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Did I already post a "Vought never made a bad looking airplane" post in this thread, or was it the other one? It isn't strictly so, the Pirate was not an aesthetic triumph. But everything else was just plain interesting and different from what anybody else was building.  The Ford in High-Vis wasn't bad either: 
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Booblord Zagats posted:The F-15 just looks 80s as gently caress to me, like a flying IROC-Z, Yep. Can't unsee it.  
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Oct 4, 2013 19:29
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The F-15 can take off, stand on its tail, and accelerate straight up until it runs out of air. I'm sure the F-16's been up-engined since I was a kid but it couldn't do that originally. Also the F-15 has shot poo poo down in space and I don't recall any stinky F-16 doing that  The F-16 was also just a lame rehash of the lawn-dart done right   which could also go into space  ... although it kinda sucked on the whole 'coming back' part
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Oct 4, 2013 19:44
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Snowdens Secret posted:The F-15 can take off, stand on its tail, and accelerate straight up until it runs out of air. I'm sure the F-16's been up-engined since I was a kid but it couldn't do that originally. F-22A has a motherfucking 1.6:1 power-to-weight ratio unloaded, which is simply astounding. If you're talking ballistic trajectory, if an F-22 at its max (public) ceiling of 65,000ft pulls straight up at Mach 2.2 and cuts off the engine, it'll continue going straight up for about 76 seconds, topping out at about 160,000ft (30 miles) altitude. That's pretty loving crazy.
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To be fair, the F-16 Block 52 has a more powerful engine than the older models did.
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Oct 4, 2013 22:30
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Why can't we build 100 B-2s and like 1000 f-22s? The B-2's mission of hunting down TELs is such an important mission that we need to have a whole bunch of them.
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Oct 4, 2013 22:30
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Godholio posted:To be fair, the F-16 Block 52 has a more powerful engine than the older models did. Oh sure, and it's an APA graph anyway 
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Oct 4, 2013 22:38
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When I was a little kid this was the ideal fighter jet look: THE HUN! Also: America, gently caress YEAH!  
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Snowdens Secret posted:The F-15 can take off, stand on its tail, and accelerate straight up until it runs out of air. I'm sure the F-16's been up-engined since I was a kid but it couldn't do that originally. Can someone tell me the story behind the Starfighter going to space?
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Oct 4, 2013 23:45
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Rude. posted:Can someone tell me the story behind the Starfighter going to space? Well if The Right Stuff is to be believed, Chuck Yeager was jealous of the Mercury folks.
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Oct 4, 2013 23:49
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Rude. posted:Can someone tell me the story behind the Starfighter going to space? It could do a pretty good zoom climb, that is all. Don't take the post too seriously it's there to frame the pretty pictures.
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Oct 4, 2013 23:53
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Rude. posted:Can someone tell me the story behind the Starfighter going to space? They were using an F-104 with a rocket on it to set a time-to-climb record.
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Oct 4, 2013 23:58
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Man, the 1950s/60s era Air Force was loving incredibly awesome. What the gently caress happened.
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Vasudus posted:Man, the 1950s/60s era Air Force was loving incredibly awesome. Force shaping.
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The 1980's ended.
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MBAs.
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Missiles.
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Vasudus posted:Man, the 1950s/60s era Air Force was loving incredibly awesome. People stopped bolting together whatever random assortment of wings/engines/nuclear reactors that they could find.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:People stopped bolting together whatever random assortment of wings/engines/nuclear reactors that they could find. Yeah, back then the Air Force was basically Kerbal Space Program: Aviation Insanity. Same attitude towards crew survival.
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Vasudus posted:Man, the 1950s/60s era Air Force was loving incredibly awesome.
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shyduck posted:We landed on the Moon. NASA did.
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Well yeah, but I think a lot that cool Air Force poo poo particularly in the 50s was made to pursue space, especially before NASA was even a thing.
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the International Fleet Review 2013 is on in Sydney this weekend, wish I could be there. It is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first time the newly built Australian fleet sailed into Sydney harbour, just before the outbreak of WW1.  Oct. 4, 2013: HMAS DARWIN, PERTH [III] and PARRAMATTA round Bradley's Head during the 2013 Internbational Fleet Review - POIS Rick Prideaux, RAN. by Kookaburra2011, on Flickr  International Fleet Review by Hi, World! It's Sammy!, on Flickr  International Fleet Review by Hi, World! It's Sammy!, on Flickr International Fleet Review by Hi, World! It's Sammy!, on Flickr
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Oct 5, 2013 03:58
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All those pleasurecraft within 500 yards My old captain would be making GBS threads kittens
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Snowdens Secret posted:All those pleasurecraft within 500 yards I'm guessing you weren't east coast, because Norfolk sea & anchor is 3 hours of misery.
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Snowdens Secret posted:All those pleasurecraft within 500 yards
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Oct 5, 2013 04:37
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I see the RN scrounged some dubloons together to send what is probably their only active ship down under.
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Oct 5, 2013 05:11
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The Canadian ships that were supposed to go collided with each other. 
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Snowdens Secret posted:All those pleasurecraft within 500 yards Oh please say that your Captain was the one that made ready on a Royal Navy pilot ship during Trafalgar 200.
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That is frickin adorable.
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MrYenko posted:It'll the best when there aren't any F-8s or A-4s left on the planet. So, roughly never.  Also McRaven for CJCS, both for that and because he's the man.
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Red7 posted:Oh please say that your Captain was the one that made ready on a Royal Navy pilot ship during Trafalgar 200. Hey, can this be translated to civviespeak? I suspect it's some hilarious shenanigan but I have zero idea what. Thanks in advance!
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Made ready in the army refers to putting a round up the spout, dunno if it means naval ordinance in a gun or the guy actually made ready with his personal weapon either or poor show that man.
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Red7 posted:Trafalgar 200. Oh hey, I was there in the crowd. Seeing all the ships lined up at Spithead was amazing. I remember they had a historical demo of the battle near the end of it, but they called the combatants the Red and Blue teams so as to not offend the frenchies.   e: and spaniards I guess 
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Made ready in the army refers to putting a round up the spout, dunno if it means naval ordinance in a gun or the guy actually made ready with his personal weapon either or poor show that man. I imagine it means the same thing, but the only topside weapon we had was a Mk 46 machine gun (basically a SAW) and it was always loaded. We had a fuckoff loud horn that small boats loved to ignore. My captain got so frustrated with small boats cutting him off that he drove his nuclear warship into a mountain.
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