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The Mentalizer posted:"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) 
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tribbledirigible posted:Ahem, the Sptifire courteously requests a recount: Pretty sure that's a Mustang, just to pick nits. For badassery I've always been partial to the A-20 and low level bombing    slothrop has a new favorite as of 12:21 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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slothrop posted:Pretty sure that's a Mustang, just to pick nits. Count the guns. Vvv gently caress. Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 12:45 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Count the guns. Pretty sure he's right:  Also I don't think any Spitfire model ever had six guns FYI. GuardianOfAsgaard has a new favorite as of 12:54 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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The Lockheed U-2 There are plenty of planes introduced in the 50s and 60s which are still in use today (the MiG-27 by India for example) but few which are still in operation by the country that actually made them. The U-2 went operational in 1957 and is still in use by the US today. It's not particularly fast but flies at an altitude of 70,000 feet - that's 13 miles above the ground and almost twice as high as a 747. When I was an air cadet in the UK I went to an air force base the U-2 was operating out of and we got a (brief) look round their preparation rooms and watched the two American sergeants dressing the pilot in a spacesuit and doing all sorts of tests to make sure he'd survive the flight. We were told, slightly tongue-in-cheek, not to salute the pilot because he "officially wasn't there". Then we each got a peek in the cockpit which was a mix of ancient looking instruments with computers strapped onto various bits and barely enough room to fit a cat, let alone a pilot in a spacesuit. The sergeants wouldn't let us look in it for more than five seconds because presumably any longer and we'd be able to steal state secrets or something. Maybe if we were American we'd have got ten seconds. To reach that sort of altitude the aircraft jettisons its landing gear just after take off and lands later on little wheels or something. It was a busy airfield (this being the height of the Iraq War) so the gear had to be removed quickly, so we piled into a Subaru Impreza and a Fiat Panda (!) and shot up behind it as it took off. When the wheels fell to earth the sergeants jumped out and threw them into the back seat over our legs. I still remember them being, well, pretty drat hot. For rather obvious reasons we weren't allowed to take photos so obviously absolutely nobody has ever believed me when I tell them this. But it definitely happened!! The plane itself looks tough as hell up close. Like an old grizzled war veteran who could still kick your rear end.
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Likewise, I've seen a U2 actually in flight low level, it was back when I was young living in San Jose so I can only assume from the altitude it was going to land at Moffet Field. But it had an escort and by god that thing doesnt look anything like any other plane ever and everyone just sort of nods and says sure you saw one. Speaking of bad rear end and Moffet Field... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_One_%28Mountain_View,_California%29 Wikipedia posted:Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (3.2 ha) at the Moffett Field airship hangars site at Moffett Field in Mountain View, in Santa Clara County of the southern San Francisco Bay Area, California. [Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/xkjvxz3.jpg)
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It can't be out of print forever motherfucker. E:...and apparently it's available for $250 from Brian Shul. Looks like I have some shopping to do. the future is WOW has a new favorite as of 14:39 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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You guys are in the wrong thread. Aeronautical Insanity: When was the last time you took a poo poo at Mach 0.8 709 pages of aviation badassery.
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This is the first time I've really tried an effort post, so I hope I'm doing this right. This is a M61 Vulcan gattling-style rotary cannon, first deployed in 1959. It fires 20mm rounds at 6,000 rounds per minute:  20x102mm rounds in a handheld magazine, for size:  This is a 40mm Bofor antiaircraft autocannon, first designed in the 1930s, deployed in WWII, and still in use today:  It fires 40x311mm shells, the 2nd one from the right. The shells are the far left are 30mm, which are similar in sized to what are fired from the GAU-8 Avenger in the A-10 posts above:  This is an M102 Howitzer, a towed artillery piece. It was introduced during the Vietnam war, and can drop 105mm high explosive shells at a rate of 10 rounds a minute with pinpoint accuracy on targets as far away as 15 miles:  It looks like this in operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCoyLSSb-HI Here's a 105mm shell:  This is the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the "your mom" joke of the US Air Force. It's big, fat, ugly, and slow, and it's the backbone of US military air transport service:  So slow, in fact, that Lockheed has a variant fitted out for refueling helicopters:  This is what a C130 looks like on the inside when some crazy motherfucker in the Pentagon asks Boeing to buy some C-130s from Lockheed and stuff 2 M61s, a 40mm Bofors, a 105mm M102 Howitzer and an AWACS worth of SIGINT equipment inside and turn it into a flying artillery piece called the AC130 Spectre  And this is what it looks like from the outside (wallpaper sized) 
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duckmaster posted:The Lockheed U-2 Too many videos to link, but definitely search YouTube for u2 flight
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First jet fighter, best jet fighter:  
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Wilford Cutlery posted:Too many videos to link, but definitely search YouTube for u2 flight Huh, my cool story isn't nearly as cool now I know theres thousands of youtube videos of the same thing. I probably shouldn't have told you anyway. I'm pretty sure I have to kill you now 
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duckmaster posted:Huh, my cool story isn't nearly as cool now I know theres thousands of youtube videos of the same thing. I still think it's cool, cos I was an Air Cadet too, and i didnt get to do anything near as awesome as that!
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Hey, who turned out the lights?
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Jet chat. Cool. Obligatory      +  = e: no, I will not timg this beauty.
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I knew it would look like this JoelJoel;
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He was shot down over Vietnam, if I recall correctly. Got a bunch of burns all over his body, wasn't expected to recover. He then learned how to fly the loving SR71. Guy's tough as nails.
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Mar 6, 2015 22:45
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Which episode of South Park is this from?
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El Cid posted:Which episode of South Park is this from? The one where Terrence and Phillip get locked up in GitMo and the Canadian Air Force makes a show of force with their one plane (made out of an old Quonset hut) and gets blamed when a responding wing of Raptors gets blown out of the sky by a heavy mist. e: it's probably telling that there is Canadian mist in this post because I want it to be later than it is
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Admiral Bosch posted:He was shot down over Vietnam, if I recall correctly. Got a bunch of burns all over his body, wasn't expected to recover. He then learned how to fly the loving SR71. Guy's tough as nails. It sorta looks like a different photo for the head
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When I was doing relief logistics, this was the most bad-rear end in my book. IL-76 ... can land on short runway or dirt runway, perfect for places where lovely infrastructure on top of the humanitarian disaster creates logistics hell.  And I got to arrange a couple charters using this aircraft: 
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I'd like to throw in a vote for the Handley Page Victor. This thing looks like a BOMBER OF THE FUTURE and general instrument of Doom.  Look at this beast on its last flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zMPrOE3Wpc And to cap it off a pants-making GBS threads moment at an air show when co-pilot error allows a Victor to take off during a fast-taxi run. She just wanted to fly one last time.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjPu6DPzWU
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All this talk about badass prop planes, and one of the most quintessential ones is left out? For shame, guys. FOR SHAME. A bit of trivia about the A-10 first: Most people probably know it as the A-10 Warthog. However, Warthog is not the official designation of the plane, it's just the colloquial nickname. The official name is A-10 Thunderbolt II. Notice the II there? Yeah, that's because there was an earlier Thunderbolt, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.   It carried an ungodly amount of ordnance for a single-engine aircraft (though to be fair it was loving massive too), and similarly to the A-10 had a reputation of being tough as nails. I remember reading a story somewhere of a damaged one flying back to base, being followed and harassed by a German fighter who kept shooting at it, but failed to down it due to running out of ammo.
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The Saab 35 Draken, one of the prettiest and longest lived jets ever. The first flight was in 1955 and were finally retired by the Austrian Defense Force in 2005. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd4Fb4QfZKk
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Related to the earlier A-20 post, how many forward firing .50 cal machine guns do you want on your B-25, Pappy Gunn? HOW ABOUT FOURTEEN  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gunn
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[quote="Dick Trauma" post="442417091"] I'd like to throw in a vote for the Handley Page Victor. This thing looks like a BOMBER OF THE FUTURE and general instrument of Doom. I've seen this plane down the road from me at RAF Marham. They've got it on display near the entrance
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10Thumbs posted:I've seen this plane down the road from me at RAF Marham. They've got it on display near the entrance There's a few around as gate guardians and museum pieces. I think the one at Elvington Air Museum still does taxi runs on the Rolling Thunder display days and there are maybe a few others around. The last flying Vulcan is based down the road from me and the entire town knows when that fucker goes off. Sounds like it's ripping the air a new rear end in a top hat. I was late for work last summer because it was doing practice runs and I had to pull into a lay-by to watch it go round a few times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzQbKzlJR4E How the gently caress does a bomber with a century wingspan handle like that? What a lovely piece of engineering. I've always enjoyed watching the big power jets at the American displays since I was a kid, and we can't compete in that league these days, but the Vulcan still holds a uniquely cack-handed British spot in my affection.
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Nordick posted:I remember reading a story somewhere of a damaged one flying back to base, being followed and harassed by a German fighter who kept shooting at it, but failed to down it due to running out of ammo. Thunderbolt Ace Bob Johnson on his June 26th, 1943 mission. http://acepilots.com/usaaf_rsj.html
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Dick Trauma posted:HOW ABOUT FOURTEEN  it might as well spell out "gently caress you" in its firing pattern.
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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 you've sat inside one: 
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Istari posted:e: found it: I call bullshit because it's his body which is his property. It's not a bio-hazard, if it was then anyone anywhere is a biohazard.
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Bippie Mishap posted:I call bullshit because it's his body which is his property. It's not a bio-hazard, if it was then anyone anywhere is a biohazard. Have you ever had part of your body removed (wisdom teeth, appendix) ? Ever asked to keep them ? Because I asked to keep mine, and the answer was a resounding "No, that's a biohazard."
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Bippie Mishap posted:I call bullshit because it's his body which is his property. It's not a bio-hazard, if it was then anyone anywhere is a biohazard. a) It's not a bio-hazard to you. There are 7 Billion people on this planet who are not you. It's a bio-hazard to them. How much of a bio-hazard? b) Ever wondered how researchers inject cancer into animals? Cancer is usually a mutation right? How can it be injected? They do it by injecting shards of bone marrow. That's an extreme example, but it's a super loving bio-hazard. c) Have you ever seen a replacement hip? It's just the ball plus a stem that is inserted into the top of the tibia, plus a cup that is implanted in the hip socket. No surgeon would ever remove that much bone, and they would only use a replacement implant that includes that much of the tibia shaft if there was no tibia left (as the Orthopedic surgeon says) due to, eg, bone cancer. Refer to point a)
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Istari posted:Have you ever had part of your body removed (wisdom teeth, appendix) ? Ever asked to keep them ? I was given my wisdom teeth without asking, all four of them in a little plastic case. I was pretty sure they were indeed my teeth and not fakes.
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All those were is monkey teeth
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im pooping! posted:I was given my wisdom teeth without asking, all four of them in a little plastic case. I was pretty sure they were indeed my teeth and not fakes. Well, now I just feel ripped off
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It's more of an insurance issue. Give a person their appendix, they're probably gonna leave it in their car for a few days then try and eat it (cuz why not) then sue the hospital. Can't eat teeth
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Radio Help posted:It's more of an insurance issue. Give a person their appendix, they're probably gonna leave it in their car for a few days then try and eat it (cuz why not) then sue the hospital. Can't eat teeth http://youtu.be/Lzw6nRnaQG0
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Radio Help posted:It's more of an insurance issue. Give a person their appendix, they're probably gonna leave it in their car for a few days then try and eat it (cuz why not) then sue the hospital. Can't eat teeth Ever been punched in the mouth?
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