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In July 1938, local farmer Arthur Sack entered his AS-1 circular-winged model in the first Reich-Wide Contest for Motorized Flying Models, which was held at Leipzig.^([2]) The model had poor flight characteristics and had to be hand launched. However, Ernst Udet showed interest in Sack's design, and encouraged him to continue his research into circular wing aircraft for possible use as an observation or attack aircraft.^([2])

Sack went on to build four additional models based on the AS-1, with each increasing in size, before building the full-sized prototype as the AS-6 V1. The AS-6 V1 was built in January 1944 by Mitteldeutsche Motorwerke, with final assembly at the Flugplatz-Werkstatt workshop located at the air base in Brandis, Germany.^([3]) The aircraft was built with the landing gear, cockpit, and pilot seat from a Messerschmitt Bf 109B, and was powered by an Argus As 10C-3 engine from a Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun. The wing structure was made of plywood.

Sometimes we get that || close, but no cigar.

In truth they were mediocre at best.
Inside Looking Out was an anthem for us.
"Hey man, he's talking about a guy busted for weed." You have to remember that back then a guy in Texas did 10 years for one seed.
We ALL wanted hair like Farner. I looked like Brewer. And Farner's $3 axe that had tape holding together.
Can you believe I was listening to GFRR and Jimi during the same time period?
Inside Looking Out
Paranoid was another song that I played over and over until I had worn holes in the LP.

I'm looking for the Umarex 3 pack of rotary mags. (SA 10)
But in each case I can only find them in Europe and not in the US.
If anyone knows where they're available more locally I'd be appreciative.
Thanx in advance.
Tried Umarex directly to no avail.

The Heinkel He 70 Blitz was a fast monoplane aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel Flugzeugwerke. It was the first Schnellbomber operated by the Luftwaffe. Development of the He 70 began in the early 1930s in response to a request from Deutsche Lufthansa for a fast mail plane.

This person nails cars that park over lines or in disabled spots.
It might make you feel better.

Booty Bandits

The Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech" is an American experimental turboprop aircraft derived from the F-84F Thunderstreak. Powered by a turbine engine that was mated to a supersonic propeller, the XF-84H had the potential of setting the unofficial air speed record for propeller-driven aircraft, but was unable to overcome aerodynamic deficiencies and engine reliability problems, resulting in the program's cancellation.^([1]) Its name, Thunderscreech, is a reference to its extremely loud supersonic propeller.

Two months before he died, Zappa wanted photos taken to preserve his, "legacy."
My sister worked for the photographer and nicked the proofs of which this is one.

I saw him on Halloween 1978 - the loudest show I had ever attended. Louder than Led Zeppelin.

And remember kids, "watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow."

The Lockheed D-21 is an American supersonic reconnaissance drone. The D-21 was initially designed to be launched from the back of an M-21 carrier aircraft, a variant of the Lockheed A-12 aircraft. The drone had maximum speed in excess of Mach 3.3 (2,200 miles per hour; 3,600 kilometers per hour) at an operational altitude of 90,000 feet (27,000 meters). Development began in October 1962. Originally known by the Lockheed designation Q-12, the drone was intended for reconnaissance deep into enemy airspace.

The D-21 was designed to carry a single high-resolution photographic camera over a preprogrammed path, then release the camera module into the air for retrieval, after which the drone would self-destruct.^([1]) Following a fatal accident when launched from an M-21, the D-21 was modified to be launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Several successful test flights were made, followed by at least four unsuccessful operational D-21 flights over China, before the program was canceled in 1971.

In 2009 I had just gotten a small marshall stack.
I turned the radio on and wang chung was on.
Off I went. I had a gig later so I warmed up.
It's a gibby sg.

Produced shortly after the end of the First World War, it was a cantilever-wing monoplane with enclosed accommodation for four passengers and a two seat open cockpit. Like all Junkers duralumin-structured designs, from the 1918 J 7 to the 1932 Ju 46, (some 35 models), it has an aluminium alloy (duralumin) structure entirely covered with Junkers' characteristic corrugated and stressed duralumin skin. Internally, the wing was built up on nine circular cross-section duralumin spars with transverse bracing. All control surfaces were horn balanced.

A total of 322 aircraft were manufactured, a considerably large number for a commercial airliner of the era, and were operated all over the world. It accounted for over a third of air traffic in the early 1920s. It remained in production for thirteen years and in commercial service for more than thirty. There were many versions including floatplanes for water landing, skis, mailplane, and different engines. Several survive in various states of repair in museums, and a replica of the type was put back in production in the 2010s, taking flight once again nearly a century after the type first flew.

I've bought and sold over hundred guitars over the years and thought I'd share a strange one.
Anyone else have something, "weird?"
Not just a copy of, but something that spoke to you - You gotta try me.
I love hollow bodies. This a heavily chambered.
So when I saw this, I bought it.
The switches are on/off for the pups with the one tone and volume.
The pups ended up being too trebly for me, but they looked intriguing.

By the time of the Battle of Britain, the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka had proved very vulnerable to enemy fighters and needed a replacement; after the rejection of the Ju 87F proposal, a new dive bomber was designed under the designation Ju 187.

The projected aircraft kept some of the features of the earlier Ju 87, such as the inverted gull wing and two-man crew. It would have added retractable landing gear, the nose of the aircraft would have been elongated for a better view for the pilot, as well as improved armour and armament. Most notably, the Ju 187 incorporated a rotating vertical tail. When rotated down, the tail would give the air gunner, armed with a rear turret, an unobstructed field of fire. It is not known how the aircraft would have handled with the tail rotated.

The Hughes XF-11 was a massive, twin-boom prototype reconnaissance aircraft built by the Hughes Aircraft Company in the 1940s for the United States Army Air Forces. Designed by Howard Hughes himself, it is most famous for its futuristic design, its contra-rotating propellers, and its dramatic maiden flight crash

The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst is an experimental supersonic aircraft developed for NASA to achieve quiet supersonic flight. By reshaping shockwaves, the X-59 reduces disruptive sonic booms into quiet "thumps," with the goal of providing data to regulators to lift the ban on commercial supersonic travel over land.

The SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère was a tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing aircraft designed by the French company SNECMA and manufactured by Nord Aviation. While work on the aircraft proceeded to the test flying phase, the project never progressed beyond experimental purposes.

The F-107A was a mid-1950s development of the successful F-100 Super Sabre. Special features of the F-107A included an engine air intake above the cockpit, an all-moving vertical fin, and a system (called a Variable Area Inlet Duct) that automatically controlled the amount of air fed to the jet engine.  

The Republic XF-103 was an American project to develop a powerful missile-armed interceptor aircraft capable of destroying Soviet bombers while flying at speeds as high as Mach 3. Despite a prolonged development, it never progressed past the mockup stage.