Twin Jet-Engined Biplane!!!

[buffnut453]

Yep...you read that correctly. A mad fool in Worcester, UK, has bolted a pair of jet engines to his Pitts Special.

Here's the video...just AWESOME!


View: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-hereford-worcester-64788578

 

[GrauGeist]

wow!!

 

[buffnut453]

wow!!

Exactly!

 

[Crimea_River]

Excellent Herr Dipl. Ing. It will be our Schnellbomber!

 

[GrauGeist]

Excellent Herr Dipl. Ing. It will be our Schnellbomber!

Nein!

It MUST be a dive-bomber!

Everything must be a dive-bomber!!

 

[special ed]

Prop assisted takeoff.

 

[RichardSuhkoi]

I would be motivated to go see that new schnell bomber at a show.
Now he needs to add additional attitude controls to perform tail stands.

 

[pbehn]

He's got some sauce geddit!!!!

 

[Admiral Beez]

 

[RichardSuhkoi]

Created, just, because.

Ok what is it ?

 

[buffnut453]

Created, just, because.

Ok what is it ?

It's a PZL M-15 Belphegor, a jet-engined cropduster produced 1973-1981.

However...it only had one engine, not two.

Close but no banana.

 

[RichardSuhkoi]

It's a PZL M-15 Belphegor, a jet-engined cropduster produced 1973-1981.

However...it only had one engine, not two.

Close but no banana.

I read the Wiki. It figures, some communist apparatchik ordered that a jet engine be used on an ag plane.

 

[buffnut453]

I read the Wiki. It figures, some communist apparatchik ordered that a jet engine be used on an ag plane.

Bureaucracy and common-sense....two terms that NEVER belong in the same sentence.

 

[GrauGeist]

There were a couple jet powered biplanes before, like the Oracle Challenger and how about the Tomahawk Futura RC sport jet - though it's an RC plane, it's pretty impressive.

 

[J_P_C]

It's a PZL M-15 Belphegor, a jet-engined cropduster produced 1973-1981.

However...it only had one engine, not two.

Close but no banana.

it was developed in Poland for Soviets - yes crop duster.... main planned mission was spraying sarin over Afghanistan.....

 

[machine shop tom]

Yep...you read that correctly. A mad fool in Worcester, UK, has bolted a pair of jet engines to his Pitts Special.

Here's the video...just AWESOME!


View: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-hereford-worcester-64788578

The Soviets did that (with ramjets) with the Polikarpov I-15 and I-153.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Now I'm wondering if there were any four jet fighters.

 

[GrauGeist]

Now I'm wondering if there were any four jet fighters.

There was an Ar234C nachtjager in the works.

Of course, those pesky Allies hampered the Luftwaffe's plans.

 

[SaparotRob]

What was Curtiss's last gasp fighter called? Didn't it have a bunch of engines?

 

[ThomasP]

Curtiss XP-87 Blackhawk? A very nice looking aircraft. 4x Westinghouse XJ34-WE-7 turbojets in 2x nacelles.