KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

Why didn't they paint the engine nacelles?

Fucknag posted:

link your porn please

phongn posted:

Yeah, but when you're sustaining Mach 2 and 60,000 ft, your missiles get a nice little boost. It's not quite SR-71 performance, but you can see what happens below:



(from Secret Projects)

Gibfender posted:

she got chunky

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Have Glass consists of two efforts to reduce the RCS. Have Glass I adds an indium-tin-oxide layer to the gold tinted cockpit canopy. This is reflective to radar frequencies but actually reduces the plane's visibility to radar. An ordinary canopy would let radar signals straight through where they would strike the many edges and corners inside and bounce back strongly to the source, the reflective layer dissipates these signals instead. Have Glass II includes the Pacer Mud radar signature reduction and the Pacer Gem infrared signature reduction. Pacer Mud applies RAM coating to the forward and side facing areas of the F-16. These materials comprise ferromagnetic particles, embedded in a high-dielectric-constant polymer base. The dielectric material slows down the wave and the ferromagnetic particles absorb the energy. These coatings are also designed in a way that the small reflection from the front face of the absorber is cancelled by a residual reflection from the structure beneath it. For the application of this paint robots will be used, like the CASPER (Computer Aided Spray Paint Expelling Robot) system used for F-22 and the Have Glass II program used for painting 1,700 F-16s with RAM. Robots are essential because they can reach confined areas, as the inlet ducts, and can work without stepping on the aircraft. Pacer Mud processed aircraft can be recognised by their metallic like and shiny paintwork.

Duke Chin posted:

There's an old deadstick landing F-16 video floating around on youtube that, upon landing and scrambling of the crash-rescue-fire crew, they even specifically mention to them that the hydrazing APU is running and to prepare for it.

D C posted:

Love Shack or Rock Lobster?

hobbesmaster posted:

At least it's not a southwest flight to midway.

iyaayas01 posted:

A-10 Tank Killer owns and I won't hear otherwise. Partly because of stuff like:


But mostly because of the "briefings" you'd get from your SQ/CC or DO or whoever before you'd start the mission that were just still pictures of a guy in a flight suit standing in front of a hangar door combined with text. I think my favorite is the one where the Soviets are bombing your airfield and it's one picture of him screaming and pointing at the door and the text of "GET YOUR rear end IN THE AIR NOW!!!!!!"

SybilVimes posted:

buttcrackmenace posted:

I'm blanking on this.

Saga posted:

You know the Gnat pilot died right? Plus since this is SA, how many Gnats are still flying?

Midjack posted:

Safety Dance posted:

What is that greenish yellow paint?

EightBit posted:

Can you just keep posting about helicopters?

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

I like when it was followed by an even sexier aircraft.

Preoptopus posted:

Its a new level of anal retentiveness. All your tools have to have their own spot in a foam cut out. And they all have to be put away before you can call any repair done.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Pictured: two trainers and two turds.

Party Plane Jones posted:

What is this, the third or fourth mid-air collision this year?