Sharing my airshow archive
Namely the last 3 years of AirVenture at Oshkosh
I'll be back
>>4921562Ospreys are cool but apparently the cost of the aircraft and maintenance requirements means the military is leery of using them in combat.
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>>4921597All of our aircraft are expensive as fuck to fly, that's not the issue. It's more like they don't want to risk proprietary technology being captured. They don't pull these things out for conventional forces anyways, pretty much just special ops.t. Air Force maintainer
>>4921597What is the advantage of a tiltrotor like the Osprey over a tandem-rotor like the Chinook? In cost terms I presume a Chinook must be cheaper to build and operate. Do the advantages of the Osprey justify the cost?
>>4922324Chinooks are slower and can't land in some of the spots the Osprey can. Ospreys are also outfitted with more advanced avionics. Also, as I previously stated, Ospreys are more for special forces infiltration while Chinooks are used by conventional forces.
>>4921601Got more of those?
>>4922324Range and >>4922609You can drop some specops, a Bobcat and flat Hescos and start a FOB quickly.
>>4921569>The demo team that gave Rammstein their name
>>4930632Why is the plane leaking oil?
>>4930748It's not oil, it's de-icing fluid. That's what that truck is doing.
>>4932578>>4932578>>4932579These are from the Duluth airshow last May.
>>4937793Say what you want about ruskies, their jets look real pretty.
LIST FAVORITE PLANES!> A10 Thunderbolt> Flanker family generally but especially the advanced versions like the 35/37/30MKI/30MKK> Mig31 Foxhound> Rafale> Tomcat> Phantom> Draken> Chengdu J-20> Gripen> Viggen> Mitsubishi F-1 (see Godzilla 1985)> F89 Scorpion
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>>4938490>> F89 Scorpion
>>4921556The Jug...
>>4938490>F-104 Starfighter>MiG-25 Foxbat>English Electric LightningSAMs were a mistake.
>>4938490The veneralble Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" military transport, and the DC-3 civilian version.Longevity: been flying since the late 1930s.Versatile: Has been commonly used as:- commercial airliner,- troop carrier,- glider tow plane,- paratrooper jump platform,- Cargo (military and civilian),- Flies in all conditions - from Arctic to jungle,- Used in risky missions like drug trafficking,- LOOKS like a plane you could intuitively draw,- Won't be (hasn't been) scrapped after a few years of service because of obsolescence.- Safe to fly, or glide when engines fail. This is a Renaissance plane, useful for so much and still understated, quietly going about filling in all the detailed gaps the one-hit wonders can never do.
>>4942005It looks like they accidentally switched up and mounted the left flaperon from one plane onto the other.
>"What was that? What the hell was that?">"It went by like we were standing still!"
