What The Heck Were They Thinking? B-29 Project "Tip Tow" - Page 3 - Aircraft of World War II

siznaudin · 07-16-2009, 08:32 AM

Yeah - as usual, I got it half right

Here's Wiki's version of the project.

Tupolev Tu-119 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mkloby · 07-17-2009, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Waynos

I also think one of the maddest schemes ever was the USN VTOL fighter project that resulted in the XFV-1 and XFY-1. Take off and flight were one thing, but landing vertically backwards!?!?

Kinda scares me even thinking about landing the damn thing. There's a natural tendency to drive the plane in the direction that you're looking... and landing in that regime looking backward over your shoulder would be very dangerous with respect to drift.

Waynos · 07-17-2009, 12:24 PM

It would be wierd/difficult enough on a runway. Transfer the experience to a Carrier at sea, with the deck rising and falling beneath you and thats going to give you brown underpants!

RabidAlien · 07-17-2009, 01:41 PM

Maybe a rear-mounted camera hooked in to a tv monitor in the cockpit? Kinda like the backup camera in SUV's nowadays?

For a carrier landing, I'd imagine a similar setup to how they land helicopters in heavy seas (correct me if I'm wrong!), where they lower a cable and basically hover, the carrier winches the helicopter down on the deck.

Njaco · 07-17-2009, 10:38 PM

Gearless deck landings

Aircraft carriers made of ice

Backwards landing aircraft

and only the Germans had crazy stuff?

07-16-2009, 08:32 AM	#31
siznaudin Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Adelaide Posts: 32	Ruskie nuclear bomber Yeah - as usual, I got it half right Here's Wiki's version of the project. Tupolev Tu-119 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

07-17-2009, 12:24 PM	#33
Waynos Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 914	It would be wierd/difficult enough on a runway. Transfer the experience to a Carrier at sea, with the deck rising and falling beneath you and thats going to give you brown underpants! __________________ BlondeValkyrie - Bugger off and host your OWN pictures you thieving twat

07-17-2009, 01:41 PM	#34
RabidAlien Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas Posts: 2,827	Maybe a rear-mounted camera hooked in to a tv monitor in the cockpit? Kinda like the backup camera in SUV's nowadays? For a carrier landing, I'd imagine a similar setup to how they land helicopters in heavy seas (correct me if I'm wrong!), where they lower a cable and basically hover, the carrier winches the helicopter down on the deck. __________________ Pillage, then burn. Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast.

07-17-2009, 10:38 PM	#35
Njaco The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States Posts: 10,237	Gearless deck landings Aircraft carriers made of ice Backwards landing aircraft and only the Germans had crazy stuff? __________________ "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/

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