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Originally Posted by Vendor
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I new someone was going to post the Rocket Fighter.
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Originally Posted by JSLTIGER
(he also has talked to me about the never built XF-103...cool plane but ahead of its time).
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XF-103, just read up on it, sounds like an American MiG-25 Foxbat. Very neat.
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Originally Posted by Raptor1
Those are Zeppelin problems in general, but the 'Height Climbers' had even worse problems on top of that. While they did achieve the primary design purpose of flying higher than British aircraft and air defences could reach, the men and equipment inside had no adequate protection against the cold and lack of oxygen at such high altitudes, making them rather dangerous to fly. The general navigation and accuracy problems that Zeppelins had were also made much worse thanks to the increased altitude. If that wasn't bad enough, the removed engine made them even slower than preceding classes and the lighter construction made them very fragile and vulnerable to the wind (Which was made even worse because of the altitude, of course).
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Did they consider warm cloths and oxygen masks? I know very little about WWI aircraft but I know they used Nitrous Oxide as an inhaled sedative in the Civil War and making oxygen can be done by mixing chemicals (I did it in chemistry class). Coudln't they mix whatever they used to deliver inhaled sedatives but hook it to something that made oxygen? Or did they have compressed air back then?
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Originally Posted by Schroeder
...the F84 Thunderstrike...
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*F84
F Thunder
streak