MORE random pics......

[sammyg2]

This is Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, he's the guy who designed that POS flying boat that liked to suck sea water into it's engines and fail.

He was lucky and only spent 8 years in prison, but was basically under guard like house arrest for a considerable portion of his life.

[[Bobo]]

Bobo

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

...Red Dawn was a documentary.

The first one was, however the remake was just lies.

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

[Racerbvd]

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

This was just posted 4/28....



Relax, it's just her elbow....

[Heel n Toe]

The MiG 21 is another couldn't-be-much-uglier Soviet plane. Just look at those proportions and shapes. Does it look like it came from a drawing done by an eight year old kid or what?

[McLovin]

It looks like those MIG designers fortunately were able to escape Soviet Russia and got jobs at GM designing Cadillacs.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

This is a picture of the soviet union's most famous, most decorated, most respected aircraft designer of all time, Adrei Tupolev. he's the guy who reverse-engineered the B-29 but never quite got it right, especially the engines which were reported to be under-powered and prone to failure:

and a little except from his career:

I'll see your Tupolev and raise you a Sergei Ilyushin..

You're not the only one who has studied Soviet aviation..

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

The MiG 21 is another couldn't-be-much-uglier Soviet plane. Just look at those proportions and shapes. Does it look like it came from a drawing done by an eight year old kid or what?

I like it.
My favorite old Soviet plane is the 15/17 design.

I think they had some good looking birds. Not all, but some.




Even though it is Czech, I want to include this one because it was developed when Czechoslovakia was still a Soviet satellite country.

[romad]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

The MiG 21 is another couldn't-be-much-uglier Soviet plane. Just look at those proportions and shapes. Does it look like it came from a drawing done by an eight year old kid or what?

I have to disagree. It looks like a eight years drawing because that is exactly what a jet engine looks like when you build a plane around it. Easily a ten 10 for me.

[Racerbvd]

[URY914]

[F150 FX4]

Yes, everyone wants to hang out over that and wash their hands after downloading a pizza.

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That looks cold!

BTDT... it sucks.

[id10t]

SK "Magazine", 100 yards, Savage w/ Simmons scope. 10 shots - the one waay out is the first from a cold bore.

[widebody911]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

The MiG 21 is another couldn't-be-much-uglier Soviet plane. Just look at those proportions and shapes. Does it look like it came from a drawing done by an eight year old kid or what?

[GH85Carrera]