The Aircraft Image Posting Contest

[TrashMan]

Tomact is way cooler..and looks way better.

[Trantor]

Tomact is way cooler...

Air Ahmadinedshad.

..and looks way better.

You sure?

[Nemo]

You want a fast sweep wing F/A with lotsa payload including nukes and good capabilities in dogfight and in fast ultra-low-level-flight in difficult terrain?
Buy Panavia Tornado! It has RR/MTU-engines AND Messerschmidt-Genes - you can´t have it any better!

Its a good plane, but buying Tornados wont grease any politician's home districts. Sides, those wings swing the wrong way

http://www.google.com/patents?id=iRQXAA ... &q&f=false

[Michael]

fools, i give you the best air plane ever built




The WWII Spitfire, British, of course

[EDIT] pic changed

[Fotiadis_110]

fools, i give you the best air plane ever built

The WWII Spitfire, British, of course

I'm sorry but you posted the wrong picture.
Spitfire handling was found to improve on the 'clipped wing' variants.
:p

[Michael]

damn, I though that looked wrong, but couldn't place it

[EDIT] better?

[Fotiadis_110]

I think their handling would improve again if we added winglets, but that is largely academic.

I did find it amusing to learn that fact that the classic oval wing had lower manoeuvrability than when they simply removed the wing-tips however ^_^.

[TrashMan]

Tomact is way cooler...

Air Ahmadinedshad.

It just proves he's a smart man.

..and looks way better.

You sure?

[/quote]

http://www.fantom-xp.org/-/F-14_-_Tomcat.htm

I'm sure

[dfacto]

fools, i give you the best air plane ever built

The WWII Spitfire, British, of course

[EDIT] pic changed

Oh my, looks like you misspelled p-51 Mustang in google image search. How embarrassing, let me fix that for you.

[Michael]

fools, i give you the best air plane ever built

The WWII Spitfire, British, of course

[EDIT] pic changed

Oh my, looks like you misspelled p-51 Mustang in google image search. How embarrassing, let me fix that for you.

silly American, can't spell spitfire, here let me help you, S.P.I.T.F.I.R.E.

you'r all so helpless can't even spell A.L.U.M.I.N.I.U.M
where would you be with me?

[GeoModder]

Keep your "classics" in mind, people...

[ed_montague]

No love for the Warhawk? None?

[Nemo]

Can you have a Thunderbolt II without a I?

[Trantor]

Propellers?
Oh, you Guys are sooo stone-age.

[bunnyboy]

Propellers?
Oh, you Guys are sooo stone-age.

Once men were iron on wooden ships planes. Hii-ohoi!
Now iron ships planes have wooden men. Hii-ohoi. Hii-ohoi!
Translated from old song.

[CptWinters]

Propellers?
Oh, you Guys are sooo stone-age.

Once men were iron on wooden ships planes. Hii-ohoi!
Now iron ships planes have wooden men. Hii-ohoi. Hii-ohoi!
Translated from old song.

There has been lots of speculation about when the "Old Corps" ended and
the "New Corps" began.

I researched this and found the answer.

In 1775 the United States Marine Corps was formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.

In the beginning they announced that any new recruit would get a free
tankard of rum.

But they didn't get as many recruits as they wanted so they announced
that from then on all new recruits would get two tankards of rum,

A Marine in the back ranks said,
"We didn't have it that good in the Old Corps"

[GeoModder]

Propellers?
Oh, you Guys are sooo stone-age.

Good one!
Is there a typical German term for barely-worth-the-name cutting-edge technology, like ersatz or something?

[elorran]

I always had a personal like for the Mosquito. Laughed at when it was first presented, it went on to become one of the most versatile planes of the war.

[Trantor]

Once men were iron on wooden ships planes. Hii-ohoi!
Now iron ships planes have wooden men. Hii-ohoi. Hii-ohoi!
Translated from old song.

"Cars of cardboard need men of steel" - that one is popular in eastern germany among "Trabant"-drivers.

Is there a typical German term for barely-worth-the-name cutting-edge technology, like ersatz or something?

Um, sorry, can you please rephrase your question for me? It´s not your fault, it´s my english not being good enough to understand what you´re up to?

I always had a personal like for the Mosquito. Laughed at when it was first presented, it went on to become one of the most versatile planes of the war.

My first military model aircraft.

[GeoModder]

Is there a typical German term for barely-worth-the-name cutting-edge technology, like ersatz or something?

Um, sorry, can you please rephrase your question for me? It´s not your fault, it´s my english not being good enough to understand what you´re up to?

The Messerschmidt 262 definitely was a game-breaker in air warfare because of its speed and some other flying aspects. And the first in reliable operation.
But only a few years later jets from other nations surpassed it.
So what I mean to ask is, is there a German term for a cutting-edge system/object, that only shines for a short term before it is surpassed by others?