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Mazz posted:As far as I've read it's still using some version of the Su-35 engines, with the follow up supposedly entering testing this year but not slated to be in production for 5+ years. The -35 engines are the ones that wrecked that one prototype. There's no particular reason why they ( Russia / India ) can't build the thing from an engineering point of view, well, apart from timing before the tech is obsolete. I think it's more that, how the hell can they afford to field a plane like that in large numbers. You've got the biggest economy in the world and you're finding it tough on F22 numbers, in Western Europe, where we technically could afford it if we didn't argue all the time, we're all burning cash on the F35, and really don't know if we can afford to field that. I doubt if it gets completed there will ever be more than a few of them around. I'd really like to see a breakdown on exactly how the production / maintenance costs are so insane on stealthy planes.
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Fucknag posted:This is the best low pass: I've had that happen to me, and I almost poo poo myself. Riding a bike along a road outside a field as a younger hexyflexy, and suddenly, random hurricane out of nowhere (well that'd be the airfield I just rode past the end of). 50 foot above my head. Those things are loud, seriously loud.
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 I went into the wrong career. "Can you spray paint that f22 today?"
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xergm posted:One of the Novalogic sims (or it could have been one of the Delta Force games, I can't remember) had the demo for this, consisting of a single sortie to deploy a B61 to destroy a power plant. Bloody hell, I remember that, and I did the same thing.
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 EF2000 by Digital Image Design. They used to build simulations for the UK ministry of defence and spin off some of the work as games. I still have a boxed copy somewhere, and the keyboard overlay I used to tape on. Despite many hours play, it was bloody hard just to take off. The operative word of that game being 'oh gently caress'. (Boom, crash). Edit: when I was 15 and that came out, if you watched some documentary on UK military planes and there was any computer work in it, DID did that. Hexyflexy fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Cat Mattress posted:That was the "sequel" to TFX, which was a game with DID one upped themselves, they turned all that flight sim tech to a space game, "Inferno". Alien sex fiend did the music, and you got a graphic novel in the box with it. It was stupidly hard. (eurofighter in space!). They went bust soon after. Shame, but I played that game to death.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Nooope. Nopenopenopenope. Everything about that flight regime, where the single engine is the only thing keeping you out of an unrecoverable stall, terrifies the poo poo out of me. How slow can you go? Exactly that slow!
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Phy posted:Getting in on the ground floor on Goonjet Well that's where it'd end up.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Was she using your phone? Thank you for the title of my next computer security paper.
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Mortabis posted:A better explanation would be that China would like to build a stealth fighter, but wasn't successful, and is unable to admit it due to a pathological need to save face. I'm half thinking that the major thing they nicked was the flight control software, so they had to make it in a rough facsimile to allow that to be useful. It's the only reason I can think of to make it that shape, as you'd have to if you were using "borrowed" code, rather than going for something more like a Typhoon if you were doing it from scratch. Edit: This is what awesome engineering and flight control software can do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj8OJs6E3JM. Engine porn. Hexyflexy fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Duke Chin posted:
Has to be a Faith of Apaches.
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CarForumPoster posted:Is 120 of these not interesting or funny (except the reaper one) idea for names enough? Maybe 6-7 more pages are needed Ye of little faith.
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EightBit posted:I just read the chapter about boranes in Ignition!. Problems might be an understatement. "We've managed to glue the entire inside of the engine together by accident".
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I'm not sure if this has been posted yet - an hour and a half video of SR-71 Pilot Maury Rosenberg and RSO Ed McKim, talking about how the program worked from a personnel point of view, it's really neat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iexlShI9eFc
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helno posted:If this turns out to be some mass hysteria event it will be highly ironic. If that turns out to be true it'll make my loving christmas 
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hobbesmaster posted:But then why are police helicopters often so loving loud? They like it if you hear them.
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Jealous Cow posted:Unnngghhh that design work I’d buy that for my coffee table.
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FrozenVent posted:I can’t access YouTube from here, but what motive do they give for going there? It's really good, they reckon total electrical failure with the pilots doing everything they could to save the plane and not accidentally run into anyone.
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priznat posted:How high was he planning on getting anyway, seeing how previous attempts hadn’t cleared 2k feet or so I read. I don't think planning entered into it. At least with that trajectory he probably wasn't aware enough from the initial acceleration to know when he face planted. Bit pissed off some emergency responder is going to have to dig all that poo poo out.
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OddObserver posted:I am half convinced that parachutes are more complicated than rockets. All my tiny little model rockets taught me that is truth.
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eggyolk posted:This got the ol' imagination juices flowing. Nice!
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BobHoward posted:(I recommend watching it all the way through. It's a little rough in parts because they had a technical issue with wifi interference causing mic clicks, but it's so fascinating and information dense.) This is a pro watch, I know nothing about designing airplanes and you don't need to, the thing is hideously badly designed in just about every way possible.
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e.pilot posted:Ol' Jerry got about as close to buying the farm as he has to date, which is really saying something. Jerry "every bit of terrain is technically a runway" Wagner. Also I've never noticed before how slow he responds on the controls to the motion of the plane, it's like he's got a quarter of a second of input lag.
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Cojawfee posted:I'm sure he gaslit his wife into believing that how he flies is normal. It’s nuts, I’m not pilot, I can just about fly an RC model plane but since you all pointed out his flight videos I watched them and had a think, especially the bridge video. I grew up near a small private runway, must have seen a hundred pilots land cessnas, and i was trying to think if I ever saw one as badly handled. Nope! Not even close.
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PainterofCrap posted:Yeah, like we all were, as kids, riding in cars - until we got our licenses... I think that's how he tries to fly, like the plane is a car. Point and shoot. You can do that with $100M jet engines in the back, and you still need to know an awful lot else you drop to 100 metres off the ground, pull back on the stick, and the wings won't generate enough lift until you're -50 metres under the ground because you should have been thinking about that 30 seconds ago.
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