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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #495 on: September 05, 2014, 07:48:17 PM »
This one was mentioned in a book I'm re-reading and sounded interesting enough to fit here


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A wind tunnel model of that was tested in the Ames 40x80' tunnel. It was a legend among the old-timers when I worked there. Why? It threw some blades that passed through the walls of the test section. Happily, no one was injured or killed.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #496 on: September 09, 2014, 02:32:22 PM »
A wind tunnel model of that was tested in the Ames 40x80' tunnel. It was a legend among the old-timers when I worked there. Why? It threw some blades that passed through the walls of the test section. Happily, no one was injured or killed.
Just read about this. It wasn't a model, it was the #10 prototype. They screwed up the vehicle constraints and got a rotor oscillation that led to the rotor striking the tail boom. That must have been one Hell of a show!  :uhoh  You know the guys at Ames had to be absolutely thrilled with Lockheed over that.

When I was at General Dynamics we had an F-16 model that lost a wingtip AIM-9 during a transonic run at Calspan. Tore the tunnel up pretty bad downstream. I thought my butt was in a sling because I did the stress analysis and signed off on the drawing. Turned out the machinist had used the wrong size drill, so when they tapped the hole for the missile rail attachments, they had hardly any threads at all. Talk about relieved! :)  They still watched us like hawks for the next three tunnel tests.  :D
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #497 on: September 09, 2014, 07:24:29 PM »
Just read about this. It wasn't a model, it was the #10 prototype. They screwed up the vehicle constraints and got a rotor oscillation that led to the rotor striking the tail boom. That must have been one Hell of a show!  :uhoh  You know the guys at Ames had to be absolutely thrilled with Lockheed over that.

When I was at General Dynamics we had an F-16 model that lost a wingtip AIM-9 during a transonic run at Calspan. Tore the tunnel up pretty bad downstream. I thought my butt was in a sling because I did the stress analysis and signed off on the drawing. Turned out the machinist had used the wrong size drill, so when they tapped the hole for the missile rail attachments, they had hardly any threads at all. Talk about relieved! :)  They still watched us like hawks for the next three tunnel tests.  :D

What scale was this model F-16?
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #498 on: September 09, 2014, 08:43:18 PM »
What scale was this model F-16?
I honestly don't remember. It was probably 1980 or 81. Calspan's test section is only 8' x 8', so I'm guessing it was around 1/6 or so. If I recall correctly, it's a blowdown tunnel, because the startup loads were Hell on the models.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #499 on: September 10, 2014, 02:59:13 AM »
Easy but pretty  ;)

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #500 on: September 10, 2014, 07:22:11 AM »
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Re: Name that Plane
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #502 on: September 10, 2014, 11:19:39 AM »
Can't tell from the head-on view, but it's one of the LN.40 family,  probably an LN.401
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #503 on: September 10, 2014, 12:41:05 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #504 on: September 10, 2014, 01:24:08 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #505 on: September 10, 2014, 01:38:11 PM »
Can't tell from the head-on view, but it's one of the LN.40 family,  probably an LN.401

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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #506 on: September 10, 2014, 02:19:14 PM »
Put something else up Milo. I got nuthin.
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #507 on: September 10, 2014, 02:29:05 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #508 on: September 10, 2014, 02:50:18 PM »
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Re: Name that Plane
« Reply #509 on: September 11, 2014, 09:21:45 AM »
And this?
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