"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
11/17/2016 at 16:34 • Filed to: `planelopnik
0
13|
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
11/17/2016 at 16:34 • Filed to: `planelopnik | 0
| 13 |
A modified P-80 Shooting Star
For Sweden
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 16:39 |
|
I once talked to a guy who rode in the camera bay for a U2 flight.
This reminds me of that.
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 16:45 |
|
It could be worse.
MrDakka
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 16:45 |
|
Your predecessor.
Also 3 seats? What sort of sorcery is this? I know the Skunk Works folks were technical wizards, cranking out a prototype from a proposal in half a year is miraculous. But 3 seats on a fighter is beginning to look like techno heresy.
|
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 16:54 |
|
That’s intriguing, since there are plenty of photos of two-seat P-80s/F-80s out there. I wonder what was up with your picture. It’s a cool pic, btw. You never disappoint.
RallyWrench
> For Sweden
11/17/2016 at 17:05 |
|
Oddly, I saw a U2 yesterday, climbing out from my local airport.
user314
> ttyymmnn
11/17/2016 at 17:06 |
|
Back in ‘94, McD-D had the idea of slinging a three-man pod under each wing of an AV-8B for delivering or extracting SOC teams. Pretty sure that idea never went anywhere either.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> ttyymmnn
11/17/2016 at 17:10 |
|
Why? What is his job that requires him to be in a tube under the wing?
|
ttyymmnn
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/17/2016 at 17:16 |
|
It’s for photography. While that looks like a P-38, it is actually an F-5 (no, not that F-5), the reconnaissance version of the Lightning. According to Wiki, the XF-5E was a “prone observer variant.” That would be a pretty awful gig, really. I hope there wasn’t a drop switch for that tank in the cockpit.
|
ttyymmnn
> user314
11/17/2016 at 17:20 |
|
Of course, we already know that this is a thing:
|
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 17:25 |
|
This back seat looks pretty tight, too.
Fairey Gannet. It was powered by a huge double turboprop engine called the Double Mamba . It was as crazy as it was awesome.
|
f86sabre
> For Sweden
11/17/2016 at 18:01 |
|
Any details beyond “it was tight and I couldn’t scratch my nose”?
|
For Sweden
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 18:15 |
|
Had to get a particular photograph, and he sat on a chair bolted to the airframe.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> f86sabre
11/17/2016 at 23:57 |
|
crazy germans had a bomber with the pilot in a prone position, and designed it to withstand 12gs