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Gotta love the Bear:
I dunno... I just can't get behind the F-35 as a "pretty" fighter plane. The tails and canopy put me off a bit
The Tu-95: celebrating 55 years of being escorted out of US airspace.
The Tu-95: celebrating 55 years of being escorted out of US airspace.
Gotta love the Bear:
Well played! :lol:The Tu-95: celebrating 55 years of being escorted out of US airspace.
From the first pic: The A-7 has a top speed that's marginally faster than the Tu-95?
While some butt-ugly airplanes made good planes, almost ALL of the pretty ones made GREAT planes!
The problem is the F35 is ugly and has low potential to be great.
Gotta love the Bear:
I disagree, for example the MiG-25 is a good looking plane but ended up being damned near useless.
At least the X-32 wasn't selected... THAT was ugly.
I don't know what Boeing was thinking when they proposed it. Even if it were technically superior to the x-35, which wasn't the case anyway, trying to sell something that offensively ugly was always going to be a challenge.
Gotta love the Bear:
The Tu-95: celebrating 55 years of being escorted out of US airspace.
I'm sorry, but how can you have pictures of the Bear without it being escorted by the fighter DESIGNED to shoot it down!?
But it looks so happy...I don't know what Boeing was thinking when they proposed it. Even if it were technically superior to the x-35, which wasn't the case anyway, trying to sell something that offensively ugly was always going to be a challenge.
Most of Boeings proposal was that the air frame itself would of been cheap and easy to manufacture.
NOVA had a pretty good episode on the JSF competition and the two things that killed them was that mid way through the competition they pretty much wanted to redesign and resubmit their bid and they knew they were in trouble when LockMart not only managed to not only get their lift fan to work but managed to do a supersonic dash as when they didn?t' have to.
Everyone The Bear.
[video=youtube;9CBRB_Wfm-k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CBRB_Wfm-k&feature=related[/video]
Wings of the Red Star - The TU-95 the bear 1/5
The first part is history & politics of USSR and some early Tupolev airplanes, looks good so far.
If the opening of this video doesn't bring back fond memories, you're dead to me:
(while you're reminiscing about your younger years, watch the other parts of this episode; it's a good one)