Author Topic: Secret Superpower Aircraft (now playing!) (Read 878 times)

1K3 · « **on:** October 23, 2005, 10:34:26 PM »

Super secret recon, bombers, and fighters from USA and USSR now showing in History Channel:)

1K3 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2005, 10:35:15 PM »

i wish we had nuclear powered jet planes:p

RightF00T · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2005, 01:56:09 AM »

I don't think the narrator said "Neptune" enough...

1K3 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2005, 02:27:03 AM »

UK and Canada produced some of the best bombers and fighter/inteceptors... the TSR-2 and Arrow

cancelation of the Arrow is close to murder.

This plane's no dogfighter, look at the airframe;)

john9001 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2005, 10:47:01 AM »

the arrow lives on, it's now called the mig25.

RTR · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2005, 11:01:41 AM »

heh, not quite john9001.

Foxbat is a different breed all together.

The Arrow was quite remarkable for its time (and way ahead of its time).

Worst decision in Canadian Aviation history was the cancellation of this bird. Second worse decision was cutting them up for scrap.

RTR

RTR · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2005, 11:07:06 AM »

Here you go.
cool site.
http://www.avroarrow.org/AvroArrow/factualarrow.html

cheers
RTR

Sandman · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2005, 11:43:47 AM »

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Originally posted by john9001
the arrow lives on, it's now called the mig25.

That's what I was thinking... looks a lot like a MiG 25.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2005, 12:09:32 PM »

Yeah, if you don't have eyes, it sorta looks like the Mig 25.

RTR · « **Reply #9 on:** October 24, 2005, 12:15:26 PM »

Here you go.

I don't see any real similarities, but it's a cool pic anyway

Furball · « **Reply #10 on:** October 24, 2005, 12:19:44 PM »

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Originally posted by 1K3
UK and Canada produced some of the best bombers and fighter/inteceptors... the TSR-2 and Arrow

cancelation of the Arrow is close to murder.

some of the cool ones got through

Maverick · « **Reply #11 on:** October 24, 2005, 12:30:15 PM »

The arrow in that shot there looks like a F4 Phantom fuselage and a F106 Delta Dart wing. Rather old school I'd imagine.

RTR · « **Reply #12 on:** October 24, 2005, 01:23:16 PM »

Yep, remember this was 1957, 1958 though.

RTR

Sandman · « **Reply #13 on:** October 24, 2005, 02:45:36 PM »

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Originally posted by RTR
Here you go.

I don't see any real similarities, but it's a cool pic anyway

Without looking at another pic for comparison, I thought the nose, canopy, and intakes were similar.

But... upon further review... it's not so much.

1K3 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 24, 2005, 04:22:24 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
the arrow lives on, it's now called the mig25.

kind of... The Arrow is the most sophisticated interceptor every built in the 50s-60s era, but MiG-25 is easier and cheaper to produce because its made of iron.