Impossible Situations

[Nonskimmer]

ppfffft, a lanc could do that if it wanted........

If it wanted?

Good pic les. Sh*tty situation, but a good pic.

 

[marseille jr]

you mean submarines that fly or submarines that launch planes??

Submarines that fly. Well actually it was a plane that could land and dive in the water. They started designing it but technical difficulties were to hard to overcome. It was to be armed with two torpedos and was to reach 2 knots when under water.

 

[cheddar cheese]

ppfffft, a lanc could do that if it wanted........

If it wanted?

The only way a lanc could do it is with a major redesign

 

[Nonskimmer]

I just thought it funny to imagine a Lanc crew wanting to go through that.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but that's just it, they didn't want to, which is why you never see pics of them shot up much..........

 

[trackend]

This is my idea of an impossible situation

A Stringbag has to take violent evasive action
to avoid giant airborne writing in flightpath

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Damn even that has to suck! Do you know how it lost its engine. Was it blown off or just mechanical failure of some sort?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

but that's just it, they didn't want to, which is why you never see pics of them shot up much..........

No you dont see any pics of them because it is too dark to take the picture when they are hiding in the night!

 

[cheddar cheese]

Dont give him excuses!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I just love playing with him!

 

[cheddar cheese]

EURGH, that sounded WRONG

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

You are right that did come out wrong. Just dont think I am Michael Jackson or something.

 

[plan_D]

You can't say stuff like that anymore, he got away with it...damn.

 

[HealzDevo]

I can remember for D-Day the Allies invented something called the Blitz Buggy. It was a cross between a jeep and an ultralight helicopter, being dropped from a bomber and then gliding on its rotar blades. It was meant for support of paratrooper operations, but never made it off the ground as pilots found it too terrifying. Anyone ever found any pictures of it?

 

[Smokey]

This is the Blitz Buggy
http://www.pilotfriend.com/general_interest/potty aircraft/Hafner Rotabuggy Flying Jeep.htm

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1040416

 

[cheddar cheese]

No no this is weird... :

The problem of enabling infantry to cross battlefield obstacles such as barbed wire or minefields has been addressed in a number of ways.

It was possibly inevitable that sooner or later some kind of personal means of flying over them would be tried. Late in World War 2 German experiments are reputed to have led to a simple, individual rocket pack.

The pack consisted of two units. One duct was strapped to the user's chest, the other to his back. Both were small, low-powered rockets, working on a pattern known as the Schmidt pulse-tube.

The front unit was of slightly lower power than the back. This disparity in thrust produced a tendency towards forward movement. Both tubes had to be ignited at exactly the same time, otherwise the user could expect disastrous results.

One experimental unit is reputed to have tested the rocket packs, achieving leaps of up to 60 yards. They were cheap to run, burning only about 100 grams of fuel a second. Despite this, there is no record of them having seen action.

http://www.unrealaircraft.com/qbranch/german_rp.php

 

[plan_D]

That's awesome! They should have added a division of them; 30th (Rocket) Infantry Division. Very strange but would have been amusing to watch, if not scary.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Its just like Thunderbirds! They have some crazy but great stuff on that site.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

sounds like fun!!