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MrChips posted:So, now that you've done WWI, how about the interwar years? Aw, those rat fucks! Might as well start cross-shopping with Air Canada. At least AC has unions.
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iyaayas01 posted:a real world Ace Combat loadout I got reminded about this thing the last time I made a crack about ridiculous loadouts  The YAL-1 laser and the 747 it's wearing. Infinite missiles aside, I don't think you get more Ace Combat than a plane where its nose opens up and lasers pour out. e: that's funny there was supposed to be an image here Phy fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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If we're gonna be wishing, I'd rather Boeing build us some F-23s instead. *~so pretty~* e: I did mean Northrop, I knew that's who did the YF-23 but for some reason I thought they'd merged with Boeing. Phy fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Blistex posted:Everyone has probably heard this, but at the beginning of the air war over Germany the US was losing a lot of B-17s to enemy flak and fighters. Many B-17's would come home shot up and the prevailing thought was to add more defensive guns and armour the areas that they were commonly taking damage. An engineer did the exact opposite and armoured the areas that were not taking damage on the B-17s returning, his reasoning being that places that took damage and allowed the aircraft to return were not an issue with its survivability. That's always been one of my favourite engineering stories, and the point it makes is a good one, but at best it's unattributable. (Relevant bit at the bottom)
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Bull puckey, there's no false canopy on the bottom 
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Kilonum posted:Hey, there's nothing wrong with The Air Force posted:The B-52’s long and rich heritage is illustrated by stories of families who have up to three generations of Airmen who worked on the B-52, such as 1st Lt. Daniel Welch, a B-52 co-pilot at Minot. Welch is a third-generation crew member on the airframe. According to Welch, his grandfather flew every B-52 model and commanded Welch’s current squadron at Minot, the 23rd Bomb Squadron. Welch’s father was also a B-52 crew member during his time in the Air Force.
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front wing flexing posted:What's the first expression of Soviet engineering then? A shoebox that kills Germans
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A team from University of Toronto have won the Igor Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter competition, which includes a $250,000 prize. How'd they do it? With a monstrous yet extremely lightweight quadrotor powered by a dude on the better part of a bicycle frame. How monstrous are we talking? The quadrotor takes up a great deal of an indor soccer park, and the blade speed seems to be on the order of about 10 rpm. The team website. Great job, folks! Now let's see you flip it through a moving window frame like the GRASP lab manhacks!
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DoesNotCompute posted:I'm 5'6" so room isn't too bad, I'd rather space out looking at the tops of clouds than down an aisle, but yeah the bathroom thing I didn't really consider. 18.5 hours is a lot of pee. I've been doing a fair amount of trips to Toronto and back the past couple years, window seat every time, and I generally end up holding it. I don't know why I'm shy about kicking people out of their seats to take a leak, everyone does it all the time in a movie theater. But the nice thing about the window to me isn't the view so much as I have a wall to lean up against when I sleep.
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Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that anyone hold it for that long, just that it's how I deal on a much shorter flight.
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bennyfactor posted:No, man, it's still cool. Shouldn't that be painted on a Viper? 
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Boomerjinks posted:Does anyone have the "I'd rather fly the _____" song with lyrics like the Viper flying up its own rear end in a top hat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335GdTqtyLs I miss being able to find "Has Anybody Seen My Wingman". Fortunately I've got it memorized! adagio, like an Ivy League frat chorus Haaas anybody seen my wingman? I'm sure he's in a hell of a fix! I have scanned all through the skies but I needn't use my eyes Cause that fucker always flies At my dead siiix! allegro So, him! Him! gently caress him! What a way to go But at least he won't be jammin' up the fuckin' radio! Is he blind or is he split? I don't give a fuckin' poo poo It's all the more glory for meeee!
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StandardVC10 posted:Concorde is the McLaren F1- instantly recognized, but no one really wants to replicate it again either. Then what was the Tu-144?
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Slo-Tek posted:Born Too Late: e: the answer is "high holy poo poo don't gently caress with the Canucks"
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Oh, I know. I was suggesting that the size of it reminded me of a proper spaceship. For some stupid reason I always assumed the shuttle was more the size of a Lancer or something. Bone, not Mitsubishi I hope? But yeah the Shuttle launched Hubble, and Hubble was roughly the size of a bus.
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Sep 5, 2013 22:11
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English Electric Lightning interceptors.
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MrYenko posted:Is there anyone here with a quick reference to all of Nebakenezzer's dirigible effortposts? They're loving amazing. If you click the ? button under his name next to one of his posts, you get taken to all of his posts in the thread.
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ehnus posted:I clonestamped the "Rouge" wordmark out, this is what they normally look like: Ohh, so that's who Rouge Squadron are! I've been reading about them on the internet for like forever
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MrYenko posted:Look at the tail and canopy. Either the person that did that drawing has seen an A-10 and wanted to imply that Republic was full of Nazis, or it's accurate to the German design, And Republic really was full of Nazis. Was Northrop full of Nazis as well? Because the YA-9 had a similar cockpit configuration, and engines in the wing root to boot.
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MrYenko posted:STOVL USMC version in 3... 2... 1... USMC, hell, build it for X-Com (or the X-Men)
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Plus even if you could get it into the cockpit in a drinkable state, from what MrChips described the Blinder's handling to be like, you'd want to be as sober as a whole bench of judges if you were in the air and wanted to ever get back to the ground in one piece.
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Hobbes I'm pretty sure the jokes about killing rabbits and never having sons are about being microwaved, not cell damage from ionizing radiation. e: Other people have already explained why RF is unlikely to cause those sorts of damages, because that's what everyone else was talking about. Phy fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Nov 26, 2013 |
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I really do love the idea of the Su-34. A jet fighter with a kitchen, a can and a place to lie down. "Vanya, how am I supposed to eat my shchi with all of this rolling?" "You'd prefer to eat shchi off the nose of a SAM?!"
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Polymerized Cum posted:Is anyone interested in a little info on the various light utility helicopters you see buzzing around overhead, and my prejudices thereof? I didn't know I wanted to learn about weirdo Russki bombers or the German zeppelin programme until MrChips and Nebuchadnezzar started posting. So, yes more please.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:The CIA have an A-12 in their car park - https://goo.gl/maps/YvKtl I was hoping you meant "sitting on the landing gear and taking up sixteen stalls" but that's still pretty neat.
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I just figured out that "engine covers" meant the plugs in the intakes and not the fairings on the nacelles.
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Godholio posted:And yeah, Ike would kneecap every SecDef we've had since the Berlin Wall fell. Why, what was his deal? (I know he was a general and the president after Truman, and his election campaign had some buttons, but that's about it)
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FrozenVent posted:"Handle like eggs" Stand it on end at the vernal equinox?
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Snowdens Secret posted:I knew someday my work on miniature life preservers that fit inside a 30mm cannon shell would pay off I see you've studied at the Maude Flanders Memorial School of Weapon Design
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iyaayas01 posted:At least a Pred has a pilot in the loop if it's in the pattern...I've been told some stories about the ATC conversations that have resulted when the Global Hawk has diverted on short notice into a location... Reminds me of the old "This is a lighthouse" joke.
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: Chicken 01 has declared an IFE and is diverting into your airfield, ETA 30 mins, request you clear the pattern
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I don't think this is what Colin Chapman meant by "add lightness"
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Want to be one of the last people to fly in a Lancaster - across the Atlantic? It'll cost you, reserve bid is 40 large: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/got-40k-you-could-cross-the-atlantic-in-a-lancaster-bomber-1.2630060
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SocketSeven posted:It's job was to carry balls. I didn't know SKF was Swedish. I guess it makes sense, WWII Britain buying balls from Svenska Kullagerfabriken and not Fischers Aktien-Gesellschaft; because all the Fischers Aktien-Gesellschaft balls would have been German.
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Or cooked a pot of borscht? Or lied down for a snooze?
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Guys Canada can't buy black planes, how are they supposed to paint a cockpit on the bottom?
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There's the occasional episode that focuses on saves and incidents where not everybody died - Sully, the Gimli Glider, the one with Stan Rogers.
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Oh, neat. I was wondering what the flags on Edmonton's mast signified; apparently those are its radio callsign.
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Generation Internet posted:Why should Quebec care about the Rafale? It's a French plane that's produced in France, it's no different to them than an American plane made in the U.S. or a Swedish plane made in Sweden. I'm sure it's a fine airplane that we'd be better off buying than the F-35, but the suggestion that it would have anything to do with an imaginary Quebec-France cultural connection is laughable. Don't have to repaint the plane to have signage primarily en francais.
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Angles on the stabilizers and canards that recall stealthy planes, and then that dogtooth on the wing. poo poo's Ace Combat as anything.
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