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Ever wonder what happened to Charles de Gaulle after WWII? Have a song from the '60s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uukBpYD9PU
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So guys what the heck is a 'semi-state of war' anyway? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34013475 Also: some marines on a train do everybody a solid: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34023361 Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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Aug 22, 2015 00:53
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Nebakenezzer posted:So guys what the heck is a 'semi-state of war' anyway? The same thing they've always been in.
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I'd argue that going onto a "semi-state of war" would be a downgrading of tensions since officially they are in a full blown war. Kim Jong-Un: unintentional peacemaker. Really though it's a combination of the standard bluster that always surrounds major CFC/USFK/ROK exercises (Ulchi Freedom Guardian/U Fuckin' Guys kicked off last week) exacerbated by the idiocy surrounding the propaganda broadcasts, which were restarted due to the whole landmine incident a few days back. It's a perfect shitstorm of stupid. We'll see if anything dumb happens at the "deadline" in a couple hours...but seeing as how they haven't closed Kaesong yet I'm not exactly holding my breath.
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So I've posted about my grandfather in the thread a few times. He was a B-17 pilot with the 602nd Squadron. I just stumbled across a bunch of interviews, personal stories of his time in the 602nd (he went on to get a PhD in English so I can't wait to read that), and records and such. I'm starting with the interview and I'll post and choice quotes (and dump links because theres like 50 of these).
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And I just found a very interesting interview with a gentleman who (among other things) flew the Do 335 after the war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JKoLLgQ4wo
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:And I just found a very interesting interview with a gentleman who (among other things) flew the Do 335 after the war. Thanks, that is a very cool little interview. I had no idea they were working on ejection seats so early in the war.
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A Hawker Hunter performing at a UK airshow has crashed while attempting a loop, coming down on a nearby road. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/22/hawker-hunter-plane-crash-shoreham-air-show-reports
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simplefish posted:Ever wonder what happened to Charles de Gaulle after WWII? Holy poo poo that's amazing
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simplefish posted:Ever wonder what happened to Charles de Gaulle after WWII? Nebakenezzer posted:Also: some marines on a train do everybody a solid: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34023361
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Pablo Bluth posted:A Hawker Hunter performing at a UK airshow has crashed while attempting a loop, coming down on a nearby road. This is so horrible http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/avi...ven-people.html
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4 bore shotgun start of old plane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65qrzgbTTcQ B26 gets parked due to severe weather for a while and has so much oil in bottom cylinders has a hard start. Just watching these old dude tool around with it is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCJh5SvIwE first start of a Corsair in 30 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ruhcKaNLp4 Post restoration of Fw190 first start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftDwkyZb7a4 inertial start > ringgear start Bugatti 100P flies and ends up in mud (I think this might have been previously discussed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lstv7QjL7BM
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B4Ctom1 posted:first start of a Corsair in 30 years I love how it ends up with three guys nervously pointing fire extinguishers at it.
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B4Ctom1 posted:This is so horrible Somehow the pilot survived that without ejecting. Jesus Christ. I'm not ready to call him lucky though since A) if he lives beyond the next few days has to be severely hosed up and B) he somehow managed to land on a wedding limo when to either direction of the impact was nothing but fields and trees.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I love how it ends up with three guys nervously pointing fire extinguishers at it. Yeah, once it's fully restored you only need one.
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Pablo Bluth posted:A Hawker Hunter performing at a UK airshow has crashed while attempting a loop, coming down on a nearby road. Sad to say I saw this in person. Edit: Jesus, didn't know about the wedding limousine. Owlkill fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Owlkill posted:Sad to say I saw this in person. 11 dead so far. Going by various newspapers, the limo was on the way to pick up the bride. She wasn't in the car. How the hell did the pilot survive?
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Alaan posted:Somehow the pilot survived that without ejecting. Jesus Christ. I'm not ready to call him lucky though since A) if he lives beyond the next few days has to be severely hosed up and B) he somehow managed to land on a wedding limo when to either direction of the impact was nothing but fields and trees. B) is very fitting to the accident since it happened in the UK and this is a very UK response. I mean never mind that he obviously knew the only choice was to ride it in to reduce casualties it looked to me as if he were doing what could be done. I would say it was very noble, even if it turns out that it wasn't an aircraft performance issue but instead a pilot error.
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If there was pilot error, it was at the start of the maneuver. After that, the only thing he could do was ride it out and not put it into the stands like in Reno.
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Looks like he aimed for a highway maybe http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=213_1440261898
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The longer shots made it look like he was trying to pull left at the very bottom about 2 seconds before impact.
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B4Ctom1 posted:I mean never mind that he obviously knew the only choice was to ride it in to reduce casualties it looked to me as if he were doing what could be done. I would say it was very noble, even if it turns out that it wasn't an aircraft performance issue but instead a pilot error. This is a comforting myth. I guarantee that, if the pilot thought he had any useful control over the aircraft, he was working far harder to keep it out of the dirt than he was concerned with where he was going to hit. We always tell the survivors that the pilot stayed with the aircraft in order to steer it away from populated areas or whatever, but the truth is that the extra control inputs gained by staying below your ejection commitment altitude have a relatively negligible impact on the aircraft's final vector. Some pilots have punched over populated areas and had their aircraft miss everyone, and some have died trying to recover an aircraft that still killed people on the ground despite their best efforts. The fact that he stuck with it as long as he did tells me that he thought he could recover it until the last second.
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Seems like more ammo then it should. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usgBtXs16A8
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Mazz posted:Seems like more ammo then it should.
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Odd that the flap opens into the relative airflow
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The flap opening to the left causes drag which slews the plane to the left as you fire. To compensate Lockmart installs an air brake on the right side to even it out. However with both the flap open and air brake deployed the drag induced causes the F35 to stall.
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I'm no aerospace engineer, but wouldn't it be easier and less drag-y to install a door that slides up and away inside the fuselage, like every moonroof in the last 20 years?
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It would, but it is heavier, takes up more internal space, and has to play nice with RAM coatings.
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Dark Helmut posted:I'm no aerospace engineer, but wouldn't it be easier and less drag-y to install a door that slides up and away inside the fuselage, like every moonroof in the last 20 years? B-24s had bomb bay doors like that.
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Execu-speak posted:The flap opening to the left causes drag which slews the plane to the left as you fire. To compensate Lockmart installs an air brake on the right side to even it out. However with both the flap open and air brake deployed the drag induced causes the F35 to stall. I think this is a joke. This is a joke, right? It's the F-35 so I can't be absolutely sure.
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I think it's a joke because every FBW system ever compensates for recoil with some rudder while the gun fires.
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Antti posted:I think this is a joke. This is a joke, right? It's the F-35 so I can't be absolutely sure. The joke is that this only occurs if you get the gun to fire in the first place.
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Over the weekend I ran head on into the cold war. It is alive and well....ok mostly dead and drying....in Tucson AZ. Bones in waiting No subs in the desert, S-3.... Saggy RB-57 D? F? F-4's that didn't make the QF-4 cut So many Hercs ........Unfortunately the AMARG tour is completely on a bus, so pics are tough....the place the bus comes from though, is considerably more accessible.  the correct choice, unlike the USAF got to check Blackbird #8 off my list. SR-71A #17951 and my third D-21. D-21B #533 something something danger zoneThe inside stuff is great and all, but lets get to the heavy hitters here.  hustlin. Area rulin. peacemakin. 6 turnin, 4 burnin nuke poopin. (Yes I know it's an RA-5, but I wanted to say nuke poopin.)If you haven't figured it out by now, Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson has a lot of neat stuff. Tomorrow I'll put some more pics up from another museum a bit closer to the border, and even more cold warry. I'll end with this, just because I like the pic. 
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Finnish air force aerobatics team.
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Dead Reckoning posted:This is a comforting myth. I guarantee that, if the pilot thought he had any useful control over the aircraft, he was working far harder to keep it out of the dirt than he was concerned with where he was going to hit. Dead Reckoning posted:We always tell the survivors that the pilot stayed with the aircraft in order to steer it away from populated areas or whatever, but the truth is that the extra control inputs gained by staying below your ejection commitment altitude have a relatively negligible impact on the aircraft's final vector. Dead Reckoning posted:Some pilots have punched over populated areas and had their aircraft miss everyone, and some have died trying to recover an aircraft that still killed people on the ground despite their best efforts. Dead Reckoning posted:The fact that he stuck with it as long as he did tells me that he thought he could recover it until the last second.
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Took me a while to notice the nose wheel behind the sign and see what they did there. It feels like I've seen this before due to a bug in a Microprose game! quote:
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Basically everything passes through, so they pretty much get their pick. I really need to make friends with someone who works there. I also really want to see the pair of E-3s.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Took me a while to notice the nose wheel behind the sign and see what they did there. It feels like I've seen this before due to a bug in a Microprose game! I have a ton more pictures, tried to keep it to more of the unique and classically cold war stuff. Pima has a /vast/ collection, but not much before ww2, and only a handful of ww2 stuff. Post-war through teen series they are pretty complete.
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wkarma posted:I have a ton more pictures, tried to keep it to more of the unique and classically cold war stuff. Pima has a /vast/ collection, but not much before ww2, and only a handful of ww2 stuff. Post-war through teen series they are pretty complete. I'm curious as to what kind of camera you took those gorgeous photos with!
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