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grover posted:Works great for small ships, too. Catapult launch + sky hook arrested landing is a great combination when all you have is a tiny-rear end helipad. UAVs like this are a real force multiplier for anti-piracy operations, among other things. Do we really need to multiply the force of a DDG in order for it to deal with pirates?
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Phanatic posted:Do we really need to multiply the force of a DDG in order for it to deal with pirates? Well, we need to increase the area it searches.
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Phanatic posted:Do we really need to multiply the force of a DDG in order for it to deal with pirates?
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grover posted:It's rather difficult for one DDG to deal with several thousand square miles of open ocean, especially when the pirates know to avoid any pirate-ish activity while within sight of a destroyer or helicopters, and then attack as soon as the DDG turns it's back. I know, it's just a funny phrase in context. "We need a force multiplier for this cement block so I can effectively swat flies with it."
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A two-ship of CH-53Es just flew low over my house (for the second time today, but the first time I didn't get outside fast enough to see what was making all the noise). They're a lot louder than I expected -- I've seen videos of them, and had lots of smaller helicopters and C-130s fly over -- but the Super Stallion has one hell of a bass note to it that doesn't come across on video. Edit: They may have been D-models; the tails looked pretty vertical, and I was looking at the side that the E doesn't have an extra engine sticking out of. Are there any Ds still in service? If any more go by I'll try to get a picture. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:A two-ship of CH-53Es just flew low over my house (for the second time today, but the first time I didn't get outside fast enough to see what was making all the noise). 53s are motherfucking huge and powerful. Little known fact: the single rotor on a CH-53E is wider tip-to-tip than an MV-22 osprey. grover fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Scan Eagle mostly deploys on LSDs not DDGs. They do have their uses. However, they don't prevent piracy but they're good for overbearing pirated vessels.
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Delivery McGee posted:A two-ship of CH-53Es just flew low over my house (for the second time today, but the first time I didn't get outside fast enough to see what was making all the noise). About 11 or 12 years ago I was walking to work across Albert Bridge in London, and an MH-53 was doing circuits between Albert and Chelsea Bridges, over the Thames. The odd thing was, unless it was it's closest point to me, it was completely silent. Never figured out why an MH-53 would be flying silently in circles above the Thames but I must have watched it for about 10 minutes.
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grover posted:Well, a CH-53 pilot, not to be outdone, did the same... except instead of just kicking up water, it blew half the marine's poo poo off the pier and into the drink! One of my cow orkers once flipped a truck with his rotor wash. They were doing some sort of landing rotation near a road in Vietnam, and the traffic cops had blocked the road. One truck driver said "gently caress this I have a schedule to keep" (Or whatever the Vietnamese equivalent is) and went around the cop and down the road and then off the road and into a ditch.  Just Pretending by Phanatic, on Flickr  Helpful Hints by Phanatic, on Flickr
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grover posted:I heard a story once about CH-46 pilots loving with marines disembarking from LHDs at Rota Spain by doing slow pier fly-bys and using their rotor wash to kick up spray all over the pier, soaking all the poor grunts. Well, a CH-53 pilot, not to be outdone, did the same... except instead of just kicking up water, it blew half the marine's poo poo off the pier and into the drink! My dad was a flew 53's in the Airforce. I remember seeing 5-6 53's in formation all the time and once around 10-12 (Early/mid 90s), the sound was awesome. A fun story he told me about. http://www2.hurlburt.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123016067 quote:The new plan called for four PAVE LOWs to escort eight Army Apaches into Iraq using their advanced terrain-following, terrain-avoidance radars and then have the attack helicopters destroy two radar sites with Hellfire missiles. Capslock theirs. I'd love to hear the genesis of that plan 'What if we just threw glow sticks out the back, and you looked for them?'
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Well that was a wake up call. I thought the Chinook was a heavy lift helicopter. it can only fly about half as much weight as the Jolly... Wow.
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Nerobro posted:Well that was a wake up call. I thought the Chinook was a heavy lift helicopter. it can only fly about half as much weight as the Jolly... Wow. CH-46 Sea Knight:  CH-47 Chinook:  CH-53D Sea Stallion/HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant  CH-53E Super Sea Stallion 
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C-130 refuelling two CH-53E's that are each carrying 2 Humvee's (click for huge)
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Boomerjinks posted:
You don't get an impression of just how big the Mi-6/Mi-26 really is until you see it in person; with rotors turning, it's basically the same length as a Boeing 737-900, and it weighs about as much as one too.
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I got this image a while ago from this thread and ended up using it as a desktop for a while. I touched it up a little because all of the rips and folds in the original scan annoyed the crap out of me. I was cleaning up some folders and figured I should add it here before deleting it. Just in case. (Click for Big) rcman50166 fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Oct 3, 2012 |
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"Your smog test results are in. I...I think you better sit down."
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Delivery McGee posted:A two-ship of CH-53Es just flew low over my house (for the second time today, but the first time I didn't get outside fast enough to see what was making all the noise). Got buzzed a couple years ago by a pair. They came in slow and maybe 250ft off the ground. The walls in my house were shaking when they went over.
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:Got buzzed a couple years ago by a pair. They came in slow and maybe 250ft off the ground. The walls in my house were shaking when they went over. My house got buzzed by a ch-53 when i was a kid. Later that day there was a 3.0 earthquake (my first, living on the east coast and all). I thought the big helicopter came by again, just not as close that time.
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MrChips posted:You don't get an impression of just how big the Mi-6/Mi-26 really is until you see it in person; with rotors turning, it's basically the same length as a Boeing 737-900, and it weighs about as much as one too. The Mi-26 is scary big, it's ridiculous, it looks like a loving movie prop more than a real thing. If you're standing by a Chinook, you can walk up to it and look directly into the chin windows in the cockpit. When I tried that with a -26, I could stand, raise my arm up, and touch the chin with my outstretched fingers. Then I walked into the pilot's office and saw on their maintenance greaseboard that they'd managed to put about 750 flight hours on each of their airframes since they got them in the 1980s. Colombia's got real flying 234s with more than 15,000 hours on the airframes. The maintenance and operating cost on those things has got to be unreal. I saw two turn rotors while I was there (India). One taxied out onto the runway, sat there turning for about 20 minutes, and then came back in. The other took off, flew around for about 20 minutes, and then came back in.
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LobsterboyX posted:The DC-3 is such a beautiful airplane, in so many ways. I wish I could show you guys the DC-3 footage I shot on Sunday. So sweet.
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ApathyGifted posted:My house got buzzed by a ch-53 when i was a kid. Later that day there was a 3.0 earthquake (my first, living on the east coast and all). I thought the big helicopter came by again, just not as close that time. How'd they make the Pave Lows so quiet?
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Phanatic posted:The Mi-26 is scary big, it's ridiculous, it looks like a loving movie prop more than a real thing. 
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I need more Zeppelins so I satisfied my desires.  [edit] and apparently my jazz man statue looks like slender man. Great. Paul Boz_ fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Oct 4, 2012 |
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Man, look at all that oil leaking out. Also, I hate you.
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Huh, seems I found myself at TNCM: N881NN and some water. by Powercube, on Flickr  PJ-DAC by Powercube, on Flickr  PJ-MDE by Powercube, on Flickr
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Stayed at that hotel and took many, many photos including video with a 737 blasting my rear end. Hotel wasn't the best, but the scenery was awesome in many ways 
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I hear the mountains are gorgeous.
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TNCM is too mainstream, here's TFFJ F-OIXJ by Powercube, on Flickr  VP-AAA crossing into land by Powercube, on Flickr  PJ-WII with a wing over my head by Powercube, on Flickr
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Powercube posted:
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Flight of the SU-25UB Sturmovik 
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VikingSkull posted:Flight of the SU-25UB Love that the description calls the SU-25 a 'light attack' aircraft. If the SU-25 is LIGHT attack, with its 11 hard points and 10k lb ordnance load, is heavy attack just a nuke?
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Heavy attack is when Lenin rises from his grave, punches you in the face and starts full communism.
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CH-53E is indeed a beast, but just wait for the CH-53K http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53K
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Styles Bitchley posted:CH-53E is indeed a beast, but just wait for the CH-53K The CH-53K: Because congress will only allocate funding if it looks like the same aircraft, regardless of the fact that it is almost a clean-sheet design.
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MrYenko posted:The CH-53K: Because congress will only allocate funding if it looks like the same aircraft, regardless of the fact that it is almost a clean-sheet design. Godholio posted:Stick with what works. 
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I actually meant politically, but good point.
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