BigBoy

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Of all the aircraft Ive ever seen that looks like the least likely to fly! (maybe it doesnt? I havent read up on it.... yet.)

To quote the Chrono-troopers from Red Alert 2

"Never existed."

And even if it had, I think it would need a nuclear explosion to get off the ground. Don't get me wrong, it looks like something the Russians would build, they're into that sort of thing, and they probably would have made it fly somehow, and then it probably would have crashed and been abandoned or been too expensive to fly and abandoned left to rust in a hangar somewhere.

In regards to the real Big Boy, the 4-8-8-4, yeah...even though I'm not a big a fan of US locos as I am of UK locos...I'd still love to see one at full bore working a steep gradient with a max load...what a sight and sound that would be!

Originally Posted by Reece

This is Bigboy:

Dam, I love this loco, but look at the soot.

[Jimbuna]

Would blend in well in one of the Chinese industrial regions

[Reece]

Looks like they run out of coal and used old tyres!!

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Would blend in well in one of the Chinese industrial regions

Or in their Navy:

[Jimbuna]

Looks like they've got the latest smoke mod

What's that vessel in the background?

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

What's that vessel in the background?

JMSDF Kongo class DDG.

[August]

Originally Posted by Reece

Looks like they run out of coal and used old tyres!!

Sure looks like the Engineer is giving it the boot eh?

Not surprising I guess considering that loco is probably pulling a mile (or more) long string of loaded boxcars up a typical Rocky Mountain grade.

[Sailor Steve]

Well, here's a big boy for its time,



and it flew...barely.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witteman-Lewis_XNBL-1

What the article doesn't say is that the XNBL-1 had a minimum speed of 65 mph, which meant that the range between maximum and stall was only 31 mph.

Also it had the support of General Billy Mitchell, and was informally nicknamed "Mitchell's Folly".

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

JMSDF Kongo class DDG.

Ah, right...thought she looked to good to be of Chinese origin

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Ah, right...thought she looked to good to be of Chinese origin

This is what China's version looks like:

[Pisces]

Are there any (guesstimated) specs of this Russian 'flying wing'? The pictures on that link seem outrageous, I mean .... 3 barrel heavy guns as if it is a BB?

I wonder how it compares to the 'Spruce Goose', ... which did fly! But only once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules

[krashkart]

Looks like a flying cathedral.