Worlds most kick-@$$ aircraft!

Road_Kill · Post by **Road_Kill** » 29 Mar 2006, 21:19

drum roll...and the award for the thread that will attract the least amount of chicks goes to....wait for it....oh my word....the winner is.....THIS ONE!!!

MWHAHAHA!!!

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 29 Mar 2006, 21:41

At last...something us guys can have without the chicks invading

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 29 Mar 2006, 22:47

-=WiK1d=- wrote:I saw on Discovery I think where the F-22 went to battle and got hit by a Mig....

The guy flew back to base and when he landed he saw he flew with only 1 wing...amazing!

It was an F-16, not an F-22

muffinman · Post by **muffinman** » 30 Mar 2006, 08:23

The ultimate heli!!

Apache

GreyWolf · Post by **GreyWolf** » 30 Mar 2006, 09:03

viceroy, you right, my mistake. Mustang was first SINGLE prop plane to break the 600km/h barrier.

are you sure about the mosquito coming out before it though? I thought the mosquito came out after WWII?

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 30 Mar 2006, 09:27

First official batch of Mosquitos were ordered in 1940 (I stand to be corrected) so about halfway through the war

GreyWolf · Post by **GreyWolf** » 30 Mar 2006, 09:48

cool...it just seems to me that it was very obscure. You always hear about the Spitfire, mustang, Zero, typhoon, BF109, hellcat, Lightning, Huricane, even the thunderbolt but nothing much about the mosquito. Maybe cos it served more in a ground attack role than as a fighter...

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 30 Mar 2006, 14:12

GreyWolf wrote:cool...it just seems to me that it was very obscure. You always hear about the Spitfire, mustang, Zero, typhoon, BF109, hellcat, Lightning, Huricane, even the thunderbolt but nothing much about the mosquito. Maybe cos it served more in a ground attack role than as a fighter...

Yeah it was more of a light bomber, but it used to go un escorted due to its speed and handling

Disrupter · Post by **Disrupter** » 30 Mar 2006, 15:41

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 30 Mar 2006, 16:09

GreyWolf wrote:cool...it just seems to me that it was very obscure. You always hear about the Spitfire, mustang, Zero, typhoon, BF109, hellcat, Lightning, Huricane, even the thunderbolt but nothing much about the mosquito. Maybe cos it served more in a ground attack role than as a fighter...

....and lets not forget the FW-190-series ...nasty pieces of work, those were...

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 30 Mar 2006, 22:34

muffinman wrote:The ultimate heli!!

Apache

Alow me to introduce you to the Russian-built KA-50 Black Shark...

There are several differently spec'ed KA-50's, the "Werewolf" and "Hokum" being the two most popular.
One of these would atomise an Apache.

Law · Post by **Law** » 31 Mar 2006, 06:38

lol. It looks like it's going to crash

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 31 Mar 2006, 06:41

No, I think what it is doing is displaying its ability to fly level while at a 45+ degree angle to the ground.
Something that comes in handy when you want to strafe enemy positions.
Also something jets (including VTOL ones) are not able to do.

Law · Post by **Law** » 31 Mar 2006, 06:58

yeah i kinda figured something like that

PypLaCe · Post by **PypLaCe** » 31 Mar 2006, 08:00

That chopper has 2 roters!!!!! 8O
And the ammount of ammo that thing can take is just crazy!

...Ill take one!

SquattingDog · Post by **SquattingDog** » 31 Mar 2006, 09:21

PypLaCe wrote:That chopper has 2 roters!!!!! 8O
And the ammount of ammo that thing can take is just crazy!

...Ill take one!

Turning in diffirent directions. It won't need a tail rotor because of this which in turn will make it more quite. You don't get rotor slap-> normally when a chopper banks into a turn the air from the top rotor "crashes" with the air from the tail rotor which creates that takatakatakatakataka sounds.......waiting for people to start ROLF.

Demoraliser · Post by **Demoraliser** » 31 Mar 2006, 11:00

this is by far the most interesting thread i have read here in months.

Anyone know anything about the helicopter used in Airwolf? Post pics etc. I loved that programme when i was a kid.

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 31 Mar 2006, 22:45

SquattingDog wrote:.......waiting for people to start ROLF.

I know what you are talking about bru.
Also, the two blades have to be counter-rotating. The KA50 can do flat turns at any speed where as copters with tail rotors or would have to bank sharply, costing them vital airspeed.
The two rotors also reduce inertia by almost 200%

Demoraliser: I had to google for this, but:
Airwolf is a slightly modified Bell-222 helicopter.
The modifications are all aesthetic though.
In the series, airwolf was a Mach 1+ copter with a jet engine and more firepower than a destroyer....

Law · Post by **Law** » 31 Mar 2006, 23:02

it still looks cool

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 31 Mar 2006, 23:04

Looks can be decieving.
The Bell-222 is not a military helicopter AFAIK.
And it would definitly not be able to keep up with one

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 May 2006, 00:35

Say hello to my little friend!

JT, lets see an Apache take this out....

Zell · Post by **Zell** » 10 May 2006, 00:35

I was waiting for this thread revival Jamin!

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 May 2006, 00:39

Yeah!

The KA-50 Black Shark & Werewolf specs areboth good enough to knock the snot out of an Apache.

As for JT's Eurocopter - the Comanche will violate that thing n many very creative ways.

J2theT · Post by **J2theT** » 10 May 2006, 00:42

First of all that UGLY thing above is just HIDIOUS (spelling)

Second the Tiger is better looking than the Apache but Apache rules

Post by **Thrall** » 10 May 2006, 00:46

Apache at Taji, Iraq: