Beech Mentor Jet

[SaparotRob]

When I was doodling airplanes in school, I never knew my favorite creation would turn out to be the Mirage-IV.

 

[GregP]

One more, at the very least. SNCASO Deltaviex.

Looks like a failed model for the old sci fi show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. All it is missing is a conning tower. The real model is below.

Here's one of the crew members before she was in "I Dream of Jeannie."

No wonder we liked that show!

 

[SaparotRob]

As ridiculous as that show was I loved the U.S.S. Seaview. I was about 11.

 

[GregP]

Since the "circuitry room" was attacked by everyone who visited the Seaview, why did they never post a guard there? Each time the sub would roll back and forth, and then go down and hit the same rock on the bottom of the ocean!

 

[GregP]

Back to airplanes. Jet version of the Il-2 called the Il-40.

Definitely strange.

Yak-36.

Very definitely ugly!

 

[SaparotRob]

Since the "circuitry room" was attacked by everyone who visited the Seaview, why did they never post a guard there? Each time the sub would roll back and forth, and then go down and hit the same rock on the bottom of the ocean!

I don't remember much about the show but weren't there a few episodes where our heroes escape capture by going through the ventilation ducts? On a submarine.

 

[GregP]

I think so.

Remember the Sci Fi cult classic, "Dark Star?" They had a 6-story elevator in a small spaceship! Now that movie needs a 12-pack of beer to get through. But is IS funny.

 

[NevadaK]

I don't remember much about the show but weren't there a few episodes where our heroes escape capture by going through the ventilation ducts? On a submarine.

They also had a flying mini sub.

 

[SaparotRob]

Which was the inspiration for just about every spaceship I've drawn since.

 

[GregP]

Sort of a Jacques Cousteau diving saucer that flies. Pretty neat!

This one flies, but doesn't submerge. Convair (COnsolidated Vultee AIRcraft) F2Y Sea Dart.

 

[ODonovan]

This one flies, but doesn't submerge. Convair (COnsolidated Vultee AIRcraft) F2Y Sea Dart.

We have the last Sea Dart built (out of only five) at the Florida Air Museum, in Lakeland. That's at the Lakeland Linder Airport, where they hold the annual "SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo" (formerly Sun 'n Fun Fly-In), the second largest airshow in the world (second only to Oshkosh). SUN 'n FUN is coming in April 2022, so get your tickets ASAP! (Shameless Plug!) SUN 'n FUN Website


-Irish

 

[GregP]

Now THAT would make a great restoration project!

 

[SaparotRob]

GregP As long as we're on the subject; anybody thinking about acquiring / restoring to flight worthy condition a B-52 amongst the aviation community? Before any more windup as landfill?

 

[GregP]

I don't know anyone who can pay the fuel bill to fly a B-52 except a government. Never mind the maintenance. Chances are, if you DID get one, it would be right on the cusp of needing new wings. Most still flying are on their third of fourth set of wings.

 

[SaparotRob]

Reality bites.

 

[GregP]

Ya. On the plus side, you COULD take off and ask for flight level 60.

 

[msxyz]

Even the Italians can design an ugly plane, every once in a while

Meet the first turbofan enginefan propelled plane

 

[GregP]

A flying beer keg.

 

[msxyz]

A flying beer keg.

Indeed: the duct was not a simple pass through tube but a true cylindrical wing. Static tests showed a marked increase in trust and therefore in efficiency of the propulsive system. Too bad the drag of the whole machine also increased. A classic win-loose situation. Too far ahead of its time because there wasn't yet any power plant both powerful and compact enough to make the whole 'ducted fan' concept work in a practical way on an airplane.

 

[Capt. Vick]

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