Duck, duck

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 05/15/2015 at 22:51 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Goose!

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > f86sabre 05/15/2015 at 22:56

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You called?

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 05/15/2015 at 23:11

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Swoose Goose!

Spaceball-Two > f86sabre 05/15/2015 at 23:15

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Although I think it was a Clipper in the show.

f86sabre > Spaceball-Two 05/15/2015 at 23:17

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They used a Goose. Saw it at Oshkosh many years ago.

sunnydaysam > Spaceball-Two 05/16/2015 at 17:11

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It was a Goose that belonged to my friend, Lowell Holtrop of Arlington WA and he flew it for the ‘Tales of the Gold Monkey’ series. I joked with him that he needed a better mechanic (he was the mechanic) because in the series, inevitably he always lost an engine with a lot of streaming black smoke.

Spaceball-Two > sunnydaysam 05/16/2015 at 18:42

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That's funny I go to the Arlington Fly In every year and have never seen it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > f86sabre 05/16/2015 at 19:01

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Ramming speed!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 05/18/2015 at 14:13

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WTF is that?

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > f86sabre 05/18/2015 at 14:14

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Talking about a goose but not The Goose?

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/18/2015 at 14:15

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Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 05/18/2015 at 14:22

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That was definitely an ambitious project. Too bad it ended up being ambitious but rubbish.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/18/2015 at 14:27

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So many potentially great planes did just that. I’ve got a few more forgotten airplanes in the pipeline to write about in the near future. It’s going to be a long time before I run out of material.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 05/18/2015 at 15:48

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The post WWII era and early jet age were pretty good times for throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing but it can lead to some pretty cool ideas that are years ahead of their time.

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Northrop was only 43 years ahead of themselves with the YB-35.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/18/2015 at 15:58

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Jack Northrop really got shafted on the YB-49 etc. But it was, as you say, an idea that was way ahead of its time and also ahead of the available technology of its day. I saw a documentary about the flying wings, and when the B-2 was still secret they took Jack Northrop, by that time bound to a wheelchair, to the factory and showed him a model of the B-2. He wept. He was right all along.