>>21741
>Post it if it's yours and gets you from point A to point B!
>I considered buying

Those weren't your cars. They were never your cars.

>>21742
Well, then enjoy this board, IHC. It's all yours.

subaru in its natural habitat

>>21736

SubaBros!

>>21744
>cuckshedding
enjoy your rollerdogs bro

>>21746

uhhh?

WTF are you on about?

>>21639
Route 66 plate and number

Does spotting an S-64 Skycrane in the wild count as cool? This one was parked at the local helipad last week, I believe it was hauling giant fuckoff transmission line poles for the new cross-province line. Apologies for shitty cellphone picture and the Bell 430 poking its nose in.

1995 Kawasaki KLR250 (M1030) Canadian Army motorcycle

JGSDF reconnaissance motorcycle (Kawasaki KLX250), 1st Airborne Brigade. In Camp Shimoshizu, Japan, 29-Apr-2012.

  Harrier - 1988 Documentary

  >>21297
1:50 jet spool up noise is the best noise ever created by man.

  old thread who cares

  I've been enjoying helicopter startup sequences lately.

  The FV433 Abbot SPG is powered by the Rolls-Royce K60 opposed-piston 2-stroke diesel engine and it sounds like this:

  The Chieftain tank has the bigger, but similarly-designed Leyland L60 multifuel 2-stroke opposed-piston compression-ignition engine. 750 hp (560 kW) 6 Cyl, 19 litres.

  A hypersonic two-stage, solid-fueled anti-ballistic missile, designed as a last resort short-range defense against incoming enemy nuclear warheads in their terminal phase.

It was developed as a counterpart to the long-range LIM-49 Spartan. The Sprint missile was essentially the last card on the table for any enemy nuclear warhead that evaded the initial Spartan intercepts. Because the terminal velocity of nuclear re-entry vehicles is so incredibly high (roughly 17,400 MPH / 28,000 KPH), there is little time to stop them.

In order to rapidly facilitate a launch, the silo doors housing Sprint missiles were blown away by explosive charges, after which an explosively-driven piston kicked the missile from the silo. An instant later, the first stage rocket engine ignited and burned for just 1.2 seconds, accelerating it at 100g with 650,000 pounds of thrust (294,000 kg)

ABM Spartan and Sprint https://youtu.be/5vq4mWyYl2Y
To stop an explosive nuclear weapon...
They designed a fast moving explosive
Launched by an explosive piston
Through silo doors opened by an explosion
Did the Demo guy from TF2 design this thing?

This was part of the Safeguard Anti Ballistic Missile System setup in the 1970s to protect the Minuteman II ICBM field out of Grand Forks ND. Originally it was designed to defend a city, but they decided that was crazy so they scaled down the program to defend the missile fields. The system was operational for a week or so before it was deactivated because of a treaty. They built a huge nuclear hardened fire control radar, the MRS that locals called the PAR, and supposedly could detect a basketball sized object as it came over the north pole and Hudson's Bay. The 4 remote sprint launch sites were 20 or so miles away from the main radar. Crazy stuff. The feds abandoned the site and a photography crew went in to document it a few years ago. The local university, the University of North Dakota, is working to purchase the land and use it as a training space for UAVs for its aeronautical program. http://rebrn.com/re/missile-accelerates-at-g-reaching-a-speed-of-mach-in-seconds-beg-2265707/

  >>21675

  >>21680
Now that I've checked some recent developments, it turns out that there's a new system, which is a replacement of the old USSR A-135 anti-ballistic defence.

A-135 used to be a stationary, ground-set missile launch complex located all around Moscow, with radar stations positioned at the outer limits of USSR back in the day. It has the main purpose of protecting the capital from incoming nuclear missiles (a limited amount of them, that is), and at that, it uses 2-stage interception system. At longer distances it uses a large, long-ranged nuclear missile with huge thermonuclear payload designed to take out the missile with an explosion, while in shorter distances (in fact, several kilometres from the launch site) it uses short-ranged, very fast missiles to destroy them before the explosion. The maximum flight time is such missile is 12 seconds, and maximum speed is over 2 kilometres per second. Which is why it has a kinetic penetrator instead of any warhead at all.

The new A-235 system is a second attempt (after first attempt was lost in economic decline of 90-s) to replace old vehicles and expand their capability. Compared to that, more famous S-500 anti-ballistic system is a mobile platform with similar purpose, but actually has only one major component instead of several. A-135 and it's successor uses Don-2N radar station, which is functioning is fully automatic mode.

>>21199
>>21200

appears to be Maylaysian air force. Didn't know they had both western and Russian/soviet aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Malaysian_Air_Force

have a photo I took at an airshow. F-100.

Libellula, a tandem-winged and twin-engined British experimental plane which gives the pilot an excellent view for landing on aircraft carriers (1945).

  >>21671
The British also tried this for carrier landings: just coat the deck with rubber land without gear.

>>21672
Problem with making planes without landing gear to belly-land on carrier decks covered with soft rubber is that the plane...
- Would have to be winched and taken to the elevator, catapult or placed on a wheeled cradle because it has no wheels to move around on deck.
- The plane cannot land with any stores under the wings like fuel tanks, rockets, missiles, bombs, gun pods or, as with this EA-18G Growler, delicate electronic jamming pods. Because they would be smashed upon landing.

Even using stealth fighters that keep their stores in internal bomb bays, the rubber landing method would still be insane.

- The unmanned X-47B completes its first landing aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), July 10, 2013, off the coast of Virginia. This event marks the first time the Navy landed an unmanned aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier.

Lord, love a Leduc!
Designed by René Leduc in 1938, it was built at the Breguet Aviation factory after a protracted, semi-secret construction phase kept at arm's length from German occupation authorities, and was finally completed in 1947. The aircraft featured a double-walled fuselage, with the pilot controlling the aircraft from within the inner shell. The circular gap between this and the outer, cylindrical shell provided the inlet for the ramjet.

Testing: It could not take off unassisted (ramjets cannot produce thrust at zero airspeed and thus cannot move an aircraft from a standstill) and was therefore intended to be carried aloft by a Sud-Est Languedoc mothership and released at altitude. Following test flights of the Languedoc/0.10 composite, independent unpowered gliding tests began in October 1947. After three such flights, the first powered flight was made on 21 April 1949 over Toulouse. Released in a shallow dive at an altitude of 3,050 m (10,010 ft), the engine was tested at half power for twelve minutes, propelling the aircraft to 680 km/h (420 mph).

In subsequent tests, the 0.10 reached a top speed of Mach 0.85 and demonstrated the viability of the ramjet as an aviation powerplant, with a rate of climb of 40 m/s (7,900 ft/min) to 11,000 metres (36,000 ft), exceeding that of the best jet fighters of the time.

Of the two 0.10s originally built, one was destroyed in a crash in 1951 and the other severely damaged in another crash the following year. Both pilots survived with serious injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leduc_0.10

- French Leduc 0.10 1949 ramjet interceptor carried by a Sud-Est Languedoc mothership.
A piloted ramjet, first flown in powered flight on April 21st 1949. As a ramjet needs forward speed to operate, it was carried aloft by a Sud-Est Languedoc mothership and released at altitude. In flight testing, it reached speeds as high as M=.85. On display in the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace. Of the two names on the aircraft, Rene Lorin was the inventor of the ramjet and Jean Villey published the detailed theory of the ramjet. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Leduc-010/1492573/L/
http://www.operatorchan.org/v/res/14172.html#14221

The Hiller YH-32 Hornet (company designation HJ-1) was an American ultralight helicopter built by Hiller Aircraft in the early 1950s. It was a small and unique design because it was powered by two Hiller 8RJ2B ramjet engines mounted on the rotor blade tips which weigh 13lbs each and deliver an equivalent of 45 h.p. for a total of 90 h.p. Versions of the HJ-1 Hornet were built for the United States Army and the United States Navy in the early 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_YH-32_Hornet
- Displayed in Museum of Flight in Seattle. This is one of 12 YH-32s acquired by the Army for evaluation in 1955.

The Hiller Museum identifies the YH-32A, named the Sally Rand, as the first helicopter gunship.
- Armed "Sally Rand" version on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum

>>21652
What the shit? Looks like a couple of V1 buzz bomb engines.

> How ever even this stunning aircraft was out performed by the new jets of 1944/45 and like the Soviets in an attempt to prolong the live of the "Mustang" as a front-line fighter a pair of Ford PJ-31-1 pulsejets were fitted on to the under side of the wings. The results were similar to the Soviet experiments on piston engined aircraft with added pulsejets, an increase in top speed when in use, but with excessive fuel consumption and high drag when not, the idea was dropped soon after the tests.

Indeed it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2

>>21657
Because moar powar!

  There's also the Motorjet (also conceptualized by Rene Lorin) which is where you use a piston engine to run the compressors on a jet engine. Only the Italians and Russians really explored the concept, the Italians with the Campini C.1 aircraft (one of the first jets) and the Russians with the MiG-13, a prop fighter developed as a crash response to the Me 262, which used a turbojet as a booster and was never accepted for service due to being obsolete (by the time they figured out the engine stuff the MiG-9 existed) and having a number of design flaws.