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vulturesrow posted:Let not forget the unfortunately named "Growler." Its job was literally to put out white noise, name makes sense Unless you mean SSG-577, which was badass, and also named after a fish, as Poseidon intended. She's a museum ship up by Intrepid now, I've been aboard her, it's a cool tour
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The Proc posted:Counterpoint: HMS Gay Viking Oh no, we got our stern penetrated by the Gay Viking! And you forgot Indefatigable
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simplefish posted:Oh no,
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The Proc posted:Counterpoint: HMS Gay Viking The Gay Viking was also in the same class as the Master Standfast and Gay Corsair, and they had an important mission to secure balls.  Also the Devastation class battleships are metal as gently caress. "oh they might roll over if they turn too quickly? OK we'll just move the crew quarters to the outside, but they won't be armoured because that would mess with weight distribution"
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:The Gay Viking was also in the same class as the Master Standfast and Gay Corsair, and they had an important mission to secure balls. Devastation class? Man, I thought only the Galactic Empire got to have names like that. That is the single best battleship name.
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Tevery Best posted:Devastation class? Man, I thought only the Galactic Empire got to have names like that. That is the single best battleship name. Pretty sure the Galactic Empire just ripped the names of their ships from the Royal Navy.
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Flikken posted:Pretty sure the Galactic Empire just ripped the names of their ships from the Royal Navy. The Galactic Empire was staffed by mostly British officers, so...
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vulturesrow posted:Let not forget the unfortunately named "Growler." Maybe an old man's (British) English vernacular is required to really get it but  Marketing departments haven't improved much when it comes to check up on names before taking them abroad, advertisements have been bought and paid for and put into circulation in countries, advertising the new [car brand] [common word for genitalia or sexual act].
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MrLonghair posted:Maybe an old man's (British) English vernacular is required to really get it but For example: The Toyota MR2 in France
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I spent the weekend down in Stow, MA for the Collings Foundation Battle for the Airfield event. It was pretty drat awesome, but most relevant to this thread, I took some photos of airplanes:          I also got some airplane videos: Stearman Takeoff: http://youtu.be/wN9Vrzgdq0M Storch Takeoff: http://youtu.be/WbXij9a2P9A The Storch nearly hovering (it did hover earlier in the day, but I didn't get video of it): http://youtu.be/E9bl_U1AnOw The AT-6F landing: http://youtu.be/I1iroFUtGic
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I don't know why, but this picture makes me so so sad: Poor ekrano/plane 
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Looks like a silver age sci-fi space bomber to me.
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Koesj posted:Looks like a silver age sci-fi space bomber to me. Which is also why I like it so much  It really looks like a scifi spessship.
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Inacio posted:I don't know why, but this picture makes me so so sad: The WA-14 wasn't actually an ekranoplane, people just assume it was because it's a weird shape. It actually had proper wings and was a normalish VTOL amphibious plane... 
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SybilVimes posted:The WA-14 wasn't actually an ekranoplane, people just assume it was because it's a weird shape. It actually had proper wings and was a normalish VTOL amphibious plane... Ekranoplane operation was also planned, wasn't it? e: also that thing would do VTOL. God drat that'd have been scifi as gently caress. marumaru fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Inacio posted:Ekranoplane operation was also planned, wasn't it? WIG effect was planned to be used for cruise, I'm not sure that makes it a partial ekranoplane though, since an ekranoplane is usually defined by not straying out of WIG.
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Inacio posted:e: also that thing would do VTOL. God drat that'd have been scifi as gently caress. Powerplant: (Cruise) 2 × D-30M turbofans, 67 kN (15062 lbf) thrust each (VTOL - not fitted) 12 × 12 RD-36-35 PR lift turbofan engines, 43 kN (9,666 lbf) thrust each Russia.txt
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hobbesmaster posted:Powerplant: Not strictly a Russian thing, a lot of early VTOL proposals in Europe (I'm thinking of the Mirage IIIV specifically but IIRC there were others) basically involved "put a whole bunch of lift fans in the fuselage, hope for the best."
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hobbesmaster posted:Powerplant: I wonder if a very rich person could buy, restore and upgrade it with the planned VTOL capabilities. Would be loving amazing.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Its job was literally to put out white noise, name makes sense I was talking about the airplane, I mean this is the aeronautical insanity thread, duh.  Seriously, its a bad name, regardless of whether it fits or not. It has several less than flattering colloquial meanings and it just sounds kind of dumb (that part is subjective I know). They actually polled the EA-6B ready rooms to see what the community wanted to call it. I know, because I voted. What happened next I'm not sure of but here is the hearsay. The ready rooms voted on the Demon or Banshee, pretty sure it was the former. SUPPOSEDLY Vern Clark was a very Christian dude and vetoed that so the PMA said gently caress it and went with Growler. Take that FWIW but I do remember participating in the poll. However the best proposed name was this: 
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Two in the *ahem*, one in the *oh my*
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:The Gay Viking was also in the same class as the Master Standfast and Gay Corsair, and they had an important mission to secure balls. Y'all are forgetting the HMS Cockchafer.
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Crossposting my own question from the Cold War thread:mlmp08 posted:I ran across this footage, timestamped below, of what appears to be two guys doing a HALO out of the damned bomb bay of an IL-28
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mlmp08 posted:Crossposting my own question from the Cold War thread: I don't but its not a big deal from a jumpers perspective. I'm presuming from a crew area there is access to the bay? Just make sure the pilot slows down. Exiting an aircraft at high speeds ranges from uncomfortable to deadly.
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Tremblay posted:I don't but its not a big deal from a jumpers perspective. I'm presuming from a crew area there is access to the bay? Just make sure the pilot slows down. Exiting an aircraft at high speeds ranges from uncomfortable to deadly. You should watch the first five minutes of the video. A couple of dudes are loaded like ordnance, and released with as much ceremony.
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Tremblay posted:I don't but its not a big deal from a jumpers perspective. I'm presuming from a crew area there is access to the bay? Just make sure the pilot slows down. Exiting an aircraft at high speeds ranges from uncomfortable to deadly. I'm not so concerned with the survivability, but more why they thought this was a thing they needed. KGB/SOF insertion?
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I almost forgot this thread was in AI, so here are some "car" pictures from the museum too:   
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Ekranoplans rule. I keep hoping some lunatic will go bust offering a Sandusky to Buffalo ekranoferry. Even making a wide path around the Erie islands, they could to the run in an hour, which lops 3-4 hours off the driving distance from the midwest to Toronto, New York, and otherly easterly destinations.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:You should watch the first five minutes of the video. A couple of dudes are loaded like ordnance, and released with as much ceremony. Just did, was on a plane and trying to watch it over Gogo wasn't working so hot. I'm having a hard time seeing it but it looks like they were on sling orienting them belly to earth. If so that makes sense for a higher speed release. In that instance the less the jumpers are "presenting" to the relative wind the easier to get separation from the aircraft. mlmp08 posted:I'm not so concerned with the survivability, but more why they thought this was a thing they needed. KGB/SOF insertion? Make sure it works. I'm sure deploying parachuters wasn't exactly a design requirement of the platform. For reference we pay warbird operators to drop us out of their bomb bays. Due to insurance issues I think there is only one that this is still possible with. TLDR, looks like fun to me. Would be interesting to know what the parameters were (airspeed, altitude).
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Sagebrush posted:No one does ship names better than the British. Go here, click on the lists by class, and enjoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_names_of_the_Royal_Navy I say this every time the subject comes up, but the Brits have the all-time best name for a Boomer: Vengeance. vulturesrow posted:I was talking about the airplane, I mean this is the aeronautical insanity thread, duh. lol came here to post that
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Tremblay posted:For reference we pay warbird operators to drop us out of their bomb bays. Due to insurance issues I think there is only one that this is still possible with. My old boss told me he did this with his T-6 until someone smashed his face on the horizontal.
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iyaayas01 posted:I say this every time the subject comes up, but the Brits have the all-time best name for a Boomer: The UK also has the best fighter names.  Fury Gladiator Hurricane Spitfire Typhoon Tempest Vampire Meteor Tornado Typhoon (again)
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Also: Sea Vixen
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Bloody Pom posted:The UK also has the best fighter names. You forgot Venom and Lightning. Even the ones that suck (Defiant, arguably the Whirlwind and Typhoon) had cool names.
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vessbot posted:My old boss told me he did this with his T-6 until someone smashed his face on the horizontal. Yeah, tail strikes aren't frequent but def happen with combo of low tail and jumper experience. Plane configuration in flight can make a big difference too. Not fun for anyone.
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Why every type of store carried by every type of plane has to be drop tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTnmZ_HPAs
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A couple of serious  moments. 1:57 in particular.Edit: I couldn't find the non-tv voiceover version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmoVXW-l2M Godholio fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Madurai posted:Why every type of store carried by every type of plane has to be drop tested: That is some truly  poo poo right there
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HMS Deez Nuts
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