Misc Images

_AH_Autorotate · October 12, 2011, 05:00:02 AM

here something to cheer you up.
makes a good desktop

higher res>http://i.imgur.com/zsP3y.jpg

_AH_DarkWolf · October 12, 2011, 05:10:48 AM

Quote from: _AH_Autorotate on October 12, 2011, 04:29:42 AM
if you squint the dazzle camouflage schemes really trick the eye into making them look like smaller warships.

Those schemes are cool, it's hard to appreciate what they looked like in black n white photos.

DW

_AH_Autorotate · October 12, 2011, 05:54:21 AM

not just for ships. :D

i'll be expecting a skin DW....

http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=170314

_AH_DarkWolf · October 12, 2011, 06:18:41 PM

Hey that thing has 20mm cannons.

That skin has been done by the chaps over at Axis & Allies Paintworks.

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=186&t=1591

The P-51A is included in UP 3.0.

DW

_AH_Autorotate · October 12, 2011, 10:26:17 PM

Quote from: _AH_DarkWolf on October 12, 2011, 06:18:41 PM
That skin has been done by the chaps over at Axis & Allies Paintworks.

Sweet!

_AH_Col._Hogan · October 12, 2011, 11:34:47 PM

P-51A protos had the cannons.

S!

_AH_z5o · October 13, 2011, 03:13:12 PM

neat

_AH_Autorotate · October 18, 2011, 11:32:05 PM

P-38s in flight. F-5B camera ship and P-38J fighter in flight. Circa 1944

_AH_Autorotate · October 19, 2011, 08:03:27 PM

B-29 meet B-36

_AH_Col._Hogan · October 20, 2011, 12:28:08 AM

Wow.

_AH_z5o · October 20, 2011, 08:24:58 PM

That is one big bird

_AH_Autorotate · October 20, 2011, 08:32:26 PM

This plane was redesignated the XB-36H, then the NB-36H and was modified to carry a 3 megawatt, air-cooled nuclear reactor in its bomb bay. The project was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and though one NB-36H was modified during the early stages of the project, the program was cancelled before the actual X-6 and its nuclear reactor engines were completed. The X-6 was part of a larger series of programs, costing US$7 billion in all, that ran from 1946 through 1961. Because such an aircraft's range would not have been limited by liquid jet fuel, it was theorized that nuclear-powered strategic bombers would be able to stay airborne for weeks at a time. To shield the flight crew, the nose section of the aircraft was modified to include a 12-ton lead and rubber shield. The standard windshield was replaced with one made of 6-inch–thick acrylic glass. The amount of lead and water shielding was variable. Measurements of the resulting radiation levels were then compared with calculated levels to enhance the ability to design optimal shielding with minimum weight for nuclear-powered bombers.

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_AH_DarkWolf · October 20, 2011, 08:55:42 PM

Nuclear powered bomber. Would suck to fly with complex engine management on....

DW

_AH_Nimble · October 22, 2011, 01:45:30 AM

If Im not mistaken... that nuclear bmbr looks like its flying over canada??????? :surprised-027:

_AH_Boosher · October 22, 2011, 02:42:26 AM

I'll just leave this here...