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Whats this Black Bird???
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 00:35
by Chris Sykes
Another Q n poll for you all........
So whats the "Black Bird" featured in this image???
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 01:26
by Kevin Farnell
A Tu-160. The B1 has a central pillar to the flightdeck windscreen.
Regards
Kevin
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 02:11
by Paul K
Yep its a Blackjack, for the same reasons Kevin said.
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 04:22
by Garry Russell
I'd say the Russia because it doesn't look like a B1.....I'm not sure what the Russian looks like,
so thats either the Tupolev or a bad model
Garry
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 18:33
by Vulcan_to_the_Sky!
Thats quite a good picture...makes it slightly confusing, but (And Im not actually just copying the other answers), its a Blackjack cause it looks to be slightly wider.....that a B1
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 19:28
by Tweek
Vulcan_to_the_sky! wrote: its a Blackjack cause it looks to be slightly wider.....that a B1
Indeed. The TU-160 looks much beefier than a B-1B.
The B-1B is more elegant, but I prefer the look of the Blackjack.
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 19:39
by Garry Russell
Has the B1 go those small finlets or what ever the bits sticking up are?
Gary
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 19:51
by Paul K
Garry Russell wrote:Has the B1 go those small finlets or what ever the bits sticking up are?
Gary
No, but it has small canards which the Blackjack doesn't.
Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 22:02
by Chris Sykes
Now were talking..... Tis a Black Blackjack!!! The "finlets" are part of the inner flaps, which hinge up!!! serprisingly the jack is larger than the B-1 aswell!!! And the point raised about the middel cockpit post is true.... And the AAR systems are different.... B-1 Being a receptical and the Jack being a probe
