***The OFFICIAL aviation pics thread***

[YALE]

New S-97 Raider from Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin

[Jose]

Oh! Just looked and found it on my podcast app!!

[4bangen]

Lockheed has started doing a podcast focused on their skunk works projects.

https://soundcloud.com/user-291478498

in! Must go find NOW!

[NoClassic]

Lockheed has started doing a podcast focused on their skunk works projects.

https://soundcloud.com/user-291478498

[silverranger]

New junk

purty

[inline 6]

New junk

[likeitfast55]

I was referring to the "developing story" in blue.

"Boeing 777 will struggle to maintain altitude once the fuel tanks are empty." <--dua.

Seriously? BTW, that looks like one of our 777's with a single integrated ISI and not a cluster for the stand-by.

[beefed88]

To my pilot brethren.......I am at a total loss for words here. The stupidity of this pic and CNN publishing it blows me away.

I can't stand the news stories that show a clip of a different fleet type than the story.

It is so lazy.

[likeitfast55]

To my pilot brethren.......I am at a total loss for words here. The stupidity of this pic and CNN publishing it blows me away.

[helosailor]

[Strychnine]

ass burgers

it's a joke, it's supposed to look like an x-wing...

Some days I wonder if SVO falls somewhere on the spectrum

[CJ]

Wings do not work well in this configuration. The airflow issues at the wing root would be insurmountable at anything above stall speed. Neat picture though.

it's a joke, it's supposed to look like an x-wing...

[svauto-erotic855]

Wings do not work well in this configuration. The airflow issues at the wing root would be insurmountable at anything above stall speed. Neat picture though.

[Strychnine]

[Strychnine]

Find a picture with more awesome in it. I dare you. I double dare you. And even if you do, it won't be a picture taken in Fort Worth, but go ahead and try...




I'll wait...

An impressive lineup of U.S. Air Force aircraft types were on static display at this airshow at Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas, circa 1967.

The fighter row (middle) includes:
three F-105 Thunderchiefs
three Lockheed F-104 Starfighters
an F-101 Voodoo
an F-4 Phantom II
two Convair F-106 Delta Darts
a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
a T-38 Talon trainer.

At top, a B-52 Stratofortress bomber and a KC-135 Stratotanker refueler are next to a Lockheed C-141A StarLifter transport and the XB-70 Valkyrie triple-sonic research aircraft, whose center fuselage was made at the then-Lockheed-Georgia Company facility in Marietta, Georgia.

The eclectic group at the bottom includes (clockwise from left):
a Lockheed YF-12 interceptor
an RB-57 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft modified at the General Dynamics (formerly Convair) facility across the runway
a Convair B-58 Hustler bomber
a General Dynamics F-111A fighter-bomber
a B-26K Counter Invader
a Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady high altitude reconnaissance aircraft.

At the far right, either real or mockups, are an X-15 research aircraft and a Thor-Able booster rocket.