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Ethanol is bad in aviation fuels. It readily mixes with water so you can get fuel icing problems at altitude and it also can badly affect fuel lines and various seals on aircraft designed soley for leaded petrol
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Colonel K posted:Ethanol is bad in aviation fuels. It readily mixes with water so you can get fuel icing problems at altitude and it also can badly affect fuel lines and various seals on aircraft designed soley for leaded petrol Ethanol/E85 also has a much lower vapour pressure than avgas. This has the effect of reducing carburetor air temperatures so much that you're going to get carb ice at virtually any temperature.
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Cross posting from TFR, since I suspect this thread will be interested in the topic... Tom Hanks, Spielberg, and Graham Yost are in the process of putting together another WWII miniseries for HBO, this one is about the 8th AF. This is going to be Band of Brothers: B-17 edition. It's going to loving own, calling it already. Like I don't think I can describe the chubby I already have for this show, and I just heard about it today and it's probably still at least a year+ out from airing.
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Feb 1, 2013 06:26
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iyaayas01 posted:Cross posting from TFR, since I suspect this thread will be interested in the topic... Well I just came.
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Has anything been made, even remotely comparable, from the German side of the war? I think that would be fascinating to watch.
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Feb 1, 2013 06:32
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iyaayas01 posted:Cross posting from TFR, since I suspect this thread will be interested in the topic... Oh god yes. Also, I don't think they will so long as people are all "You're glorifying the nazisisizisi" unless they mention how evil said nazis were every 5 lines.
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Feb 1, 2013 06:34
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slidebite posted:Has anything been made, even remotely comparable, from the German side of the war? I think that would be fascinating to watch. It would be awesome to see something on the top German fighter aces. Now those where some incredible pilots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces G-Mach fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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Feb 1, 2013 07:40
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Band of Bros: Memphis Belle Edition is gonna own. I was kinda hoping they would do an eastern front show eventually, but maybe that's just too depressing and terrible.
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Feb 1, 2013 08:58
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I say that like The Pacific was a real upper or something.
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Feb 1, 2013 08:59
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Post more jet porn.
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Well, one reason they wouldn't do an Eastern Front thing or anything from the start of the war, America was not involved. Anyone want to buy some Hornets? http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/austr...u-1226565344839 quote:THE DEFENCE GARAGE SALE
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Clicky for big Big restoration photo gallery here: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6740 Can't wait for BoBIII. Better not dash our hopes, Hanks and Spielberg!
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iyaayas01 posted:Cross posting from TFR, since I suspect this thread will be interested in the topic... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_of_Cake_(TV_series) If you haven't seen this (or read the book), check it out.
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slidebite posted:Has anything been made, even remotely comparable, from the German side of the war? I think that would be fascinating to watch. If they ever do, I hope they have that apocryphal joke the Germans were rumored to tell after 1943: "How do you tell English, American, and Luftwaffe planes apart?" "English are painted brown, Americans are silver, and the Luftwaffe is invisible" A thousand-plane raid must have been a terrible thing to experience. Having the sky thrumming day & night, with flaming wreckage and AA shells raining all over the place, fires, the heat; the sound. Christ. Hell on earth.
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PainterofCrap posted:If they ever do, I hope they have that apocryphal joke the Germans were rumored to tell after 1943: Its funny to think that Hans Rudel, the Stuka Ace, was asked to provided input for the A-10 design.
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CommieGIR posted:Its funny to think that Hans Rudel, the Stuka Ace, was asked to provided input for the A-10 design. Oh operation paperclip, what postwar technology dont you have a part in? (maybe not this i dont really know)
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Raw_Beef posted:Oh operation paperclip, what postwar technology dont you have a part in? (maybe not this i dont really know) Rudel went to South America post war and hung out with notorious war criminal Menengle. He didn't get paperclipped
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CommieGIR posted:Rudel went to South America post war and hung out with notorious war criminal Menengle. He didn't get paperclipped That's what you do when you are an unrepentant Nazi. (Seriously, he was an avowed National Socialist until the day he died.) IIRC he wasn't actually consulted on the A-10 design, the dudes that were writing the A-X requirements (program that begat the A-10) read his book Stuka Pilot to give them some idea of what a good anti-tank aircraft needed to look like, specifically the -G tank busting Stuka variant with the underwing podded 37mm cannons.
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iyaayas01 posted:That's what you do when you are an unrepentant Nazi. (Seriously, he was an avowed National Socialist until the day he died.) Let me just take this opportunity to say that even though I'm a Navy guy I love the A-10. Such a cool freaking airplane. Sadly, I was flying in an exercise at Nellis one year where one flew into a mountain on the range. Sad to hear that comm over the radios.
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Seems like as good a time as any to repost this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hANySXFKqVg I still lose it every time when they start dispensing countermeasures.
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Chaff.. CHAFF!!! -junk and tire iron flies out
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Was going to scream spoilers but instead of popping off a flare gun they proved to be wholly prepared for the double digit threat!!
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slidebite posted:Chaff.. CHAFF!!! Don't forget the folding chair. Koesj posted:Was going to scream spoilers but instead of popping off a flare gun they proved to be wholly prepared for the double digit threat!! Who says the Hawg can't operate in a denied environment? 
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Iran unveiled it's totally legit, not a mock-up, domestically produced stealth fighter today: Looks pretty...futuristic. What about the onboard electronics?  ...oh. Well, how big is it?  oh
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Iran unveiled it's totally legit, not a mock-up, domestically produced stealth fighter today: That flightstick looks rather fake.... Actually, despite how neat it looks, the entire thing just looks fake as hell.
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Feb 2, 2013 16:34
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"So, you guys are going to give me a full sized one to fly eventually, right? Guys? Hey, is this paper mache'?"
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Iran unveiled it's totally legit, not a mock-up, domestically produced stealth fighter today: That ranks right up there with their super-stealth seaplane.
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On a similar note, I want to get this guy a forums account. http://www.superarrow.ca/ Why do this? quote:“My reasoning for doing this is simple. When Prime Minister Harper and cabinet simply made the call to sole source the F-35, and flatly turned down the rebuild of the Avro Arrow as Gen Lewis MacKenzie pitched, it sent a signal that he simply does not believe in Canadians that we can actually do design and build something like this. Notwithstanding its still superior to the F-35 in performance, range, speed and maneuverability, their argument was that it was too old. When the Conservatives took blow torches to the original Avro Arrow, they gutted the dreams of this nation and it seems we are reliving that again in todays times and I wanted to do my part by inspiring a nation.”
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Nebakenezzer posted:On a similar note, I want to get this guy a forums account. That airplane is beautiful
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Looks pretty...futuristic. What about the onboard electronics? High res of the cockpit. Looks like the entire thing is made of glass fiber. http://i47.tinypic.com/24zxgsw.jpg
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Most RV-8's have better instrument panels.
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On a very special episode of Junkyard Wars.. (yeah is that an ordinary car radio?)
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Iron Eagle was finally translated into Farsi and their designers are determined to have better equipment for listening to inspirational pop music during the approach phase than any other air force in the world.
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I fond it funny that Iran, of all countries, have the warning messages on the fighter jet written in English.
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Dr. Klas posted:I fond it funny that Iran, of all countries, have the warning messages on the fighter jet written in English. I found that rather hilarious too, I guess they know who is going to look at the photos.
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rscott posted:Is that a single DIN headunit in the middle?  Pilot needs his tunes when
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You gotta admit, their model building skills have improved significantly since they made that RQ-170 mock-up. Must have increased their model-building budget.
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Nebakenezzer posted:On a similar note, I want to get this guy a forums account. quote:The CF-105 Stealth Interceptor could meet all the requirements for the Royal Canadian Air Force. It has a 17m wing span making it much larger than the F-35 and CF-18, it has a large bomb bay, more powerful engines, a much longer range and in general, a much higher threshold of performance capabilities while being considerably less expensive. - See more at: http://www.hooler.com/superarrow/#sthash.BitbnZEr.dpuf Dude should just keep to building models, because other than that he sounds just like any other internet crackpot with a dream.
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slidebite posted:Dude should just keep to building models, because other than that he sounds just like any other internet crackpot with a dream. Y'know...maybe he should. Maybe he should do alternate takes on DND projects. Considering how badly the real DND is, aesthetically talented internet crackpot might outperform them some of the time. e: grover posted:You gotta admit, their model building skills have improved significantly since they made that RQ-170 mock-up. Must have increased their model-building budget. Iran's been on a roll lately. Launching monkeys into space, new tiny stealth fighters...is the Iranian government trying to crowd out embarrassing domestic news? Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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