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Slo-Tek posted:
Huh. So this is what a real world Fallout would look like.
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CommieGIR posted:The USAF uses JP8 in everything diesel. So yeah, Jet Fuel is largely Kerosene with additives anyways. Isn't that....expensive?
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slidebite posted:Slippery apron+strong winds=fun. "Oh Shoot!"
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LostCosmonaut posted:3. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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Didn't they originally think they were going to use some super poisonous "Zip Fuel" in the XB-70?
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two_beer_bishes posted:(.91 I've seen exactly once). I'm guessing some billionaire that doesn't mind paying the $texas fuel price for the small jump in speed?
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simplefish posted:"He flew in a B-52 at the airshow! He entered the raffle and won a ride in that aeroplane!" is also okay, for the reasons stated above (being kept in place) or perhaps because the cool thing isn't that you went up in the air, it's that you did so on a freakin' BUFF. In that case, "in" would be the first choice, because it's where you are, not how you're getting from A to B, that is the focus of the conversation. They don't actually do that, do they? I would LOVE to get to ride on a BUFF at an airshow. I wouldn't even care that the airframe is probably older than my Dad and smells like it too.
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CommieGIR posted:That whole thing is When the orbital nuclear death satellites are the "cheap" option.
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When I was like 8 or 9 we took a flight to see the Grandparents in Indiana and when we boarded the plane (Probably a DC-9) I took a left instead of a right when I got onboard and accidentally walked into the cockpit. The captain was nice though and he let me look around for a minute before the flight attendant gently spun me around the right way.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Lufthansa 744s twice a day to Munich. We do? I took Lufthansa to Munich in 2012, and it was an A340
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AlexanderCA posted:Yoko Tsuno What's this comic and has it been translated into English?
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blugu64 posted:I've always thought if I had a white ford ranger with an amber light on top, I'd be able to park anywhere as long as I put an orange come in front/back of the truck. There was a story floating around the internet of a guy who basically did this with a white Cherokee in Cambridge MA, (where street parking is notoriously hard to come by) and could basically park wherever he wanted.
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LostCosmonaut posted:I always thought the old V2 paint scheme looked cool; I don't know if a Nazi "Heritage" paint scheme would go over really well.
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Psion posted:
I love everything about what they did. "We need to move the jet, but it's been parked since 1991" "gently caress it, we're flying it there!" *jet engines start up*
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From the China thread in GBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qZPaCRSQI
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onezero posted:Incredible footage (from the viewpoint of a news helicoptor) of a tanker dropping retardant on the Tokawana Fire on the WY/UT border. https://www.facebook.com/ksltv/videos/10154705783463676/ So do these guys do all this crazy flying in a converted airliner surrounded by a din of hooting and dinging and buzzing and disembodied voices telling them about the TERRAIN that they're flying over or do they disable all that stuff?
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Buttcoin purse posted:Did they go wrong by contacting the tower for "instructions" rather than "clearance for an emergency landing"? This was the 60s, it was a different time. I mean, flying overnight just so the light was better using 333,000 gallons of jet fuel because of the leak is hardcore enough.
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Captain Apollo posted:It's a Lake Buccaneer Growing up our folks inherited a summer house up in the Middle of Nowhere, VT. Our neighbor up there lived in NJ and owned a Lake, and would fly up every Friday after work, spend the weekend on the lake, then Sunday after dinner would fly home. I always wanted a ride, but he was seriously in vacation mode once he got up there and would only take the plane out when leaving on Sunday.
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Psion posted:"how many JATO bottles can we put on a plane? Let's find out." "When you absolutely, positively have to nuke the Reds in just a few hours, choose JATO"
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Cat Mattress posted:(From what I can barely decipher it of the writing on it, it might just be a simulator, which would be a disappointingly sane answer.) I'm betting it's a firefighting simulator.
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Jealous Cow posted:Have you ever moved to a new state? It might as well be like moving to a different country. Just the differences between different state's vehicle and licensing agencies can be staggering and utterly retarded. I wish far more agencies were run by the federal government instead of inept, underfunded, "good 'ol boys"-having state and local government. I moved from MA to NY. It was a move of less than 200 miles and you could have SWORN I moved to a foreign country with how much bullshit I had to deal with. It took me 60 (business) days to get my lender to send the proper paperwork to the NYS DMV to get my car registered.
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Nerobro posted:Can you imagine the loads on pylons when you're rolling at 60rpm? Bomb release stuck? Just roll!
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um excuse me posted:I've said it earlier in this thread but I'll mention it again, indigenous Chinese jet engines scare the crap out of me. Pratt is discovering new failure modes for jet parts from engines designed 30 years ago. The learning curve is beyond enormous. We could give them the exact blueprints to something made today and they couldn't make it. They would never get the metallurgy right. And that's without the pervasive culture of "that's good enough." The china.jpg thread has its faults, but it's certainly cured me of worrying about "The Chinese Century"
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TheFluff posted:Caution, aircraft crossing  Indeed!
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Nice piece of fish posted:I kind of hope we might be early and rare in our own galaxy, intelligent life is a gigantic fluke as well as life at all/life beyond eukaryot and prokaryot life. Certainly is better than the alternative. "Turns out live is easy and abundant, but the distances in space are SO VAST that nobody ever meets to chat.  "
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Wasn't the 727 the one that got RATO hardpoints for hot and high takeoffs? Opportunity missed. Edit: YES! http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2010/04/ive-always-had-soft-spot-for-boeing-727.html
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hogmartin posted:e: turning a working Grumman Mallard or similar into a flying RV would be awesome. Wasn't there a rich dude in the 1950s that turned a war-surplus PBY Catalina into an RV until it was shot up by the Saudia? fake edit: there was!
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Duke Chin posted:I got dibs on ketchup! It's a vegetable! 
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Inacio posted:airbus really makes the prettiest planes Counterpoint: A380.
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Vitamin J posted:The pilots are heroes they wrestled the plane out of an uncontrolled barrel roll quote:turning the aircraft around at least 3 times (possibly even 5 times) 
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Jonny Nox posted:Lol just heard on the news that YYC received over 1700 noise complaints from 1 person last year. That's got to be like more than one complaint per aircraft "Yes? I'd like to complain! That jet that I called about earlier is still very loud!"
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CarForumPoster posted:Can you say Акустическая усталость? acoustic fatigue *shouting* WHAT??
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mlmp08 posted:Plucky weird lookin' planes? Without even googling, I knew this was a French plane. They're very distinctive.
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I'm always curious about airplanes in museums. Like, just how ready to go would they be if someone said "gently caress it, let's make it fly again" Are these all basically real planes converted to static displays that will never fly again unless you basically build it from scratch over again, or is it "change the fluids, charge the batteries, gas it up and let's go" It's probably somewhere in between.
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Safety Dance posted:Could be tomato juice. That's popular on airliners for reasons I don't understand. Hide your vodka.
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"Okay, hold up the unlit cigarette in 3.....2...."
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Kebbins posted:Not XB-70-sized by any means... Man, the non-lengthened Starlifter was a good looking plane. When they made it longer, they made it much more awkward looking.
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Mazz posted:So without need to explain why I googled that immediately and found a 75 page assessment from Wright-Patt on it. Wait, it was a real (crazy) proposal? I thought it was a photoshop.
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Nebakenezzer posted:
It totally looks like the soldiers looking at it are going "...what the..."
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Carth Dookie posted:Civilization ends when the Japanese manage to cram proper robot gizzards/AI into their sex dolls. It'll be sneaky. They'll just wait until people stop loving each other and society crumbles and then go full Terminator 2 future war scene except with more latex and improbably sized bolt on tits. That's literally the background of the Sci-Fi book "Saturn's Children:" Humanity develops AI, humanity invents AI sexbots, Humanity goes extinct. Sexbots have no job, book begins.
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