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That's probably a good thing.  If she had explained it satisfactorily, then you may have understood it.  And I try to avoid understanding women.  For therein lies the path to madness...

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Yeah, went and had a chat with the cause of said panic attack. She explained things. Not very satisfactorily. but i know where shes coming from.

lol thanks rich.

Don't mention it... :)

Scorpiomikey

lol thanks rich.

Scorpiomikey

Yeah, went and had a chat with the cause of said panic attack. She explained things. Not very satisfactorily. but i know where shes coming from.

Sorry to hear that my friend.  I hope things get better for you soon.

Ken

Yeah Mikey, sorry to hear about that.

That is a long time between panic attacks,

must have been very 'unpleasant.'

All the best with it.

Dom

Cheers guys. I dunno why it hit me the way it did. Maybe lack of sleep, overworking myself.

Hello everyone,

I found this site and thought I would share.  It has some nice photos of KB-50Js among other KB-50s and KB-29s:

http://www.tactankers.com/photo_library.htm 

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Hello everyone,

I found this site and thought I would share.  It has some nice photos of KB-50Js among other KB-50s and KB-29s:

http://www.tactankers.com/photo_library.htm 

Ken

Nice, Ken! Thanks for sharing the link and other info about this tanker. Prior to your postings, I never realized there was such a plane as a KB-50, let alone that it was descended from the B-29.

Russ

Striker8241

Son Of Medicine Man

Hello everyone,

I found this site and thought I would share.  It has some nice photos of KB-50Js among other KB-50s and KB-29s:

http://www.tactankers.com/photo_library.htm 

Ken

Nice, Ken! Thanks for sharing the link and other info about this tanker. Prior to your postings, I never realized there was such a plane as a KB-50, let alone that it was descended from the B-29.

Russ

Thank you for saying so Russ!  I didn't know about it either until I got involved in researching about the aircraft used by the USAF during the Vietnam War.  Apparently there was a surplus of B-29s and B-50s so the rational was to save money and convert them.  The USAF started off using the "probe and drogue" method, but found that the flying boom was a lot more effective.  The USN still uses the "probe and drogue".

Ken

Yes Ken, thanks for the link.

By the way, when I opened my Revell 1/48 B-29, I figured it was a slightly retooled 1/72 B-36....lol....

Thanks for the link to Charlie's Horse....lol....that is very very cool!

Adding fuel to the fire, the CF-105 Avro Arrow supposedly almost broke mach 2 going straight up in 1957-58, so I'm doubling down on the SR-71 breaking at least mach 1 standing on its tail.

Gosh Russ, you buy a new 5,000 square foot home so you can put that diorama on display?....

The official ROC for an SR-71 is 60m/s(11,810 ft/min). The record is held by a Mig-29 at 330m/s (65,000 ft/min)

The Avro Arrow was similar to the SR-71.

Some day they may release the "real" numbers for the SR-71.  I hope I am still alive when they do!

Ken

Those Russians;

What do they know......lol.....

So, Mig 29, about 65,000 feet per minute.

3,900,000 feet per hour

738 MPH, or mach 1.

Yeah Ken:

I hope I'm still around too....

Dom

Bockscar

Yeah Ken:

I hope I'm still around too....

Dom

You guys might also be interested in this.

www.u2sr71patches.co.uk/sr71performance.htm

Also note that the speed of sound slows down considerably as you get higher (due to temperature changes). So at 85,000 ft (its absolute altitude record) the speed of sound is around 660mph, but at sea level (assuming an average ambient air temperature of 59F) its 761mph. Theres also a bunch of maths involved with air pressure which i cant work out lol.

Right Mikey,

I think I heard there is a sweet spot altitude to punch through going straight up,

don't know what it is or if for sure it exists, i probably heard about it

when I was drinking beer with Scott Crossfield......lol

Dom

I imagine there would be, really cold icy day i could imagine lightnings and Habus slamming that barrier just off the end of the runway.

That would have been an interesting beer.

Mikey,

great link, and thanks!

Didn't know that the J-58 used center post bleed

and by pass bleed. i heard about the shock wave

adjustment, to keep it off the turbine blades and

slow down the airspeed at the blades to below supersonic.

The by pass may have been at supersonic, but

i'll need to study more.

All this stuff I never knew.

I heard once that the J-58 was a partial ram-jet,

given the by-pass bleed, I can see why someone

would think that.

Dom

Scorpiomikey

That would have been an interesting beer.

I think it was in the "Fantasy Saloon",

just off "Halucination Highway",

The bartender's name was Roarke.....and

this little guy named Tattoo followed him everywhere....lol....

Hey ive been there, I woke up the next morning to discover id won the street sign door prize lol.

Scorpiomikey

Hey ive been there, I woke up the next morning to discover id won the street sign door prize lol.

say..... how long before the backward letters from the sign

finally disappeared from your forehead............lol....

Jess 'tween yooz n' mee,

Always liked Crossfield bettern' Yeager.......

Id never heard of him till today. The only reason yeager was as famous as he was (there were plenty of other pilots out there just as good) is because of his eyesight and his sound barrier breakage.

Crossfield invented the X-15.

he piloted the Skyrocket.

He was fishing with a friend and heard on the radio

that a new rocket engine, XLR, was being developed.

He flew it too, but left the big ticket break through speeds

to other pilots.

What a guy.

Almost fer got:

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19610108000

Sky Rocket.....That is a beauty plane tooo.....

Nice, almost like the Tesla of his time.

And my cure for the backwards letters from the sign was a cute young lady by the name of sam.

We'll have to save that story for over a beer for sure....lol

its not much of a story, but prolly inappropriate for the forums lol.

Bockscar

Gosh Russ, you buy a new 5,000 square foot home so you can put that diorama on display?....

No, but I'm considering adding on another room  for it... . The preliminary layout dimensions are 37in W x 39in L. I figure if I double the width of the display, I could rent out the second half to other modelers to help pay for the new addition . 

Well, I seem to be doing a bit better for now and managed to not only work on cleaning up some of the paperwork associated with Mom, a little house work and even managed to work on the hobby

I finished with the cockpit, finally putting in the cowling fiddling with the tiny square of plastic that simulates the HUD screen.

I'm amazed at how the camera picks up all the dust!

I'm debating as to try to open the cockpit or not-no strut or anything was provided to do this so I would have to scratch it. The canopy is so large on the A-7 that the detail might be visible enough with it closed. (This photo is from before I painted the inside frames of the canopy and wind screen.)

I also managed to mount the windscreen, and started to experiment with the colors:

I'm going with a scheme that will be Gunship Grey and Dark Green, which according to the AirDoc decals, is how the aircraft was painted when it attended the "Gunsmoke" competition at Nellis in 1981. The other choices were an SEA scheme, which I already have done on other AC or one that was dark grey on grey (boring). That was the choices for the Colorado ANG aircraft I'm trying to model. I picked the "euro"

Hopefully, I won't have another episode like I did the previous week, as I always have had issues with mood swings in the past, and the events this Spring and Summer have not helped. Trying to keep busy as best I guess. I dread the coming of Winter and the Holidays....

Jim