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eggyolk posted:What's wrong with alighting the plane? It's terrible that the first time I heard the term "alighting" was when I took the HSR here in Taiwan. "Alight the train." Otherwise, on flights I've heard "deplane" "deboard" "unboard" "ground" and "get off the plane" Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Dear China: To be fair, considering the role and mission, it's hard not to come up with a plane design that looks like that. One group of students at college did spy-drones for their senior design class and half of them looked like rip-offs of the Predator. It's also why stunt planes often look so much alike. A specific mission profile will almost always dictate, or at least favor, a specific set of designs. Unless you decide to be a special snowflake and design something completely off the wall. Re: Cobra chat. I've had my apartment overflown at least 3 times a week by Hueys and Cobras from the RoC. Kinda cool, actually, but I don't have a good camera and I'm never in a good spot to get a shot.
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eggyolk posted:What's wrong with alighting the plane? The last guy who tried is in federal prison. 
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I drove up to Deception Pass on Whidbey Island today, saw a P3 Orion coming in for a landing and a F18 slowly toodling around. Pretty cool. Shame the weather went for a poo poo.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Dear China: Yeah piggybacking on what YF19pilot said, there's three very noticeable components to that design that appear to be copied from the Pred/Reaper: the bulbous fuselage, the high aspect wings, and the unusual looking v-tail empennage. Each of those is easily explainable from a capabilities perspective...the bulbous fuselage is required for the satellite dish to enable BLOS control, the high aspect wings get the best performance out of a plane that's intended to loiter at medium altitude at moderate speed, and the v-tail increases stability, something important for a plane that is flown remotely and may drop out of direct control depending on the quality of the control link. That said, it's kind of hard to tell with that picture but it looks like they have the horsehair yaw-string hanging from the AoA probe. If so that's goddamned hilarious.
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Re: grammarchat: I've met a lot of crusty old helicopter pilots who claim they "drive" "airplanes." Just go with it.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Re: grammarchat: I've met a lot of crusty old helicopter pilots who claim they "drive" "airplanes." Just go with it. Pretty common reference. C-130 guy is a Herc driver, F-18 bro daddy is a hornet driver, etc etc.
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MrYenko posted:That's only a mild redesign away from being a godamned best seller on Adam and Eve. Redesign? It's perfect as is. Just look at that O-face. 
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Fly Air Kevorkian!
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priznat posted:Fly Air Kevorkian! I do fly Delta frequently, thank you.
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A Melted Tarp posted:I do fly Delta frequently, thank you.  That being said, I could see the use for that 'injection seat' on a prisoner transport, maybe with a dose of Ativan or Versed metered for the weight/body type of the prisoner sitting in it. He gets unruly, you knock his rear end out for the duration of the flight. But the idea of putting a pneumatic injection system with *poison* in it beneath people's seats with the possibility of turbulence triggering the mechanism through simple airframe stress... There's already a terrorist incapacitation system on every airliner - it's called depressurizing the cabin. I still remember seeing all the bright ideas for terrorist incapacitation post-9/11. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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I've done that before, sorta. We were asked to fly a failed prison escapee to a trauma center. The dude was 6'4" and 300lbs, easy - and had a history of violence towards the corrections officers. He had a possible femur and/or pelvic fracture, but was completely alert and talking. Our usual strategy for these people is to paralyze them and put them on a ventilator, but he was just way too with it to justify inserting a breathing tube. So instead, I sat behind him with a syringe full of 300mg of ketamine, ready to depress the plunger if anything went sour.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq56fVJak4 My freedom boner is massive because of all the 80's coke that the music implies. Some of the shots that they get are some drat awesome that it really makes me think that some of this is CGI... McDeth fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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McDeth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq56fVJak4 Pure plane porn, beautifully shot 
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This guy is making a KSP for planes. http://www.simpleplanes.com/ Supposedly it uses "realistic physics". Could be fun.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Re: grammarchat: I've met a lot of crusty old helicopter pilots who claim they "drive" "airplanes." Just go with it. so you drive a car, and pilot a boat, and fly an airplane then why are they called pilots
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VikingSkull posted:so you drive a car, and pilot a boat, and fly an airplane Almost everything in aviation comes from nautical tradition (hence "aeronautics").
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simplefish posted:Okay that was sexy as all get out lol at that supposed shot of AWACS screens.
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mlmp08 posted:lol at that supposed shot of AWACS screens.
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standard.deviant posted:I didn't catch the caption but it had Nellis on the display... I think that was one of the exercise management programs. Watch it again, they have some sort of 3d thing going on in the background. Also, F-15 beating a F-16 using BFM? Obviously staged. 
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McDeth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq56fVJak4 Look at the HUD shots when they're down in the dirt. Static speed and climbing through 9900ft with no radalt. That's CGI.
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standard.deviant posted:I didn't catch the caption but it had Nellis on the display... I think that was one of the exercise management programs. Nope. It might be a rendering of something that happened, but it's nothing used realtime at Nellis, and nothing in that E-3 is accurate except the seats (well the part you can see looks like the seats that were replaced a few years ago. The display is labeled Nellis Air Combat Training System (NACTS). That's the telemetry pod system used to track everything (like ACMI, etc). But that's not what the standard display looks like. It's a 2d, god's eye view from above, no terrain mapping or anything like that. Just airspace borders. Godholio fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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keyboard vomit posted:
New coach-sleeper seating class.
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McDeth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq56fVJak4 All it needs is flying through a building and a bullshit superweapon, and it'd be Ace Combat: the Music Video.
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It's all footage from that IMAX Red Flag movie, a lot of it is CGI.
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That's the kind of footage I'd want to send back in time to see the reactions of early aviators.
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Bob A Feet posted:Pretty common reference. C-130 guy is a Herc driver, F-18 bro daddy is a hornet driver, etc etc. ...A320 guy is a bus driver...
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Mike-o posted:It's all footage from that IMAX Red Flag movie, a lot of it is CGI. Looks more like a fake HUD over real footage from a nose camera. Not totally fake, just the cockpit part.
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NightGyr posted:Looks more like a fake HUD over real footage from a nose camera. Not totally fake, just the cockpit part. I can tell you that AWACS internal scene is fake too
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NightGyr posted:Looks more like a fake HUD over real footage from a nose camera. Not totally fake, just the cockpit part. Yeah, there's that too. CGI and fake camera shots, and fake AWACS interiors galore.
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bitcoin bastard posted:New coach-sleeper seating class. I'd definitely fly an airline that shot me full of tranqs before a ten-hour flight.
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VikingSkull posted:so you drive a car, and pilot a boat, and fly an airplane And you ride a motorcycle (from ride a horse?)
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Mike-o posted:Yeah, there's that too. CGI and fake camera shots, and fake AWACS interiors galore. I wish they'd shown the 30 minutes boot up time of the JSTARS and AWACS systems 
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benito posted:And you ride a motorcycle (from ride a horse?) I dunno what you do to tanks or other tracked vehicles manhandle I guess
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VikingSkull posted:I dunno what you do to tanks or other tracked vehicles Molest.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I'd definitely fly an airline that shot me full of tranqs before a ten-hour flight. For trans-Pacific flights, the entire plane should be full of cheap-rear end Coach-class seats, the only difference being the kinds of drugs they give you. Economy Coach gets gently caress all, 'Coach Plus' gets Benadryl, Business-class gets Ambien, and First Class gets complimentary nitrous in the drop down masks and flight attendants dressed in "Naughty Nurse" outfits doling out all-you-can-tolerate fentanyl lollipops.
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McDeth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq56fVJak4 this is so loving ace combat, i love it. the music, the pan shots, even the briefing screen and the hilariously awkward post-mission cutscene, everything. and it's amazing.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:For trans-Pacific flights, the entire plane should be full of cheap-rear end Coach-class seats, the only difference being the kinds of drugs they give you. Economy Coach gets gently caress all, 'Coach Plus' gets Benadryl, Business-class gets Ambien, and First Class gets complimentary nitrous in the drop down masks and flight attendants dressed in "Naughty Nurse" outfits doling out all-you-can-tolerate fentanyl lollipops. I'm picturing the business class pax sleep-murdering the zombie doped coach plus pax, and economy coach don't even notice because they can't hear the groans over the sound of waiting babies, and the first class just watch the horror unfolding and laugh and laugh and laugh.
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Linedance posted:I'm picturing the business class pax sleep-murdering the zombie doped coach plus pax, and economy coach don't even notice because they can't hear the groans over the sound of waiting babies, and the first class just watch the horror unfolding and laugh and laugh and laugh. Nah, you gotta give something to the economy class passengers, otherwise they'll attack the coach and business classes for their drugs. Since giving out even more drugs (and having to bump up the quality of all the upper classes to make up for it) would cost the airline too much money, I propose we just rename economy to what it really is, Steerage, and throw errybody in the hold. More room for the drugged up folks to bounce around or whatever as well!
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