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Linedance posted:The Ultimate Aviation Troll National airport   also, I get your joke, but I'd be a lot more impressed if you were lasing between Dulles and the white house. It really is way out there.
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Mazz posted:Only the Burkes before Flight IIA have the Harpoons, which are the ones built before 2002, or around half if you don't count the ones built or planned. The Ticos are in a weird position where they could all be retired as early as 2028 with no planned replacement boat even getting started until the mid 2020s because the Ohio replacements (and Fords) are going to hoover up all the navy's shipbuilding funds for the next decade. Yeah, the fact we don't utilize our VLS capability for anti-surface missiles is a tragedy IMO. Its about time they started making progress on this.
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slidebite posted:Gonna attach a laser on my drone and fly somewhere with 10 miles of an airport now just to make people freak the gently caress out. mlmp08 posted:Make sure you are flying for commercial purposes without a license when doing so. honestly i'm surprised this hasn't already happened lol
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poo poo, the Have Glass Vipers look great. 
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It needs conformal fuel tanks to be a true big beautiful plane.
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Feb 13, 2015 00:52
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Vahakyla posted:poo poo, the Have Glass Vipers look great. When did people start calling the Falcon the Viper? I get that it's not cool to name your manned airplanes after birds at the moment, but it's not like Falcon was a horrid name.
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Midjack posted:When did people start calling the Falcon the Viper? I get that it's not cool to name your manned airplanes after birds at the moment, but it's not like Falcon was a horrid name. Right around the time it was entering service in the late 1970s. Viper is a reference to the Colonial Viper of Battlestar Galactica fame, which was airing at about that time. E: Also the F-16 was a bit unusual in that it wasn't officially named until shortly before it entered service in 1980, which was two years after the first production-spec F-16 flew for the first time, and fully six years after the YF-16 flew. MrChips fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Actually, I've always thought that the Falcon is a better name than Viper. I don't get it, either. But yes, it does need CFT's. And another pilot.
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Every time I see a what is supposed to be fighter carrying a bunch of stores under the wings, I get this image in my head of a heavyset old lady stomping down the street from the grocery with half a dozen plastic bags in each hand, all banging against one another. F-16s are supposed to look like this  I can just hear it going *ahhhhhhhh*
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Sagebrush posted:Every time I see a what is supposed to be fighter carrying a bunch of stores under the wings, I get this image in my head of a heavyset old lady stomping down the street from the grocery with half a dozen plastic bags in each hand, all banging against one another. Pierre Sprey account spotted
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Midjack posted:When did people start calling the Falcon the Viper? I get that it's not cool to name your manned airplanes after birds at the moment, but it's not like Falcon was a horrid name. Umm in the early 80's.
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Sagebrush posted:Every time I see a what is supposed to be fighter carrying a bunch of stores under the wings, I get this image in my head of a heavyset old lady stomping down the street from the grocery with half a dozen plastic bags in each hand, all banging against one another. she got chunky 
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Feb 13, 2015 01:20
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Gibfender posted:she got chunky   Ooohhh... Aaahh... The Storm Falcon is, by far, the prettiest of them all.
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Gibfender posted:she got chunky Wow somebody's been hitting the Haagen Dazs. 
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[quote="A Handed Missus" post="441499419"] Those chemtrail tanks aren't going to last long spraying like that.
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Gibfender posted:she got chunky 
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Not only do I think that the Sufa is the best iteration of the Falcon, but that out of Eagles, the THunder Eagle is the best.  Fat backs, dual seat and all that fuel just drives me up the wall.
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Lou Takki posted:Yeah, the fact we don't utilize our VLS capability for anti-surface missiles is a tragedy IMO. Its about time they started making progress on this.
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Vahakyla posted:poo poo, the Have Glass Vipers look great. They look great when they're clean.
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Gibfender posted:she got chunky Honestly, at this point, it just reminds me of this: 
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Any particular reason for the amraam on the tip and not the sidewinder or is there any difference? e: 2 posts up
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This is pretty badass (give it a bit though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-C9Abz4msk
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WaitMSLorAGL.jpg To this day I still love the video from this, and watching the turbine core go rumbling down the airfield.
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Well we're going to end up here anyway. So I will just jump straight to the Gringos Dos Gringos - I Wish I Had A Gun Just Like The A-10: http://youtu.be/335GdTqtyLs
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Sagebrush posted:Every time I see a what is supposed to be fighter carrying a bunch of stores under the wings, I get this image in my head of a heavyset old lady stomping down the street from the grocery with half a dozen plastic bags in each hand, all banging against one another. But it isn't augering into the dirt in that picture 
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Vahakyla posted:
Oof. indeed.As much as I love the F15 and F18, as well as some of the SU variants, I've really come around to the F22. I've been watching every video I can find of it, and my goodness, that thing just does everything so... gracefully.
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Did someone say F-16? THE VISTA IS THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL CRAFT EVERY gently caress ALL OF YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZQDwRKHCSQ
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:But it isn't augering into the dirt in that picture All the pounds from air to ground.
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Sagebrush posted:
Gibfender posted:she got chunky I like my fighters aged and matured. Look at those curves
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Midjack posted:When did people start calling the Falcon the Viper? I get that it's not cool to name your manned airplanes after birds at the moment, but it's not like Falcon was a horrid name. Okay, so that's been shot down as being A Thing since pretty much the beginning. But on a similar note, does anyone actually call the Super Hornet "Super Bug"? I've literally never heard that IRL, especially from the guys that actually fly them; it's either just "hornet" if you don't care about distinguishing, or "rhino" or "super" if you do. Or "echo"/"foxtrot" if you want to specify one- or two-seater. I swear there's a little part of my brain that twitches every time I read "super bug". e: and I can't exactly say the chunked-up F-16s look bad, I'm just amazed that they manage to stay airborne with all that poo poo on those tiny little wings.
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I've always heard them called Hornets, whether they were present or not. Never heard Rhino, nor mention of "Super" unless specifically asked.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Okay, so that's been shot down as being A Thing since pretty much the beginning. But on a similar note, does anyone actually call the Super Hornet "Super Bug"? I've literally never heard that IRL, especially from the guys that actually fly them; it's either just "hornet" if you don't care about distinguishing, or "rhino" or "super" if you do. Or "echo"/"foxtrot" if you want to specify one- or two-seater. I swear there's a little part of my brain that twitches every time I read "super bug". or Growler.
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Did somebody say Battlestar Galactica and airplanes?!?!?
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Godholio posted:I've always heard them called Hornets, whether they were present or not. Never heard Rhino, nor mention of "Super" unless specifically asked. Wikipedia says they're called Rhinos to distinguish them from regular Hornets during carrier ops (Super Hornet and Hornet probably get mixed up in all the radio chatter and setting the catapult for the wrong one could be disastrous)
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Godholio posted:I've always heard them called Hornets, whether they were present or not. Never heard Rhino, nor mention of "Super" unless specifically asked. I can't think of a time I haven't heard them referred to as Rhinos (from Navy folks).
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Okay, so that's been shot down as being A Thing since pretty much the beginning. But on a similar note, does anyone actually call the Super Hornet "Super Bug"? I've literally never heard that IRL, especially from the guys that actually fly them; it's either just "hornet" if you don't care about distinguishing, or "rhino" or "super" if you do. Or "echo"/"foxtrot" if you want to specify one- or two-seater. I swear there's a little part of my brain that twitches every time I read "super bug". In Australia I hear them referred to as "superbugs" all the time. It's probably the most common name I hear for them now that I think about it.
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Lou Takki posted:Yeah, the fact we don't utilize our VLS capability for anti-surface missiles is a tragedy IMO. Its about time they started making progress on this. Yeah I may have exaggerated a bit but Harpoon is on the way out regardless, I'm glad they're spending a relative pittance of money to give TACTOM an anti-ship capability using existing (or soon to be bought) platforms. Vahakyla posted:poo poo, the Have Glass Vipers look great. They look.....weird up close. Also Viper is a thing because the official name is Fighting Falcon and that is dumb as poo poo. It doesn't hurt that the LEX's give it a bit of a viper look from the right angle...but really it's about the dumb official name. See also, Thunderbolt II and Lancer. Also also I dunno about IRL because I don't know any Navy pilots but super bug seems to be pretty common in other places (which isn't really worth much)
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From an open source website:quote:Have Glass consists of two efforts to reduce the RCS. Have Glass I adds an indium-tin-oxide layer to the gold tinted cockpit canopy. This is reflective to radar frequencies but actually reduces the plane's visibility to radar. An ordinary canopy would let radar signals straight through where they would strike the many edges and corners inside and bounce back strongly to the source, the reflective layer dissipates these signals instead. Have Glass II includes the Pacer Mud radar signature reduction and the Pacer Gem infrared signature reduction. Pacer Mud applies RAM coating to the forward and side facing areas of the F-16. These materials comprise ferromagnetic particles, embedded in a high-dielectric-constant polymer base. The dielectric material slows down the wave and the ferromagnetic particles absorb the energy. These coatings are also designed in a way that the small reflection from the front face of the absorber is cancelled by a residual reflection from the structure beneath it. For the application of this paint robots will be used, like the CASPER (Computer Aided Spray Paint Expelling Robot) system used for F-22 and the Have Glass II program used for painting 1,700 F-16s with RAM. Robots are essential because they can reach confined areas, as the inlet ducts, and can work without stepping on the aircraft. Pacer Mud processed aircraft can be recognised by their metallic like and shiny paintwork.
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