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I've been told that B2's like to do practice bombing runs on the St. Louis arch.
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Linedance posted:they tacked that bit on at the end about him thinking he might break his hand or his neck, because DANGER, but whats actually impressive is picking up the ball and tracking it from that distance. A bit of wind and that ball could have landed 50' from where he was. Yeah, I was more impressed he tracked it. The whole BREAK MY NECK/HAND/PENIS just made me
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 17:15 |
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fknlo posted:I've been told that B2's like to do practice bombing runs on the St. Louis arch. Isn't that kind of cheating? Perhaps they should also use the Boeing Everett plant for practice?
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 17:17 |
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fknlo posted:Military got some money from somewhere. There have been an assload of them in the air over the past week or two. Congress passed a law removing the "can't reallocate money" clause in the sequester, so now the executive branch departments have more flexibility to move funds around, as opposed to before where a significant amount of the cuts were from O&M...hence units that were grounded before getting some flying hours back now.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 17:19 |
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fknlo posted:I've been told that B2's like to do practice bombing runs on the St. Louis arch. bomberarch by RReiheld, on Flickr This was from the 4th of July a couple years back. Whiteman AFB is just down the way, so we get B-2's for special occasions like baseball game flyovers, and airshows.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 17:39 |
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Slo-Tek posted:
Excluding the three, the other shapes involved in that photo are so "low poly count" that they look like something rendered by the Source engine with anti-aliasing turned up to mega ultra high.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 17:43 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 00:49 |
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Infinotize posted:what aside from the tree, the other shapes i.e. the arch and the B-2, are extremely flat dimensionally speaking, thus giving it the optical effect of looking like it was rendered with a very low resolution mesh in a computer game. Not sure what was difficult to understand about that.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 01:37 |
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How loud is the B2?
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 02:02 |
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Advent Horizon posted:How loud is the B2? Unstealthily loud. You hear them coming well before you see them at flyby altitude. Not loud like an F-16, but certainly military loud. They sound enough different than 737's that I can jog out of my house in time to see them flying over.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 02:12 |
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The one time I saw a B-2 flying, it didn't seem much louder than your run of the mill modern airliner would be. I imagine it would be relatively loud on takeoff compared to said airliner, however. Certainly not like a B-1, which is about the loudest aircraft I've ever experienced.SeaborneClink posted:aside from the tree, the other shapes i.e. the arch and the B-2, are extremely flat dimensionally speaking, thus giving it the optical effect of looking like it was rendered with a very low resolution mesh in a computer game. Not sure what was difficult to understand about that. The original comment isn't hard to understand, it's just a weird way of saying it didn't look real, is all.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 02:15 |
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MrChips posted:The one time I saw a B-2 flying, it didn't seem much louder than your run of the mill modern airliner would be. I imagine it would be relatively loud on takeoff compared to said airliner, however. Certainly not like a B-1, which is about the loudest aircraft I've ever experienced. Loudest I ever heard was an F-4 Phantom at Blytheville AFB at an airshow in the 80s when I was a kid. I involuntarily fell on the ground during a very low pass over the crowd, and thought it was a sonic boom. I felt it in my stomach and in my teeth and everywhere else. Speaking of airplane noise, I've lived in Memphis my whole life and grew up near the airport, so the sounds of FedEx and National Guard flights are the "white noise" that helps me sleep at night. I've lived in the suburbs for the past ten years, but recently stayed at a friend's house in midtown right over the main flight path from the northeast, and slept like a rock from the soothing sounds of GE and Pratt & Whitney.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 02:43 |
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MrChips posted:The original comment isn't hard to understand, it's just a weird way of saying it didn't look real, is all. Figured I'd explain why it doesn't look real
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 02:47 |
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benito posted:Loudest I ever heard was an F-4 Phantom at Blytheville AFB at an airshow in the 80s when I was a kid. I involuntarily fell on the ground during a very low pass over the crowd, and thought it was a sonic boom. I felt it in my stomach and in my teeth and everywhere else. This is going back, but one of my first memories of aviation is of the 1986 Edmonton Air Show; I was only about three years old or so, but I remember the CF-104 sneak pass like it was yesterday. The thing you have to remember about the F-104 is that at high speed, it makes an ear-piercing howling noise - the so-called "Banshee Wail". Anyway, this CF-104 was low and fast with afterburner engaged, howling like a, well, banshee...catching everyone off-guard as it passed over show centre at who knows how fast. My parents tell of how after the sneak pass, pretty much every kid in the crowd was bawling their eyes out...all of them, except for me. I guess that was when/where I caught the bug. I've also had the pleasure of being "boomed" once, by a CF-18. It was on my gliding course; we were writing our Transport Canada exams that morning, which was the Friday morning before the Red Deer air show. As the story goes, the cadets who were on the two-week basic training course were to have their graduation parade - one of whom, their father just happened to be the CF-18 demo pilot. So, it was arranged that the pilot, having finished his morning practice trip, would make a low pass over his son's parade. The only thing is that it was a very cold morning; cold enough that there was frost (at the end of July ). So put together a cold day, a father looking to show off a bit, a supersonic fighter and what do you get? A sonic boom that had everyone in the exam room jumping to the windows in about a second flat! Even the stodgy exam proctor was excited about it.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 03:55 |
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MrChips posted:The one time I saw a B-2 flying, it didn't seem much louder than your run of the mill modern airliner would be. I imagine it would be relatively loud on takeoff compared to said airliner, however. Certainly not like a B-1, which is about the loudest aircraft I've ever experienced. Watching B1s take off from ~1000 feet away is amazing. The F22s are surprisingly loud on take off also.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 04:05 |
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MrChips posted:This is going back, but one of my first memories of aviation is of the 1986 Edmonton Air Show; I was only about three years old or so, but I remember the CF-104 sneak pass like it was yesterday. The thing you have to remember about the F-104 is that at high speed, it makes an ear-piercing howling noise - the so-called "Banshee Wail". Anyway, this CF-104 was low and fast with afterburner engaged, howling like a, well, banshee...catching everyone off-guard as it passed over show centre at who knows how fast. My parents tell of how after the sneak pass, pretty much every kid in the crowd was bawling their eyes out...all of them, except for me. I guess that was when/where I caught the bug. Frost in July even in Alberta has me But I do remember around 1992 in YQU a couple of CF18s came loving screaming into town from speeds well, WELL above 250 in that howl that you can not describe that those cocksuckers love to do (and I love it) to the airshow. Banshee in heat or something ungodly like that. loving glorious. I only wish I could hear a CF104 do that, it could only be hotter. Our airshow in YQL is next week and I can only hope that they try to replicate it. Seems the closest we get are CF18 crashes though
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 04:26 |
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Advent Horizon posted:How loud is the B2? They're pretty loud. My dad lives a few miles off the end of the runway at Whiteman and gets them going over all the time on their way to try and be in conflict with every single airliner possible with the routes they file.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 04:37 |
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fknlo posted:They're pretty loud. Right up until the initiate stealth mode.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 04:47 |
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MrChips posted:...Certainly not like a B-1, which is about the loudest aircraft I've ever experienced. ...
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 12:43 |
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Needs more Bone. Time for some Charleston Air Force Base (now Joint Base Charleston) air-show pictures from a while back. Wow, 2006 was 7 years ago! Hey, what's that off in the distance? Oh it's a friendly B-1B Wow, that's moving really fast That was real-AAAAHHHHHHHH MY EARSSSS JESUS Yes C-17, you're cool too Coming back thirsty no doubt I'm Batman Look at that sexy beast. So glad they removed its scoliosis brace Engine farts?
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 12:58 |
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I've been buzzed at low altitude by a lot of military aircraft, but nothing compares to a bone under 500 feet going over 600 knots at full burn.
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mlmp08 posted:I've been buzzed at low altitude by a lot of military aircraft, but nothing compares to a bone under 500 feet going over 600 knots at full burn. What?
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 14:03 |
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MrYenko posted:What? Bone = B-one = B-1
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 14:10 |
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Wait, we're talking about loud aircraft and the Vulcan hasn't been mentioned? For shame, AI, for shame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzdtYU7i_jY
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 14:12 |
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block51 posted:Bone = B-one = B-1 Joke about loud noises went clean over your head, didn't it?
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 14:48 |
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IPCRESS posted:Wait, we're talking about loud aircraft and the Vulcan hasn't been mentioned? While the vulcan is loud (and was louder when 'in service' and not being treated fairly delicately), I was suprised at just how loud the viggen was when I saw it at waddington. In terms of actual 'loudness' nothing competes to the close (enough to feel the heat) buzzing I got when I was ~8yo by a EE Lightning
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 14:57 |
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block51 posted:Bone = B-one = B-1 WHAT? e: ugh, too many windows open too long...
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 15:03 |
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I've gotten to see a B1 and a B2 flyover at a couple VT football games. The B2 was quiet until it passed directly overhead and the B1 was the loudest noise I've heard behind a space shuttle launch. Both of them I was pretty much in the top row in the stadium, so I had an extra 200 feet of height compared to ground level. e: B2 flying right over my head: e2: And for good measure, a couple more flyovers from the year after. I was in the top row for these so the angle was pretty good. Frinkahedron fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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block51 posted:You sir, have clearly never experienced a hovering AV-8B. That being said a B-1 is fuckoff loud, especially with the afterburners going. It's fun to watch such a large plane handle so amazingly. Are they louder than Avro Vulcans? I used to love going to airshows as a child, and the Vulcan was the only plane that made me feel like my teeth were vibrating out, which was absolutely wonderful!
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 15:12 |
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block51 posted:You sir, have clearly never experienced a hovering AV-8B. That being said a B-1 is fuckoff loud, especially with the afterburners going. It's fun to watch such a large plane handle so amazingly. Maybe I was just exceptionally close to the stupid low b-1 passes, given that it was purposefully buzzing my precise location, but it blew the hell out of the sound of even a pair of hovering harriers.
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One Eye Open posted:Are they louder than Avro Vulcans? I used to love going to airshows as a child, and the Vulcan was the only plane that made me feel like my teeth were vibrating out, which was absolutely wonderful! My earliest aviation memory is of the sky going dark from a vulcan passing overhead on a (fake) bombing run*, it was amazing how you didn't hear it til it reached you, then bam, the air split asunder. * I grew up in a valley surrounded by radar installations that were used for practising low level interdiction, and to the north was the entrance to a set of valleys that were used by fighter pilots for canyon runs. So high altitude aircraft were an oddity (usually either the steady drone of shackletons heading out to look for subs, or nimrods heading out to look for bears). Most of the aircraft were UK: vulcans, tornados, harriers, lightnings, phantoms, provosts, but occasionally you'd see something more exotic, german F104s, F15s, even saw B-52s with water injection running at low level a time or two. By the end of the 80s A-10s were all you ever saw though, everything else was either disbanded or relocated to RAF Valley.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 15:33 |
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block51 posted:You sir, have clearly never experienced a hovering AV-8B. That being said a B-1 is fuckoff loud, especially with the afterburners going. It's fun to watch such a large plane handle so amazingly. I remember seeing a Harrier demo at Westover about 1992, and I don't recall it being exceptionally loud. Soviet-built cargo aircraft...Now those fuckers are loud. I used to listen to the scanner in my dorm room 3 miles from the Fairbanks airport; occasionally you'd hear "Something something heavy clear" and about a minute laster the noise would come through the walls. I actually picked that dorm room because the DC-6s and C-46 Commandos flew right by on their fuel and cargo runs. The C-46s were so low you could count rivets, I have no idea how those things ever got over the hump.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 16:22 |
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MrYenko posted:Joke about loud noises went clean over your head, didn't it? Uhhh no! . . . yes...
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 16:31 |
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mlmp08 posted:Maybe I was just exceptionally close to the stupid low b-1 passes, given that it was purposefully buzzing my precise location, but it blew the hell out of the sound of even a pair of hovering harriers. Fair enough. I could be miss-remembering of course. The Harrier was easily 15 years ago. I keep forgetting that I'm turning 30 this year. I think we can all agree that many military jet aircraft are loud, and loud is awesome. This is the Internet though so I should probably be careful about saying "All agree". Now for some pictures to make up for my blah blah blahing. C-5! 2006 CAFB airshow Engine on an F-15, 2006 CAFB airshow GAU-8 Avenger, A-10, 2006 CAFB airshow All those specks are airborne DC-3's. They had a lot of DC-3's that year. Oshkosh, 2010 DC-2 at Oshkosh, 2010
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 16:44 |
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Any of you going to be at Oshkosh this year?
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 16:49 |
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When I was in cadets at Trenton, a c5 galaxy flew overhead to land at the base there. It was the loudest think I'd ever heard in my young life. Obnoxiously loud. Years later I was at YYZ about 800-1000m from the runway when Concorde took off. I don't know if it was louder than the c5, but it's noise you can feel in your soul.
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Linedance posted:When I was in cadets at Trenton, a c5 galaxy flew overhead to land at the base there. It was the loudest think I'd ever heard in my young life. Obnoxiously loud. I love the sound that the C-5 makes. It's a deep, almost guttural, growl combined with a very high pitch squeal at the same time.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 19:04 |
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SybilVimes posted:While the vulcan is loud (and was louder when 'in service' and not being treated fairly delicately), I was suprised at just how loud the viggen was when I saw it at waddington. In (iirc) 1986 there was an SR-71 at Farnborough. It's still the loudest thing I've ever heard, and that includes being 3 miles away from a space shuttle launch and quite a few F1 races.
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Lightbulb Out posted:Any of you going to be at Oshkosh this year? Ill prolly go with my dad for his birthday treat, unfortunatly I wont be camping this year for the whole week tho cause my buddy whos a life member cant go . Camping there rules rediculous amounts.
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