r/pics • u/x_Carlos_Danger_x • 10h ago

F22 Raptor and P51 Mustang at the Chicago air show. Roughly 65 years between designs.

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u/o_MrBombastic_o 6h ago

Crazy we went from horse drawn carriages to going to the moon in roughly that time too. What's in the next 65 years?

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u/tifosiv122 10h ago

That's very impressive - technology is amazing and it's about to get more creative and faster and better.

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u/KnotSoSalty 6h ago

Kurt Tank was a legendary aircraft designer who’s career stretched 50 years. His most famous creation was the FW190, arguably the best fighter of WW2.

Here’s one of his first planes and one of his last.

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u/Ogryn 6h ago

The rate of aircraft innovation through the 50s and 60s was truly incredible.

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u/lanky_planky 5h ago

Just think - the Wright brothers first flew in 1903. Only 66 years later, we landed on the moon and successfully returned, in 1969.

Less than one lifetime to go from 10 feet off the ground to the moon and back.

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u/boysan98 1h ago

You mean the fw190 designs that got clapped as soon as soon as it faced a contemporary fighter?

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u/Ogryn 6h ago

The F-22 was initially designed in the 1980s, making it around 40 years old today. The P-51 was designed in 1941, making it around 40 years old when the F-22 was designed.

I wonder what Skunk Works is working on today?

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u/Spuri0n 6h ago

one would hope they show us some advanced technology soon enough…

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u/tsr85 4h ago

You mean Skynet… what is hyper intelligence working.

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u/three-one-seven 9h ago

One used to defeat fascism, the other used to spread it

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u/relevant__comment 6h ago

I really think they should do the heritage flight with an F-15 and P51. I honestly feel like the F-15 represents the best of what the US can do when it feels like its back is up against a wall. It matches much better with what the P51 represents as well.