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By: 6th May 2006 at 14:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-and more of Sukhoi P-1
By: 6th May 2006 at 15:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Lavochkin La-250
By: 6th May 2006 at 15:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-sukhoi T-4 : ,
il-102 : ,
Myasishchev M-50:
By: 6th May 2006 at 18:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Some more of my favorites:
Sukhoi T-49, YF-93, XF-90
By: 6th May 2006 at 18:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-ah the lovely T-4 lovely little bird
By: 6th May 2006 at 19:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-i have always liked the bounder, it just looks so impressive. i think if the soviets had a decent enough engine for it, it would have enterd production. but apparently it was so underpowered it could hardly get off the ground. what a shame.....another great soviet aircraft that never was, the tu-85 barge...
By: 7th May 2006 at 03:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I've always liked the looks of the XF-90. I bet it would have been a good competitor to the Sabre.
By: 7th May 2006 at 04:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I always loved the bounder as well.Also love the Ye-8 looks almost like the Eurofighter in some ways.Too bad a production model never came about.
By: 7th May 2006 at 04:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I've always liked the looks of the XF-90. I bet it would have been a good competitor to the Sabre.
Big, heavy and slow. It weighed 27,200 lbs. The highest speed it ever achieved was 665 mph. Its two J-34 engines provided only 6,200 lbs of thrust. Afterburners were added, raising the thrust to 8,000 lbs, all that did was reduce the range. Its service ceiling was only 39,000 feet. It looked good but thats about it.
By: 7th May 2006 at 05:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Big, heavy and slow. It weighed 27,200 lbs. The highest speed it ever achieved was 665 mph. Its two J-34 engines provided only 6,200 lbs of thrust. Afterburners were added, raising the thrust to 8,000 lbs, all that did was reduce the range. Its service ceiling was only 39,000 feet. It looked good but thats about it.
Even Ben Rich said it was a dog.
By: 7th May 2006 at 10:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-ah the lovely T-4 lovely little bird
'Little' ??????
At 100 tonnes ?? :eek:
Ken
By: 7th May 2006 at 10:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-yeah i know it was 100 tonnes but it always looks small compared to its rival the XB-70, hence i think of it a little but that's just me
By: 7th May 2006 at 15:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-And nobody's suggested TSR2 yet!
By: 7th May 2006 at 16:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Consider it suggested!!!.
Regards,
John.
By: 7th May 2006 at 17:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I bet if they had found some more powerful engines for it, then it would have been a better airplane.
Lots of great planes were underpowered at first.
By: 8th May 2006 at 00:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Also love the Ye-8 looks almost like the Eurofighter in some ways.Too bad a production model never came about.
Completely agree. Cant believe it didn't go into production. First prototype Ye-8/1 crashed due to engine failure. Second Ye-8/2 had too many engine problems and they decided to scrap the whole project in 1962.
Design was so ahead of its time. Reminds me mostly of Chinese J-10.
By: 8th May 2006 at 00:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I bet if they had found some more powerful engines for it, then it would have been a better airplane.Lots of great planes were underpowered at first.
Definitely. I wonder if some RB-199s would fit in the X-3. Or maybe EJ200s :eek:
By: 8th May 2006 at 00:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Underpowered monster scraped in 1974 yet still supercool in 2006!
By the way, does anyone have any inf/pics of T-4 competition from Tupolev and Yak?
here is biggger color pic of T-4
By: 9th May 2006 at 00:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Here are few that were certainly not underpowered.!
Mikojan Ye-152/1, Ye-152A, Ye-152M
By: 9th May 2006 at 02:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Well, if TSR.2 can join so can the CF-105 - nuf said.
Anybody have more pics or drawings of the Il-102?? - the Russian equivalent to the Northrop A-9 wasn't it - as in losing out to Su-25
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By: Wanderlei - 6th May 2006 at 14:38 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
Inspired by some great pictures from "Century Fighters" thread, I decided to make this post and cover designs from same era from all over.
Technology, pushed by cold war fear and enormous amounts of money invested in new projects, made this period most interesting specially in aviation.
I'll start with couple of Soviet prototypes that never made it to production.
These are pretty rare so if you have more shots of the same please post too.
Mikoyan Ye-8
Sukhoi P--1