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by **h290master** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:08 am

Love the shots Charl and Ian !

by **K5054NZ** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:53 pm

Hey all!

Was flying the gorgeous IRIS Phantom FGR.2 out of NZOH when I had a close encounter with another Cold War warrior....

Needless to say, upon landing this particular aviator's wings were severely clipped!

by **Charl** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:57 pm

Dam' fighter jocks...worse than those pesky jetski's when you're on a windsurfer :lol:

Co-incidentally I had a look at the Cloud9 Phantom over the weekend.
It's beautiful but has a dreadful afterburner effect.
How's the Iris one?

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:51 pm

all I can say is I Hope Deane Baunton was'nt in that chopper , he to much a valuable resource to get Virtually Killed by a high speed virtual Phantom :ph43r:

, hey Zac , he maybe your next-door neighbour , or least maybe a Jog away :unsure:

.......

........... :unsure:

by **K5054NZ** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:14 am

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Jan 29 2008, 04:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Dam' fighter jocks...worse than those pesky jetski's when you're on a windsurfer
Co-incidentally I had a look at the Cloud9 Phantom over the weekend.
It's beautiful but has a dreadful afterburner effect.
How's the Iris one?

I'm sorry, I saw the ID tag and just had to buzz the poor beggar!

Um, it's been ages since I've seen footage of the F-4 in action, so I'll just post some screenies soon instead!

Ian, nah, I think Deane was on the C-130 that took off before me....I decided formating on that would be too easy, so I chose the UH-1 for a challenge

by **K5054NZ** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:15 pm

OK, hope this helps:

This was on a proving flight to show that the Spey-engined Phantom *can* fly out of Wanganui.

by **deaneb** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:29 pm

LOL - you know I've only been cruising around in Fletchers lately, so any attempt to slow that Phantom down to my speeds would be futile. And if you get too close you might find what 1.2 tonne of Superphosphate can do to your visibility, not to mention the engines !!!

Deane

by **hasegawa** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:41 am

Found at Alphasim as Freeware... the Suchoi T-47, now Su-47 "Berkut"

This was the first Prototype of this Aircraft, only a technology-demonstartor. In the meantime it is a new aircraft underway... the Su-50 with this aerodynamic specs.

by **Charl** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:12 am

Moderator!
Cold War Thread...

Weird plane huh? NASA also had a front-to-back wing going around that time too.

by **Naki** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:39 pm

I will let this one go as it is such a cool a/c. Hmm Hasegawa is from the Ukraine - more Russian and Ukrainian aircraft shots Hasegawa! - reminder for everyone though - the cold war is from 1946 to 1989 so military aircraft from that period please!

by **Ian Warren** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:33 pm

Heres one that started out in 1946 , this the later version more familar with me Carriers like the early Essex Class and Forrestal Vietnam,s Naval involvement ...

A bomb truck , this is only a test flight ,

i'll go thru the single seat versions shortly

landing this beaut on a moving Carrier .... found easier to almost land a C130
http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...p;#entry8206247

The Nimitz type Carrier , really dose not suit the AD-1J

RAZBAM Douglas Skyraider Vol 2

:plane:

by **K5054NZ** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:35 pm

LOVE the Spad! Thanks for posting Ian! I love the (I think) A-1E, the two seat machine. Does the RAZBAM one come with a sound package?

by **Ian Warren** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:14 pm

K5054NZ wrote:
QUOTE (K5054NZ @ Feb 3 2008, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
LOVE the Spad! Thanks for posting Ian! I love the (I think) A-1E, the two seat machine. Does the RAZBAM one come with a sound package?

Its the 'E' sideXside , me , always the single seat fan , nice sound pac , 9 versions - prototypes to AEW and a Target tug

by **Charl** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:49 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 3 2008, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Erm, Money Shot.
"Truck" is probably very apt, the stuff they hung on 'em :blink:

Luvly, Ian

by **hasegawa** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:57 am

Republic F-105D/F "Thunderchief"

She was in Vietnam one of the most important aircraft of the USAF, but it was not a sussesful aircraft. It was sluggish, underpowered and a Maintenance-Nightmare. It was only good to fly with high speed in low altitude without external weapons. But in vietnam this often enough was not the case... and nearly half of the production of this type was lost in combat or operational. Most of the losses are from ground-fire.

The modell is freeware. You can find it at www.alphasim.co.uk under Freeware.

by **hasegawa** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:22 am

Another Freeware-aircraft from alphasim.

North American F-107A

The F-107A was a successor of the F-100D... but only 3 prototypes are build. This one is the 1st prototyp. The original aircraft is now at the Pima Aerospace Museum, Tucson, Arizona... "Man-eater" was a inoficial nickname by the test-pilots because of the intake above the cockpit.

by **ardypilot** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:07 pm

Awesome stuff hasegawa, I gonna head over to Alphasim now and grab that "Thunderchief"!

by **Alex** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:39 pm

Sure could have made ejection interesting... :blink:

Alex

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:01 pm

Alex wrote:
QUOTE (Alex @ Feb 4 2008, 06:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sure could have made ejection interesting...

Alex

All sorts of weird and wonderful ejection s ..... downways F104/TU22 .. F111s with capsule , 2 crew and a fishing poll

, to the XB70 with a wrap around capsule which pilot had some control , Al White survived using this , only to die latter in the next year - Apllo 7 :unsure:

but ejection was added for the Space Shuttle .. but not for re-entry .. of course , but pad ejection and early test flights , to Helicopters that shred rotors pre going out the top

Boy thats LUCKY ... to be bro's Hang Glider ..... :lol:

.. no real .......... just thro's a Parachute out

by **Charl** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:07 am

Got me thinking a bit...there was a model somewhere, managed to dig it out.
Appearing as high-profile private transport nowadays, the SOKO G2-A Galeb was a true Cold War stalwart.
First produced in the early sixties, this 2-seat Yugoslav trainer was built for over 20 years, and exported to Libya and Zambia..

The design brief required operation from grass fields
- the designers did not have any idea of the technical parameters for landing on grass runways and so the landing gear was designed for landing on aircraft carriers!

Powered by a Rolls Royce Viper, top speed is 440 knots at 20,000ft. Being unpressurised the practical ceiling is around 29,000ft

Galeb means "Seagull".
Like many trainers this one had hard points for bombs or rockets, and was used in the regional conflicts by the Krajina Air Force and Air Force of Serbia & Montenegro

The FS model has been around since FS2002, and was light years in advance of the freeware of its day

Given the tumultuous times Yugoslavia went through, it's perhaps not surprising the lads created a convincing damage model, too

More shots in the slide show:
http://s64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHA...nt=cd4ce4d5.pbw

The model is still available at http://members.chello.nl/s.slocuk/fs/index.htm

Tracks for the last set of Recorder flights are here.
Four or five different sets were used for the various formation screenshots.

NZFF

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