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If you're ever passing through Nebraska, you can see both up close and personal at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Omaha. http://www.sasmuseum.com/   (shared this a while ago, but here it is again. I had a $40 camera, so it's not the greatest album. http://imgur.com/a/xwY5N)
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slidebite posted:I was actually going to say that yeah, I'm a sucker for big deltas. But I love the look of the F15, F14, F104 and even the Do335 and Me262, but maybe for different reasons. Honorable mention: Yak-28 Firebar, Tu-22 Blinder.
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So this is somewhat relevant quote:(CNN) -- An aircraft part apparently from one of the airliners that hit the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, has been found in Lower Manhattan, New York police said Friday. Link
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VikingSkull posted:So this is somewhat relevant A few million truthers just came.
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SybilVimes posted:
This is a Kerbal Space Program spaceplane. Two different wings? Different colors? Jam an avionics pack on it to make it fly somewhat at all? Try to at least get the COM and COT lined up?  For actual content, have a P-2V. Turbo-compounding is sweet.  A bit later, I had to hold short of a taxiway. Never gotten that instruction before... what kind of idiot can't see me on the taxiway here....  Oh.
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drat I didn't realize how big Reapers (if that is what that is) are.
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Apr 27, 2013 00:00
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Yeah, Reapers are light plane sized, way bigger than most people expect them to be.
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VikingSkull posted:Yeah, Reapers are light plane sized, way bigger than most people expect them to be. They are certainly larger in every dimension than the C-172 I was in.
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Wicaeed posted:drat I didn't realize how big Reapers (if that is what that is) are. It's the spindly little model airplane gear they've got.
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AzureSkys posted:If you're ever passing through Nebraska, you can see both up close and personal at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Omaha. That's a really cool museum...I have some quibbles with the direction/focus they have taken it in since the move out to the new facility at Ashland, but the collection is awesome. Dimension and performance wise (as always, excepting wingspan and duration), Preds are roughly comparable to a C-172, Reapers are roughly comparable to a Super Tucano. Out of curiosity babyeatingpsychopath, where were you at that you were in a C-172 and there was a Reaper taxiing?
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slidebite posted:Agreed Keep on ignoring the glaring hole in your posts.  EDIT: Apparently the B-58 was used to test the XB-70's J93 engine. SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Apr 27, 2013 |
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VikingSkull posted:So this is somewhat relevant Inboard flap rotary actuator, according to experts* *not 'TV experts' Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Apr 27, 2013 |
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The picture down a few paragraphs still has the GPS coordinates embedded in the metadata :P
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SyHopeful posted:Keep on ignoring the glaring hole in your posts. He is from Alberta so he still celebrates the cancellation as a victory for western Canada. 
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helno posted:He is from Alberta so he still celebrates the cancellation as a victory for western Canada. They had a replica at the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwan (big restored car/tractor/planes museum). I didn't realize how huge it was before then. Anyways, cancelling the Arrow was just another example of Federal mis-management of Canada's brain trust. We'd be better off alone. 
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Wicaeed posted:drat I didn't realize how big Reapers (if that is what that is) are. Reapers always seem bigger than you think, but predators end up a bit smaller in my experience.
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Jonny Nox posted:They had a replica at the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwan (big restored car/tractor/planes museum). I didn't realize how huge it was before then. I saw the fullscale mockup at the Canadian air and space museum as well as the front end of RL206 at the national air museum. It is in fact a huge airplane. Hopefully with the sequestration in the states cutting all of the american military airshow flying the snowbirds will do well enough to get the support of the government.
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helno posted:He is from Alberta so he still celebrates the cancellation as a victory for western Canada. Yes. This is all true. Actually, I love the Arrow but it's pretty much a cliche at this point for a  to post about it. That and it goes without saying
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slidebite posted:Actually, I love the Arrow but it's pretty much a cliche at this point for a Pretty much the only reason I don't bring it up, as every fighter discussion that has ever happened on the Internet has a Canadian post "Arrow was the best ever! durr".
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slidebite posted:Yes. This is all true. In an alternate universe, there's an Ace Combat with the Arrow and the XF-108 and nerds arguing over which was the better interceptor.
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SyHopeful posted:In an alternate universe, there's an Ace Combat with the Arrow and the XF-108 and nerds arguing over which was the better interceptor. And they'd both be wrong because the answer is clearly the Republic XF-103. 
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SyHopeful posted:In an alternate universe, there's an Ace Combat with the Arrow and the XF-108 and nerds arguing over which was the better interceptor. You seem to have mistyped SR-177 there.
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By the way: DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK!! http://www.euronews.com/2013/04/27/boeing-787-dreamliner-takes-maiden-commercial-flight/
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Jonny Nox posted:By the way: More like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryBgJpjtuM Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Apr 27, 2013 |
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Heh, I think I've read that story twice before, once in Ben Rich's book, and once in a SR-71 book that one of my dads friends had on his coffee table. Neither one had those pictures. Wow.
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Just noticed Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission is on sale on amazon for the Kindle for only $2.99 this month. The reviews looks pretty cool, and I know how everyone here pops a woody over the Blackbird, so I thought it was worth a mention.
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Ordered it, then read the description.
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Still checking yard sales & flea markets for a copy of Sled Driver from an unsuspecting seller.
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Fucknag posted:Is there any reason Sled Driver isn't available as an Ebook? poo poo, why isn't it available as a book book?
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Linedance posted:Inboard flap rotary actuator, according to experts* So far everybody says it's a landing gear, even confirmed to come from a 767. Hmm? http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/solving-riddle-sept-11-jet-landing-gear-article-1.1329416
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Slo-Tek posted:
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If we're talking Delta winged fighters, we need to mention the Sea Dart (click for big on the second one):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOrj2cSDO-M
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pkells posted:Just noticed Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission is on sale on amazon for the Kindle for only $2.99 this month. The reviews looks pretty cool, and I know how everyone here pops a woody over the Blackbird, so I thought it was worth a mention. The author's a pretty cool dude. He's in my flying club and taught the airplane performance (lol) lesson. Probably a bit of a jump from the blackbird to a C150.
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CharlesM posted:So far everybody says it's a landing gear, even confirmed to come from a 767. Hmm? I don't recognise it, but I'm avionics. A couple of coworkers who are mechanician types said "that's not a loving landing gear, what the gently caress part of a landing gear looks like that? That's a loving inboard flap actuator. People see a loving big lump of metal and immediately think landing gear" when they looked at the picture. There may have been more cursing, I'm paraphrasing. Me, personally, I think it's part of a window cleaning rig. Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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