Hey guys, I noticed that while we have a bunch of pretty awesome video threads, we lack one for plane pix. So here we go. A thread for still pictures of flying machines.
To kick it off, here’s one for @Victork2 to pin up on his bedroom wall:
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Oh yes!! My kinda thread!!! Great pic @schurem.
Wife won’t let me put any plane pics in the house. They are ‘man cave things’
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Solution: Paint them on the house!
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I get weak at the knees
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It IS mega sexy!!! Quirky is COOL!!!
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Which reminds me: a lot of my favourite airplanes are known to be pretty deadly for their pilots. Examples:
- F-104G
- V-tail Bonanza
- Beechcraft Starship
…I wonder what that says about me. 
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Was the Starship a deadly aircraft?
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Really lethal for beechcraft’s balance sheet…
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Potentially. IIRC I read that its design had quite a few flaws, among them a CoG that was pretty far aft, and the delta wings gave it a tendency for dutch rolls. The canards also had some problem and the cockpit instruments were overengineered and not very intuitive.
Its other flaws mainly were of economic nature.
I had a nice article that summed it up. Ill see if I can find it.
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Ok.
I thought you meant deadly as in actual accidents.
Yeah it didn’t have any accidents AFAIK, probably because they only built ~50 of them and only sold a dozen. The plane was far away from its advertised performance so it sold poorly. Which is a pity as it looks awesome.
I tried to find the article I read about the safety concerns but didn’t find it. Here is another one, but it doesn’t mention any of the potential risks. So maybe I actually misremember that?
Anyway, here is another canard+push prop design I like:
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And conventional stabilizer… It’s quite an interesting design!
There’s an Italian AF Avanti roaming around here, calibrating TACAN stations, every once in a while. Such a cool aircraft!
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