Bomber Thread
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Let's have a thread about those big, beautiful birds in the sky that drop bombs from the sky.
What's your favorite bomber, /k/?
>>30446427
>od b29's
Oh sweet jesus muh dick
>>30446435
>>30446427
yeah seriously I dont think ive ever seen a picture of an OD b29 before
thats fucking sexy
>>30446435
>>30446443
I prefer the chrome B-29's
They look so clean, so pure, so angelic
*Focke-Wulf intensifies*
>>30446427
I like my bombers to be shaped like arrowheads.
>Pusher prop flying wing with contra-rotating propellers
Jack Northrop was too good for this earth
my fave because im a cold war baby
my second fave for same reason as first and fuck your radar absorbing material. planes should be bare aluminum.
my third favorite because its just wretched excess.
if a little is good
and more is better
then too much is just about enough
>>30446543
All planes should be anti-flash white
8 replies and 0 Lemmy. For shame.
https://youtu.be/CdsFuwavfVs
The OG bomber
>>30446565
Comrade
>>30446427
FIFI, shot early this month flying over PA
One of the 10 or so still flying B-17 bombers. Shot at an airshow earlier this month in PA
B-25 Mitchell. The only U.S. bomber named after a person. Shot in PA earlier this month
>>30446677
>>30446640
>>30446652
No one cares. Just post the pictures.
>you will never take part in a zeppelin raid on london, wearing thick wool and leather uniforms to stay warm in the below freezing weather with almost 100 mph winds as you silently drift between spotlights anxiously scanning the dark sky through the goggles of your oxygen mask, hands on an your LMG 08/15.
![Heinkel%20-%20He%20177%20B5%204-mot.jpg.3021836[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Sb4NsHU.jpg "Heinkel%20-%20He%20177%20B5%204-mot.jpg.3021836[1].jpg")
Haha!
Time for nazibooing!
F104 Thunderchief, it's like a P47 but with a jet engine.
>>30446699
how can you live with those feels
>>30446997
>f104
>thunder chief
choose one and only one
and actually its more like a skyraider
>>30446997
Here's a larger version, comrade
Also, it's not a F-104 (that's the Starfighter) it's a F-105
find me a better carrier-based "bomber"
>>30447052
mah nignog. Those and these have always been favorites of mine
>>30447005
through the magic of escapism
>>30446688
Beat it dick bag!
>>30447036
triple threat Thud:
>strafe you
>bomb you
>fall out of the sky and hit you
I keed, I keed. Love them century jets
>>30446688
You're just jealous that you'll never be able to go to WWII Weekend in Reading, PA.
>>30446427
Cessna
Should of put bombs on it.
>>30447314
It's a great show. 300+ vehicles and planes. 1700 reenactors. Flame thrower demo. French village shootout. Massive milsurp vendor village
>>30447490
They almost did.
>>30447052
>>30446519
Want to know something which is pure magic?
The B-2. I really wish you Americans exported them and Britain bought them, would love to see them.
>>30446519
>>30447878
The f117 is a weird jet.
But I dig it
>>30446427
>Olive Green Superfort
Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng
>>30446535
>>30449669
if it aint broke dont fix it
>>30449693
>>30446531
Also carried 20 M3 50 cals. With 1300 RPM each that'd be a hell of a laser show
So graceful.
>>30446652
>faja told me a relative of ours was involved with the design of one of the B-series bombers
how would I go about confirming this?
>>30446427
>bomber thread
>no F-15E
It's like you all forgot the prettiest bomber ever built.
>>30451048
>>30451055
>>30446729
>>30446543
What a beautiful plane.
>>30447237
>>30446699
>>30451136
That's a recon plane.
>>30449669
>XB-38
They're simultaneously hideous and beautiful. The image of them raining death upon Vietnam gets me so hard.
>>30446640
>>30446652
>>30446677
can a rifle really hit a bomber thought they flew high
>>30446427
These. Got to see the Dolittle Raiders reunion at Wright-Pat a few years ago. There were 25 of these planes there to commemorate the raid. When they flew over in formation it was pretty damned inspiring.
Check it. B-32. The other heavy from WW2
No love for the Ju-86?
>Favorite bomber thread
>15 hours ago
>No Bone
What the fuck /k/...
>>30450886
>how would I go about confirming this
Blueprints, cad files, engineering change requests.
Gramps did the wood full scale mock ups for lander and lem, he has 8mm film with a bunch of Rockwell scientists and their big shit eating grins
So any designer/engineer of any flying experiment should have Some proof of what they did or else they have little pride in their occupation
Fast fighter-bomber is best Vietnam bomber.
Fuck u Laos, fuck u Cambodia
>>30453058
I love the plane, something always seems to break when it flies though, also the engines are old pieces of shit.
>>30446427
>OD B-29
This is a new fetish
Fucking Mirage IV
>>30452483
Didn't know about this bomber - thanks anon.
>>30446427
Vickers Warwick, because nothing is as comfy as long hour flights over the atlantic to sink Germany Subs
CHINA is on tha muthafuckin' rise USA is a doddering elderly-man, about to have his last fall
>>30446652
>that scheme
MUH DICK
>>30454674
>nice 1950's reverse-engineered bomber you got there....
>>30446427
B29 is the only correct answer.
>dat payload
>dat range
>dat altitude
>dat defensive armament
>dat crew protection
>dat sexy-as-fuck all glass cockpit
>only plane to ever nuke anyone
I actually am collecting B29 avionics/paraphernalia
Pic related, Identification lights switchbox.
>>30447589
ALARM?
>>30455095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Eagle_(missile)
>>30446957
He-177 without the retarded engine layout?
But that takes all the fun out of it! It's a guessing game when you're flying and wondering when your dual-linked engines will catch fire.
No Dominator?
>>30455095
>>30446718
The navigator and DSO's cockpits featured wraparound dashboards with warning lights and buttons, and automatic voice messages and warnings from a tape system were audible through the helmet sets.
Research during the era of all-male combat aircraft assignments revealed that a woman's voice was more likely to gain the attention of young men in distracting situations.
Nortronics Division of Northrop Corporation selected actress and singer Joan Elms to record the automated voice warnings. To the men flying the B-58, the voice was known as "Sexy Sally."
Someone has recordings of this:
http://palamar.com/projects/b-58/B-58_Voice_Warning_Messages.htm
>>30451937
>
>>30456256
>>30456507
>ywn own airspace with Green Leader
>>30456623
>>30456671
wtf, I thought they only built like 2 test aircraft?
>>30447462
>>30447850
>you'll never see a Vulcan and B-2 Spirit on a joint op carpet bombing shitskins
>>30456757
First bomber I made a model of when I was 11 or 12. Still got it hanging from my bedroom ceiling along with the B-29.
Dassault Mirage IV
1964-2005 RIP
>>30458629
>>30458639
>>30451136
Notable for gaining part of its propulsion from "jet thrust", despite having piston engines. Air for cooling entered through ducts in the wings (with a forced draft effect due to propeller backwash), and after expanding from absorbing engine heat was expelled from the back of the nacelles.
>>30451329
Actually, in a sense it was a bomber as it carried 18 flash bombs which could be dropped to illuminate the target area during night missions.
>>30446454
this
so true
>>30447850
>europoors
>being able to afford b2's
>>30459266
>tfw Fifi is no longer alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMG17xhz44
>>30456757
Damn, now I'm wondering what a cleaned up B-17 will get up to
>>30459525
What do you mean?
>>30446454
>chrome
Polished Aluminium my good man.
>>30456445
In the AH64 she's called bitching Betty
>>30446712
>all that uncombusted fuel in the exhaust
Damn't Russia, upgrade your engines. We know it can be done, your new RD-33MK/OVT engines for the newer MiG-29/35 chassis burn so clean and hot compared to the originals.
Same goes for B-52 engines.
>>30446519
>>30447878
Stealth Doritos get out REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
>>30459687
punch it Chewi!
>>30446427
>bombers will never scream like hellcats anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8nX_nx6Qws
>>30459737
>Same goes for B-52 engines.
Buffs have needed engine upgrades for the past 50 years
>>30454674
Are those ECM pods on the wings? Cause fuel tanks normally don't have propellers on the front of them.
>>30459266
>>30459310
Feels good to see so many old birds (really anything from WW1 & 2, even ground equipment) getting restored.
There is more warbirds in flying condition now than there was 20 years ago.
>>30447314
Reading?
Clearly >>30446688 hates reading.
>>30459785
Jesus, the USAF is trying to give everyone respiratory conditions.
>>30459776
Naw, we have winged bombs and ALCMs to make all that noise now.
>>30459795
Why do ECM pods need propellers?
>>30459885
Electric power generators I think.
>>30459885
I know that some ECM pods on jet aircraft carried their own generator (thus the prop), seeing as it takes a lot of juice to make all that electronic crap hum and strawberry the enemys radars.
>>30459885
Some do, most use the aircraft's own power supply.
Here's a pod used by the USN jet. Extra electricity to run the coolant & boost jammer output.
>>30453134
very aroused by this picture thank you for posting it
>>30449642
Such an under appreciated plane
>>30459737
What the fuck is wrong with NK-32 that it needs an upgrade?
>>30459642
It's always funny to me how the T-95 cockpit still shared so many similarities to the b29.
>>30446501
>>30462504
Nice meme.
>>30462533
The fuselage width is identical...... It's not a coincidence.
>>30462305
Most likely the burn temperature and pressure.
The same problems that the RD-33 had but have now been solved with the RD-33MK.. so they need to make a NK-32MK.
somewhat related
>>30462569
A E S T H E T I C
>>30446501
>>30462530
That's like some Crimson Skies style bird.
Sit here for a few hours, go back, stretch legs, grab some toast and a cup of coffee.
do you think UK will ever into bombers again, even if just buying 2nd hand US junk?
missing link between the b-29 and it's grandson, the TU-95
>>30446427
Not a Bomber, but i still love it.
>>30462690
you mean the drunken love bastard child
>>30462581
According to what? A single picture of it spewing some fuel in an obvious specific running mode irrelevant to its operational service? It burns crystal clean.
I really like Tupolev bombers, but if I had to pick one I'd say the 22M.
>>30462690
>missing link
More like the dead end. Nice memes though, keep it up.
The gook melter-4
>>30456807
>you will never drop a tall boy or a grand slam on Uboat facilities
>you will never fell the plane shudder and lurch as you evade AA fire
>you will never feel the relief as the bomb is released
>you will never hear the 4 Merlin's roar into life, free of the constraints of the heavy bomb
>you will never sit in the officers bar after the raid, raising a drink to those lost to jerry
>>30447589
>Komrade Kirov, Komrade Moskva, why are you running away? I just want to luv you!
>>30462957
>Operational range 110 km
>Speed Mach 0.85
>Carried by a fucking Buccaneer
>Implying this will threaten anything
Please.
>>30446435
They realized that they had air superiority over Japan, and the extra tonnage of paint wasn't necessary. Greater range of operations.
>>30453110
Great uncle and aunt's initials are on one of the struts the Apollo 12 Lander. There's a surprising amount of this in early spaceflight.
>>30456507
FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
>>30446535
SEXUAL HEALING
>>30447005
>wool and leather uniforms to stay warm in the below freezing weather with almost 100 mph winds as you silently drift between spotlights anxiously scanning the dark sky through the goggles of your oxygen mask, hands on an your LMG 08/15.
I honestly can't
>>30446535
Oh yeah !
Because: 6 turning, 4 burning
>>30446957
boooooooooo nazis
>>30456507
fuckin' beautiful
>>30446535
Holy fuck thats sexy.
The best.
>>30456507
FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
>>30456807
muh dick!
Who P-6M here
God I love Mosquitos.
