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The Canadian Coast Guard still uses the BO-105 (They don't do SAR or EMS); they lost one in the Arctic last summer.
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Jonny Nox posted:edit 2: Powercube check out user "Superior History" on You Tube as well, though that's more the Discovery Wings of the Red Star stuff. BitnikGr has got all of those as well as stuff like Voenno Delo and other, shittier modern documentaries IIRC.
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mlmp08 posted:I'm going to the Pima Air Museum in a few weeks. I plan to take a tour, then wander wherever they let us wander. Is there anything in particular I should go see that won't be covered by the tour? You can wander around pretty much anywhere at Pima, aside from the fenced-off area where they keep the aircraft awaiting restoration. The $6 tram tour covers most of the stuff outside (although this time of year, the weather is perfect for walking around on your own, and you can see everything on foot), but it doesn't cover the hangars. There are free walking tours that cover the hangars, but they don't cover the 390th Bombardment Group museum (it's on the Pima grounds and is technically a separate museum, but there's no extra admission charge), the WW2 barracks (which aren't super interesting and take maybe 5-10 minutes to see), or the space gallery. There's also a tour of the nearby AMARG facility (the "Boneyard") located at Davis-Monthan AFB. It's a bus tour (you can't get off to take pictures) that takes you through a portion of the AMARG facility (the entire facility is 2600 acres, and houses about 4000 aircraft), and you get a good sense of just how huge the place is, and get to see a decent cross-section of what they have stored out there. If you're in Tucson for a couple of days, the Titan Missile Museum is also worth doing. It's the only preserved Titan II silo in the world (the rest were demolished or repurposed), and it's pretty impressive seeing one of the places that would have kicked off WWIII.
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iyaayas01 posted:Obligatory BO-105 video: The music absolutely makes this video.
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StandardVC10 posted:The music absolutely makes this video. I keep expecting it to land and Shaft to get out.
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Micr0chiP posted:Just saw this one, a crazy russian pilot taking off rolling with the front gear only. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QHOqmbRefg&t=229s Wait for the sick backwards wheelie and bowing to the audience.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I wish is was easier to find out about the interiors of more military jets. It's easy to find schematics of the engines and basic airframes, but very little (that I've been able to find) about crew areas beyond the cockpit. And 99.9% of the time it's the same picture - taken standing above and between the pilot and copilot seats looking directly towards the nose. This is what (some) of the Tu-160's cockpit looks like:   Which brings me to one of my all-time favourite things in Soviet aircraft cockpits; those little loving rubber-bladed fans. 
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MrChips posted:This is what (some) of the Tu-160's cockpit looks like: Have you ever touched one? When I was on an IL-76 the captain turned it on and proceeded to ram his hand into it. To the audience of terrified westerners, they thought he was insane.
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Powercube posted:Have you ever touched one? When I was on an IL-76 the captain turned it on and proceeded to ram his hand into it. To the audience of terrified westerners, they thought he was insane. That's obviously the reason for the design, when you're frantically smashing that many buttons, a hand is bound to go into a fan or two.
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Powershift posted:That's obviously the reason for the design, when you're frantically smashing that many buttons, a hand is bound to go into a fan or two. It kind of tickles. If I had a Russian plane- people'd get annoy with me for constantly shoving my hand in it.
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There is at least one game - I think it's the newest Ace Combat - where you can fly a Hind and they model the cockpit fan blowing air at your face. It's not like they tuck it off to the side of the screen, either, you REALLY know there is a fan in the Hind cockpit. It's pretty amusing.
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Previa_fun posted:Materials cost of fan cage too high. Make fan of rubber! That reminds me of the joke about americans spending millions to developing a pen that can write in space when russians used pencils. America developed the fan cage to stop pilots from losing fingers to fan blades, russia used softer fan blades.
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Just to be clear the pen was developed without government funding, loose pieces of graphite in space can cause electrical shorts, wooden pencil shavings can cause fires, and grease pencils smear.
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RandomPauI posted:Just to be clear the pen was developed without government funding, loose pieces of graphite in space can cause electrical shorts, wooden pencil shavings can cause fires, and grease pencils smear. Yeah, but that's not very funny.
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Also the Soviets bought the same pen from the same manufacturer after they found out about it.
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Previa_fun posted:Materials cost of fan cage too high. Make fan of rubber! I recall one internet armchair warrior railing on about the 'unprotected fan' whirring around in the T-72's driver's compartment, only for ex-bloc and Finnish service personnel telling him to shut his trap.
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MrYenko posted:There was an article in AOPA or Flying about that a few years ago. Apparently a single helicopter can collect an entire days worth of chopping in less than an hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPO9pVwoxVg First person viewpoint of tree-collecting in a Bell 206B
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Powercube posted:Have you ever touched one? When I was on an IL-76 the captain turned it on and proceeded to ram his hand into it. To the audience of terrified westerners, they thought he was insane. I have actually. I got to check out an IL-76 when the Indian Air Force flew a bunch of them through Edmonton a number of years ago. I had always wondered what the deal with those fans were, so I gave one a poke out of curiosity.
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Here is your chance to own a piece of soviet genius http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Sovi...e2fcf946&_uhb=1
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Heli-hockey in Canada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlCg56K08hE Extended cut! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjA24fQcscg
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Boomerjinks posted:Mercury Ballistic's post in the Awesome AI poo poo thread about cool car art got me thinking about something I saw years ago, maybe it was actually originally posted here. That was originally posted here, because I bookmarked it a long time ago, and just a few weeks ago bought two: A P-38 as a Christmas gift to a friend, and a P-51 for me.
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Boomerjinks posted:Mercury Ballistic's post in the Awesome AI poo poo thread about cool car art got me thinking about something I saw years ago, maybe it was actually originally posted here. Reminds me of 
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Leif. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPO9pVwoxVg The coolest part of this might be the quick-connect/release mechanism for the load.
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Phanatic posted:The coolest part of this might be the quick-connect/release mechanism for the load. Yeah that's way too fast to be smart.
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D C posted:Reminds me of This panel still makes me feel like a kid every time I see it. I do miss Calvin and Hobbes.
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azflyboy posted:If you're in Tucson for a couple of days, the Titan Missile Museum is also worth doing. It's the only preserved Titan II silo in the world (the rest were demolished or repurposed), and it's pretty impressive seeing one of the places that would have kicked off WWIII. I had a good time at both but if you're willing to get up a little early I reckon you could definitely do both in one day. I can't remember if I told this anecdote already but the day I went to Pima we saw some porn stars wearing Red Alert 3-esque military outfits doing cheesecake photoshoots in front of the planes. 
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Speaking of F-15s. I live a mile north of Luke air force base. And I guess there's a bunch of Singapore pilots training in their F-15s out there. Such a drat treat seeing how Luke is the largest F-16 training base in the US. Good God those F-15s sound so loving glorious at full afterburner. Looks even cooler driving right under them while they're full throttle on the road at night right next to the base. They had a F-35 out there a couple of weeks ago and that was pretty awesome to. I'm excited Luke got the privilege of being the new training base.
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Air Force as gently caress. Seriously those Singapore AF dudes are really chill though, we always look forward to exercises with them
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And most of their flight leads speak reasonable English!
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Godholio posted:And most of their flight leads speak reasonable English! It's the Government language there (former British colony)
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Huh, they moved down to Arizona? For the last few years they were in Mountain Home. My dad and I tried to invite some of the families over for Chinese New Year once but they were really weird about it and acted like they couldn't talk to anyone off-base more than they absolutely needed to, it was kind of a bummer.
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Wow, Singapore has an Air Force? It's a pretty small place.
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About the only thing I enjoy about going to Great Falls, MT is that there generally seems to be a pretty good chance of seeing their guard unit F15s out playing around. I'm amazed I haven't died yet with my rubbernecking.
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smackfu posted:Wow, Singapore has an Air Force? It's a pretty small place. Not only that, they also have a fairly big indigenous arms industry. They're also a faithful purchaser of Swedish submarines. I think they're paranoid about Malaysia or something.
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They basically got kicked out of Malaysia so yeah they're kinda paranoid.
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luminalflux posted:They basically got kicked out of Malaysia so yeah they're kinda paranoid. They are also in a pretty strategic position in regards to global sea trade, so would be a target for occupation in the next big brew up.
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Wibbleman posted:They are also in a pretty strategic position in regards to global sea trade, so would be a target for occupation in the next big brew up. By whom, exactly, and why.
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Literally anyone? Singapore is one of the largest ports and trading centers in SEA. Plus they have a lot of high end electronics manufacturing capability there as well.
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