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[Photon440]

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Notice the two different length tail booms on this SU-47.

 

[Car Nut]

 

[super-bee_ski]

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I LOVE looking at those JUGs Pops!
My FAV!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Okay
Allegedly, 10th or 11th of September "WE" lost a "Advanced Technology Aircraft" somewhere in the Desert between Edwards/Nevada range....
No one is talking....
Anyone hear anything?
Air Vehicle was "Piloted"
Pilot died.
Tonopah, NV?

 

[Bladecutter]

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Pilatus.....PC-7 i think.

 

[Bladecutter]

Okay
Allegedly, 10th or 11th of September "WE" lost a "Advanced Technology Aircraft" somewhere in the Desert between Edwards/Nevada range....
No one is talking....
Anyone hear anything?
Air Vehicle was "Piloted"
Pilot died.
Tonopah, NV?

Ski, are the blades on a V-22 aluminum or composite?

 

[oldbee]

Ski, are the blades on a V-22 aluminum or composite?

I'm game, composite would be my bet, don't especially like the Osprey; too many problems. Great idea but???

 

[Basket case]

My Gal Sal, recovered from years on an ice cap in Greeland

 

[Basket case]

Clark Gable

 

[Basket case]

Liberty Belle after the war testing a turbo prop

 

[Basket case]

Liberty Belle after restoration

 

[Basket case]

after the fire

 

[Photon440]

Ski, are the blades on a V-22 aluminum or composite?

Graphite and fiberglass according to the Bell/Boeing page on that aircraft. http://www.eaton.com/ecm/groups/public/@pub/@eaton/@aero/documents/content/ct_195937.pdf

 

[super-bee_ski]

Ski, are the blades on a V-22 aluminum or composite?

On the F-22?
Or Osprey V-22
Osprey is Composite blades
F-22 is uh...something else...?

 

[Bladecutter]

I'm game, composite would be my bet, don't especially like the Osprey; too many problems. Great idea but???

Yeah, a lot of parts to go wrong....i don't like helicopters, have only been on a total of 4 in my life....last was a taildragger Sikorsky S-58, radial engine. It was in 95, a ship i kept all the plexi polished on. An air lift outfit, installed a lot of AC units on hi-rise bldgs. Being it was an antique ship, i couldn't pass up the opportunity to ride on it. Holy Cow, that puppy shook like a dog shakin off water. Instrument panel was spring loaded & bangin both sides of the fuselage on take off.

 

[Bladecutter]

On the F-22?
Or Osprey V-22
Osprey is Composite blades
F-22 is uh...something else...?

Osprey, Photon already dug up a link....apparently thw blades are graphite & fiberglass.

 

[Bladecutter]

Graphite and fiberglass according to the Bell/Boeing page on that aircraft. http://www.eaton.com/ecm/groups/public/@pub/@eaton/@aero/documents/content/ct_195937.pdf

Thanks Photon!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Okay
Allegedly, 10th or 11th of September "WE" lost a "Advanced Technology Aircraft" somewhere in the Desert between Edwards/Nevada range....
No one is talking....
Anyone hear anything?
Air Vehicle was "Piloted"
Pilot died.
Tonopah, NV?

Latest:
13 Sept 2017
By Jamie Seidel Published September 13, 2017
news.com.au

-The tragic death of Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz last week on a weapons testing range in Nevada has attracted an inordinate amount of interests.
-And it’s because of what we don't know.
-The US Air Force has pointedly refused to reveal what aircraft he was at the controls of when the fatal accident occurred. It also took them three days to even admit his death.
-This is in stark contrast to another accident, at the same range, in the same week. Details of an accident involving two A-10 ground-attack jets which forced their pilots to eject were released within hours.

-So what could possibly cause such reluctance to reveal the circumstances of Schultz’ death?

“I can definitely say it was not an F-35,” Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David L. Goldfein stated at the weekend.

 

[super-bee_ski]

More:
-The USAF is remaining tight-lipped.

-All we know is the unspecified aircraft crashed about 6pm some 200km northwest of Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada Test and Training range. This range is also home to the extremely secretive “Area 51” research and development facility.

-Everything from crashed alien spacecraft to the next-generation Blackbird ultra-fast surveillance jet are said to be housed here.

-But we don’t actually know. It’s secret.

-The USAF also admitted the unknown aircraft was being operated by the Air Force Materiel Command. This is the unit that funds and operates aircraft research — and facilities like Area 51 (Groom Lake).

 

[snakeyes]

come on sneaky pete you can find out more info ,all these years of training