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It looks a little, but not quite, like a Kate. I got nothin'.
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The trick the dambusters used to ensure that they'd drop the bomb from the correct height was kinda clever.
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Jun 16, 2016 19:00
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Why is the tail so gigantic on the A400M?
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Jul 20, 2016 10:25
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Is someone looking into making jet fuel from solar / wind energy and, idk, air CO2 and water or something? Seems like that would solve a bunch of problems with storage / buffering weather-related peaks and troughs in production. I assume it's an efficiency / cost problem?
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Aug 30, 2016 22:02
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Imagine living in the world where it happened. "Hey, remember that day America went and killed Russia?" That's gotta put a bit of a dent in your general outlook. e: who am I kidding, we'd be talking about Bieber and Game of Thrones again five minutes later aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Sep 8, 2016 19:25
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The coolest thing about the Schneider Cup probably isn't even the planes but the actual trophy, which is roughly house-sized
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Sep 12, 2016 12:57
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TheFluff posted:speaking of afterburners, this is some of the best footage of the business end of one I've ever seen: Was it the Swedish Air Force that had that mishap where a fighter set a bunch of people who were spectating at the end of the runway on fire? I think the accident report got posted either here or in the cold war thread.
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Sep 15, 2016 17:23
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I guess drawing pictures of an endless succession of ever-wackier planes beats having your job declared nonessential and getting drafted into the latest "planned front adjustment" in the strategically important Slavoveschenskgrad bogs. About how much, ballpark, would it cost to make a one-off flying example of one of those planes? I get that there mostly never was any actual technical documentation or anything for those things, I just mean a plane that is shaped like that, with a commercial engine of roughly the correct power, and using whatever works in place of those vintage turbojets where applicable. Is that in the millions, tens of millions?
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Oct 13, 2016 21:11
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Wow, I did not expect that it would go quite that high. And yeah, I knew about the Bugatti. Kind of a bummer, those are some visually extremely striking planes.
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Oct 13, 2016 21:36
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These are basically the aircraft designer equivalent of cutting yourself.
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Oct 31, 2016 03:19
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It would have given them a pretty clear idea of their altitude and the direction the ground is in if it hadn't also killed them
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Nov 6, 2016 14:31
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For some reason, quite possibly that I am a gigantic idiot, pics of Cold War Tacti-Golfs always make me really happy.
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Dec 16, 2016 21:29
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C.M. Kruger posted:Dud rate for the BLU-97 is 7% and 14% for DPICM, so I'd say they're doing pretty good. Only 1-30% of the fish explode on impact so arguably they have a 70-99% dud rate
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Reading that article I was scared that it was gonna end up as a Byford Dolphin scenarioquote:Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:13
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I've gotten some worryingly conflicting info over the years in workplace safety courses about what I should be doing after emptying one of those CO2 fire extinguishers.
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Jan 19, 2017 19:41
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The Italians apparently built six of those four-engine bombers a year which is pretty the_whole_problem_with_the_Axis_war_effort.txt
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Jan 28, 2017 13:59
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Party Plane Jones posted:Before the accident, the manual arming pin in each of the bombs was in place. Although the pins required horizontal movement for extraction, they were both on a lanyard to allow the crew to pull them from the cockpit. During the breakup, the aircraft experienced structural distortion and torsion in the weapons bay sufficient to pull the pin from one of the bombs, thus arming the Bisch generator. The idea of arming a nuclear weapon by yanking on a string you draped from your cockpit to the bomb bay is hilarious to me for some reason. If this had been in Dr. Strangelove I would've found it a bit much.
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Mar 16, 2017 21:46
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Loving the comically oversized flag.Vitamin J posted:There was also the opposite problem that was explained in Command and Control; a few types of bombs had a little foil strip inside the core that acted to absorb neutrons and stop a nuclear detonation. There was some clockwork-like springs and a mechanism that wound the foil strip up and pulled it out of the core when it was to be armed and used. Yeah that one I already had heard about. Would've made for a lot of very surprised Russians.
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Mar 16, 2017 23:16
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HookedOnChthonics posted:People also may have seen pictures before of the R.I, which had... a unique fuselage shape: I wanna pet it
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Mar 17, 2017 22:22
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Half the time it's like the Brits are operating on different industrial design and possibly physics principles than the rest of the planet. Also genetic material
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Mar 25, 2017 12:54
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slidebite posted:Same trip What's the aerodynamic or engineering rationale behind making the fuselage shaped sort of tapering into an edge like that instead of more conventionally rounded?
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Apr 11, 2017 03:49
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What the gently caress  I love how weird that thing is.
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Apr 12, 2017 16:32
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How does coal dust in the wood glue absorb radar beams?
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Apr 23, 2017 19:21
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Imagine the abandon ship drill on that bad boy. 800 lightly radioactive crew.
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Apr 29, 2017 11:07
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I remember a WW2 gun camera film on youtube where the guy is strafing a parked bomber and the perspective is up, ie he is literally closer to the ground than a parked plane. The mishap rate must've been something else.
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May 4, 2017 12:27
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Buttcoin purse posted:It's always weird to hear about something that I thought was just a stupid thing we did in Battlefield 1942 actually happened in real life. Next you'll tell me that pilots would intentionally take out lone standing infantry by hitting them with their wings Or their buddies at the airfield! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UntN_cZUQg8
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May 4, 2017 15:22
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joat mon posted:
I never really thought about this but between the engines and gearbox a bunch of the weight of a helicopter is basically in its roof, right? What's in the bottom to counterbalance? Or do they just make sure that the fuselage is wide enough so it doesn't tip over?
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Aug 2, 2017 18:18
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Man the French should build more aircraft.
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Sep 3, 2017 20:21
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Oh man check out the dents on that leading wing edge.
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Oct 1, 2017 21:10
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Idk if it's just the Blue Angels livery but I feel like I've never properly appreciated the looks of the F-18 before. That is a pretty plane.
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Oct 9, 2017 15:30
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Sagebrush posted:K for anti-ship missiles, because the Russians initially classified these missiles with an X, for eXperimental, but the cyrillic X is transliterated as Kh, and NATO picked that because what would an international standard be without one batshit out-of-nowhere spec that doesn't follow any of the logic Experimental in Russian is экспериментальный, eksperimentalnij, so it makes more sense to me that they just used that K. What you describe would be a corkscrew process of taking the Russian word, translating it, taking the second letter from the translation, looking what Russian letter it sorta looked like, and then transliterating that. Another source of confusion is that Russian Air-to-surface missiles are designated Kh-[number] in the Russian nomenclature. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/q0180.shtml Not gonna lie I have no idea whats going on there. e: also for some reason the Shipwreck is the P-700 and at this point I just give up
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Read the memoirs of a Russian lady recently and her dad dies when she is a kid in the 80s crashing his helicopter in a drunken joyride with his mistress. That's a bit of an rear end in a top hat move.
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Oct 29, 2017 14:42
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Nebakenezzer posted:He 119 V3 was a seaplane. Holy poo poo that's sexy
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Nov 1, 2017 23:35
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Airbus just sold a cool $50bn worth of airplanes, holy poo poo http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/15/news/companies/airbus-indigo-partners-dubai-super-order/index.html
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Nov 15, 2017 12:19
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Dannywilson posted:Nirvana's album Nevermind was written closer to the end of the Vietnam war that it was to today, by nearly a decade. I remember Vietnam feeling very recent when I was in school back in the late 20th century. I mean it was like 20 years past at that point. Now it's ancient loving history.
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Nov 20, 2017 05:40
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I always crack up at "Spacy"
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Nov 25, 2017 20:27
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Did they manage to make copies of the engines or was performance reduced? I understand that aircraft engines were just as bleeding edge metallurgically etc. for the time back then as they are today.
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Dec 4, 2017 18:12
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 More like they went there 
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The bleeping on this one alone is a work of art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLyiL7R_Fms
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Aeronautical insanity: putting my zeppelin in the hangar
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