 | Favorite Post-War aircraft designer.| Post-War Discuss Favorite Post-War aircraft designer. in the Other Eras forums; Originally Posted by syscom3
The A4 fought in plenty of wars, was in production for a quarter of a century ... |
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10-27-2005, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 The A4 fought in plenty of wars, was in production for a quarter of a century and was used by the top gun pilots to teach a lesson or two to pilots flying modern aircraft.
Thats a nice achievement.
The SR71 did what it was designed to do (very well I might add) but it couldnt do the things the A4 could do. I can imagine an Israeli general telling his pilots "heres the SR71 pictures of the Egyptian tank formations, now use you skyhawks to stop them" | Good point!
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10-30-2005, 04:24 PM
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Country:  | My vote goes either for Northrop and Kelly Johnson for fixed wing and Bell Textron (not sure who the chief designer was) and Sikorsky for rotary wing.
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10-30-2005, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet My vote goes either for Northrop and Kelly Johnson for fixed wing and Bell Textron (not sure who the chief designer was) and Sikorsky for rotary wing. | Arthur Young - he designed what would become the Bell 47
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10-30-2005, 10:03 PM
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| Sikorski is an interesting choice. A good one, I might add.
But didnt he already invent the helicopter back in WW2? I seem to remember seeing pix of one in Burma in 1945. Also a famous one of him on the steps of Capitol Hill in 1943.
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10-30-2005, 10:10 PM
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10-30-2005, 10:10 PM
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Country:  | The Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly was used in Burma in 1944-1945. It took part in the first operational use of a helicopter. Anton Flettner was also an interesting helicopter designer that moved to the U.S post-war, and I believe helped in the development of the Chinook. As he had produced a similar prototype in World War II. 
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11-01-2005, 12:40 PM
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Country: | Sikorsky was very similar to Kelly Johnson as he interfaced with his workers, at the same time he was a excellent businessman and marketeer. He had his hands in most aspects of his company when he was at the helm, and even when he was removed from the "board" still had a lot of influance in the way the product with his name on it was going to be produced. He demanded his production facilities to be spotless and the factory at Stratford Conn. has glazed parkay floors - it's one of the cleanest factories I even seen.
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11-01-2005, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Sikorski is an interesting choice. A good one, I might add.
| The reason I chose Sikorsky and Bell for those is simply that those two companies and designers have designed the most innovative and used aircraft in the world. The aircraft that have changed Rotary wing aviation as we know it today. Bell (Aurther Young)
UH-1 Iroquoi (HUEY)
AH-1 Cobra
Bell 206 family (OH-58's) Sikorsky
VS-300
S-48 (R-4)
R-6
H-5
H-19 Chickasaw
H-34 Choctaw
H-52 (S-62 Seaguard)
Seaking
S-64 Skycrane (CH-54 Tarhe)
Jolly Green Giant
CH-53 Stallion family (ie Sea Stallion and Super Stallion)
S-70 (UH-60 Blackhawk family)
Comanche (Joing Project with Boing and was cancelled in 2004)
These cover pretty much the most innovative Rotary wing aircraft. They were all ahead of there time and started the revolution. Basically the Soviet Union and the rest of the world were trying to keep up with them.
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04-04-2006, 01:05 PM
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| I'll give a vote for Kelly Johnson, some excellent and innovative designs from the skunkworks that really pushed the limit of technology forward and the state of the art to the limit.
Some of the really revolutionary aircraft have come from Lockheed over the years, P-38, U-2, F-117 etc. Certainly a company that appreciates creative thinking and novel concepts.
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| Hans Multhopp for his many innovative designs from the Ta 183 to the space program lifting bodies. He worked for British and American companies and contributed greatly to many well known designs in the post-war era.
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| I would go for Rutan as well. What about soviet jet designers? I could image, they had some brilliant minds, too.
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04-13-2006, 07:23 PM
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| Sir Sydney Camm. Sea Hawk, Hunter, Harrier, Not a bad days work
The Sea Hawk one of the most attractive early jets and quite effective as well.
Hunter, One of the worlds all time greats
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04-14-2006, 05:05 AM
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Country: | i too quite like the post war Hawker works, and the De Havilland ones were quite nice too......
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04-14-2006, 05:18 AM
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| There's only one mistake that I heard Kelly Johnson made - apparently he was against the C 130 project. Alledgedly he said that if Lockeed made the C130 Hercules, they would go bust. 
Other than that he seems to have been a brilliant aircraft designer.
And Marcel Bloch refused to work with aviation companies in germany during WW2 and was sent to the Buchenwald camp.
The name Dassault came from the codename of his brother in the resistance, General Darius Paul Bloch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Bloch | |
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04-14-2006, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Smokey There's only one mistake that I heard Kelly Johnson made - apparently he was against the C 130 project. Alledgedly he said that if Lockeed made the C130 Hercules, they would go bust. | I'd like to know where you heard that! When the C-130 was designed and built there were already orders for several hundred aircraft - unless Lockheed screwed up on the production end (something Johnson had nothing to do with) there was no way Lockheed was going to loose money. The only logistic probelm Lockheed had at the stat of the C-130 program was setting up shop in Merrita Georgia - they already had an operating facility there as they were building B-47s.
At the time the C-130 started rolling down the production line Lockheed was still building P2Vs, F-104s, and the Connie - there were a host of other experimental and fight test going on at the same time (around 1955)....
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