I'd better call Saul !I have signed the Act and I was dealing with unemployment benefit claims...
I'd better call Saul !I have signed the Act and I was dealing with unemployment benefit claims...
Yep, V-22 was my thought for 'strange air vehicle' too. Easy to forget that the average person doesn't know much more about aircraft than the difference between an Airbus, a helicopter, and a fighter jet.If you've never seen a CV-22 or MV-22 Osprey or even aware of their existence, they would be a strange air vehicle. Plenty of room for a squad and able to recover all the expats from two rigs.
Pardon the egregiously late response, I basically just joined, butsublight said:Regardless of how odd it looks, thousands of people saw the craft in that picture. It matches up rather nicely with what stargazer posted.
Thousands of people have seen Elvis, that doesn't mean it was him.
And what would be the reasoning behind the bright lights on it? To blind anyone it might land on?
May you link them again please?
One thing I've learned since retiring from the USAF is that when old GI's get together, they talk about their time in service and a lot of interesting information can be heard. File these two anecdotes under GI War Stories, but what if they point to the existence of Senior Citizen?
1) A conversation with another retired GI who had been Special Forces and the subject came to "What do you miss the most about your service time?" Answer: "Jumping HALO, especially out of Black Betty." A response to a puzzled look was "Stealth planes don't just drop bombs, but I've said too much."
Either it was a reference to doing jumps from a B-2 bomb bay or a reference to a stealth transport.
2) A story from the collapse of Libya. The UK had an oil exploration crew operating a rig in southern Libya and wanted to evacuate them before rebel forces decided they could use hostage westerners or the spectacle of westerners being publicly executed.
The UK had the forces to do the job (SAS), but no effective way to get them to/from the oil rig. So a request was made to the US for assistance in transport.
The point of the story was the absolute shock by the drill crew when two unknown air vehicles landed next to the drilling complex and disgorged SAS troops that evacuated the 70+ drill crew team. Supposedly all the evacuated workers were briefed on and signed Official Secrets Act documents after landing at a safe air base well out of Libya.
Nothing concrete in either story, but very possibly some trails that could be explored by skilled researchers on the board.
Good find, but why is it cut in half though?I'm not sure if this was posted before, but here's the ATT in NASA's Ames wind tunnel.
Good find, but why is it cut in half though?
Am I parsing that right? 3x lift fans at the wing root, and an overwing inlet, with a V tail?I'm not sure if this was posted before, but here's the ATT in NASA's Ames wind tunnel.
Second half of the model could be tested in the another wind tunnel at the same time.Good find, but why is it cut in half though?
presumably they can test just one half and apply the results to both sides on the basis of symmetryGood find, but why is it cut in half though?
I guess, that also seen photos of similar "half-models". Although, now I'm trying to figure out - how the boundary layer (that has been formed on the floor) inflence on the overall aerodynamic characteristics calcualted?Half-models like this are pretty common for wind-tunnel testing. This approach lets your model be much closer to full-scale, which makes it more accurate.
I guess, that also seen photos of similar "half-models". Although, now I'm trying to figure out - how the boundary layer (that has been formed on the floor) inflence on the overall aerodynamic characteristics calcualted?
There were a lot of large wind tunnels, that offering a very large scale models researches.
Perhaps, purpose of this "half-models" is not in the full repalcement of complete models tests, but in the measuring of specific changes of already tested models? Say, the changes in controls' size and angles, or various additions - like pods, fairings etc.?
YesAm I parsing that right? 3x lift fans at the wing root, and an overwing inlet, with a V tail?