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** MESSAGE FROM BROADCASTER **
----: No flaming, please :----
I have been doing some research to find a plane that suits even those strict needs for one of your Admins, Rosh... And few other members in this board that i will not mention.
Blackbird
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It was destined to become techologically most advanced and it's power would be crushing compared to others. It was thought to skip generation ahead russians, climb up eight kilometers higher than other planes and to fly 60% faster than previous jet-planes. Also it would be almost invisible to radar.
Project was started in 1958 by Lockheed Aircraft Company and with it's own genious Kelly Johnson. Locheed factory was(is?) located in California, Burbank.
Needed technology for such plane was so advanced that it would be the same if they were planning shuttle transportation to outer planets.
Most of the regular plane materials turned to be useless and obsolete. Even the basic aluminum structure was useless 'cause it loses it's hardness when going over 150 celsius. Heat in cockpit windshield could rise to 330 celsius and in some wing structures to 430 celsius. In that you could melt lead.
Project was really activated in 59', and scientist were figuring out what material would be best to use... Titan! Titan is just as strong as stainless steel, but half as light. It can withstand very high heat and pressure. Directing cables were made of metal that was originally ment to be clock springs. Electrical switches were golded because it keeps it's capabilities at high heat better than silver or copper. Plane was painted black because it releases heat more efficiently. It's outer hull material was made of radar non-reflecting material. Plane's head was spreaded out a bit so it looked like cobra's head, because it decreased planes radar profile. It was worlds first Stealth plane.
Engines were only ready parts for the plane that they used. They were modifications of two jet-turbines that were designed to fly twice the speed of sound. Each of those engines supplied power as much as Queen Mary's four great turbines together. Motors would push the plane forward at least one kilometer per second.
When the prototype rolled out from the hangar, it had a name: Blackbird. 34 meters long and it weighted 27 tonns. It was beuty and a beast.
When they first time tried to test the engines in 62', they didn't start. Oil that was designed to hot temperatures freezed almost solid when temperature was less than 30 celsius. So they installed two seven-liters racing car engines as ignite motors, that both supplied power of 500 horsepower.
Blackbird had it's first flight in 1962 in base wich location is still classified.
Pilot Jim Watkin described it as: "Almost religious experience".
"Most frightening experience was that when i moved from bright daylight to full darkness, that seemed to cover half of the continent".
Public announcment from president johnson in 64 released blackbird to military use.
Blackbirds were used 24 years, they flew 3551 combat flights in vietnam, about two hundred SA-2 anti-air missiles were launched against it, none hit and in most cases crew didn't even notice that plane was under fire.
It was mostly used in reckon flights.
(Altough this plane isn't pure retro because it did actually happen, it was tehcnologically so advanced it could happen today, a future plane from the past)
- End of story -
Here are some issues: (don't laugh, they are merely a lure to have you think up better ideas)
* Having a plane in the game would probably give some more playing room. Other parts of world would become avaible: Canada, Alaska, Southern parts of America... Hell, maybe even forgotten lands across Atlantic! But if programmers are in lazy mood, it would only speed up movement.
* You will probably ask: "Where will it take off and land?". Whole US is covered with asphalt, major part of them might be in pretty bad shape, but some would work as a runway. Also, i don't think that all Airports were completely destroyed either. As long as the asphalt isn't cracked up too bad, you can land on it.
You must still have some confirmation that there is a runway to land on. You can't possibly notice anything under you when you are moving 1km/s. This would be handled by checing the site first on foot(slow), or having somekind of map that gives off landing locations.
* How would you fly then? You couldn't possibly have anykind of previous experiences? By autopilot of course! Reading the flight-manual would give enough information of safe landing, takeoff and setting course to autopilot.
* Where would you find the plane then? From California, of course. Sitting in the hangar in perfect shape. Or maybe from special encounter? Or maybe it would be a quest: Repair it's engines, get fuel and then buy it from smitty.
And good luck to you writing those replies...
"Most common trick is to turn those folder pages so fast that some cards come out from their pockets a bit, then find a card that is out from it's pocket and is in the middle of the folder page, then rise the folder, like you were watching something really closely and quickly and silently take the card and put it to your hand and drop it into your chest pocket or whatever place is closest."
- Ana's diabloic tactics guide to Gathering Magic cards.
----: No flaming, please :----
I have been doing some research to find a plane that suits even those strict needs for one of your Admins, Rosh... And few other members in this board that i will not mention.
Blackbird
---------
It was destined to become techologically most advanced and it's power would be crushing compared to others. It was thought to skip generation ahead russians, climb up eight kilometers higher than other planes and to fly 60% faster than previous jet-planes. Also it would be almost invisible to radar.
Project was started in 1958 by Lockheed Aircraft Company and with it's own genious Kelly Johnson. Locheed factory was(is?) located in California, Burbank.
Needed technology for such plane was so advanced that it would be the same if they were planning shuttle transportation to outer planets.
Most of the regular plane materials turned to be useless and obsolete. Even the basic aluminum structure was useless 'cause it loses it's hardness when going over 150 celsius. Heat in cockpit windshield could rise to 330 celsius and in some wing structures to 430 celsius. In that you could melt lead.
Project was really activated in 59', and scientist were figuring out what material would be best to use... Titan! Titan is just as strong as stainless steel, but half as light. It can withstand very high heat and pressure. Directing cables were made of metal that was originally ment to be clock springs. Electrical switches were golded because it keeps it's capabilities at high heat better than silver or copper. Plane was painted black because it releases heat more efficiently. It's outer hull material was made of radar non-reflecting material. Plane's head was spreaded out a bit so it looked like cobra's head, because it decreased planes radar profile. It was worlds first Stealth plane.
Engines were only ready parts for the plane that they used. They were modifications of two jet-turbines that were designed to fly twice the speed of sound. Each of those engines supplied power as much as Queen Mary's four great turbines together. Motors would push the plane forward at least one kilometer per second.
When the prototype rolled out from the hangar, it had a name: Blackbird. 34 meters long and it weighted 27 tonns. It was beuty and a beast.
When they first time tried to test the engines in 62', they didn't start. Oil that was designed to hot temperatures freezed almost solid when temperature was less than 30 celsius. So they installed two seven-liters racing car engines as ignite motors, that both supplied power of 500 horsepower.
Blackbird had it's first flight in 1962 in base wich location is still classified.
Pilot Jim Watkin described it as: "Almost religious experience".
"Most frightening experience was that when i moved from bright daylight to full darkness, that seemed to cover half of the continent".
Public announcment from president johnson in 64 released blackbird to military use.
Blackbirds were used 24 years, they flew 3551 combat flights in vietnam, about two hundred SA-2 anti-air missiles were launched against it, none hit and in most cases crew didn't even notice that plane was under fire.
It was mostly used in reckon flights.
(Altough this plane isn't pure retro because it did actually happen, it was tehcnologically so advanced it could happen today, a future plane from the past)
- End of story -
Here are some issues: (don't laugh, they are merely a lure to have you think up better ideas)
* Having a plane in the game would probably give some more playing room. Other parts of world would become avaible: Canada, Alaska, Southern parts of America... Hell, maybe even forgotten lands across Atlantic! But if programmers are in lazy mood, it would only speed up movement.
* You will probably ask: "Where will it take off and land?". Whole US is covered with asphalt, major part of them might be in pretty bad shape, but some would work as a runway. Also, i don't think that all Airports were completely destroyed either. As long as the asphalt isn't cracked up too bad, you can land on it.
You must still have some confirmation that there is a runway to land on. You can't possibly notice anything under you when you are moving 1km/s. This would be handled by checing the site first on foot(slow), or having somekind of map that gives off landing locations.
* How would you fly then? You couldn't possibly have anykind of previous experiences? By autopilot of course! Reading the flight-manual would give enough information of safe landing, takeoff and setting course to autopilot.
* Where would you find the plane then? From California, of course. Sitting in the hangar in perfect shape. Or maybe from special encounter? Or maybe it would be a quest: Repair it's engines, get fuel and then buy it from smitty.
And good luck to you writing those replies...
"Most common trick is to turn those folder pages so fast that some cards come out from their pockets a bit, then find a card that is out from it's pocket and is in the middle of the folder page, then rise the folder, like you were watching something really closely and quickly and silently take the card and put it to your hand and drop it into your chest pocket or whatever place is closest."
- Ana's diabloic tactics guide to Gathering Magic cards.
