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Mr. Despair posted:B-36 props always look so drat small installed, even though they look so drat big in person (that's what's mounted on the wall behind the other plane here) Is it? It seems way smaller than the ones in the B-36 pic and it has 4 blades instead of 3. Square tipped blades also ring a bell, could it be from something else, like a DC-7?  Or I guess one of many other late piston era airliner / cargo aircraft.
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It's been too long since I've been there, but I think what it might be is that the prop the museum got their hands on was one of the early 16' 4-blade prototypes that got tested before the larger 19' 3 blade models were used. I'll have to go back there to get a picture of the placard explaining it the details, there's basically no pictures or information on em besides this little blurb in magnesium overcast:  Basically the only piece of a b-36 at Ellsworth though, which is part of why I remember it (that and the fact that it's massive, the bt-13 sitting well in front of it isn't exactly a tiny plane)
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Right, cool bit of history.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Got a run of color slides from an amazing American airshow from 1946/1947. Wouldn't that be WPAFB? Pretty sure the old R&D/Presidential hangers were where they took the JU-290 for evaluation, and I'm pretty sure they didn't fly it around to different airshows. Looks like the same hangers in the background.
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winnydpu posted:Wouldn't that be WPAFB? Pretty sure the old R&D/Presidential hangers were where they took the JU-290 for evaluation, and I'm pretty sure they didn't fly it around to different airshows. Looks like the same hangers in the background. It could be; on the other hand, I remember posting ITT years ago what might be a video of this airshow, and they had the Ju 290 landing and taxi-ing, so I think they did fly it around when they had it. Fun fact: in that slide I posted, it still has its plastic explosive sabotage charge undiscovered. Also I'm so pissed at United Airlines, I had a flight any they wouldn't let me and my therapy animal on
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As a young child I was chased by a male peacock in full display so this is extremely triggering for me. *hugs emotional support grizzly bear*
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Can you train a peacock to not just poo poo constantly wherever the gently caress it wants? Because every peacock I've ever seen is just a giant shitmachine, being followed around by a person with a mop. It'll drag its tailfeathers through its own poo poo even, peacocks do not give a gently caress.
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The peacock that terrorized Toronto that one summer was bad rear end. Should have a buddy cop show with ikea monkey.
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PT6A posted:Can you train a peacock to not just poo poo constantly wherever the gently caress it wants? It's the screaming that gets me.
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Ardeem posted:It's the screaming that gets me. Well, yeah, that's not ideal either. There are in fact many reasons I would not appreciate sharing a plane with a peacock, and also quite a few why I would consider anyone with a "support peacock" to be a complete loving lunatic.
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"When I start to get upset, he screams in my ear and covers me in poo poo from the waist down. Then I realize how much worse things can be and I calm down."
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I was listening to cbc this am and they talked about that wing nut with the peacock. They played a recording of one of those drat things screeching and for the next half hour whenever someone tried to talk they just randomly interjected the bird screeching over them at any time. It was pretty drat funny but by the end of it every other listener is probably going to get triggered strangle the next peacock they see.
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slidebite posted:by the end of it every other listener is probably going to get triggered strangle the next peacock they see. It will be for the best.
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PT6A posted:Can you train a peacock to not just poo poo constantly wherever the gently caress it wants? Doubtful, I’ve heard of people doing that with parrots but parrots are smart. Free range suburban peafowl are really dumb.
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Ardeem posted:It's the screaming that gets me. An ex-girlfriend of mine is scared of peafowl due to a childhood incident at camp. Apparently a male hopped up on the open windowsill in the middle of the night and started screaming into the cabin. ...And that’s how lifelong irrational fears are made. 
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MrYenko posted:An ex-girlfriend of mine is scared of peafowl due to a childhood incident at camp. Apparently a male hopped up on the open windowsill in the middle of the night and started screaming into the cabin. Eh they’re the size of a cat (before you count their train,) but they don’t get picked on by cats, which means they’ve probably got claws or something. I’ve never had to be aggressive towards a peafowl but I’m not sure I’d want to. 
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Just say cock.
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D C posted:Just say cock. I've never had to be aggressive to either a peacock or a peahen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qY8-HooF9I 115dB That's louder than a rock concert.
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Yeah that's what would relax me on a plane.
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Aeronautical Insanity: The last time my comfort peacock took a poo poo at Mach 0.8
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 What’s next? Emotional support emu?
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As with so many things, Sesame Street was far ahead of its time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgkYHhG18uc
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Platystemon posted:
Hunting party!
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I had to go investigate a suspicious vehicle cruising across the sand dunes conveniently under the approach path into Al Asad once. When we got out there and started circling to check him out he rolls down the window so he can lean out of the vehicle and give us the "what?" hands and he's got a huge falcon just like that on his arm. Dude's just rolling up and down sand dunes with a giant bird on his arm while driving, like a desert pirate. Carry on, dude.
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Platystemon posted:
I'd like to see them try with a Cassowary. The batshit insane cousin to the Emu.
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Heard in row 34: "Are we flying, Carl? I feel like we're flying." "Yo I can't see poo poo, Todd."
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Platystemon posted:
I feel really sorry for the poor bastard who had to clean that plane after that flight.
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The Locator posted:I feel really sorry for the poor bastard who had to clean that plane after that flight. Given that it was some underling to Saudi royalty, I feel sorry for said bastard all the time.
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Humphreys posted:I'd like to see them try with a Cassowary. The batshit insane cousin to the Emu. Whenever someone questions the relationship between dinosaurs and modern birds, just shove a cassowary in their face and leave. (Because the cassowary is going to loving kill them. They’re evil with feathers.)
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MrYenko posted:Whenever someone questions the relationship between dinosaurs and modern birds, just shove a cassowary in their face and leave. The local zoo has a cassowary enclosure that looks more like the raptor cage from Jurassic Park than the loving cages for the tigers. And even behind the fence those birds are intimidating. You can tell they are just sizing your rear end up.
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Terrible Robot posted:The local zoo has a cassowary enclosure that looks more like the raptor cage from Jurassic Park than the loving cages for the tigers. And even behind the fence those birds are intimidating. You can tell they are just sizing your rear end up. The one at ZooMiami is named Death. They named it that when he was a chick. Turns out it was 100% accurate. He charges the fence whenever guests come near. He’s a loving rear end in a top hat. The most alarming thing I’ve ever seen though was whenever people would take infants or toddlers through the Harpy Eagle exhibit. They’d stop what they were doing and go completely stone-rigid, because they were stalking... Freaky as gently caress.
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Terror Birds would be a blast if they were still around.
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Guys this is good, I've gotten several ideas about species to thin out humanity a bit Also my therapy animal is going to be a Pangolin, I can take a small box of live ants on flights, right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY1qqZiaTU8 Also, re evil birds, their calls are...wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcQO6Zb8Eg Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Feb 4, 2018 |
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   The original meaning of "sundowners"            "So divisive!"            
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  B-24 of the RAAF:    Henrich Himmler's personal whip:       (This spot is now mini malls and condos)   Cockpit of the Macon   'Emily' flying boat. These things were probably the best patrol flying boat design of World War 2:     Anti-Aircraft at work:              Short Sterling:       200 missions:        
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Make nose art great again.
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e.pilot posted:Make nose art great again. Not an empty post
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Very meta nose art.
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