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A Stringbag has to take violent evasive action
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06-12-2005, 02:19 PM
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#106 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | This is my idea of an impossible situation
A Stringbag has to take violent evasive action
to avoid giant airborne writing in flightpath 
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06-12-2005, 02:38 PM
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"Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy." | |
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06-13-2005, 02:35 PM
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#108 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Damn even that has to suck! Do you know how it lost its engine. Was it blown off or just mechanical failure of some sort?
__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-13-2005, 02:36 PM
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#109 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass but that's just it, they didn't want to, which is why you never see pics of them shot up much.......... | No you dont see any pics of them because it is too dark to take the picture when they are hiding in the night! 
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-13-2005, 02:41 PM
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#110 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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06-13-2005, 03:46 PM
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#111 | | Der Crewchief
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__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-13-2005, 03:50 PM
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Country: | EURGH, that sounded WRONG 
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06-13-2005, 04:03 PM
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#113 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | You are right that did come out wrong. Just dont think I am Michael Jackson or something.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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06-13-2005, 10:27 PM
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#114 | | Senior Member
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Country: | You can't say stuff like that anymore, he got away with it...damn. 
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06-13-2005, 10:51 PM
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#115 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I can remember for D-Day the Allies invented something called the Blitz Buggy. It was a cross between a jeep and an ultralight helicopter, being dropped from a bomber and then gliding on its rotar blades. It was meant for support of paratrooper operations, but never made it off the ground as pilots found it too terrifying. Anyone ever found any pictures of it? | |
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06-14-2005, 09:13 AM
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06-14-2005, 10:09 AM
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#117 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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The problem of enabling infantry to cross battlefield obstacles such as barbed wire or minefields has been addressed in a number of ways.
It was possibly inevitable that sooner or later some kind of personal means of flying over them would be tried. Late in World War 2 German experiments are reputed to have led to a simple, individual rocket pack.
The pack consisted of two units. One duct was strapped to the user's chest, the other to his back. Both were small, low-powered rockets, working on a pattern known as the Schmidt pulse-tube.
The front unit was of slightly lower power than the back. This disparity in thrust produced a tendency towards forward movement. Both tubes had to be ignited at exactly the same time, otherwise the user could expect disastrous results.
One experimental unit is reputed to have tested the rocket packs, achieving leaps of up to 60 yards. They were cheap to run, burning only about 100 grams of fuel a second. Despite this, there is no record of them having seen action.
| http://www.unrealaircraft.com/qbranch/german_rp.php
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06-14-2005, 10:14 AM
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Country: | That's awesome! They should have added a division of them; 30th (Rocket) Infantry Division. Very strange but would have been amusing to watch, if not scary.
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06-14-2005, 10:18 AM
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Country: | Its just like Thunderbirds! They have some crazy but great stuff on that site.
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06-14-2005, 03:44 PM
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#120 | | Master of Ewes
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