Russian Planes

• May 12, 2004

• #81

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The Mig-3 wasn't that bad and the Mig-15 had the same character as any other 50s plane. The F-86 Sabre was dog ugly too.

 

• May 12, 2004

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The MiG-3 was horrible. And take-offs and landings must have been nearly impossible with that much nose in front of the cockpit.

 

• May 12, 2004

• #83

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the sabre wasn't ugly.................

 

• May 12, 2004

• #84

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I don't think the Sabre or the MiG-15 were ugly.

 

• May 12, 2004

• #85

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I don't like the looks of any of the 50s aircraft, maybe ugly was a too strong of a word.
The Mig-15 had to have that nose, the nose on the Ta183 was too short to accomadate the Rolls Royce Nene engine.

 

• May 12, 2004

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Now the first of the Russian jets were UGLY! The MiG-15 was probably the first decent looking jet they had.

 

• May 12, 2004

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And they didn't even design it, the Germans did and they put a British engine in it.

 

• May 13, 2004

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• May 13, 2004

• #89

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Yes, it is funny how all that gets forgotten with propaganda...

 

• May 14, 2004

• #90

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like the mustang being called a truely great all american plane, it was designed be brits with a brittish engine..............

 

• May 14, 2004

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yup, they must've been REALLY proud

 

• May 14, 2004

• #92

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The Americans and Russians are always proud of British and German designs, and engines.

 

• May 15, 2004

• #93

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Dec 20, 2003

can you blame them the merlin was a work of art.............

 

• May 17, 2004

• #94

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All Rolls Royce engines are, look through the history of aviation in military and civil service Rolls Royce is always there. The Boeing 747 has Rolls Royce engines in it. They make the best engines in the world, and in the 50s they were basically the only engine worth considering accept Armstrong engines, which were also British. The Sabre had a copied Armstrong engine, and the Mig-15 had a Rolls Royce Nene engine in it.

 

• May 22, 2004

• #95

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it's shame that rolls royce are always stereotyped as making huge cars...........

 

• May 24, 2004

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thats true though, ive never seen a small rolls royce 8) did anyone here know that someone put a merlin engine in a car once and got sued for it?

 

• May 25, 2004

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No, I've never heard that. I knew they put Merlins in tanks, in WW2. Many British tanks were run on Merlins, called Meteors because of the slight modifications.

 

• May 25, 2004

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US PT-boats were powered by Packard engines. I'm not sure what (if anything) they had in common with the Merlin.

 

• May 26, 2004

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called Meteors because of the slight modifications.

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why would they be called meteors just because of modifications................

 

• May 27, 2004

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Because it's not the same engine, it wasn't just modifications in performance, it was a tank engine different from an aircraft engine. Therefore a different engine therefore a different name. It was basically a Merlin engine though.