edwards
Elijah James
Jaxson Moore
Christopher King
Ryan Young
Dominic Cox
THE MOST underrated aircraft in all of WWII in my opinion.
Unsung hero TO SAY the least.
Oliver Jackson
Evan Flores
Angel Hughes