Mechanical Craziness!! Cold war preferred, anything nuts also gratefully accepted!
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Impressive piece of gear, the lightning.
anyone else see the thing on ch7 earlier tonight about jets n stuff.
it had the lightning in it.
Loving this thread...let's try the good-old X-15.
Doesn't look too special, does it. Except for how it was. Rocket-powered, top speed of Mach 6.7, flown at altitudes exceeding 350,000 feet, had to be drop-launched from a converted B-52. Yeah, pretty much a giant missile with a pilot strapped in. So cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skG5ioabGVQ
Or how about the X-29 technology demonstrator for a super manoueverable forward-swept wing fighter aircraft? Enormously dynamically unstable, only capable of being controlled with the advent of multiple redundant computer controlled fly-by wire systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpSPAzzFwg
And of following on from POSM's giant, fast intercontinental bomber post how about the venerable B1-B Lancer, precursor of course to the B2 Spirit aka. the Stealth Bomber. Supersonic, variable sweep wing design again conceived of to drop nukes and huge conventional payloads on those pesky Russians although it didn't enter service until well into the 1980s. Still gets outings today when needed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-01NRNK_BI
Doesn't look too special, does it. Except for how it was. Rocket-powered, top speed of Mach 6.7, flown at altitudes exceeding 350,000 feet, had to be drop-launched from a converted B-52. Yeah, pretty much a giant missile with a pilot strapped in. So cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skG5ioabGVQ
Or how about the X-29 technology demonstrator for a super manoueverable forward-swept wing fighter aircraft? Enormously dynamically unstable, only capable of being controlled with the advent of multiple redundant computer controlled fly-by wire systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpSPAzzFwg
And of following on from POSM's giant, fast intercontinental bomber post how about the venerable B1-B Lancer, precursor of course to the B2 Spirit aka. the Stealth Bomber. Supersonic, variable sweep wing design again conceived of to drop nukes and huge conventional payloads on those pesky Russians although it didn't enter service until well into the 1980s. Still gets outings today when needed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-01NRNK_BI
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Less aircrafts more random stuff!!! *edit* Sorry, Didnt notice the thread title 
Worlds largest bucket wheel excavator. Basically it was created to chomp mountains.
http://technologydigest.blogspot.com/2007/04/worlds-biggest-excavator.html
Worlds largest bucket wheel excavator. Basically it was created to chomp mountains.
http://technologydigest.blogspot.com/2007/04/worlds-biggest-excavator.html
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If that were a transformer- we'd all be so screwed.
Loving this thread- the X-15 is a fave of mine for sure. Does it all have to be coldwar era? I can think of a mighty mighty big plane that should be here, but it's newer than most of these.
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Post it anyway! Id love to see all kinds of man made marvals in here.
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It's Russian, of course. The Antonov an-225 is a biiiiig plane to say the least
Count 'em, five battle tanks.
You know how space shuttles are pretty big?
Yeah.
By the way- I heard that with the amount of fuel it takes to get a C-130 off the ground is equal to driving a small car around the world 32 times. Not sure how accurate the figure is, but woah.
Count 'em, five battle tanks.
You know how space shuttles are pretty big?
Yeah.
By the way- I heard that with the amount of fuel it takes to get a C-130 off the ground is equal to driving a small car around the world 32 times. Not sure how accurate the figure is, but woah.
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Loving this thread...let's try the good-old X-15.
Doesn't look too special, does it. Except for how it was. Rocket-powered, top speed of Mach 6.7, flown at altitudes exceeding 350,000 feet, had to be drop-launched from a converted B-52. Yeah, pretty much a giant missile with a pilot strapped in. So cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skG5ioabGVQ
Or how about the X-29 technology demonstrator for a super manoueverable forward-swept wing fighter aircraft? Enormously dynamically unstable, only capable of being controlled with the advent of multiple redundant computer controlled fly-by wire systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpSPAzzFwg
And of following on from POSM's giant, fast intercontinental bomber post how about the venerable B1-B Lancer, precursor of course to the B2 Spirit aka. the Stealth Bomber. Supersonic, variable sweep wing design again conceived of to drop nukes and huge conventional payloads on those pesky Russians although it didn't enter service until well into the 1980s. Still gets outings today when needed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-01NRNK_BI
To add to teh B1-B goodness, shot from the airshow, quite possibly the most insane and intimidating long range heavy duty bomber.
And ryan since you brought up the lovely Xplanes, and the grummon, what about the russian counterpart, much teh same, reverse swept wings, teh SU-47, very sexy aircraft.
Yep, the russians know hwo to do thier crazy shit
And for more, well i knwo this was an Xplane, but i'm almost sure is wasn't X-22, but the V-22 Osprey, one 'thinking out of the box' aircraft, impressive none the less.
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I forgot the flying engine
Mig-25 'Foxbat' Rediculously high flight ceiling (virging on space, much like the blackbird)
For the benifit of anyone who thinks the engines are just normal sized
And the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, a truly mind blowing aircraft, so low the ordinates almost scrape the runway, and so fast and nimble.
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I posted this thing in its own thread because of the sheer stupidity and wonder of it but it does kind of belong here, parts are cold war era
The Mig-25 which was of course designed to intercept and shoot down the U2, Blackbird, Valkyrie, Vulcan and Lancer.
Mmmmm...arms race. Mmmmmmm...Cold War.
Not from the cold war era but i'm sure it's roots stem from the forementioned.
The SU-37 .... It does things that a supersonic jet aircraft shouldn't
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex06UwZa2pM
The SU-37 .... It does things that a supersonic jet aircraft shouldn't
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex06UwZa2pM
Cool thread, some of those planes are pretty interesting.
Continuing with simpsons pictures:
Ford Nucleon (nuclear powered car that never went into production for obvious reasons, theres a small nuclear reactor in the back!)
Not really an invention but thought it was interesting, abandoned, decomissioned plane fields, not sure on the location of this one.
and, the wild wacky action bike
Continuing with simpsons pictures:
Ford Nucleon (nuclear powered car that never went into production for obvious reasons, theres a small nuclear reactor in the back!)
Not really an invention but thought it was interesting, abandoned, decomissioned plane fields, not sure on the location of this one.
and, the wild wacky action bike
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The Mig-25 which was of course designed to intercept and shoot down the U2, Blackbird, Valkyrie, Vulcan and Lancer.
Mmmmm...arms race. Mmmmmmm...Cold War.
hell yeah! Haha arms races make for wicked aircraft
if I get some spare money I'm buying me a ride in a foxbat. Hopefully if all goes well I'll he behind the controls of an f-35 and hopefully oneday an su-37 or 35 I'm easy haha, dreams and aspirations are wicked cool .Cool thread, some of those planes are pretty interesting.
Continuing with simpsons pictures:
Ford Nucleon (nuclear powered car that never went into production for obvious reasons, theres a small nuclear reactor in the back!)
Not really an invention but thought it was interesting, abandoned, decomissioned plane fields, not sure on the location of this one.
and, the wild wacky action bike
lol at the car! The aircraft deconstruction yard is called the boneyard and it's location escapes me, in the us, my mind says Edwards afb, but it's not it's elsewhere in the desert I'm pretty sure, it's an extrememly cool place, as a bit of trivia we bought our f1-11s from thre and that is where they shall return shortly
along with the f-4 phantoms we borrowed while our f1-11s were being fixed up.
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Genesis spar. GOM. I was almost going to POSM up on the Thailf until I remembered the s7000 only had 2 7000t cranes. Man those are huge.
Some of those russian aircraft are absolutely insane.
Nothing still comes close to the spruce goose, not even the Antonov 225.
wtf is that?