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Ola posted:This counts as aeronautical insanity mostly for the hot flying shots in episode 2, but mostly it's nautical, but you will enjoy this 1976 proto-docu-soap about life aboard Ark Royal greatly, I'm sure.
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Godholio posted:So, the F-35...because there's no other choice available. This is one of my favourite posts on SA so far. Thank you so much!
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IIRC there are still some slightly upgraded F-15s being built for the Saudis. I'm sure there's some reason why the USAF can't just buy a few more to tide them over.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"THIS PLANE WILL BE ABLE TO CURE CANCER AND AIDS EVEN THOUGH THE SECOND ONE DOESN'T EXIST YET!" To say nothing of playing up the "US conspiracy angle to kill the superior Canadian aircraft after stealing all the technology from it" angle. It's rage-inducing on a lot of levels, really.
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StandardVC10 posted:IIRC there are still some slightly upgraded F-15s being built for the Saudis. I'm sure there's some reason why the USAF can't just buy a few more to tide them over. We're also building Fat-16s still.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5BmA3ejyHY everyone in this thread, me included, has been loving trumped by this guy right here 
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Psion posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5BmA3ejyHY Not full motion. Not interested. (seriously though that's some pretty impressive depth for a hobbyist. I never really understood the whole Flight Simulator hobby thing though tbh)
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I've never really gotten into the flight sim hobby either, but when your project starts with "so I sourced a genuine 737 cockpit and had them truck it into my garage..." you're going places.
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MagnumHB posted:Funny, I was just watching these. On a similar note, here's one (see related for parts 2-4) with some more concentrated Buccaneer action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BunQvx4YsM Looks good, thanks for the tip! I love these 1970s docs. Slow pace, it dwells on things and it doesn't force any drama, it's just present. A modern day television producer would vomit explosively 5 minutes into that. Thankfully, I don't think they know the 70s actually happened for real.
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Psion posted:I've never really gotten into the flight sim hobby either, but when your project starts with "so I sourced a genuine 737 cockpit and had them truck it into my garage..." you're going places. Mainly to your garage, to masturbate.
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StandardVC10 posted:IIRC there are still some slightly upgraded F-15s being built for the Saudis. I'm sure there's some reason why the USAF can't just buy a few more to tide them over. Because Boeing wants something like 100M apiece. And it's still a 1970s design, even with all the fancy 90s tech we'd order it with.
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A nice, humid day can lead to some great vapor trails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XT17WnJLiM (Also oh my god I love the F/A-18  )edit: Also, I saw this video at ground school and can't find it anywhere online, but it's a guy giving a demonstration of the Super Hornet, and it's the HUD view with the guy talking his way through all of the maneuvers. poo poo was so cool. I remember at one point he was waiting for speed to increase and had a building in his pipper so he just made gun sounds until he reached his speed. Can anyone help find it? Spaced God fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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The Super Hornet is gorgeous and I'm sad they'll be phasing them out before too (relatively) long. 
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Kitfox88 posted:The Super Hornet is gorgeous and I'm sad they'll be phasing them out before too (relatively) long. Looking at the F-35 program, the super hornets will probably fly for a very long time.
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With the F-22's intercepting Su-27's and MiG-31's, would there be an oh poo poo moment for the Russians when they suddenly had the F-22's appearing on radar way closer than contacts usually appear? I'm not sure how these interceptions usually go down.
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Heliosicle posted:With the F-22's intercepting Su-27's and MiG-31's, would there be an oh poo poo moment for the Russians when they suddenly had the F-22's appearing on radar way closer than contacts usually appear? There's a great story from a couple years ago near Iran. The US was flying a Predator off their coast, and the Iranians tried to intercept it with Su-25s. They didn't shoot it down, but the next time a Predator went in there, two F-22s escorted it. Sure enough, Iran scrambled two F-4s who again tried to intercept the Predator. Then the Raptors stepped in... quote:“He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said ‘you really ought to go home'” Link Dunno how true it is but it's a great story nonetheless.
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Heliosicle posted:With the F-22's intercepting Su-27's and MiG-31's, would there be an oh poo poo moment for the Russians when they suddenly had the F-22's appearing on radar way closer than contacts usually appear? Their mission is almost certainly to see if they can detect the F-22s before they show up on their wing.
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That's one of the reasons I'm annoyed the F-15s are apparently out of Alaska.
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So can anyone that's good at checking recent flights do me a favor? On Weds. when I was leaving work, a P-51 flew right over me out of nowhere. No one else saw it when I asked around, and I have no idea how to find that info out. I'm reasonably sure it was a Mustang or a clone of one, due to the intake on the bottom, but I just need someone to verify that I wasn't hallucinating.
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VikingSkull posted:So can anyone that's good at checking recent flights do me a favor? On Weds. when I was leaving work, a P-51 flew right over me out of nowhere. No one else saw it when I asked around, and I have no idea how to find that info out. I'm reasonably sure it was a Mustang or a clone of one, due to the intake on the bottom, but I just need someone to verify that I wasn't hallucinating. If he wasn't on an IFR flight plan, there's probably no easily accessible record. What airport are you near?
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Oh poo poo, yeah that would help haha Stewart International in New York
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 Betty Jane will be at Westchester County Airport until Sunday, then at Dutchess County Airport until Wednesday. e: These too:   (but not the P-38) joat mon fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Sep 27, 2014 00:01
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joat mon posted:
The pre D-model Mustangs look so weird.
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I'm pretty sure that's the one, cool, thanks! I knew I wasn't crazy. I miss the days of seeing Fifi at Stewart or the Nine-O-Nine at Orange County Airport. Haven't been here in years. Gonna have to try and make it to Dutchess, then.
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Fucknag posted:The pre D-model Mustangs look so weird. That one looks really weird because it's a two-seater. The normal Pre-D Mustangs have a much shorter canopy, kind of like a P-40.
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Terrible Robot posted:That one looks really weird because it's a two-seater. The normal Pre-D Mustangs have a much shorter canopy, kind of like a P-40. Like this: 
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That cockpit design looks weird in both single and two seat configurations. bubbles4lyfe
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Godholio posted:That cockpit design looks weird in both single and two seat configurations. bubbles4lyfe I'm fond of the Spitfire-esque partial bubble that the RAF put on their B/C Mustangs 
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ehnus posted:I'm fond of the Spitfire-esque partial bubble that the RAF put on their B/C Mustangs Room to swivel your head in all directions without your pipe bumping into the plexiglass.
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Ola posted:Room to swivel your head in all directions without your pipe bumping into the plexiglass. Or your MANLY AS gently caress standard issue moustache.
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Linedance posted:I don't know about the 737, but other aircraft with winglets usually allow for flight with the winglet removed. It might require some sheet metal fabrication or lots of speed tape, but you can get back to base at least. Usually, there shouldn't be a need to ship a winglet to where the aircraft is. MrChips posted:IIRC there is no listing in the CDL for a missing or damaged winglet on the 737NG, meaning it can't even do a ferry flight in that condition. In extenuating circumstances you could probably get regulatory approval to make the flight, but that would be beyond messy paperwork-wise. Beyond that, it isn't a super-complicated job to replace a 737 winglet - I recall hearing from a wrench-bender friend that it's 3-4 hours of work with three mechanics working on it. It's best to just ship the winglet and the mechanics to fix it (or borrow one from Southwest, if you're Westjet). We had two non-winglet wingtips in stock which could be installed as a pair instead of winglets - but at that point you're doing about the same amount of work as if you simply replaced the winglet, but four times instead of once (twice to recover the plane, once on each wing, and then twice more to put winglets back on). I don't think we ever actually used them.
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Spaced God posted:A nice, humid day can lead to some great vapor trails Hey look, a guy that had a way better camera than me. I took these instead:       For full AI, these planes are all from a museum in Virginia Beach that has only operational aircraft 
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Certainly aviation related, I thought some of you might enjoy this link, wherein there are a huge number of fantastic pictures, and some great history of the US Navy's pair of steam powered, side-paddle-wheel aircraft carriers. Yes, you read that right.  http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageN...t-Carriers.aspx
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VikingSkull posted:There's a great story from a couple years ago near Iran. The US was flying a Predator off their coast, and the Iranians tried to intercept it with Su-25s. They didn't shoot it down, but the next time a Predator went in there, two F-22s escorted it. Sure enough, Iran scrambled two F-4s who again tried to intercept the Predator. Then the Raptors stepped in... That is a thing that happened. Also the tapes from the instance before that where the Su-25s shot at (and missed) the Pred are pretty funny. The Locator posted:Certainly aviation related, I thought some of you might enjoy this link, wherein there are a huge number of fantastic pictures, and some great history of the US Navy's pair of steam powered, side-paddle-wheel aircraft carriers. Yes, you read that right. The link touches on this, but the aircraft that crashed while conducting training on those carriers have been one of the greatest sources for naval warbirds today. The fresh water and cold temperatures meant that the Great Lakes are just about the only place where crashed naval aircraft from WWII haven't disintegrated into nothingness. In decline of US airpower news, the 65th AGRS closed its doors yesterday. No more aggressor painted Eagles:      A couple of them are going to hang around with the 64th AGRS until next year, when they'll all be gone. The USAF now has a whopping two AGRS: 64th at Nellis and 18th at Eielson.
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Eagles and Vipers in Flanker/Russian colors look pretty sweet. Do any other countries still use that type of multihued all over paint job? Or is the US just weird for not generally doing so?
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Davin Valkri posted:Eagles and Vipers in Flanker/Russian colors look pretty sweet. Do any other countries still use that type of multihued all over paint job? Or is the US just weird for not generally doing so? Japan's equivalent aggressor squadron has their Eagles in wacky multicolor paint also. NATO-aligned countries are all going gray but I think there are still plenty of Russian aircraft in blue camo type paint schemes, and maybe some African countries that use green and/or tan-based schemes.
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StandardVC10 posted:Japan's equivalent aggressor squadron has their Eagles in wacky multicolor paint also. NATO-aligned countries are all going gray but I think there are still plenty of Russian aircraft in blue camo type paint schemes, and maybe some African countries that use green and/or tan-based schemes. Most south american countries still use green/grey camo: 
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Cross posting from the Autocross thread, as I'm sure most don't read that one. So many different threads this could go in. Autocrossing a 1957 Cessna 310. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204954773689755 Yes, it's a facebook link, but it's not my video so I can't put it somewhere less terrible.
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iyaayas01 posted:That is a thing that happened. Utter loving bullshit.
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