Who Likes Aircraft ?

[Basket case]

I didn't think speed was the big setback, at 426 mph. it wasn't too slow. No, I think the biggest minus for that airplane was simply the cost - being around 60% more expensive than a Mustang. When you're going to wrap 5 tons of airframe and a 2,000 hp. engine together, you gotta expect to pay for it.

what hurt the Thunderbolt was it's limited range in the beginning. But this was largely over come later on.

 

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[Photon440]

That looks like a Titan booster, more powerful than the earlier Redstone and Atlas rockets on the first Mercury tests. Gemini 5?

 

[DeltaV]

That looks like a Titan booster, more powerful than the earlier Redstone and Atlas rockets on the first Mercury tests. Gemini 5?

Yes, Titan booster. I've seen those launch pictures attributed to different Gemini missions, but with the same launch date.. Here is what NASA has:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/march-23-1965-launch-of-first-crewed-gemini-flight/

 

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[Photon440]

For some reason, I had assumed that the F-35 was built with all American parts.
https://www.defensenews.com/congres...already-lawmakers-tell-dod/?utm_source=clavis

 

[DeltaV]

Concorde prototype undergoes vibration tests in Toulouse (1967)

 

[Photon440]

So many big ideas happening in the '60's.

 

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Luftwaffe Crew load ammo to the 30mm gun of the Henschel 129 (Panzerknacker). Germans mostly use this airplane as tank-destroyer.

 

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[DeltaV]

Source: http://martin-baker.com/2017/03/13/29-super-tucano-ejection-outside-moody-afb/

 

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