SopwithCamel

[Hitch]

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At FIL's last weekend and ran out of reading materiel. Came across a book on military aircraft that covered the beginings of flight up to the Stealth Bomber. Ever since I can remember the old WWI bi-planes have looked cartoonish. What had been wartime avant garde costs be damned technology had become atinquated as though a thousand generations had passed. This got me thinking about the modern jet. In the book fighters from the early 60s have a lot in common with current models, especially as compared to the opposite direction in history. An SR71 is as gloriously frightening today as it was in my 1964 Weekly Reader.
So I was thinking about the generation of boys looking at books of military aircraft twenty or thirty years hence and wondering what would compare to the relative differences of the Sopwith Camel and the F18 in their eyes. And it struck me. The obvious evolutionary adaptation , will be the lack of that funny little bubble in front, the cockpit.


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[Nathan Alterton]

Absolutely. Lockheed may have won the Joint Strike Fighter competition, but Boeing is already getting the last laugh as the world leader in unmanned fighter aircraft tech, which the F-22 and JSF programs are being scaled back in favor of.

 

[Adullam]

Absolutely. Lockheed may have won the Joint Strike Fighter competition, but Boeing is already getting the last laugh as the world leader in unmanned fighter aircraft tech, which the F-22 and JSF programs are being scaled back in favor of.

Great, and we could call them terminators! ;)

 

[Hitch]

Absolutely. Lockheed may have won the Joint Strike Fighter competition, but Boeing is already getting the last laugh as the world leader in unmanned fighter aircraft tech, which the F-22 and JSF programs are being scaled back in favor of.

Great, and we could call them terminators! ;)

I can see a room in Omaha where a 'pilot' remotely operates a half dozen aircraft, with single digit wingspans, stealthy only because of their size and unarmed except for a small mass of steel , just enough to be maneuvered so as to bring down a traditional fighter by ingestion. Basically knocking down an extremely advanced and expensive armored attack fighter by tossing a rock into the engine at speed. I imagine it wouldnt take much in the way of weight or mass.
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