Shipbucket

Oh my!

Whoa. Brilliant is brilliant.

Now I know what you're thinking now, your crew will just operate with oxygen masks then. It's really a temporary fix and even then, a rather ugly fix. Oxygen masks tend to limit crew movement and be imperfect (particularly in sealing), which is why the B-29 was such a big deal in that it had ...

Good points gentlemen. Very enlighting experience.

Skijump brings safety in take off as aircraft is send out high in sky and that gives pilot vital seconds to eject if things go wrong and power is lost. Catobar enables much higher take off weights but has much less error marginal for pilot right after launch. If catapult is a straight one currently ...

Just thought about it. Launching Cat aircraft like Hornet or Rafale from bow catapult at skijump. Would have benefits from both systems but might cause excessive stress on airframe? Why don't we have this already?

Why pressure? We're not building comfortable airliner here.

Ok, but the R-15 is designed for a very specific flight envelope. Any nation will stockpile large amounts of whatever engines all its planes use. That is a good point. I need to come up with an excuse to have them or alter backstory. Probably both. That is exactly how not to design an aircraft's ...

I don't know how wood or steel are supposed to be incorporated exactly...both are far, far from ideal for a plane of this size and complexity. The DH Mosquito really represents the max performance you're going to get out of an all-wood construction. What worked for it isn't going to work with a ...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/228582057/Shipbucket/high%20speed%20bomber.PNG AV-122 Dragon is a heavy bomber built mostly from scraps of MiG 25 fleet in 70's to counter threat by fascistic Rameniak. Built largely from steel and wood as aluminum was difficult to get through naval blockade ...