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Wingnut Ninja posted:I am endlessly amused by how propeller blades look on a digital camera. The RAAF drops boomerangs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwmtwZLG88
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Hi everyone, a group is trying to restore an English Electric Lightening to flight worthiness. Here's the only pic that IMGUR would upload  "XS422 Restoration Kickstarter posted:The aim of this Kickstarter is to raise £75,000 to return English Electric Lightning XS422 to flight status. I really hope they succeed, the kickstarter is hurting for funds. Cross-posted to Aeronautical Insanity and AIRPOWER/Cold War threads.
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Apr 14, 2016 05:26
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I endorse the idea of it but is that a two-seater Lightning they've got? Because those are extremely bizarre looking by even British standards
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StandardVC10 posted:I endorse the idea of it but is that a two-seater Lightning they've got? Because those are extremely bizarre looking by even British standards Yup, it is. The only other airworthy Lightning is also a two-seater.
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Apr 14, 2016 06:03
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There's already one flying, it's not that interesting, and if they restored it to flight status where are they planning to acquire the tens of thousands of dollars per flight hour that it will require to get/keep it in the air?
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I am endlessly amused by how propeller blades look on a digital camera. Or certain kinds of film camera, it's not like it's a new phenomenon:  Focal-plane shutters in 35mm SLRs and old press camera have a slit that travels across the film to get higher shutter speeds instead of fully opening all at once; the iPhone gives a similar effect because it reads one row of pixels at a time. You don't see it much in 35mm because the film is so small that the slit passes across it pretty quickly, but in a 4x5 Speed Graphic, the 1/8" slit exposing any one area of the film for 1/1000s at any given instant travels the 4" in a relatively leisurely fashion.
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Apr 14, 2016 16:15
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Anyone want to go in on a Mustang with me? https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/for-sale-1944-north-american-p-51d-mustang.html
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Apr 14, 2016 17:24
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Interesting. The registration has its year-of-manufacture specified as 1958; I wonder if it's a Cavalier Mustang?
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Apr 14, 2016 19:17
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Delivery McGee posted:Or certain kinds of film camera, it's not like it's a new phenomenon: This is called "slitscanning" and has some unique applications. Phone posted or I'd put in some links but Google provides and I'm sure the Dorkroom forum has some thoughts too.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:04
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It sounds like Delta is very close to finalizing an order for 125 of Bombardier's CSeries jets.
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Apr 14, 2016 21:56
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Bugsmasher posted:It sounds like Delta is very close to finalizing an order for 125 of Bombardier's CSeries jets. Neat. One flew into Corpus Christi one day and everyone on the airport was asking about it.
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Apr 14, 2016 23:09
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A (the?) Martin Mars is going to make the trek to Oshkosh this year: http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/ea...re-oshkosh-2016
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Apr 14, 2016 23:12
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ehnus posted:A (the?) Martin Mars is going to make the trek to Oshkosh this year: http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/ea...re-oshkosh-2016 I think another Mars is being restored for the US Naval Aviation museum? Not sure if it's gonna fly.
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Apr 14, 2016 23:53
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Anyone want to go in on a Mustang with me? I'll chip in but we're storing it at your place.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I'll chip in but we're storing it at your place. That's fine, you know I have plenty of room. Hell, we could probably squat in one of the empty hangars down at City and do it.
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Bugsmasher posted:It sounds like Delta is very close to finalizing an order for 125 of Bombardier's CSeries jets.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I am endlessly amused by how propeller blades look on a digital camera. Then you will like this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-2dfEc70gU Fun starts at 1.17 Russians in su24s buzzed the Donald Cook today. Article has video  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36050689 Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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Preoptopus posted:Russians in su24s buzzed the Donald Cook today. Article has video quote:Kerry: Shooting down Russia jets 'would have been justified' and from a non-politician http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-why-navy-didnt-shoot-141845003.html quote:"You don’t get to kill people just because they’re being annoying," retired frigate and cruiser commanding officer Capt. Rick Hoffman told the Navy Times about the incident.
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Apr 15, 2016 01:28
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ehnus posted:A (the?) Martin Mars is going to make the trek to Oshkosh this year: http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/ea...re-oshkosh-2016 Welp, looks like I gotta go to Oshkosh again this year. That is going to be great. Wonder if they will do a water-bombing run. They have with Sky-Cranes in the past.
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Slo-Tek posted:Welp, looks like I gotta go to Oshkosh again this year. That is going to be great. Wonder if they will do a water-bombing run. They have with Sky-Cranes in the past. I'll be there. Probably two days even. It would be nice not to pack in 20 miles of walking all in one day...
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Apr 15, 2016 02:01
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slidebite posted:A page late but I like this from your link drat missed it. The dudes on the ship looked super chill in the video amused even. Maybe the Russians got on the radio like "yall wanna see something cool?"
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Apr 15, 2016 02:01
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Preoptopus posted:drat missed it. The dudes on the ship looked super chill in the video amused even. Maybe the Russians got on the radio like "yall wanna see something cool?" Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full.
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Midjack posted:This is called "slitscanning" and has some unique applications. Phone posted or I'd put in some links but Google provides and I'm sure the Dorkroom forum has some thoughts too. Fun fact. Slit-scanning is how they did the warp/stretch effect for the Enterprise-D.
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bull3964 posted:Fun fact. Slit-scanning is how they did the warp/stretch effect for the Enterprise-D. Also the warp at the end of 2001.
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Preoptopus posted:Then you will like this video. Yeah, I've gotten a few videos like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Egt0e0Bzpc It's a little hard to see on the low-rez Youtube version, but at higher rez you can see the numbers on the props flickering. Very trippy.
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I guess Major Kong's been spending a lot of time in hotels recently, because he's got another interesting article out with unique and weird aviation stuff again: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/14/1513113/-Weird-Weapons-of-the-Cold-War
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I guess Major Kong's been spending a lot of time in hotels recently, because he's got another interesting article out with unique and weird aviation stuff again: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/14/1513113/-Weird-Weapons-of-the-Cold-War SLAM and Project Pluto were absolutely insane. Range of 113,000 miles. Granted, every mile coated in radioactive death.
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Apr 15, 2016 04:35
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Ola posted:
Putting Fukushima in the same category as Chernobyl is an indication that their categories are insufficiently granular, not that Fukushima and Chernobyl were comparable.
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I think there is way too much nuclear alarmism in this world, but this a few steps too far in the opposite direction. The IAEA rated it
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Mortabis posted:Putting Fukushima in the same category as Chernobyl is an indication that their categories are insufficiently granular, not that Fukushima and Chernobyl were comparable. Or maybe it's because IAEA experts really like being on TV, and rating it a seven meant their buddies in the private sector also spent a lot of time in the talking head boxes on networks worldwide. But yeah, the ratings need a reworking.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Or maybe it's because IAEA experts really like being on TV, You can tell it's this because of the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the minute hand of the "doomsday clock" in relation to world events since the wall came down.
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CommieGIR posted:SLAM and Project Pluto were absolutely insane. Range of 113,000 miles. That one and Dead Hand are the two things that have made me reflect on how grim the Cold War really got. ~Coxy posted:You can tell it's this because of the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the minute hand of the "doomsday clock" in relation to world events since the wall came down. They really don't make use of the full dynamic range on that thing.
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Compared to the rest of human history, we’re still ridiculous close to self‐annihilation, ever after the end of the Cold War.
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Its worth noting the IAEA/INES scale was created after Chernobyl as sort of a "this was super bad so it'll be ranked really high, and everything else will probably pale in comparison so it'll be ranked lower and hopefully the public won't freak out as much."
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Platystemon posted:Compared to the rest of human history, we’re still ridiculous close to self‐annihilation, ever after the end of the Cold War. I sort of think the construction of nuclear arsenals represents a kind of tipping point, like we're not going to live at the whim of nature and evolution like all those other loser species, not when we can just wipe ourselves out if we feel like it.
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And because it wasn't posted here yet: An Air Force Test Pilot School T-38C passes in front of the sun at a supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that are caught photographically for research. NASA is using a modern version of a 150-year-old German photography technique -- schlieren imagery -- to visualize supersonic flow phenomena with full-scale aircraft in flight. The results will help engineers to design a quiet supersonic transport. Although current regulations prohibit unrestricted overland supersonic flight in the United States, a clear understanding of the location and relative strength of shock waves is essential for designing future high-speed commercial aircraft. Image Credit: NASA/Ken Ulbrich
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Apr 15, 2016 09:09
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Just some Swedish Porn: https://vimeo.com/162088181
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slidebite posted:Good for them, they need it. I bet that a lot of these are going to end up being ex-Republic slots since they have 40 positions for the CS300 and they are pretty unlikely to take delivery. Still will be a net benefit but you know if Delta's in the game it means low-low-low capital costs.
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http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123472467&source=GovD The accident report was released for the C-130 that went down in Jalalabad last fall. This was a pretty rough one for the community.
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Prop Wash posted:http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123472467&source=GovD gently caress. An NVG case of all things. Poor dudes.
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