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[oldsman496]

Wright Patterson Air Force Base holds an air show (usually in July) each year that is arguably the finest in the world. If you ever get the chance to go, I highly reccomend it. They also host a Giant Scale Radio Control show (usually in September) where the finest radio control planes in the US show up and is hosted by the Dayton Ohio Giant Scalers... attendance is as high as 30,000 people with 200 planes and it takes place at WPAFB Museum. Here are some pics.


this B17G is called the Shady Lady and it is electric powered. the towers you see in the background are the WPAFB avionics facility. The absolutely latest and greatest production electronic military systems are tested here.


This plane is designed and built by one individual


a curtiss jenny

the cylindrical building in the background of these shots is the IMAX theatre and one of 3 hangers at the museum. They are large enough to house a complete B-52 hanging like a model from the ceiling! If you could pan to the right of this picture about 45 deg, you would see the apartment building my grandmother managed during my childhood. I used to love going there and watching F-4's land at Wright field (since closed). warped me for life!

The power to weight of an RC exceeds a real plane, so stunts like this hovering, are commonplace. its a great show!
and these are just assorted rc's parked and in flight



Go Here for more....

http://www.dogsairshow.com/page2.htm

[CTX-SLPR]

Off to the left behind the trees next to the AFRL/SN tower is my old AFRL/ML office. I miss Wright-Patt sometimes, was a great job and a really interesting base. Too bad I never went to the air show when I was stationed there.

[oldsman496]

Off to the left behind the trees next to the AFRL/SN tower is my old AFRL/ML office. I miss Wright-Patt sometimes, was a great job and a really interesting base. Too bad I never went to the air show when I was stationed there.

during the '90's, I used to install and maintain video com systems for the F-117/F-16/F-18/A-10/ C-17 and assorted other SPO's. That was another life, and I miss workin' there also. it was always facinating.

[Scott Liggett]

If you didn't tell me that was an RC B-17, I would've never known the difference.

[JOES66FURY]

Many years ago, I was at the Kershaw SC air strip ready to fly RC planes with a couple of flying buddies. All the guys from Shaw AFB were working a site a couple miles away, on big exercise. Helicopters, A-10's a Cargo plane circling around.

What the heck, they're way off on the horizon, let's fly. As soon as, I mean, the instant we turned on our radio transmitters a couple of the A-10's broke off from the exercise and came to "strafe" us. Anybody else who has ever had that good of a look at the front of an A-10 on an attack run....they're probably dead in some other country. They let us know in no uncertain terms they didn't want us flying our models that day.

Here's a real neat technical summary. Look at the shell casing comparison, that gun and some others:

http://www.weeville.com/a10.htm

I have been at the firing range when they were doing drops and straiffing runs...the sound the gun makes is pretty cool...what is cooler it thaqt shit blows up way before you hear the gun go off....if you were on the wrong end of that gun when it went off you never even heard it coming...

I have mad hate for the A-10, as a C-130 guy on an A-10 base we get shit on like red headed step children. we get zero credit, zero money and zero support from the wing...becasue after all...we a re just C-130's....

[JOES66FURY]

a couple shots from last weeks air show. Not bad for a phone camera.

[oldsman496]

This link is a fantastic 360 deg panarama of the shuttle flight deck... its on the National Geographic website and you can pan, tilt, and zoom in to your hearts content... its a really cool thing!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120416-nasa-space-shuttle-discovery-smithsonian-360-tour-panorama-science/

and these are a couple shots from yesterdays DC flyover of the shuttle discovery on its way to gather dust in some museum on the east coast..... not at WPAFB

[JOES66FURY]

took my youngest by the hangar a few weeks back. He loves coming here and getting the tour as often as he can

[Gary 351C]

I'm not sure why I find this so fasinating to watch. Maybe because wheather they roll, float or or fly I just like machines. I got to fly on one of these when I was 12 and it was a treat.

Jets are cool and propellers are cool, turboprops are the best of both.

I know you Air Force guys are going to think, Eh, big deal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ECu_-SOKo&feature=related

[Beagle]

! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car

I love the RC's - but THIS - this freaking thing is THE most badass aircraft I have seen to date:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ITO=1490

[Scott Liggett]

Kinda creepy too.

[groucho]

I love the RC's - but THIS - this freaking thing is THE most badass aircraft I have seen to date:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ITO=1490

That's some real dumb ass shit right there

[oldsman496]

I think Scott and I have pets that look A LOT like this...but without the RC parts.... that is kinda disturbing to me. Bizarre.

[groucho]

The only thing DUMBER woulda been putting a stick up the cat's ass and making a lollipop

[ls7gto]

some shots from this weekends ww2 show at Spaatz Field.... I called these....waiting for first light