VIRTUAL AIRCRAFT MUESUM

It is mind boggling to think of how much thought, engineering, and work that went into every airplane that was ever designed and built. The many different designs and innovations achieved along the way. So many manufacturing companies and much many more models from each of those companies or designers.

Sometimes I wonder what the actual count is of all airplanes, regardless of mfg and type, have ever been built since the Wright bros. Even just by mfg and model type the count is very high, but way higher when adding mfg, type/model, and numbers produced.

Nice archived link.
 
HAHA!!!!....Oops. Sorry, I knew of this long ago. I never even thought about posting the links (shrug)
 
beana51 said:
You will be able to pull up almost every aircraft that was ever built, in every country in the world, and every aircraft company.
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It's a nice start but nowhere near ' Almost every aircraft' .. !

Have a look at this thread and see just how many obscure aircraft there have been.
 
Thanks beana51-Great find!

Went and looked at the plane I worked on in the Navy as a jet mech-RA-5C Vigilante ( north american rockwell)

Thanks again,
Rick
 
A Great Browse!

There are some really strange aircraft...actually, rather a lot.
I wonder if it's not a bit like fish?
You know, we think a fish looks like this:
fish.gif

But actually, very few do...
 
HA! HA!..Yea we know what that is.One more strange shape!. a million year old Fossil of sorts?Is its a flounder run over by an 18 wheeler,?...or a new aerodynamically shaped "H" bomb!?,or a Stealth Submarine.?..DO IT?...great subliminal ploy!..but we know!..peace and love Brother!....Vin :wavey:
Try this my Friend.....

ONE SECOND IN THE LIFE OF A MERLIN
“If you could slow time down and examine just one second, what would you find? In that one second, the V-12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine would have gone thru 60 revolutions, with each of the 48 valves slamming open and closed 30 times. The 24 spark plugs have fired 720 times. Each piston has traveled a total of 60 feet in linear distance at an average speed of 41 mph, with the direction of movement reversing 180 degrees after every 6 inches. Three hundred and sixty pulses have been transmitted to the crankshaft, making 360 sonic booms as the exhaust gas is expelled from the cylinder with a velocity exceeding the speed of sound. The water pump impeller has spun 90 revolutions, sending 4 gallons of coolant surging through the engine and radiators. The oil pumps have forced 47 fluid ounces, roughly one third gallon, of oil through the engine, oil cooler and oil tank, scavenging heat and lubricating the flailing machinery. The supercharger rotor has completed 348 revolutions, its rim spinning at Mach 1, forcing 4.2 pounds or 55 cubic feet of ambient air into the combustion chambers under 3 atmospheres of boost pressure. Around 9 ounces of high octane aviation fuel, 7,843 BTUs of energy, has been injected into the carburetor along with 5.3 fluid ounces of methanol/water anti-detonant injection (ADI) fluid. Perhaps 1/8 fluid ounce of engine oil has been either combusted or blown overboard via the crankcase breather tube. Over 1.65 million foot-pounds of work have been done, the equivalent of lifting a station wagon to the top of the Statue of Liberty.”
 
Luvly...

"Merlin running a little rough today, eh Biggles?
Poor old girl lost track of what she was meant to do, and when..." :salute:
 
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