What a great machine (pictures)

[slimmer]

nice photo's

[Die Hard]

beautiful airplane!
couple of questions tho:
1. in the last pic is it just me or does the exhaust nozzle looke kinda bent on the right outboard? I dont think they used thrust vectoring on the vulcan but who knows

My guess is they are following the airflow around the tail. Many older aircraft have their engines pointing off-center because of the airflow where the engine is mounted.

Here's an example:




A WWII example:

[33Vortex]

Mmmmmm...aircraft porn 

Agreed, what a display of pornography! Thanks for sharing this.

[BUG_EAF322]

Thanks all i place some more
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I hope it's enough to please

[Bodhi]

very cool!

[Captfish]

  YES! 

[BUG_EAF322]

Thanks i just made i slideshow of 2 recent shows

over here:  http://gs164.photobucket.com/groups/u17/IH0TALJ6CM/?albumview=slideshow

[boxboy28]

Beautiful............more i want more!      very very nice work!

[Ean1]

Quote from: WilldCrd on June 20, 2009, 10:34:04 AM
beautiful airplane!
couple of questions tho:
1. in the last pic is it just me or does the exhaust nozzle looke kinda bent on the right outboard? I dont think they used thrust vectoring on the vulcan but who knows



My guess is they are following the airflow around the tail. Many older aircraft have their engines pointing off-center because of the airflow where the engine is mounted.

I cant see the pic of the Vulcan but on the other aircraft the engines are clocked in this way to produce a center line of thrust. It would be a point in space behind the aircraft where if you draw a line through each engine they would meet. If you look at a pic of a 727 from above/below it is very clear the #1 and 3 engines point inboard. Not sure if this is what your talking about but thats my 2 cents on the subject.

[Vulcan]

Soooooooooooo you guys want some "Vulcan porn"? 

[Toof]

Love those F-5's. Still think they are one of the sleekest looking airframes ever. The fact that Top Gun (the movie) used them as MiGs,well....more photo ops!

[WilldCrd]

I cant see the pic of the Vulcan but on the other aircraft the engines are clocked in this way to produce a center line of thrust. It would be a point in space behind the aircraft where if you draw a line through each engine they would meet. If you look at a pic of a 727 from above/below it is very clear the #1 and 3 engines point inboard. Not sure if this is what your talking about but thats my 2 cents on the subject.

Not exactly, the pic I'm talking about is the last one of the vulcan, the right outboard engine is pointing OUT, atleast from the point of view of the camera, it could be a optical illusion. Just looks rather odd

[AAJagerX]

It's prolly an optical illusion created by the heat from the other engines.  Just a guess...

[MiloMorai]

It's prolly an optical illusion created by the heat from the other engines.  Just a guess...

No illusion, the outer exhaust nozzles are canted outboard. Will post a drawing later.

Btw, great pix Bug.

[MiloMorai]

The scan,



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