Author Topic: Weirdo German prototype website (Read 882 times)

DEAR98 · « **on:** January 16, 2008, 10:23:50 PM »

well its Luft46.com tell me what you think about it

mensa180 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2008, 10:39:35 PM »

Now we're talkin.

It's even got a bombay!

The twinbooms never end!

Vulcan · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2008, 10:42:31 PM »

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Originally posted by mensa180
Now we're talkin.

Wow looks remarkably similar to a DeHavilland jet (vampire/venom/etc).

Vulcan · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2008, 10:46:25 PM »

Oh yeah baby....

mensa180 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2008, 10:51:09 PM »

Talk about slick!

beau32 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2008, 11:08:19 PM »

All these Aircraft on the site are prototypes or ones that never made it past the drawing board. If you read through them all, you will see that the germans came up with thrust vectoring on one of the aircraft (sorry, cant remember which one off the top of my head). But its in there somewhere.

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2008, 11:32:20 AM »

Those are nice drawings. But in reality, the Germans couldn't even build a long range bomber (well, one that wouldn't spontaneously combust) or a fighter that could escort He111s and Ju88s to England.

Wmaker · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2008, 01:38:19 PM »

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Those are nice drawings. But in reality, the Germans couldn't even build a long range bomber (well, one that wouldn't spontaneously combust) or a fighter that could escort He111s and Ju88s to England.

And F/A-18 can't manage mach one at 10000ft?

Denholm · « **Reply #8 on:** January 17, 2008, 01:42:03 PM »

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...But in reality, the Germans couldn't even build a long range bomber (well, one that wouldn't spontaneously combust)...

Think of it as helping the environment. They're biodegradable.

Emu · « **Reply #9 on:** January 17, 2008, 02:05:51 PM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Those are nice drawings. But in reality, the Germans couldn't even build a long range bomber (well, one that wouldn't spontaneously combust) or a fighter that could escort He111s and Ju88s to England.

Yes, but that is thanks to the allies being very effective at destroying and bombing the nazi war machine to the ground and preventing such things from happening, in addition to more and more of the skilled factory workers being called to frontline duty and being replaced by slaves which werent exactly as motivated. Finally, with Hitler walking around having final say on what a prototype should or shouldnt do, a lot of very promising projects ended up being delayed unnecessarily. The Me262 is a great example of that. Also, dont forget, the US NASA was helped off the ground by a certain captured individual...

dhaus · « **Reply #10 on:** January 17, 2008, 06:25:06 PM »

Indeed, it was Hitler's forward looking demands which prevented any work on heavy bombers and long range fiters.

splitatom · « **Reply #11 on:** January 17, 2008, 06:38:19 PM »

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Talk about slick!

nice plans of space bomber

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #12 on:** January 17, 2008, 09:44:33 PM »

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And F/A-18 can't manage mach one at 10000ft?

An F/A-18 cant do mach 1 under 10,000 ft. Lets put $10 on it right now.

Wmaker · « **Reply #13 on:** January 17, 2008, 10:59:08 PM »

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An F/A-18 cant do mach 1 under 10,000 ft. Lets put $10 on it right now.

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Speed of sound is dependent of the current air pressure but is normally around 340m/s. Several sources list F/A-18's top speed at ground level as 361m/s.

...As the altitude increases the speed of sound gets lower and the Hornet gets faster. So you're on.

I just want to specify that I'm talking about the C model...not that it changes anything.

Furball · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2008, 06:45:05 AM »

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I just want to specify that I'm talking about the C model...not that it changes anything.

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-- At 5,000 feet at maximum thrust, the F/A-18C accelerates from
0.8 Mach to 1.08 Mach\7 in 21 seconds, whereas the F/A-18E will
take 52.8 seconds.

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\7 At sea level, the maximum speed of the F/A-18 is limited and
cannot reach 1.2 Mach.

http://www.fas.org/man/gao/ns96098.htm

Sorry!!