Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Me-262 replica


There is a good visual tell of where this airplane was flying, if you know to look for it.

Lots of stories surround the Me-262. The Jumo 004 engines were pretty crappy, often having a TBO of 12 hours. The wings were swept slightly to move the CG because the engines were heavier than designed. The replicas use J-85s, which easily have several hundred more pounds of thrust per side. The replicas are redlined at 500mph; they can be outrun by a good Reno racer.

7 comments:

Deadstick said...

Not that bad an engine design, originally. Trouble was, the turbine blades called for more cobalt and molybdenum than the program could get in the wartime economy, and they wound up using ersatz materials.

Old NFO said...

Thanks, interesting looking bird in flight!

Ole Phat Stu said...

And how many operational jet fighters did the USA have in WW2?

Comrade Misfit said...

A couple of P-80s, I think. Not that we really needed them.

Deadstick said...

Yes, a P-80 squadron was deployed to England, flew some training missions and was designated operational -- just in time to get news of the surrender.

Frank Van Haste said...

An elegant design, indeed. Dolfo Galland said, "It felt like angels were pushing." When I asked Rudi Opitz how it was to fly, he smiled and just said, "Nice!"

FVH

BadTux said...

The redline of 500 mph is because nobody really understood aerodynamics close to the speed of sound back then, and as you got closer to the speed of sound it got... tricky. Still, the Germans got the aerodynamics better than anybody else of that first generation of jet fighters, mostly by accident -- the wings were swept back to balance the engines around the center of gravity, but that also made the wings aerodynamically work better at high speeds.