by "MrDakka" (mrdakka)
Published 06/01/2017 at 11:30
by "MrDakka" (mrdakka)
Published 06/01/2017 at 11:30
Tags: Stratolaunch
STARS: 4
Stratolaunch rolls out its mothership. I look forward to seeing it fly and also seeing which Transformer it turns into when Michael Bay gets his hands on it.
http://stratolaunch.com/news/FirstRollout.html
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/01/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 0
When I look at this, I think of a pilot who looks out the window and declares engine number X is out in a normal plane. Here it will be like, wait a minute Bob. I need to run across the other side of the plane to check on the engines... or radio Robert in the cockpit 2 to find out the status.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
06/01/2017 at 11:40, STARS: 9
my brother was of the opinion it looked like one of those styrofoam gliders
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
06/01/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 1
It really does
"MrDakka" (mrdakka)
06/01/2017 at 11:52, STARS: 1
High-aspect ratio wings sort of do that. That said, I wouldn’t mind a model RC version of it.
"user314" (user314)
06/01/2017 at 11:53, STARS: 2
I love that someone looked at the Conroy Virtus or Lockheed Twin Galaxy SCA concepts and said “Yeah, that looks like a good idea.”
Yes, those are two B-52 fuselages.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/01/2017 at 11:56, STARS: 0
Pilots can wave at each other. There must be great forces on that connecting wing spar.
"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
06/01/2017 at 11:57, STARS: 0
that picture, and the website, make this look fake. And that center aileron(or whatever it is) isn’t even symmetrical/centered.
"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
06/01/2017 at 11:59, STARS: 0
Ahh....now I get the launcher part. It’s going to shoot people in little missiles out into space...
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/01/2017 at 12:38, STARS: 1
Or the Bf 109Z, or the Heinkel He 111 Z-1, or the P-82/F-82 Twin Mustang, or...
Having said that, Twin Mustang variants with the the long centerline radar nacelle look not unlike a mothership and a rocket.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/01/2017 at 12:43, STARS: 0
I was thinking the same. Plus that’s where the rocket is going to hang from!
They must have done some pretty interesting structural stress calculations to go ahead with the design.
(This is when an aerospace engineer steps in and says “what, that? Piece of cake, ol’ chap”.)
"user314" (user314)
06/01/2017 at 13:29, STARS: 0
Well, I was talking specifically about Frankensteined launchers that never flew. The Zwillings were actually built, and worked as glider tugs. The Twin Mustang, despite appearances, weren’t two P-51s stitched together, but new aircraft based on the design.
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
06/01/2017 at 13:47, STARS: 1
Relax, I was being facetious.
In fact I first heard about the Heinkel in an old British documentary about the Gigant. I am not sure the Messerschmitt 109 Z flew, though. I had forgotten that the P-82 was not exactly a twinned P-51 - good point.
I find the Conroy uttterly fascinating - the company and John Conroy himself even more so. I wonder if he was the first to actually fit turboprops to a Dakota; he certainly must have been the first to put three engines in one.
"user314" (user314)
06/01/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 0
No sweat, just clarifying myself.
"NJAnon" (NJAnon)
06/01/2017 at 18:14, STARS: 0
So the stratofortress isnt large enough already