Giant fucking airplanes thread

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>>34413075
The B-36's slightly *bigger* cargo-carrying cousin.

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>>34413080
More MAGNESIUM OVERCAST

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>>34413075
For when your thunderflash just doesn't have the range.

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>>34413075
I forgot what documentary it was but there was a guy bitching about that photo... or how much effort it took to make that photo.

It took like 3 months to figure out how they would be able to line them up like that without running the risk of damaging the planes and ended up being a shitstorm that essentially no one wanted to do anymore.

>>34413119

Well I am glad they did it, because that picture is awesome.

>>34413113
>For when your thunderflash just doesn't have the range.

Thunderstreak.

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>>34413144
No, thunderflash. It has the recon nose.

>>34413144

Thunderjet

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>>34413155
man, the BUFF looked so much cooler with that nose.

>>34413242
Very cool, but not FUCKHEUG enough for this thread. Smallfags go elsewhere.

>>34413173
That nose and that canopy layout. The dome looks so much cooler than the windshield.

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>>34413276
I think it's just an artifact of the artist screwing up.

>>34413276
Plus it's more visibly a descendant of the B-29.
>US Fortress Series Bombers - wrecking krauts, wops, nips, gooks, and sand people since 1942!

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For when your B-52 program doesn't work out, and you've got a lot of B-36 fuselages around you're suddenly not using...

>>34413119
It's crazy to think that modern jet fighters make WWII bombers look pretty small.

an F-15 is over 10 feet longer than a B-25.

>>34413329
An F-15E an carry a Mosquito. No, not a Mosquito's bombload, an actually fully-armed and -fueled Mosquito. And still have like 3 tons left to play with.

>>34413342
The F-15E had such a funny development story.
>not a pound for air to ground!
>bump up the engines, add CFTs, a second seat, and better radar
>OK, 80,000 pounds for air to ground!

>>34413351
CFTs and a better radar are good for ATA though. And better engines are always better.

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>>34413080
>how much cargo do you want senpai
>I want to airdrop a division
>I've got just the thing

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>>34413791
Wasn't built, doesn't count.

>>34413313
>33,000kg payload
>Over a tonne more than a B52-H can carry now
Dear lord

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FLAOT

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The whole hanger is mine now.

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this plane is sex

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>>34413075
>ITT: Planes that aren't even able to carry other planes.

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>>34416406
>

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Captcha is helicopters. Huh.

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>>34416406
>can only carry planes externally
SAD!

>>34413791
what the fuck was in their sake?

>>34416575
Fermented rice.

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>>34413791
Yo that's tiny.

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>>34413791
>>34416636

According to the scarce information I could find online, this aircraft was to be known as the KX-03, a project ordered by the IJN for Kawanishi to study a 500 ton class flying boat in the beginning of 1943.

It was to be about 162m long, have a wingspan of 180m, height of around 35m, weigh approximately 460 tonnes, and have a range of around 18,520km. It could carry a payload of around 900 soldiers with normal equipment, and had a crew of 24.

As far as powerplant goes, it was to be powered by 12 Ne-201 Turboprop engines with a static thrust of 900kg per engine, 7000 HP, as well as 6 Ne-330 Turbojet engines at 7920HP.

>>34419546
gonna try to build this in kerbal space program

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>>34416406
but your wrong.

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Bro, do you even ground effect?

>>34419584
I'd download that craft file.

>>34419546
It certainly would have been impressive to see that shit burning and crashing into the Pacific. Outside of that I can't imagine much else it would have been good for.

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>Ruptures eardrums in russian

>>34421298
Well. Ever need to bomb the US with impunity as a foreign power during the WW2 era? Japanese bomb laiden cargo submarines+ this crazy fucking thing.

In a modern theater it would have never worked, but before radar. yeah. they might have been onto something for the time.

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>>34413075
Meet the WW1 version of the BUFF
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=584

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>not even nuclear powered
>can't fly for 40 days
>doesn't carry squadrons of fighters and support crew
>we Belka now

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>>34413075

>>34419546
At that point, why not just build a dirigible?

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>>34421478
As much as I love the XB-70, 66671 is right below it, and yeah.... best plane ever.

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>>34413080

We can go larger

>>34421459

This is vtol too

>>34421492
To slow, plus America controlled pretty much all the helium back then and nobody wanted to mess with hydrogen since the dreaded huge manatee incident.

>>34421478
Where is the xb70 staying at?

>>34421523
Ohio probably, they get all the best stuff and leave everyone else fighting for left overs.

>>34419546

Here is the US equivalent

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>>34421532

fug

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>>34421536

And this is its payload performance

>>34413791
Ace Combat, the early years.

>>34421508
You just know someone over at /gif/ would try to fuck this

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those elephant fuckfaces don't stand a chance

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>>34421459
at that point you might as well make something permanently airborne like the Banshee's from Yukikaze.

>3 flying wings nearly a mile wide sandwitched on top of each other
>nuclear powered
>crew of thousands
>compliment of hundreds of aircraft
>capable of landing C-5 Galaxy-sized cargo aircraft in its central hanger for replenishment
>built in space over alien planet and dropped into the atmosphere

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>>34416490
but can it carry trains?

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>>34425415
Yukikaze had some neat unused aircraft designs as well.

>>34425427
b-but
why would you do that
why not have the train... you know... run on the railway system to whereever it needs to go?

>>34426785
because that's too slow, obviously.

>>34416339
Saw this thing take off one day, which really befuddled me because I work at a cargo plane base.

Was fucking around at the bomb dump and suddenly my ears are being raped by thunder and I see this thing taking off. I've never seen anything like it, it was producing so much thrust, took off like a fighter

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>>34421560
>120000lbs

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>>34413329

F-105s were longer and carrier a larger bomb load than a B-17. On one engine.

>Thunderchiefs are still the largest single-engine aircraft to see combat.

>>34425427
that's an an-124 not a 225

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>>34425444
I wish Ikuto Yamashita would do more crazy ass scifi planes. Yukikaze had some cool stuff.