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Ola posted:I love 50s jets so much. The Hawker Hunter's gun ports do a bottle whistle effect which is known as the "blue note". It is the most futuristic noise known to man and it has inspired all sorts of sci-fi sound designers how to make the movie spaceships sound - I would think that includes the TIE fighter. ~braces for a half a page full of links to the Avro Vulcan howl~
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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smackfu posted:What's the best Skunkworks book? I powered through Ben Rich's book a couple of weeks ago, it's excellent.
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Koesj posted:I powered through Ben Rich's book a couple of weeks ago, it's excellent. I also read 'Skunkworks' a few years back and really liked it.
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Koesj posted:I powered through Ben Rich's book a couple of weeks ago, it's excellent. Having talked to a few people who worked there, that's a pretty good book if you assume that any story involving him winning a quarter off of Kelly actually happened to somebody else.
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Ola posted:I love 50s jets so much. The Hawker Hunter's gun ports do a bottle whistle effect which is known as the "blue note". It is the most futuristic noise known to man and it has inspired all sorts of sci-fi sound designers how to make the movie spaceships sound - I would think that includes the TIE fighter. Oh man that's cool as hell.
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StandardVC10 posted:Oh man that's cool as hell. Commencing Death Star run.
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Dr. Klas posted:I also read 'Skunkworks' a few years back and really liked it. I used to live in Palmdale, and passed the Skunkworks every day going to work on Sierra Highway. Every time I went by, I'd see the image of the skunk on the side of the building and my mind would wander to the amazing things they did/do in there. It's like hallowed ground over there.
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At about 0:50 this Starfighter howls like the mating call of a satanic deer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIRwMhRVRY
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Nebakenezzer posted:At about 0:50 this Starfighter howls like the mating call of a satanic deer: How did that thing ever manage to fly?
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FrozenVent posted:How did that thing ever manage to fly? Gravity was scared of it
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Nebakenezzer posted:At about 0:50 this Starfighter howls like the mating call of a satanic deer: Hahaha, that's hysterical. My favorite blue note has to be the Mustang's created by the air intake. It's like the Stuka's siren but unintentional and loving incredible
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FrozenVent posted:How did that thing ever manage to fly? I refer you to rfc1925.
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Speaking of the Starfighter, the Soviets actually considered a similar configuration for the MiG-21 at one point (apologies for poor quality of scan, didn't want to damage book by bending the binding to much).
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FrozenVent posted:How did that thing ever manage to fly? It's magical what you can do with 15,000 lbs of thrust.
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So it's the "MORE POWER!" approach to aeronautical engineering then.
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FrozenVent posted:So it's the "MORE POWER!" approach to aeronautical engineering then. Tim Allen's tenure at Lockheed Martin was spectacular!
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FrozenVent posted:So it's the "MORE POWER!" approach to aeronautical engineering then. Let's also not forget the magical thing that happened when the wings and tail from a sailplane were bolted on.
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What are the 'classic' WW2 pilot memoirs?
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Ardeem posted:Let's also not forget the magical thing that happened when the wings and tail from a sailplane were bolted on. Are you referring to the plane with the lovely navigation system that kept accidentally wandering over the USSR?
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Spaced God posted:It's like the Stuka's siren but unintentional and loving incredible
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CharlesM posted:Umm that's the end of "In The Flesh?" by Pink Floyd. It's the actual siren, though.
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The best animal sounding aircraft is the C-5. It sounds like a dinosaur  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwMFIjMPb0E
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FrozenVent posted:Are you referring to the plane with the lovely navigation system that kept accidentally wandering over the USSR? That'd be the one.
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It took me forever to remember which plane you were talking about, just because I can't think of its fuselage as looking like the F-104's (although I think it actually has some lineage there).
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If you can find some pictures of some early f104s and U2s the resembalance gets clearer, but the U2s kept getting longer and longer and the 104s rounder.
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sausage paddy posted:What are the 'classic' WW2 pilot memoirs? I haven't read them all, but I am a big fan of Pierre Clostermann's The Big Show. http://www.amazon.com/Big-Show-Greatest-Military-Paperbacks/dp/0304366242/ref=la_B001IQZCL2_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393148172&sr=1-1
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It's not entirely WW2, but Ernest Gann's Fate Is the Hunter is probably one of the best flying related books ever written. It covers his career from flying for American Airlines in DC-2's and DC-3's, to flying transports over The Hump during WW2, as well as flying for various upstart airlines after the war. Samurai! by Saburō Sakai is also well worth reading. It chronicles his time as a pilot with the Japanese Navy during WW2, and since he was one of the few Japanese aces to survive the entire war (despite flying in combat basically blind in one eye from 1944 onwards), it's a really fascinating story. Chuck Yeager's autobiography is decent, but he comes across as a pompus rear end in a top hat in the book, and since some of the stories therein have been contradicted by other people who were involved, it should be taken with quite a large grain of salt.
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azflyboy posted:Chuck Yeager's autobiography is decent, but he comes across as a pompus rear end in a top hat in the book Sounds like he stayed true to writing an accurate autobiography, then.
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Also being a pilot.
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Ardeem posted:Having talked to a few people who worked there, that's a pretty good book if you assume that any story involving him winning a quarter off of Kelly actually happened to somebody else. Yeah, a few chapters in, and it's definitely a book where he's retelling the same stories he's been using for years in private, which may or may not be totally true. But they certainly are entertaining.
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azflyboy posted:It's not entirely WW2, but Ernest Gann's Fate Is the Hunter is probably one of the best flying related books ever written. It covers his career from flying for American Airlines in DC-2's and DC-3's, to flying transports over The Hump during WW2, as well as flying for various upstart airlines after the war. This is absolutely one of my favorite books and I'm pretty sure I first heard about it either in this thread or the ask/tell pilot thread a few years ago. I just finished reading it again a week or two ago.
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Ardeem posted:If you can find some pictures of some early f104s and U2s the resembalance gets clearer, but the U2s kept getting longer and longer and the 104s rounder. The earliest concepts for the U-2 still had the Starfighter's T-tail.
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The recently declassified CIA U-2 / OXCART (A-12) history touches on F-104 / U-2 crossover several times. Page 45 states that only the wings and tail were unique to the U-2, and the rest of the aircraft was made with F-104 tooling.
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CharlesM posted:Umm that's the end of "In The Flesh?" by Pink Floyd. It's the sound every airplane makes in every movie when it's diving even though there's no flying airplane in the world that makes that sound.
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The Wilhelm Scream or red-tailed hawk cry of airplanes.
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azflyboy posted:Samurai! by Saburō Sakai is also well worth reading. It chronicles his time as a pilot with the Japanese Navy during WW2, and since he was one of the few Japanese aces to survive the entire war (despite flying in combat basically blind in one eye from 1944 onwards), it's a really fascinating story. E: Either the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum jumped the gun for April Fools Day by 6 weeks, or you Brits are in for a special treat: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/canada-s-lancaster-bomber-to-cross-atlantic-for-u-k-tour-1.2546757 Boomer The Cannon fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Anybody read Viper Pilot? I bought it last night because it was on sale for 3 bucks and had pretty good reviews. The first chapter seems decent enough, though all the initial training stuff is mainly interesting to see the contrast to Navy flight training.
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Is it the novelization of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335GdTqtyLs
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