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eschaton posted:I estimate it'll cost about US$2500 to fuel fully and who knows how much to house and who knows how fast and where I could actually fly it. or how much instruction would be. yeah no i worked this out once after i found out that lt. worf owns a mig-21 and actually it costs about $5000/hr in fuel to operate. also the engine needs to be torn down and rebuilt every 10 hours or so. 21s also have notoriously short endurance -- like 30 or 40 minutes to bingo fuel without touching the afterburner. they were point-defense interceptors meant to get between the nuclear bomber and its target and shoot it down, so either they succeed in minutes or there's no point in landing any more they handle great and look pretty though! Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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oh and because no russian fighter jets have ever had their types certified by the FAA, you have to re-apply for an experimental aircraft certification every year, though if you can afford to fly one at all you just hire someone to do the paperwork for you
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i want a p-38 they are the star of every wwii flight sim
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Sep 22, 2014 05:23
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maniacdevnull posted:i want a p-38 same but p-51
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maniacdevnull posted:i want a p-38 there was one at an airshow i went to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaX2D3qepYw
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Sep 22, 2014 05:24
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i never really wanted a plane until I saw this one
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i want anything with an inertia starter because the sound gives me a huge boner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zXkVQnVmuo you may also recognize it (0:16) as the sound of the hyperdrive crapping out on the millennium falcon, b/c ben burtt ripped basically every sound effect in star wars from old wwii reels
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maniacdevnull posted:i want a p-38 truth, and since you already took the raphael of wwii fighter planes i want the donatello (idk how that works exactly but bear with me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDUHjD0MLqY the other split tail boom sexy as hell looking plane
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failing that i would like an ov-10 bronco b/c they can take off and land basically anywhere and are more or less a flying atv
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rotor posted:i never really wanted a plane until I saw this one flying boats are loving cool and yeah the pby is one of the best looking ones
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Sep 22, 2014 05:34
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eschaton posted:larry should buy an aircraft carrier next enterprise would be the worst carrier to buy. not only is it old and completely worn out but it has eight nuclear reactors to operate and maintain.
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Sep 22, 2014 06:39
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plus it's already been totally gutted and is pretty much just a floating shell right now
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Sagebrush posted:plus it's already been totally gutted and is pretty much just a floating shell right now rip our dystopian cyberpunk anarchocapitalist future
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