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i watched this video online once. it was about airplane acrobatics. it was amazing. they were doing all kind of stuff i never knew a plane could do. wish i remember what it was. i think it was at some airshow in japan
 
"Secret Japanese Aircraft of WWII" is on The History Channel right now

I was able to watch part of this. I knew about the Nazi rocket/jet experiments. However, I had no idea Japan was working on them even though they were allies during WWII.

Things could have gotten a lot nastier there. I beleive they said around 12,000 or so aircraft. I may have heard wrong, it seemed to be an incredible number of aircraft they found in Japan.

EDIT: What was the timing here.. When did they find the aircraft/how?

 
my brother and father are aerospace engineers 🙂

dad worked on the osprey back in the 70's when they actually developed it



the XB-70 valkyrie was a supersonic thermonuclear bomber. it maxed out at mach2.3 (i think, i know its 2.x) and carried up to 14 thermonuclear bombs in its bay. cool plane, never made it into service. its tilted wing tips created vortexes at the tips, and eventually sucked an escort plane in causing a catastrophic crash.
 
Facts regarding the Boeing 727:

First certificated commercial trijet (December 1963).

First "Quick Change" airplane, operated with passenger configuration during day and converted to all-cargo at night.

First to bring the speed and comfort of jet travel to hundreds of communities with short runways -- as short as 5,000 feet.

First commercial airplane in history to surpass the 1,000-sales mark for civil use.

First standard airliner to be fitted with Boeing's "wide-body look" passenger cabin interior.

First airplane to have a triple-slotted flap system for superior takeoff and landing performance.

First Boeing jetliner with completely powered flight controls. All flight controls are hydraulically powered, with dual units, except for the horizontal stabilizer, which is trimmed electrically.

First trijet to fly the North Atlantic with passengers, carrying charter loads between Canadian and European cities.

First commercial airplane to win a medal of honor from a king for surviving a fighter strafing attack (Morocco, 1972).

Pratt & Whitney designed the JT8D turbofan engine specifically for the 727, the first time in commercial aviation that a jet engine was "tailor-made" for an airplane.

First airplane to use the "jet mixing" principle for quieter operation. Because the engine had the lowest jet exit velocity of any engine when it was introduced, it also had the lowest noise level from the tailpipe.

First airplane to be certificated to FAA's noise rules (FAR 36), even though Boeing was not required to do so because the airplane was in service years before the rule was written.

First large commercial airplane to carry its own built-in airstairs, auxiliary power unit and feature single-point refueling for total independence of ground support equipment at through stops.

First airplane to be subjected to Boeing's brutal fatigue testing and static airframe testing prior to flight. The $30 million test program was designed to ensure no redesign of production airplanes would be necessary. During fatigue testing the airframe demonstrated a useful life of more than 20 years of normal service.

First jet airliner certified by the FAA for operation from gravel runways.

First jet airplane considered quiet enough to use LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two U.S. trunk operators began service June 1, 1964, from LaGuardia, both using 727s.

First jetliner to prove it could operate -- even with one engine out -- from Bogata, Colombia (8,355 feet elevation), Cuzco, Peru (10,800 feet), and LaPaz, Bolivia (13,358 feet). No jet had operated at any of these airports before.

First in range of all the "smaller" airliners. In 1973 an Advanced 727-200 flew non-stop from Toronto, Canada, to Copenhagen, Denmark -- a distance of 3,975 statute miles.
 
I was looking at this earlier:B-58 Hustler

Somehow this was a lunch topic with the boss yesterday - he grew up on an Air Force base when these were in active service.

Probably one of the best looking bombers ever made!
 
The S-3A was the first aircraft equipped with a general purpose digital computer.

At my first duty station after training I worked on these and then when we got our new planes these.
 
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