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Veins McGee posted:
That sounds less like an operational doctrine and more like Micromancer's idea of a fun weekend. 
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Feb 21, 2012 19:12
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You mean baby chicken, right? Right? 
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Feb 21, 2012 19:57
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Groda posted:What is this flying radome storage cabinet? Was this one of those attempts at stealth through coating the airplane with enough quarter-wave dipoles to destructively interfere with its own radar return?
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Feb 21, 2012 20:06
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Frozen Horse posted:What is this flying radome storage cabinet? Was this one of those attempts at stealth through coating the airplane with enough quarter-wave dipoles to destructively interfere with its own radar return? No it's an EW/ELINT aircraft. Do try and keep up?
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Feb 21, 2012 22:05
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Flanker posted:No it's an EW/ELINT aircraft. Do try and keep up? It looks like it has some sort of... airplane rash.
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Feb 22, 2012 00:21
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It's the ELINT equivalent of tactilol. ELINTLOL.
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Feb 22, 2012 00:22
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FrozenVent posted:It's the ELINT equivalent of tactilol. Considering modern sensors can do the same thing with 2 antennas, yes. It actually is.
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Feb 22, 2012 00:25
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Isn't that the plane that killed Pablo Escobar, albeit indirectly?
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Feb 22, 2012 05:19
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Thought that was a MC-12 (or whatever the Guardrail is) at first glance, maybe that's a newer craft I'm thinking of though. Anyways, here is a nice write-up about the Omani Air Force. I don't remember if I got the initial link from here or not, but I'll share again!
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Feb 22, 2012 05:36
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Feb 22, 2012 11:35
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atomicthumbs posted:F-16XL is a drat sexy/odd plane.      Also, the F-16 is lucky that the AIM-120 was manufactured and made the F-16 viable for BVR stuff. 
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Feb 22, 2012 12:06
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F-16XL looks so awesome
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Feb 22, 2012 12:08
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Smiling Jack posted:F-16XL looks so awesome If you had asked me to draw "an awesome fighter jet" when I was 8 that's pretty much exactly what you would have gotten.
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Feb 22, 2012 15:16
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Cyrano4747 posted:If you had asked me to draw "an awesome fighter jet" when I was 8 that's pretty much exactly what you would have gotten. I do like how wonderfully goofy the F-15 thrust vectoring testbed looks as well. 
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Feb 22, 2012 15:46
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Cyrano4747 posted:If you had asked me to draw "an awesome fighter jet" when I was 8 that's pretty much exactly what you would have gotten. When I was 8 I drew a picture of the X-29 and sent it to Grumman with a letter that basically said "hello your planes rule, I drew a picture" and I got back a letter from the freaking company president and a poo poo-ton of Grumman swag. It was pretty awesome.
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Feb 23, 2012 01:02
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LP97S posted:I love that General Dynamics reused the tail colors of the YF-16 on the XL. Any time I see a picture of either a wave of nostalgia runs through my veins. I think every kid I knew had one of these at some point during the 80s.  Smiling Jack posted:When I was 8 I drew a picture of the X-29 and sent it to Grumman with a letter that basically said "hello your planes rule, I drew a picture" and I got back a letter from the freaking company president and a poo poo-ton of Grumman swag. I used to write really really horrible poems about the SR-71 in elementary school and I sent them to Lockheed. You were lucky, I just got a "thank you" letter from an intern. But your pictures were probably way better than my lovely writing.
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Feb 23, 2012 01:38
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Party Plane Jones posted:I do like how wonderfully goofy the F-15 thrust vectoring testbed looks as well. There was a royal PITA squadron of these in Ace Combat Zero, if I recall correctly too. Ace Combat 
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Feb 23, 2012 03:07
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Toy plane chat? Check this bad boy out (I think I had it around 1990 when I was 5).
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Feb 23, 2012 07:29
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I still have my Valkyrie and is still my favorite fake plane. and to go with the F-15 STOL/MTD picture some more thrust vectoring prototypes. 
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Feb 23, 2012 07:53
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Totally TWISTED posted:Toy plane chat? Check this bad boy out (I think I had it around 1990 when I was 5). The neighbor kid had that and there are no words for how jealous I was. He also had a Soundwave transformer that I could never ever have. EDIT: That would have been around 1987 though...
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Feb 23, 2012 08:32
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I had that Cobra plane and it was loving awesome. The piggyback miniplane, the lowering cockpit, the drop down missile bay, the sweet landing gear.. It was kick rear end. Weirdly the toy itself actually looks a lot better than the box art which is a little wonky looking. http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/nightraven/nightraven_iso.shtml
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Feb 23, 2012 09:53
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And now we get to the heart of TFR: military toys (literally).  (I wasn't allowed anything "violent" as a kid and mostly played with lego)
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Feb 23, 2012 15:14
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My granddad bought me a literal sea of plastic firearms imported from Taiwan. I've always had fake/real guns. Who knows.
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Feb 23, 2012 15:20
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When I was in first grade I went through a phase where I dressed like a cowboy and carried a capgun single six on my hip every day. I also rolled around with some all-metal daisy bb gun from the 40s or 50s. I'm pretty sure that would get a kid killed today.
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Feb 23, 2012 15:25
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mlmp08 posted:I'm pretty sure that would get a kid killed today. Either killed or sent to "special" classes prepared to deal with obviously disturbed children. I had a friend who had this  When we had outgrown GI Joe sometime around 1989 we decided to take turns hitting it with a baseball bat. It was surprisingly hard to break. Scratch Monkey fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Feb 23, 2012 |
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Feb 23, 2012 15:28
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When I outgrew playing with army men, my friends and I decided to just make a BB gun marksmanship game of setting up and shooting apart each others armies. They make great little targets for backyard plinking.
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Feb 23, 2012 15:41
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The day I got my first bb gun is also the day I ran out of action figures. My 9th birthday. mlmp08 posted:When I outgrew playing with army men, my friends and I decided to just make a BB gun marksmanship game of setting up and shooting apart each others armies. They make great little targets for backyard plinking.
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Feb 23, 2012 17:04
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Scratch Monkey posted:I had a friend who had this I had that. It was awesome. The swing wing was cats rear end. Also, you might want to watch the leeching. You get probated for that here. \/ Sorry - just saw the joe link! 
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Feb 23, 2012 17:08
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slidebite posted:Also, you might want to watch the leeching. You get probated for that here. Not leeching. The image is hosted by imgur. The link goes to the page I found it on.
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Feb 23, 2012 17:28
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Can someone explain to me what, if any, role Guantanamo Bay played in the Cuban Missile Crisis? It seems like would be pretty useless, even though it is essentially an established beach head, because every Cuban and Soviet weapon was probably pointed at it and the skies above it at all times. Also, minefields. edit: I guess Guantanamo is actually further from certain parts of Cuba than Miami, so it would be kind of a moot point, not to mention the fact that the crisis had already accelerated beyond traditional warfare anyway. Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Feb 23, 2012 |
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Feb 23, 2012 21:11
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Boomerjinks posted:Can someone explain to me what, if any, role Guantanamo Bay played in the Cuban Missile Crisis? It seems like would be pretty useless, even though it is essentially an established beach head, because every Cuban and Soviet weapon was probably pointed at it and the skies above it at all times.
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Feb 23, 2012 23:52
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Can anyone solve this? ? + 35 + 71 * Tupolev? - 130 / ? + ? fuf fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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Feb 24, 2012 14:53
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fuf posted:Can anyone solve this? 111+35+71*16-130/2+? F-111, Draken/Saab 35, SR-71, Tu-16 Badger, C-130, U-2, and I'm not sure what the last one is...the curved delta initially made me think some sort of SST (either the Concorde or the Tu-144), but it's pretty clearly a single engine design. I've seen it before, I just can't place it...I want to say it is some Dassault one off experimental prototype type aircraft, but I can't say that for certain. It definitely isn't any of their production Deltas (III, IV, 2000, etc.) because those all had a straighter wing. Regardless, if we follow order of operations we get 1217+ whatever the mystery plane is. iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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Feb 24, 2012 15:28
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Nicely done! Someone beat me to it though. The last, mystery plane is hard, and I never would have got it. If I tell you that the correct answer is 1438 maybe you can work it out. 
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Feb 24, 2012 15:48
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BAC 221 e: had the reply window open before you posted, while searching, so I still feel like a winner  Was looking at Fairey Deltas first, overlooked the little blurb on wiki about the 221 rebuild and spent another 20 minutes until I finally found it. What's up with the 1438? Koesj fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Feb 24, 2012 |
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Feb 24, 2012 15:59
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fuf posted:Nicely done! poo poo, I KNEW I'd seen that before somewhere. Definitely wouldn't have gotten it without the hint, though.
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Feb 24, 2012 16:01
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iyaayas01 posted:poo poo, I KNEW I'd seen that before somewhere. Definitely wouldn't have gotten it without the hint, though. The ogival delta together with the sixties aerodynamics gives it away, couldn't have been anything else than a prototype connected to Concorde.
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Feb 24, 2012 16:03
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Well done.Koesj posted:What's up with the 1438? Actually the guy that made it got the order of operations wrong and thought the answer was 1898. Whether that has any more significance as an answer than 1438 I'm not sure.
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fuf posted:Actually the guy that made it got the order of operations wrong and thought the answer was 1898. Whether that has any more significance as an answer than 1438 I'm not sure. Yeah I figured he got the math messed up. http://911woodybox.blogspot.com/2009/03/united-1898-cleveland-airport-mystery.html
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