hlminx 301 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Alan, you're just too good to this! Shall we keep the suspense going for a little while longer? Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Alan, you're just too good to this! Shall we keep the suspense going for a little while longer? Yes, let's keep them guessing! LOL Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Poseidon had one... Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 But Alan, A three pronged approach might be the right approach, but I feel there is binary limit to it I think. Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 It would BE A shame to give it away this early! Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 I think we may have TRIeD Especially hard aNd Torn iT What dO you think? Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Well the last part of the reg is Victor Foxtrot Bravo, It's up to the rest to Tri and Identify the aircraft! Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 OK, I'm going to take this one because I have a dirty trick up my sleeve for the next one. It's the Trident 2E G-AVFB at Duxford. I wouldn't have gotten it without all the broad hints here. Tube-o-Chairs are not my strong suit. John Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 It is indeed! LOL, Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 This is a one-of-a-kind variant of a production aircraft. Though this particular aircraft operated in an experimental role, the aircraft itself was not a prototype nor an experimental model. The test program had to do with what it carried. I'm looking for the model designation for this specific variant, not just the base aircraft type from which it was derived. I'm expecting the mavens here to catch on pretty quickly, but we'll see. John Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Godden 945 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 I know you are trying to con us with this one John, but it looks like this one could be off to the Crusades. That will get a reaction, just not like the one associated with this aircraft. Cheers Andrew Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 NB: it was well over 36 years ago! Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 It had the nucleous of a good idea, Agents of SHIELD would have liked it! Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 The Russians just didn't bother to shield the crew, and the majority died of radiation poisioning While the Americans used this aircraft with the lead shielding Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 You have to ask yourself this, If they were to build an aircraft that could stay aloft for days, would they have the sense to make sure it had a decent bathroom! B-52 crews have often complained about having an aircraft with a long endurance, only to find that there was nowhere to take a dump! A Nuclear powered aircraft would need an airline style restroom! Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 It is indeed! LOL, urrrrr guys, I know I haven't managed to log on since yesterday but wasn't this my pic ???Spot on John....belatedly, lol Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 It was indeed yours Steph, we were just waiting for you to confirm it. Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 I snoozed ...i loosed Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 ...and I'd have never gotten it without all the hints posted by others. Looks like my post is getting the same treatment. John Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 ...and I'd have never gotten it without all the hints posted by others. Looks like my post is getting the same treatment. John I think it's happening to all of them lately, we all seem to be getting results and dropping hints. I think it's quite amusing seeing some of the obtuse awnsers! Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Its one of those Magic Eye photos isn't it.... you squint and go cross eyed and then you can read what all that pixelated stuff is... Convair XB something (my eyes hurt now !) ?? Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 The Russians just didn't bother to shield the crew, and the majority died of radiation poisioning While the Americans used this aircraft with the lead shielding How dumb can you get? What is the point of having a long endurance aircraft if you don't have a long endurance crew? I guess the intercontinental ballistic missile was the Convair of bad news for this aircraft's future, it put a big X - 6 of them possibly - against this concept. J. Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 ?.... Convair NB 36H Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Quote Convair NB 36H That's exactly right, Steph. This was a one-of-a-kind variant of the B-36 with a special, heavily shielded cockpit section. It flew with a nuclear reactor aboard, in the after bomb-bay, part of a research project to determine the feasibility of a nuclear powered airplane. Though the reactor was flown and was taken critical several times in flight, the complete nuclear propulsion system was not flown, just the power source. Ulitmately, it appears this might have been feasible but, wisely, testing was terminated over concerns about core integrity in a crash. It was that, more than competing technologies that killed this program. Quote How dumb can you get? What is the point of having a long endurance aircraft if you don't have a long endurance crew? Not sure of the details of the Soviet aircraft testing along these lines. I suspect that the radiation the crew received was not immediately dangerous in the time span of a mission. Radiation kills in three ways and the time spans are seconds (central nervous system failure), a few weeks (acute radiation poisioning, mainly blood and immune system effects) and a few decades (latent cancers). Which one gets you depends entirely upon how much absorbed dose is received. Oddly, there's not much in between those three windows. If the crews received several hundred Roentgens/REM in a mission (the middle case), they would not be affected until some time later. I'm more familiar with some of the Soviet nuclear submarine technology. One class of Russian boat was very fast and had a test depth deeper than US torpedoes could reach at the time (hurriedly fixed with the Mark 48 ADCAP). Crew safety was fairly heavily compromised in favor of performance. The Russian boat had a high power-density, liquid metal cooled reactor and minimal shielding for the crew, at least by American standards. The best information available suggests that crews on that class of boat (they only built five of them) could do two patrols before having to be rotated to other duties because of absorbed radiation dose. John Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Wakey Wakey STEPH !! Link to post Share on other sites
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