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Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:42 amby Omag 2.0
Found this while searching for info on the 737... I didn't knew they used these "little" guys for military applications! Cool!
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/inf ... etail-737/
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:55 amby Souichiro
Well they're turning 737's into business jets too so this isn't too strange
Personally I think planes like that with those kinda things sticking out of the roof resemble a giant Hand-Bag... Now imagine hitting someone with this "hand-bag"
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:48 pmby Omag 2.0
No need for an "extra" brick in that one,
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:43 pmby Souichiro
Nah that would just be to heavy to lift
A bit too much I think...
Judge: Didn't you even think of the fact that when you hit someone with a Boeing a brick could kill them? Sheesh!
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:58 pmby Pinchaser...
looks like something you would find in an autobody shop. :P
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:29 pmby Souichiro
[quote]looks like something you would find in an autobody shop.
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:42 pmby jordonj
Anyone remember KAL 007 (the passenger jet the Russians shot down in the 80's)?
Well, the pilot who intercepted it (according to what I read) knew it was a civilian aircraft...not that it mattered since both the Americans and the Russians used civilian aircraft for military purposes all the time...
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:08 pmby Felix/FFDS
The 737-700 is the platform chosen for the (US) Navy's next maritime recon/patrol airplane - P-3 Orion replacement.
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:44 pmby C
The first aircraft for the RAAF flew about a year or so ago now.
Not sure about using the 737 as a basis for a maritime recce aircraft - I'm not too sure if anyone's ever operated an airliner type (other than the Nimrod) at low level over the sea. I'd hate to see the fatigue on the engine pylons (Nimrod gets round that by having engines in the wing root)...
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:54 pmby looie
what an ugly plane
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:35 amby Boss_BlueAngels
... so that's what that thing is. I've seen it around Boeing Field several times and always forget to research it. Thanks!
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:04 amby SilverFox441
Many long range maritime patrol aircraft are former airliners.
Nimrod= Comet
P-3/Aurora= Electra
Il-38 May= Il-18 Coot
Canadair Argus= Canadair Yukon
The S-3 Viking proves that podded jet engines are not a problem in this role.
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:29 amby C
Many long range maritime patrol aircraft are former airliners.
Nimrod= Comet
P-3/Aurora= Electra
Il-38 May= Il-18 Coot
Canadair Argus= Canadair Yukon
The S-3 Viking proves that podded jet engines are not a problem in this role.
Mmm, but it was designed for the role as a military and the engines were a lot closer in to the fuselage. Hey ho. If BAe as it was then hadn't made quite so much of a balls up in the project management then maybe the USN would've ordered a variant of the Nimrod "2000" (as it was)/MRA 4...
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:59 pmby Felix/FFDS
Many long range maritime patrol aircraft are former airliners.
Nimrod= Comet
P-3/Aurora= Electra
Il-38 May= Il-18 Coot
Canadair Argus= Canadair Yukon
The S-3 Viking proves that podded jet engines are not a problem in this role.
Lets not forget their prop precursors - the Anson, Hudson, Ventura, all "airliner" developments.
Re: Now this is a cool Boeing!
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Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:13 pmby C
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Lets not forget their prop