DD today?

[LukeFF]

6 hours ago, Alan_Grey said:

LukeFF.. Will it be today?

 

No, nothing today, guys. 

[JG4_Moltke1871]

24 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

No, nothing today, guys. 

Tomorrow? ?

[LukeFF]

1 minute ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

Tomorrow? ?

 

Dunno yet. ? 

[Lusekofte]

5 hours ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

R.E.8

Is just cool

[ST_Catchov]

Not as cool as this ....

 

[ACG_Bussard]

Ok, we are waiting...

 

 

Hessian state broadcast cats - break filler from the seventies

[JG4_Moltke1871]

1 hour ago, Bussard* said:

Ok, we are waiting...

 

 

Hessian state broadcast cats - break filler from the seventies

Timeless… thanks bring back my childhood (with my room full of war toy’s) and remember me these cute cat’s ?

[MiGCap]

Never saw it as a Northern light. But it looks nice!

[Jaws2002]

[JG4_Moltke1871]

18 hours ago, Bussard* said:

Ok, we are waiting...

 

 

Hessian state broadcast cats - break filler from the seventies

@LukeFF don’t dare to disappoint these cute cats! ☠️

[JG4_Moltke1871]

[LukeFF]

Nothing today, guys, but the next release is close to Release Candidate stage.

[=LD=dhyran]

On 11/17/2023 at 8:27 PM, LukeFF said:

......but the next release is close to Release Candidate stage.

Best news ever, so we are getting there!

[ACG_Bussard]

TGIF and here they come! 

 

 

Hessian state broadcast cats - remade break filler from 2015

 

P.S. Don't worry, there are no more for me to post. ?

[Nocke]

On 11/16/2023 at 11:33 PM, ST_Catchov said:

Not as cool as this ....

 

What is that? Did it fly?

[Jaws2002]

Today would be a perfect day for a IAR oriented update, to rebuild the hype before the release.

 

It's close now.

 

Edited November 24, 2023 by Jaws2002

[tattywelshie]

13 minutes ago, Jaws2002 said:

Today would be a perfect day for a IAR oriented update, to rebuild the hype before the release.

 

It's close now.

 

I was thinking it would be nice for some IAR news, not sure we'll get any though

[BMA_FlyingShark]

We had an update a few days ago so I don't think there'll be a dd this week, usually dd's aren't posted so short after updates.

 

Have a nice day.

 

[Han]

18 minutes ago, FlyingShark said:

I don't think there'll be a dd this week

Last night I've prepaired one for ya, but if you wan't to... ok then. )))))))))))))

[tattywelshie]

10 minutes ago, Han said:

Last night I've prepaired one for ya, but if you wan't to... ok then. )))))))))))))

Hahaha, we take back everything we've ever said....we are ready!  

[BMA_FlyingShark]

19 minutes ago, Han said:

Last night I've prepaired one for ya, but if you wan't to... ok then. )))))))))))))

Bring it on.

 

I take it back, sometimes I forget that acting savvy doesn't work for me.

 

Have a nice day.

 

[Sobilak]

26 minutes ago, Han said:

Last night I've prepaired one for ya, but if you wan't to... ok then. )))))))))))))

?

[Sneaksie]

The DD is published.

[ST_Catchov]

20 hours ago, Nocke said:

What is that? Did it fly?

 

It's the Kauffmann Aerial Transporter designed and built by Rafael Kauffmann of Barnsley. Orphaned at an early age after a native uprising in the Congo, he was shipped off to relatives in Barnsley, Sth Yorks. Despite losing his entire family, Rafael flourished in his new environs and soon befriended Samuel Pierpont Langley after attending a seminar put on by the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Slough Town Hall.

 

Langley was working on a steam powered aerial carriage and Rafael, inspired by this new technology, plunged into R&D as Langley's assistant.

 

Rafael, with Langley, testing a new anemometer on his left leg

 

After witnessing the successful flight of Langley's (now re-named Aerodrome No. 5) in 1896, Rafael returned to Barnsley and began utilising his newly found skills and set about designing his own aircraft.

 

 

Armed with funding from Alexander Graham Bell, Rafael dreamed of the ultimate aerial transporter but ditched steam in favour of the internal combustion engine. He got tips from Santos-Dumont but heard nowt from the Wright Bros, although Gabriel Voison showed interest. Forging ahead, he finally unveiled his flying machine at the Barnsley Football Field in the summer of 1902.

 

This photograph shows Rafael testing the controls prior to his maiden flight. Unfortunately, the result of the flight remains unknown.

 

[danielprates]

2 hours ago, ST_Catchov said:

He got tips from Santos-Dumont

 

A thing about Santos Dumont: opposite to the Wright Brothers, which would patent the crap out of every screw and aggressivelly sue everybody, Santos Dumont felt his work was a "for mankind's sake" thing and instantly open-sourced everything he worked on. His "demoiselle" design, one of the first if not the first plane conceived to be a practical and easy to use airplane, was imediatelly put into public domain as he thought it would be an easy way to make flight available to everyone in a near future.

[MAJ_stug41]

Are you suggesting that langley, rafael, or dumont, invented and successfully flew the first heavier than air aircraft?

[BlitzPig_EL]

Oh boy, here we go...

 

The "Demosielle" first flew 4 years after the Wrights did.  Langley's craft crashed into the Potomac River and NEVER flew in it's original form, other than dropping off into the drink from it's launching barge. Glenn Curtiss was later able to rebuild the Langley craft and using one of his own lighter and more powerful engines made the thing work, but it was a far different machine than Langley's original design, and again, this was after the Wrights flew at Kitty Hawk.

 

The Wright Flyer was the first aircraft to fly with true 3 axis control, and not make a ballistic hop with the "pilot" just along for the ride.

Yes, the Wrights, along with auto manufacturer Seldon wasted much time and effort trying to patent powered flight, and actually made very few aeroplanes.  This resulted with their company being absorbed by Curtiss to form Curtiss Wright, which actually still exists, but no longer produces aircraft.

Edited November 25, 2023 by BlitzPig_EL

[danielprates]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Oh boy, here we go...

 

The "Demosielle"...

 

Oh boy, there you went. I wasn't going into the old and settled Wright x Dumont issue, I myself know and agree the wright flyer is the first plane to qualify as a controllable, powered flying machine.

 

Why wont some people actually read what posts are getting at instead of just veering off to whichever other directions they want? If I meant what you think I mean, wouldnt I be mentioning the 14bis? God damn it. Where did I say the demoiselle beat the wright flyer to anything? WHERE? That was on you.

 

Go back and read my post. I merely said that Santos Dumont was a cool guy and the wright brothers were ass-w÷×les. Not anywhere I addressed any "who was first" topic. Do me the courtesy to read again my post and agree to that, at least.

 

Edit: hey @BlitzPig_EL I mean it, I really do. I double dare you mate: quote me to my face. Where did I write a single word about the "who was first" topic? 

Edited November 25, 2023 by danielprates

[BlitzPig_EL]

Why take this so freaking personally?  I am not meaning it as a slight to you or any of the early aviation pioneers.

 

That photo of Langley's machine in "flight" in 1896 is as fake as the day is long though.   

[danielprates]

30 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Why take this so freaking personally?

 

The "oh boy here we go again" bit. But nevermind, maybe I overreacted.

 

The late 19th century photo/story sure is a fake, me thinks too. The whole story feels very weird, by that time the most notable achievements were glider flights like Lilienthal's.

 

 

[BlitzPig_EL]

Totally agree on the gliders, even the Wrights started out with them.

[BlitzPig_Bill_Kelso]

Pffffffffttt...

Both of you are incorrect. The true pioneer of flight was Daedalus, he is overlooked due to the antics of his stupid son Icarus.

[JG4_Moltke1871]

[jeanba]

2 hours ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

Great, a new collector plane

 

[Noisemaker]

17 minutes ago, jeanba said:

Great, a new collector plane

 

At least it's German, and not a 109 or 190.

[Bonnot]

 

Please, let's return to the "good old days " , it's so relieving to laugh sometimes today.........

 

 

[jeanba]

5 hours ago, Noisemaker said:

At least it's German, and not a 109 or 190.

Maybe this guy is the ancestor of both Willy Messerchmitt and Kurt Tank ?

Edited November 27, 2023 by jeanba

[MAJ_stug41]

18 minutes ago, jeanba said:

Maybe this guy is the ancestor of both Willy Messerchmitt and Kurt Tank ?

Looks more like a lilienthal

[Monksilver]

12 hours ago, 1./JG54_Lang said:

Pffffffffttt...

Both of you are incorrect. The true pioneer of flight was Daedalus, he is overlooked due to the antics of his stupid son Icarus.

If we discount the Daedalus and Icarus myth we can still go to the story of Eilmer, a monk at Malmesbury Abbey who decided to give flying a try from its tower in the early 11th century. William of Malmesbury was a monk at the same abbey and in 1125 wrote about Eilmer's exploits -

 

"He was a man learned for those times, of ripe old age, and in his early youth had hazarded a deed of remarkable boldness. He had by some means, I scarcely know what, fastened wings to his hands and feet so that, mistaking fable for truth, he might fly like Daedalus, and, collecting the breeze upon the summit of a tower, flew for more than a furlong [201 metres]. But agitated by the violence of the wind and the swirling of air, as well as by the awareness of his rash attempt, he fell, broke both his legs and was lame ever after. He used to relate as the cause of his failure, his forgetting to provide himself a tail."

 

I imagine his 'wings' was something like a kite or flying squirrel suit. I also suspect he managed rather less than 201m.

[deathmisser]

On 11/17/2023 at 7:27 PM, LukeFF said:

Nothing today, guys, but the next release is close to Release Candidate stage.

What? 

 

As in the next Battle of X?