Wacky Allied fighter ideas
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
I like those!
buffnut453
Captain
Egg planes...yum! Anyone got bacon to go with them?
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
GregP
Major
The nose of that British thing above (Handley-Page Manx) shows a distinct possibility of being wood. They only built one and the regular flight crew were all killed flying the Hermes. It was scrapped in 1952.
Interesting and obscure. Just what I like!
Interesting and obscure. Just what I like!
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GregP
Major
Hey, let's see if we can get some pilot to volunteer to try that!
Make that at full bomb load.
Whoever suggested that had much less sense than Francis the mule.
Make that at full bomb load.
Whoever suggested that had much less sense than Francis the mule.
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I used to read every Pop. Science, Mechanics, Mechanics Illustrated, and others like them I could get my hands on. I've got stacks of them out in the upstairs of my garage going back to the early 50s.
Every month they'd have a weird idea, or solution to a problem. Most of them unworkable.
One was a sort of tug to assist airliners on takeoff, except the tug pushed from the rear.
But that 3 carriers in a row has to take the award for wackiest.
Every month they'd have a weird idea, or solution to a problem. Most of them unworkable.
One was a sort of tug to assist airliners on takeoff, except the tug pushed from the rear.
But that 3 carriers in a row has to take the award for wackiest.
buffnut453
Captain
Actually, it's not a bad idea. All you need are some extending ramps that interlock to join up the 3 carrier decks to provide a single, contiguous take-off run. Removes the need for aircraft to "hop" between the carriers. Piece of cake, really. Don't understand why anyone would have a problem with it.
Ok...I'll get my coat.
(Yes, for the record, I was absolutely NOT being serious).
Ok...I'll get my coat.
(Yes, for the record, I was absolutely NOT being serious).
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buffnut453
Captain
Thrust vectoring. Love it!
GregP
Major
Hi Tom.
About your idea to join the three carriers, I suggest using rigid elastic material to allow for some slight ship misalignment due to ocean waves. I think it is a combination of steel and elastic rubber. We could floor it with flexible steel planking. Then we'd need a 500 foot big rubber band that could stretch to 2,000 feet and we could eliminate the catapult entirely.
You may be onto something there ... especially if the planes are equipped with the vectoring engine shown above. This is all based on sound quasi-scientific gibberish combined with novatrunions and a differential girdle spring aligned with the tremmy pipe in semiboloid slots in such a way as to eliminate side fumbling.
About your idea to join the three carriers, I suggest using rigid elastic material to allow for some slight ship misalignment due to ocean waves. I think it is a combination of steel and elastic rubber. We could floor it with flexible steel planking. Then we'd need a 500 foot big rubber band that could stretch to 2,000 feet and we could eliminate the catapult entirely.
You may be onto something there ... especially if the planes are equipped with the vectoring engine shown above. This is all based on sound quasi-scientific gibberish combined with novatrunions and a differential girdle spring aligned with the tremmy pipe in semiboloid slots in such a way as to eliminate side fumbling.
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buffnut453
Captain
But you're not accounting for the horizontal differential slippage in the turbid sprocket manifoldium. Your approach risks very greatly amplitude flippy-floppy sinusoid oscillatory movement in the tremmy pipe which damping from the girdle spring will irrevocably over-extend.
Oh dear, I seem to have contracted a nasty case of the Stanley Unwins.
Oh dear, I seem to have contracted a nasty case of the Stanley Unwins.
GregP
Major
buffnut453
Captain
And here's some classic Stanley for those unfamiliar:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2nI_3VBEtA
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2nI_3VBEtA
parsifal
Colonel
I always think of the Pykrete Carrier when I think weird carrier designs
bobbysocks
Chief Master Sergeant
wasn't there an "ivory soap" carrier or boat and one made of ice?
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GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Project Ivory Soap was a dedicated task force comprised of repair ships for the airwar. More info here: Top Secret Project Ivory Soap -- Aircraft Repair Ships
You might be thinking project Habakkuk (as Michael mentioned), carriers made of Pykrete and icebergs.
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