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hostile apostle
Aug 29, 2006
:stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia:
Stadia didn't outlive SA but it did outlive Lowtax - Happy Birthday Stadia! #ad
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He gone

https://gfycat.com/ClearcutInfatuatedAnemone

Don't kick random poo poo in the middle east

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Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

hostile apostle posted:

He gone

https://gfycat.com/ClearcutInfatuatedAnemone

Don't kick random poo poo in the middle east

:stare:

Diarrhea Elemental
Apr 2, 2012

Am I correct in my assumption, you fish-faced enemy of the people?

hostile apostle posted:

He gone

https://gfycat.com/ClearcutInfatuatedAnemone

Don't kick random poo poo in the middle east

Middle_Eastern_EOD.webm

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

hostile apostle posted:

He gone

https://gfycat.com/ClearcutInfatuatedAnemone

Don't kick random poo poo in the middle east

That's pure cosmic comedy. No other way putting it.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Yeesh. At first I thought he had a packed chute in that backpack....NOPE. Crazy framed blanket parachute!

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
The best part is easily the Wile E. Coyote dust cloud on impact

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

hostile apostle posted:

He gone

https://gfycat.com/ClearcutInfatuatedAnemone

Don't kick random poo poo in the middle east

One minute he's there, next minute POOF! David Letterman.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
stolen from a gbs thread but w/e



aerial refueling

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

Pesticide20 posted:

The best part is easily the Wile E. Coyote dust cloud on impact
Measuring the crater he left.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Hot Karl Marx posted:

stolen from a gbs thread but w/e



aerial refueling

gonna guess the pilot actually got out of his seat to grab the nozzle and put it in

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Probably the other guy, but yeah.

LostCosmonaut
Feb 15, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NrsknJIIiM

The Army tried jets once.

It didn't go that great, it crashed twice. At least it killed less people than their nuclear reactor.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer

Buca di Bepis posted:

gonna guess the pilot actually got out of his seat to grab the nozzle and put it in

Godholio posted:

Probably the other guy, but yeah.

:dong:

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

Buca di Bepis posted:

gonna guess the pilot actually got out of his seat to grab the nozzle and put it in

Godholio posted:

Probably the other guy, but yeah.

flip side view:



so yeah pretty much

Couple years later a group of guys (including a couple by the names of Ira Eaker, Carl Spaatz, and Pete Quesada) decided to utilize the same basic refueling technique to set an endurance record in a Fokker tri-motor called the Question Mark. Some of the specifics of the in-flight refueling operation were pretty :stare::

quote:

Both aircraft stabilized in level flight at 80 mph (130 km/h) and the hose was reeled out. Spaatz climbed on a platform below the open hatch, and wearing rain gear and goggles for protection against fuel spills, grounded the hose and then placed it in a receptacle mounted in the upper fuselage.
Made from a bucket with a sloped floor, the receptacle had connections to the two extra fuel tanks, and at Spaatz's signal Solter opened the valve. Fuel flowed by gravity into the bucket at 75 US gallons (280 L) per minute and then into the tanks, where it was then pumped by hand into the wing tanks by Hooe. Food, mail, tools, spare parts, and other supplies were also passed by rope in the same fashion.

quote:

During a refueling, Spaatz was drenched with fuel when turbulence caused the hose to pull out of the receptacle. Recalling the event in 1975, Eaker said:

"We went over the Rose Bowl. It was very bumpy, as you can appreciate, as we should have appreciated, up against those mountains in January, and the refueling plane and the Question Mark were torn apart. I was piloting the Question Mark and I realized that General Spaatz had probably been drenched in high octane gasoline."

Quesada was at the controls and flew the aircraft over the ocean for calmer air. Fearing that chemical burns from the gasoline might force him to parachute from the airplane to seek medical treatment, Spaatz ordered Eaker to continue the flight regardless. However Spaatz shed all his clothing and was wiped off with oil-soaked rags. Although he directed at least one refueling without his clothing, replacements were soon delivered. Quesada was briefly overcome by the same accident but quickly revived. Spaatz experienced two other fuel spills without injury, using oil to wipe his skin and zinc oxide to protect his eyes

They managed to stay aloft for 150 hours.

Which if we're talking endurance flights, is nothing compared to the current record holder....64 days in a Cessna 172. That airframe is actually hanging up in the baggage claim of McCarran, look it up the next time you're flying into Vegas.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

iyaayas01 posted:

Which if we're talking endurance flights, is nothing compared to the current record holder....64 days in a Cessna 172. That airframe is actually hanging up in the baggage claim of McCarran, look it up the next time you're flying into Vegas.


quote:

On January 12, 1959, after refueling chores, Timm removed his clothes and stepped out onto the platform for a refreshing sponge bath. He started by brushing his teeth. Just then Cook realized that the airplane wasn’t going to clear an upcoming ridge if the platform wasn’t pulled in. Cook yelled at Timm to pull in the platform and later told of seeing his partner struggling to complete that task—buck naked, and weighing 240 pounds, with a toothbrush sticking out of one side of his mouth and toothpaste streaming out of the other. They cleared the ridge but learned to delay hygienic activities until they were over flatter terrain.

Laughing so hard at the mental picture.

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd
lol at the one solitary Pred in the upper right

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
It's me I'm the F14 using guns

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

go3 posted:

It's me I'm the F14 using guns

That's a Mig-29, and it's bout to get merc'd by one of those F-16s

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
gently caress I'm dead

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners
the funniest thing is the subtle ear necklace that the guy on the pylon has you dorks

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
gently caress, those dudes took squad photos to a whole nother level

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
I like the dude's bullet wound as he hangs off the side.

BaconAndBullets
Feb 25, 2011
Until that picture is topped, all other unit photos are poo poo. You and your buddies on a TOP SECRET//SAP//SMDFTB high speed low drag mission taking a photo in front of a Toyota Hilux in some Mad Maxian piece of poo poo part of earth can suck a fat dick compared to their's.

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

BaconAndBullets posted:

Until that picture is topped, all other unit photos are poo poo. You and your buddies on a TOP SECRET//SAP//SMDFTB high speed low drag mission taking a photo in front of a Toyota Hilux in some Mad Maxian piece of poo poo part of earth can suck a fat dick compared to their's.

sorry but the scout sniper unit vid they took a few years back tops that thing

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

civil war reenactors are weird.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

sorry but the scout sniper unit vid they took a few years back tops that thing

Did it include an SS flag?

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

Scratch Monkey posted:

Did it include an SS flag?

no just liberal amounts of urine

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Did they ever actually get in trouble for that?

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Chinatown posted:

civil war reenactors are weird.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-west-point-black-lives-matter-page-perspec-0511-md-20160510-story.html

Includes a quote from a drill sergeant explaining how Black Lives Matter is just like the Nazis.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Zeris posted:

Did they ever actually get in trouble for that?

There was an inquiry, but it determined that while the picture was inappropriate (particularly due to context in the media) it wasn't really intended as a political statement.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Zeris posted:

Did they ever actually get in trouble for that?

"No."

They did an investigation. The investigation said they did nothing wrong. However, the investigation said they would attend mandatory social media training to learn how the thing they did, which was not wrong, could offend old white people. Shockingly, there was no investigation into when white dudes took pictures with fists raised at football games.

This is covered at length in this episode of Task and Purpose: http://taskandpurpose.com/podcasts/fist-raising-west-point-cadets-nothing-wrong/

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

mlmp08 posted:

"No."

They did an investigation. The investigation said they did nothing wrong. However, the investigation said they would attend mandatory social media training to learn how the thing they did, which was not wrong, could offend old white people. Shockingly, there was no investigation into when white dudes took pictures with fists raised at football games.

This is covered at length in this episode of Task and Purpose: http://taskandpurpose.com/podcasts/fist-raising-west-point-cadets-nothing-wrong/

Unsurprisingly, the comments section is full of offended old white people.

hostile apostle
Aug 29, 2006
:stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia:
Stadia didn't outlive SA but it did outlive Lowtax - Happy Birthday Stadia! #ad
:stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia:
More Russian AF incendiary munitions (video from distance + view on ground in replies)

https://twitter.com/bm21_grad/status/746728341420544000

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

Cabbage Disrespect
Apr 24, 2009

ROBUST COMBAT
Leonard Riflepiss
Soiled Meat
https://twitter.com/putintintin1/status/747202225257197568

Mr-Spain
Aug 27, 2003

Bullshit... you can be mine.

mlmp08 posted:

"No."

...

Every time I see you post I click on the av link and listen to some sweet jams and cool explosions. Thanks!

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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

hostile apostle posted:

More Russian AF incendiary munitions (video from distance + view on ground in replies)

https://twitter.com/bm21_grad/status/746728341420544000

ww3 is gonna be so loving cool

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