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That is like a really fit beach body ready CAC Wirraway 
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MrLonghair posted:That is like a really fit beach body ready CAC Wirraway You almost made me think it was a CAC Wackett (seriously, Australia?), but the tail's wrong, and that'd have to be an aftermarket engine.
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Jun 17, 2016 02:07
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Guys it is almost certainly a slightly modified Yak-52TW.
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Jun 17, 2016 02:11
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MrChips posted:Guys it is almost certainly a slightly modified Yak-52TW. Maybe something about the particular pic just really accentuates the taper effect. vessbot fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 02:38
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Yak-52TW body with an engine from an early Spitfire (three exhausts per side, also used in Hurricanes) would explain the misconception from media, and maybe modified wings also considering the markings. Some neat engine-plane combos happened during WW2, lost the bookmark to a site with hundreds of those examples.
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Jun 17, 2016 02:39
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MrLonghair posted:Yak-52TW body with an engine from an early Spitfire (three exhausts per side, also used in Hurricanes) would explain the misconception from media, and maybe modified wings also considering the markings. Some neat engine-plane combos happened during WW2, lost the bookmark to a site with hundreds of those examples. Some of the Russian frankenplanes are particularly fun. Wasn't the La-5 series just the nose and engine from a Su-2 crammed onto a LaGG-3?
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Jun 17, 2016 02:56
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MrLonghair posted:Yak-52TW body with an engine from an early Spitfire (three exhausts per side, also used in Hurricanes) would explain the misconception from media, and maybe modified wings also considering the markings. Some neat engine-plane combos happened during WW2, lost the bookmark to a site with hundreds of those examples. Those aren't even exhausts, just some cosmetic add-on, like those wingtips. The aircraft retains its original radial engine (you can see the twin exhausts poking out the bottom of the cowling), because putting a Merlin into a Yak-52 would be insanely expensive and difficult from both a regulatory and technical perspective. Essentially this airplane has the equivalent of a set of AutoZone stick-on portals. And besides with the wonders of modern CGI, they can superimpose a Spitfire computer model over the Yak without a huge amount of difficulty.
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Jun 17, 2016 03:00
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MrChips posted:Those aren't even exhausts, just some cosmetic add-on, like those wingtips. The aircraft retains its original radial engine (you can see the twin exhausts poking out the bottom of the cowling), because putting a Merlin into a Yak-52 would be insanely expensive and difficult from both a regulatory and technical perspective. Essentially this airplane has the equivalent of a set of AutoZone stick-on portals. Now imagining an actual mammillian yak with a zillion little white mocap balls stuck to it.
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Jun 17, 2016 03:21
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MrChips posted:Those aren't even exhausts, just some cosmetic add-on, like those wingtips. The aircraft retains its original radial engine (you can see the twin exhausts poking out the bottom of the cowling), because putting a Merlin into a Yak-52 would be insanely expensive and difficult from both a regulatory and technical perspective. Essentially this airplane has the equivalent of a set of AutoZone stick-on portals. It's not like modifying aircraft for movies hasn't been done before, a number of T-6's/Harvards underwent a fair chunk of plastic surgery for Tora Tora Tora.
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Jun 17, 2016 04:07
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ehnus posted:It's not like modifying aircraft for movies hasn't been done before, a number of T-6's/Harvards underwent a fair chunk of plastic surgery for Tora Tora Tora. I'd give up a testicle to fly a real Zero. What a beautiful plane. I think it, the FW 190, and the F-86 are the most beautiful machines ever built.
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Jun 17, 2016 09:30
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Yeah its a modified Yak52 with a Spitfire canopy and slapped on wingtips, panels on the fuselage, and the exhaust. Hope some more pictures show up in the media. D C fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 10:11
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MrLonghair posted:CAC Wirraway Ever since I saw that name in WarThunder I've always assumed it was named by a 3 year old.  What's that big machine? "A choo-choo!" And that animal? "A woof-woof!" What's that plane? "A whirr-away!"
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Jun 17, 2016 12:13
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Lightbulb Out posted:Are you coming during the air show? <insert masturbation joke here>
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Jun 17, 2016 12:32
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karoshi posted:Ever since I saw that name in WarThunder I've always assumed it was named by a 3 year old. quote:The CAC Wirraway (an Aboriginal word meaning "challenge") was a training and general purpose military aircraft manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) between 1939 and 1946. The aircraft was an Australian development of the North American NA-16 training aircraft. The factory it was made at gave rise to the Holden engine plant nextdoor to the aerodrome in Fishermens Bend in Melbourne, with Holden currently closing down manufacturing at the plant. The land is currently up for urban renewal and the other year the state government created 4 new suburbs for the area which will have skyscrapers built in them. One of the new suburbs is called Wirraway because of the plane. There is a Wirraway Drive and a Saber Drive named after those planes in about the same location as the old runways and the Boeing factory is just off to the side where 787 parts are made and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation is also right there, the remains of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, which is where some parts of the F35 are made. They have an Australian built English Electic Canberra on display too, sadly gated off in a restricted area, you can see it on googlemaps You can see an old aerial survey taken at the end of the war with a slider to compare to current day googlemaps at this site: http://1945.melbourne The airfield is to the left of the starting location in Port Melbourne, along the river. You can also see the german & japanese internment camp and army base in Royal Park (Parkville) which exited during the war next to the Zoo. drunkill fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 14:18
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D C posted:Yeah its a modified Yak52 with a Spitfire canopy and slapped on wingtips, panels on the fuselage, and the exhaust. If it was a car it'd have bumper-stickers
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Jun 17, 2016 14:44
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So who has $25k burning a hole in their pocket? Learn to fly a Matin Mars
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Jun 17, 2016 15:50
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priznat posted:So who has $25k burning a hole in their pocket? How did we miss this guy when we were discussing flying boats?
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Jun 17, 2016 16:05
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CommieGIR posted:How did we miss this guy when we were discussing flying boats? It's more of a flying ship, really.
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Jun 17, 2016 17:05
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tactlessbastard posted:I'd give up a testicle to fly a real Zero. What a beautiful plane. I think it, the FW 190, and the F-86 are the most beautiful machines ever built. I'll be seeing (weather permitting) a Zero and a FW190 flying tomorrow. I'm excited. (also a real Spitfire instead of a Yakfire and a P-47, but you know) Psion fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 19:03
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From the China thread in GBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qZPaCRSQI
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Jun 17, 2016 19:25
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Yea those bricks are meant to be used. Every last one of them.
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Jun 17, 2016 19:39
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That's even the airline from the safe China (Taiwan). 
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Jun 17, 2016 19:44
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Wowzas  Happy brrrrrrrt day https://youtu.be/NvIJvPj_pjE
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Jun 17, 2016 20:46
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June continues to be a poo poo month for acrobatics teams.
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Jun 17, 2016 21:52
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hobbesmaster posted:That's even the airline from the safe China (Taiwan). You say that like there is a safe China. And on top of that, it's come out that the Red Arrows will not be performing at Farnborough later this month as well, because of Britain's newfound paranoia about flying displays.
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Jun 17, 2016 22:07
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This was just posted in the scale model thread, and I'm quoting it here as it is pretty AI:Unkempt posted:I'm calling this one 'Three Tenths of a Second Before the Music Died'.
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Jun 17, 2016 22:27
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Oh my loving God the well-modeled panicked protective palms.
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Jun 17, 2016 22:32
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File under "A" for "Actually Retarded"
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Jun 17, 2016 23:51
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They've supposedly dramatically improved their safety record over the past decade. Or maybe I was selectively looking at sources when I flew them from TPE-NRT.
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Jun 17, 2016 23:54
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Nebakenezzer posted:This was just posted in the scale model thread, and I'm quoting it here as it is pretty AI: Holy poo poo
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Jun 18, 2016 00:18
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karoshi posted:Ever since I saw that name in WarThunder I've always assumed it was named by a 3 year old. “What’s that little engine in the back that performs auxiliary functions?” “Putt‐putt!”
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Jun 18, 2016 01:30
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J is for jackass!
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Jun 18, 2016 02:32
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This page has many good posts, thanks guys Anyone wanting to know more about flying in China should read "Flying Upside Down" I'll admit I never made to the end due to many factors - the writing's pretty poor (then again he's a professional pilot not author) and he is 100% bile and vitriol and yeah at times he seems incapable of differentiating between his managers and All Chinese People when throwing abuse around - but the actual content of what he's saying is pretty astounding and yet perfectly believable having worked in China
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Jun 18, 2016 04:38
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Platystemon posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwcQeaWG13E
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Jun 18, 2016 05:02
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For those interested season 16 of Air Crash Investigation has started. Coming episodes include 9/11 and for some reason the Tenerife disaster again. Links are out there for those unable to watch on TV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayday_episodes#Season_16_.282016.29
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Jun 18, 2016 15:04
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Twin Twin Otters headed to Antarctica on rescue mission. I think this is crazy because they have to commit to the South Pole. There is a point of no abort. The same company suffered an Antarctic crash in 2013 though not in winter. I really hope they pull it off.
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Jun 18, 2016 16:59
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Hermsgervørden posted:Twin Twin Otters headed to Antarctica on rescue mission. I think this is crazy because they have to commit to the South Pole. There is a point of no abort. The same company suffered an Antarctic crash in 2013 though not in winter. I really hope they pull it off. Equal time points are a normal thing, even if it is particularly dramatic in this case. We had to calculate them all the time when flying to Wake Island or Diego. Little island, middle of nowhere, nowhere else to go if things get weird. You get to the ETP and then if you don't have the conditions to continue then you turn around and go back. If your liquid oxygen tank ruptures and you're past the ETP, you shrug and hope you didn't need that oxygen. Not that that's ever happened to me
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Jun 18, 2016 17:19
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Any info on what the emergency is? Didn't see anything in the story. Wasn't the last time a lady who also happened to be a physician and self diagnosed needing immediate cancer surgery or something? I seem to recall them using a 320 or 737 for that though. I think from NZ or AZ?
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Jun 18, 2016 17:51
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slidebite posted:Any info on what the emergency is? Didn't see anything in the story. That was a long time ago, and yeah she was a doctor and got breast cancer. She ultimately died from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerri_Nielsen
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Mortabis posted:That was a long time ago, and yeah she was a doctor and got breast cancer. She ultimately died from it. She had to do biopsies and other surgical interventions on herself and the plane was "only" a few weeks earlier than normal. Antarctic doctors are hardcore.
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