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^^^^^^^^ While I'm sick of everything Angry Birds, that's pretty hilarious. Does this look infected? 
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/20131031air-force-pilot-error-blame-f-crash-luke-afb-glendale.html Just heard the resolution of this one. This plane crashed not far from my house a few months ago, and the report detailing what went wrong just became available. An F16 on a training flight crashed after hitting birds. The instructor was flying it, after doing a touch and go landing maneuver. 3 birds got sucked into the engine, and the AF blames the instructor for the crash. Instead of turning immediately, they should have kept the throttle on and gotten more altitude.
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Thief posted:
I think so. http://www.gloswielkopolski.pl/arty...aleria-material
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A Typhoon with a "minimal time on station" loadout. 
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mlmp08 posted:"minimal time on station" I still see two external tanks. I want to see something like that F-15 model mockup Boeing made that was posted earlier.
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SgtMongoose posted:I still see two external tanks. I want to see something like that F-15 model mockup Boeing made that was posted earlier. One tank gets burned to lift the other tank into the air 
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SgtMongoose posted:I want to see something like that F-15 model mockup Boeing made that was posted earlier.  
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Ah, the Independence Day load out.
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I love that this picture perfectly captures the canted out pylons, just putting the icing on the cake for impracticality.
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The Soviets could do it. 
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iyaayas01 posted:I love that this picture perfectly captures the canted out pylons, just putting the icing on the cake for impracticality. Was there really no other way to fix weapon separation? It kind of surprises me that nobody's come up with a fix for that.
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iyaayas01 posted:I love that this picture perfectly captures the canted out pylons, just putting the icing on the cake for impracticality. What's impractical about it? Why are they canted anyway?
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Thief posted:
Well I hope it's a kamikaze plane then.
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FrozenVent posted:What's impractical about it? Why are they canted anyway? It results in a shitload of extra drag, making the thing slower, more fuel hungry and having less range because of that and they're canted to fit the weapons on the wing.
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Mr Crustacean posted:It results in a shitload of extra drag, making the thing slower, more fuel hungry and having less range because of that and they're canted to fit the weapons on the wing. Noted F-16 pilot Hawk Hunter disagrees.
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Mortabis posted:Was there really no other way to fix weapon separation? It kind of surprises me that nobody's come up with a fix for that. Don't try to cram on more pylons than were designed for on your wings, kids. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Nov 3, 2013 |
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Also recoding just how weapons drop/fire and then getting those changes approved/tested is probably $hilarious.
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Hunterhr posted:Noted F-16 pilot Hawk Hunter disagrees. What does an F-16 pilot know about loiter time?
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Godholio posted:What does an F-16 pilot know about loiter time? Well O'Grady did hang out in Bosnia for a while so he'd probably know.
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Godholio posted:The Soviets could do it. And we couldn't allow a pylon gap, could we?
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Sperglord Actual posted:And we couldn't allow a pylon gap, could we?  Not really worried.
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I couldn't really think of a more appropriate place for this, but I figured it would be of interest to a lot of TFR people and this is an airpower thread, even if it's cold-war heavy. This coming Saturday the surviving members of the Doolittle Raid will meet at the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson AFB to open the 1896 bottle of Hennessy that they brought to all their annual reunions with the intent that the last two survivors would toast the others. They're down to 4 (only 3 of whom will probably attend) but they're old enough that they don't want to wait any longer. There's a short piece on CNN about this but it's pretty shameful and not worth linking. If you don't know who these guys are you should feel bad, use google, and read a book, in that order.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I couldn't really think of a more appropriate place for this, but I figured it would be of interest to a lot of TFR people and this is an airpower thread, even if it's cold-war heavy.     Click for big. It's pretty amazing that they only lost 8 airmen out of the 80 that took part in the raid when you think about it. Edit:Any books you'd recommend about it?
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Beardless posted:Edit:Any books you'd recommend about it? Nothing specific. There are tons of books out there that do a respectable job of telling the story and what the impact was on US recruitment/bond drives/general morale. Basically just cruise Amazon and snag something that looks good. Alternatively if you're cheap just read the WIkipedia article. Wikipedia is awful for a lot of stuff, but for first-pass basic facts kinds of things it's useful.
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"Thirty seconds over Tokyo" was a favorite of mine when I was a kid, you can safely start there.
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If you have a Pearl Harbor DVD lying around this is a great occasion to ritually smash it.
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mllaneza posted:"Thirty seconds over Tokyo" was a favorite of mine when I was a kid, you can safely start there. You can can the jist of it in the "grab every other movie footage we can"-epic Midway, the opening is the climax of Thirty Seconds.
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Cyrano4747 posted:This coming Saturday the surviving members of the Doolittle Raid will meet at the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson AFB to open the 1896 bottle of Hennessy that they brought to all their annual reunions with the intent that the last two survivors would toast the others. They're down to 4 (only 3 of whom will probably attend) but they're old enough that they don't want to wait any longer.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Between reunions, the Hennessy was kept in Arnold Hall at the Air Force Academy in a display that included a silver cognac goblet for each surviving Raider. As they passed, the cups were turned upside-down during the annual Raider reunion. Cool poo poo like this is why military tradition has some intrinsic value. But what if a woman is offended by it? 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:But what if a woman is offended by it? Stop posting.
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Smiling Jack posted:Stop posting. It has become a legitimate concern.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3nuXt4ldo China made their own progaganda-laden version of Top Gun. It is actually WORSE if you understand Chinese.
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Insane Totoro posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3nuXt4ldo Don't forget when they used a clip from Top Gun and tried to pass it off as a weapons test of their new stealth fighter. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/28/video-cctv-tries-to-pass-off-%E2%80%98top-gun%E2%80%99-clip-as-military-drill/
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Dr.Oblivious posted:Does it have a volleyball scene? I don't know yet, but  
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Glorious
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Insane Totoro posted:China made their own progaganda-laden version of Top Gun. No they didn't, this movie isn't half as amazing, well shot, or as gay Top Gun. They loving copied "The Starfighters" also known as the only movie to accurately suck the fun out of flying planes in the Air Force. For those who don't want to watch the whole movie, watch the first refueling scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4pSjzI8BSw Now watch it 5 more times and you get the movie.
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Dr.Oblivious posted:Is that digital camo? Man they'll copy anything, even the bad stuff. They use US Navy-esque aquaflage uniforms for their loving marines 
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