Change my mind this is the pinnacle of aircraft design
Change my mind this is the pinnacle of aircraft design
Joshua Lopez
Nathan Nelson
It's not an F-14.
Julian Howard
For CAS there's basically nothing better, and it's the only prop-driven CAS aircraft ever to have shot down a jet fighter, so there's that.
Angel Davis
You misspelled A-10
Asher Nelson
tailwheels are dumb
Anthony Baker
Wrong
Adam Butler
t. pussy baby trigear nigger who can't control his life much less a grounded airplane
Carter Gonzalez
That's cool, but can it make all of the personnel in an airbase sick to their stomachs?
Protip: No it can't. That's probably a good thing.
Nolan Richardson
Is that the AD?
Leo Flores
>can't control his life much less a grounded airplane
Fuck you, that's too far.
Blake Ramirez
HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER-ZONE
Cameron Edwards
Misspelled Mighty Wings
Lucas Thompson
piston > jet
Xavier Martin
For me, its the P-51
Jaxson Hughes
What sort of space magic is this?
Mason Taylor
Read the title. Timing gears for the hercules engine.
Jonathan Gomez
A Po-2 once got a maneuvre kill against an F-94, so not the only and certainly not the first one
Ethan Adams
>not the jug
yeah that's gonna be a no from me dawg
Levi Price
This is the future. Distributed electric VTOL aircraft.
They are objectively happening. This is a Boeing and NASA project already approved by the FAA, so don't even hit me with that stupid normie "Dehhhhh I got U!" bullshit.
Isaiah Ross
another one.
I'm in the process of designing an Ultralight version of this. Probably won't have a pusher prop, but it doesn't need it.
Cooper Reed
>Distributed electric VTOL aircraft.
No
Justin Hernandez
t. omega boomer.
Gavin Long
I think he's using the cop-out of specifying CAS aircraft. Plenty of piston-engine planes have downed jet fighters but the Skyraider is probably the only one designed as a dedicated attacker. The Po-2/U-2 was a trainer, the F4U-4B and Sea Fury were both technically fighters, and in WWII I'm not familiar with anything but fighters and maybe bomber turrets downing jets.
Joshua Rogers
Is it just so complicated cuz the Hercules had sleeve valves?
Adam Harris
I always found the phrases "X is the future", "X is happening", "When X takes over " incredible annoying and arrogant
David Green
Yeah usually radial engines have a pretty simple double edged cam wheel (one for inlet ine for outlet) which is slaved to the crankshaft. Nice and simple. The Hercules was your typical over engineered bong POS. Same goes for the Napier sabre. Bongs had a hardon for sleeve valves which were the solution to a problem that didnt even exist. You can imagine how much power is lost inside such a complicated swiss watch
Justin Brown
It's cute!
Luke Evans
I will forever love the put the biggest engine in the smallest airframe design philosophy.
Asher Ortiz
literally zero advantages over a nosewheel except for boomer cred and backcountry landings, which for a carrier aircraft are ????
Julian Kelly
Brandon Edwards
how many ad's are in the ad family?
Adam Clark
Seven before you start counting prototypes and sub-variants.
Joseph Campbell
Best plane coming through
Christopher Flores
He said SHOT DOWN.
Dylan Phillips
It really is. As a CAS plane. Even then it got shot down in the hundreds back in Nam by 60's era tech. What these Tucanocucksters today don't realize is that their CAS du jour will be eaten alive by modern shoulder fired SAMs.