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Captain Postal posted:This is the soft-kill jammer and targeting radar/EO suite used at Gatwick. This system has an optional hard-kill laser module which the UK MoD didn't buy What pissant government has the option to buy a laser cannon and doesn't?
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priznat posted:One thing I could never figure out was my dad’s cousin flew CF-104s and is 6’3”, how is that even possible. 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Some modern ejection seats can handle inversion or low altitude, though from I understand not both. slightly sooner than staying aboard the crashing aircraft (Consider that cats need at least 12" of fall distance to right themselves so they can land on their feet)
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, I remember reading the same, but the gubbermint put the kibosh on it. The real life equivalent of that old "gently caress your canoe" joke (An Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are captured by tribespeople, who say the penalty for trespassing is that the interlopers may die by a method of their choosing, and then their skin will be turned into a canoe. Englishman asks for a pistol, "Long live the queen", blappo to the head. Frenchman asks for a rope, ties it to the nearest tree, puts his head through the noose, "Vive la France!". American asks for a fork, starts stabbing himself everywhere. Horrified, the chief asks, "what are you doing?!" "What am I doing? gently caress your canoe!")
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Godholio posted:This varies greatly based on your location. Shell and Husky have 91 octane ethanol-free across Canada (except Husky in SK apparently) Pretty convenient for my 20 year old bike
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buttcrackmenace posted:does anyone have links to the videos of our friend Jerry in CA? I have been attempting to describe them to a pilot buddy of mine, but words are not sufficient. "How you used to land at Meigs Field in Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0"
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Oct 25, 2019 23:12
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Because I don't hang around planes up close, is the support strut and the bracket joining it to the wing supposed to look hosed up and cracky like that?
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Nov 8, 2019 01:29
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Sagebrush posted:it's the way i land when i've been shot up by a Bf-109 and I'm missing a horizontal stabilizer and my entire rudder and all the ailerons on one wing I've made the joke about Meigs field as well, but only because it's the more relatable comparison. When really, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is where I learned to do Jerry landings, since the mission ended once you were stopped and vaguely upright, somewhere in the general vicinity of the runway. Even if there were Messerschmidts or MiGs overhead.
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Nov 14, 2019 07:16
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I watched 6 Underground last night and I thought it was pretty cool how Not-Turkmenistan had fighter jets that could be F-16s in closeups and then Gripens in the very next shot when they're dropping sarin gas bombs and strafing civilians (It's a dire fuckin movie, please don't watch 6 Underground)
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So it turns out somebody did save blueprints to the Avro Arrow. For maximum irony, they're on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada Centre.
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The Real Amethyst posted:I initially read this as gorillas and was like holy poo poo. I've been careful to make that distinction ever since Captain Ron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyG0G96UB6k
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Jetpack Guy spotted again near LAX at around 6000 feet https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/us/jetpack-guy-back-lax-trnd/index.html My fervent hope is that he's spending his time on the ground decking Nazis, because he really is The Rocketeer
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Rascar Capac posted:The dullest option is that someone attached a dummy to a drone. TBH I feel like "dummy" is a pretty good description for anyone getting 30 yards away from a flying airliner, even were they an actual human and Nazi puncher
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It's a bit off to the side, but there is such a thing as naturally-occuring gears https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-insect-has-the-only-mechanical-gears-ever-found-in-nature-6480908/ Of course, there's only one example we know about. (Also kinda cursed that the first examples I found when I searched for this were either from the JWs or Answers In Genesis. A God that would invent biological gears and only use them on one crappy little bug isn't a designer worthy of our praise, fellas.)
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And here I thought they were supposed to be good in a dogfight
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simplefish posted:V tail 747 please Jumbonanza
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LibCrusher posted:Who are you lunatics leaving the airport during a goddamn layover Bourdain had an entire TV show about that (of course his "layovers" were like 12h)
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"How did you hit that, I warned you like three times!" "Frank, all you kept saying was 'Bear left'."
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karoshi posted:Inflatable plane, what could possibly go wrong? It's a shame it's Goodyear and not Michelin, "Un Avion Gonflable" would be a dece username
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Sagebrush posted:remember when Three Olives saw a picture of trump's plane and saw the RR logos on the engines and posted "wow I can't believe Trump is such a narcissist that he'd try to pretend his plane is a Rolls-Royce" Thing is, if I didn't know about Rolls-Royce's aeronautical history, I 100% would believe Trump is a big enough narcissist to do that
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e.pilot posted:*nuh uh at an audi engineer Hey, if you're gonna nuh uh at people who worked with Rutan, why stop there
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Platystemon posted:This will be a match made in heaven. 
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This is not how the treadmill problem is meant to be approached
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wzm posted:https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/164812 this pilot had 26,000 hours, a first class medical, and he crashed with a Jesus
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Nebakenezzer posted:Or maybe Kawasaki F-15s now only come in lime green
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Tag yourself. I'm the giant AGM in the center. AGM? I think you'll find Starfighters are surface-launched
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Nebakenezzer posted:you know, like that fish that can see through its own head Barreleye
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MrYenko posted:B-17 is another big one. hhhhow much farther down than the retracted gear does the belly turret go?
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Xenoborg posted:Edit: Balls 8 aka Mothership is on the public site of the gate at Edwards AFB. It has "kill" decals for all the things it dropped. The gate planes along with the Skunkworks air park is a good day trip if you are in LA. There is a NASA museumon base that I've heard is good, but I've had the timing work out to go. I recognized the lifting bodies, but I had to look up what that Ace Combat-looking thing from the third photo was. Apparently it's the Rockwell HiMAT, a remotely piloted testbed to try out fun poo poo for future dogfighters, like canards, winglets and full fly-by-wire control. So, still pretty Ace Combat.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I'm beginning to think Robb Report is advocating for the deaths of billionaires and I am *down* with that: https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/electric-stol-aircrafts-landing-1234603082/amp/ Insert plug in egg rear end 
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Humphreys posted:SU-34s > F-35 When will Congress address the Onboard Toilet Gap?
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ausgezeichnet posted:Hey. There are three or four of us who aren't chud-fucks. Major Kong seems pretty dece too.
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St_Ides posted:I thanked the tower for letting me use their runway. "it's really short, but boy is it wide!" 
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Hey PT6A, any idea why the east-west runway at YYC has been so busy? My dad was helping me do some work at my place last week, and no sooner did I tell him that we were usually pretty quiet in terms of air traffic, than there was just a fuckin parade of takeoffs. It was like that scene in the Blues Brothers in Dan Aykroyd's apartment where the train goes by every time the shot changes. Didn't seem particularly windy either, which usually seems to be why they start using that one instead of the north/south runways.
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NightGyr posted:How much force can you put through the refueling boom to perform a tow? Tractor boom
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Xakura posted:The tunnel/big space between the engines could enclosed in a partial redesign. That's where the arms and head go
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Sorry if I'm just finding out about this now and y'all knew months ago, NASA and Lockmart collaborating on a proper X-plane: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X59/  Monitor instead of a windscreen because of the schnozz
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vessbot posted:Needed to be done into a Y-Wing instead, but cool I'm guessing it's not an X-wing because the roles are similar, but because the design elements are, like the straight wings and exposed, tubular engines Like if I was gonna do an A-Wing I wouldn't use a Viper or an F-106, I'd use a wedge of Gouda
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I just watched a couple videos of B-1s doing (aileron?) rolls. Anyone know what the largest aircraft to pull off a roll is? (It's not the 707 prototype, which is smaller in both dimension and weight. Though Wikipedia does say it was put through barrel rolls, not just aileron rolls.)
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Zero One posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/style/love-cloud-las-vegas-mile-high-club.html?referringSource=articleShare  Mouseover text: Business is slow so he lets Todd jack off in his plane.
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