Say Nothing posted:World's biggest Harley. Needs to have a radial engine. ![]() ![]()
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blunt for century posted:Needs to have a radial engine. You aren't thinking big enough. ![]() ![]() It uses an engine from a T55.
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The Repo Man posted:You aren't thinking big enough. For those who, like me, had no idea what a T55 is: ![]() ![]()
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Get back to me when there is a motorcycle with a cruise ship engine ![]() ![]()
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not a ship engine, but this guy was building ridiculous bikes before it was cool![]()
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Chilean volcano that erupted early Tuesday morning Any idea where I can find that in 3440x1440?
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blunt for century posted:Get back to me when there is a motorcycle with a cruise ship engine Get back to me when there is a motorcycle with a supertanker engine ![]() ![]()
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Gorilla Salad posted:Get back to me when there is a motorcycle with a supertanker engine Touché
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Well goons, I think it's time to build us a motorcycle. I'm sure that our combined knowledge will only get most of us killed. In the meantime, here is the 30 mm Gau Avenger on an A-10 Warthog, the only airplane I know of where you could just blow off most of a wing and it would shrug it off. The jet was designed around the gun. ![]()
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The Repo Man posted:
Not only that, but at least once an A-10 has had a wing blown off and had the shrapnel from the wing get swallowed up by an engine and still been able to return to base and land successfully.
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Apparently most of Cape Town's flora is burning.![]() ![]() ![]() You can see the smoke by satellite: ![]()
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lenoon posted:That sounds like bullshit tbh. I work with stone tools, specifically stone axes and adzes, and I've never heard of a properly documented example of that practice. It's actually a lovely way to do it anyway, why bother when wood is usually readily available? Late to this but, totally agree that this method sounds dodgy as hell. I've been involved in prehistoric archaeology for ages and have never heard of anything like this being found or even suggested as a method of hafting. There would not be enough control over the finished artefact for it to be used consistently - slight twist in your growing wood and you have an axe with the blade set at a stupid angle, etc. etc. (Also, what would stop other people harvesting your axe heads?) Noise and knapping - yeah I was too glib in my statement before. Pressure flaking is at worst mostly silent. I was thinking of the initial steps in preparing your core/producing a large enough flake to work on which is a lot harder to do quietly. (Most of my experience with knapping - doing and watching - is with palaeolithic artefacts which may colour my perception a bit.) The real reason the 'poo poo knife' story has to be stdh is that, even if someone could produce a working blade from frozen poo poo with a cutting edge of frozen spit, the instant they started trying to kill and butcher a dog the blade would be melted by the animals body heat and all they'd have is a handful of damp poo poo.
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The Repo Man posted:Well goons, I think it's time to build us a motorcycle. I'm sure that our combined knowledge will only get most of us killed. Pictures do not do this thing justice. The gun is mounted off-center, both horizontally and vertically, so that the firing barrel lies directly along the centerline of the plane and recoils directly through both the horizontal and vertical center of gravity, since the recoil would be enough to alter the pitch and yaw of the plane. The recoil force is higher than the thrust that one of the engines puts out as well.
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The soviet equivalent, the GSh-6-30. Unlike the avenger, the GSh did not get a plane designed around it, and it was instead strapped to a low altitude supersonic attack jet. This lead to some... issues.quote:On the Mikoyan MiG-27 the Gsh-6-30 had to be mounted obliquely to absorb recoil. The gun was noted for its high (often uncomfortable) vibration and extreme noise. The airframe vibration led to fatigue cracks in fuel tanks, numerous radio and avionics failures, the necessity of using runways with floodlights for night flights (as the landing lights would often be destroyed), tearing or jamming of the forward landing gear doors (leading to at least three crash landings), cracking of the reflector gunsight, an accidental jettisoning of the cockpit canopy and at least one case of the instrument panel falling off in flight. The weapons also dealt extensive collateral damage, as the sheer numbers of fragments from detonating shells was sufficient to damage aircraft flying within a 200 meter radius from the impact center, including the aircraft firing. ![]() There's a great quote from a Mikoyan test pilot out their somewhere, something like "finally we have the one true gun" or something like that.
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The Repo Man posted:Well goons, I think it's time to build us a motorcycle. I'm sure that our combined knowledge will only get most of us killed. Here's a really good read on the A-10, with explanations as to why Congress keeps trying to kill the plane, and how it keeps coming back.
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The A-10 has nothing on the SR-71. ![]() ![]()
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TheBigAristotle posted:Here's a really good read on the A-10, with explanations as to why Congress keeps trying to kill the plane, and how it keeps coming back. gently caress retiring the A-10 - keep it around, make more of them, and scrap the useless million-dollar shitpiles that the military has been cranking out over the last 2 decades. When a vehicle or equipment lasts that long and has such a badass service record, you do NOT retire it, let alone stop making it, unless you're 100% helmet-wearing, sub-40 IQ retarded.
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Haven't you guys heard of the English Electric Lightning? Sounds like a volcano and takes off like a missile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CDLbokf9sg ![]()
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Qwezz posted:The A-10 has nothing on the SR-71. SR71s are badass as gently caress. At full speed they can outrun many missiles. At 0 speed, they shrink so much that they constantly leak fuel.
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Shoulda put a prop on that.
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Ozz81 posted:gently caress retiring the A-10 - keep it around, make more of them, and scrap the useless million-dollar shitpiles that the military has been cranking out over the last 2 decades. When a vehicle or equipment lasts that long and has such a badass service record, you do NOT retire it, let alone stop making it, unless you're 100% helmet-wearing, sub-40 IQ retarded. But you don't get billions in design contracts for making something that works ![]() Though, I'm kinda happy with anything that makes the US military less effective.
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Stoatbringer posted:Haven't you guys heard of the English Electric Lightning? Sounds like a volcano and takes off like a missile. The Lightning was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier going straight up.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Here's a really good read on the A-10, with explanations as to why Congress keeps trying to kill the plane, and how it keeps coming back. Even the ineptitude and terrible decisions of congress can't bring down an A-10! ![]() CommanderApaul posted:Pictures do not do this thing justice. By how much does firing the cannon slow the aircraft? Also, badass airplanes are the best, keep posting those! Content: The P-38 Lighting is one of the prettiest aircraft ever used in any military. ![]() ![]() ![]() Performance-wise, I don't know a whole lot about it, except that it was much quieter than other aircraft, and it was brilliant to maneuver, and almost impossible to crash, even in evasive maneuvers, however it wasn't particularly fast.
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blunt for century posted:The P-38 Lighting is one of the prettiest aircraft ever used in any military. The absolute prettiest of course being the PBY Catalina. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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thespaceinvader posted:SR71s are badass as gently caress. At full speed they can outrun many missiles. At 0 speed, they shrink so much that they constantly leak fuel. It's not a photo, but my favorite SR-71 story comes from the book Sled Driver by former Blackbird pilot Brian Shul. Good luck finding a copy for less than $700 these days. Apologies for the long quote, but it's completely worth it. quote:There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment. ![]() blunt for century posted:
The Lightning was interesting because all of its considerable armament was in the nose, which caused it to "saw" enemy planes to pieces. ![]() ![]() Both the American ace of aces and our number 2 ace flew Lightnings, and it was the plane that killed Yamamoto. Polaron has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Polaron posted:It's not a photo, but my favorite SR-71 story comes from the book Sled Driver by former Blackbird pilot Brian Shul. Good luck finding a copy for less than $700 these days. I must have run across this story a dozen times in various places on there 'ol internets, but every time I stop to read it again. Such a great story...
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ReidRansom posted:The absolute prettiest of course being the PBY Catalina. Ahem, the Sptifire courteously requests a recount: ![]() ![]() Oh, this is the Bad rear end Pic thread, right? ![]()
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To elaborate on the P-38's gun layout, many fighter planes of the era mounted machine guns/cannon in the wings, which were mounted at an angle so that the rounds would intersect at a fixed point or convergence zone ahead of the aircraft. This meant for most pilots, dogfighting was an extremely involved process of getting your target in the zone where your fire overlapped. Since the P-38 had twin engines, it could mount all of its guns (and its one 20mm cannon) on the centerline, which gave it both a significant range advantage and greater flexibility in targeting. Interestingly, the Lightning was withdrawn from service in Europe since it couldn't keep up with the much faster German single-engine fighters, but it excelled in the Pacific due to its maneuverability and the fact that it had a higher cruise speed than the A6M Zero. ![]() Also, the US "ace of aces" Dick Bong ( ![]() ![]()
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blunt for century posted:Also, badass airplanes are the best, keep posting those! I've mentioned it in other threads, but I never pass up an opportunity to post one of my all-time favorite aircraft: ![]() ![]() The first time I saw one in flight, I was stunned. I don't want to be melodramatic, but it was so striking. I've never seen an aircraft that was so pretty in flight, and so graceful, and looked more like a creature of the air than this one. The plane looked like it was pasted onto the sky, like a giant sticker; inconceivable that it could ever come down. Centripetal Horse has a new favorite as of 01:58 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Centripetal Horse posted:I've mentioned it in other threads, but I never pass up an opportunity to post one of my all-time favorite aircraft: Venom is badass, but I think the Sea Vixen is the prettiest of those twin-boom fighters: ![]() ![]()
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Useless posted:I must have run across this story a dozen times in various places on there 'ol internets, but every time I stop to read it again. Such a great story... You're not the only one. ![]() ![]()
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VendaGoat posted:You're not the only one. I always think of the aliens overhead in their superior spacecraft, also listening in and wishing they could upstage the blackbird and blow the controller's mind.
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Snowy posted:I always think of the aliens overhead in their superior spacecraft, also listening in and wishing they could upstage the blackbird and blow the controller's mind. drat those intergalactic treaties! They should let the Free Market do its thing and let the most fit Gorblox Win!
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"Sled Driver" may be impossible to get but "Skunk Works" is a great read if you're into the SR-71 (even if it's primary subject is the development of the stealth fighter). It has a bunch of great A-12/SR-71 pilot stories throughout as well, along with pretty much everything you could want to know about the Skunk Works operations. It was written by Ben Rich, who took over from Kelly Johnson. As for badass, though, I highly recommend reading "Red Eagles", about the pilots who flew our secret stash of Soviet MiGs without any real previous experience (or manuals, or spare parts, or anything). These guys were pretty much insane to climb into those planes, and they did it for years.
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What is wrong with your face?
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The Repo Man posted:A-10 Warthog, the only airplane I know of where you could just blow off most of a wing and it would shrug it off. The F-15 would like a word with you... ![]() Wikipeida posted:On 1 May 1983, an Israeli Air Force F-15D collided with a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk during training. Unknown to pilot Zivi Nedivi and his copilot, the right wing was sheared off roughly two feet (60 cm) from the fuselage. The A-4 disintegrated and its pilot safely ejected, while the F-15 nosed down and entered a violent roll. Zivi decided to attempt recovery and engaged afterburner to increase speed. He was able to prevent stalling and maintain control due to the lift generated by the large horizontal surface area of the fuselage, the stabilators, and remaining wing areas. The F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary descent and its tailhook was torn off during the landing. Zivi managed to bring his F-15 to a stop approximately 20 ft (6 m) from the end of the runway. He was later quoted as saying "It's highly likely that if I would have seen it clearly, I would have ejected..."; leaking fuel along the wing had obstructed visibility of the wing itself. The aircraft was repaired and saw further combat service. I've always been partial to the Hawker Hurricane. It's not quite as pretty as the Spitfire, but it scored more kills during the Battle of Britain. ![]()
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In the vein of earlier Blackbird discussion, I need to post these cool hires photos. Thinking about framing either one![]() ![]()
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That first pic is why some UFO stories are so credible - if you didn't know those were humans in their it'd scare the poo poo out of you.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Here's a really good read on the A-10, with explanations as to why Congress keeps trying to kill the plane, and how it keeps coming back. Thanks for the article. I never realized just how loving massive the GAU was. ![]() I will never not love the A-10. I hate killing and war, but this is just a beautiful piece of machinery designed to keep it's pilot alive, and help ground forces in spectacular ways ![]() Edit: Beardless posted:F-15 and Hurricane Stuff Also awesome aircrafts.
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