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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I like when it was followed by an even sexier aircraft.
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Linedance posted:unfortunately, that's the part that autorotates. There's a reason they call that attachment the Jesus Nut.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I like when it was followed by an even sexier aircraft. Are you talking about the F-15, or did you think it was a Tomcat?
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Ola posted:
Jesus Christ those poor guys. 
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Apr 29, 2016 19:41
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Man and Smarter Every Day just did a video on autorotations as a rebuttal to a Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweet. That's one you can't recover from.  I mentioned it, may as well post it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqu9iMiPIU
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The Locator posted:The level of painting skill required to make models like those make me happy I model in wood so I don't have to spend years learning how to do that. Says the guy who lathed his own bits and literally rigged the whole loving thing.
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Enourmo posted:
Smarter Every Day is great, that was great. 
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Enourmo posted:Man and Smarter Every Day just did a video on autorotations as a rebuttal to a Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweet. That's one you can't recover from. This is a great video; I'm convinced that the primary cause of people's objections to helicopter operations is a perceived lack of safety, mostly because they don't understand that a helicopter can make a safe landing without power. It's also wonderful to see a full auto to the ground--only a few instructors do that. The Robinson cyclic stick always seems weird to me, even in video, and it's one of only a couple helicopters I've had the chance to pilot myself. Still, a clever way to keep cost down. Frank Robinson has come closer to the dream of a true "Personal Air Vehicle" than anyone else.
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Linedance posted:unfortunately, that's the part that autorotates. It probably worked just fine too all the way until it hit the ground  Content. If you don't like the Constellation, well...have a fire spitting SUPER CONNIE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV7-73LmOm0
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poo poo. Is that the same incident as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBh3PF6-Xk? It shows the rotor flying off and doing it's own thing without a fuselage attached edit: Pretty sure it is. Unless two helicopters lost their main rotor on the same day in Norway
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Time to mention of Avro Arrow? less than a 30 seconds. edit: volume warning for first second  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsjbEFL11FU The sdasm archives is such a great channel, they just uploaded a handful of American Airlines propaganda and training videos too.
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McDeth posted:well...have a fire spitting SUPER CONNIE! Holy poo poo gently caress, awesome! 
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Tetraptous posted:The Robinson cyclic stick always seems weird to me, even in video, and it's one of only a couple helicopters I've had the chance to pilot myself. Still, a clever way to keep cost down. Frank Robinson has come closer to the dream of a true "Personal Air Vehicle" than anyone else. My favorite thing about Robinsons is and always will be the safety warning about "Oh, yeah, sooooo... our helicopters like to burst into flame real bad if you have a hard landing / ball them up. BTW, the fuel tank is right behind your head. So, instead of making sealing tanks we recommend you just wear a nomex flight suit instead HAPPY FLYING EVERYONE!" from like ~10 years back.   holy poo poo those poor dudes.
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Crossposting from the Airpower thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Ss9n4fA-U
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Put in order of -poot- to ---MEGASHITZ--- http://i.imgur.com/KwctNdd.webm http://i.imgur.com/QSqtnnj.webm http://i.imgur.com/l3DGVvv.webm http://i.imgur.com/S8PwKBk.webm http://i.imgur.com/SWbp92d.webm http://i.imgur.com/VDAMTa9.webm http://i.imgur.com/9UQuI3r.webm http://i.imgur.com/w2iFaSP.webm I swear I can actually hear some of these jets strain out a HNNNNNNNNNNNNNGHH
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C-5 blowing flares? Time to repost the Wolfe Air demo reel because why the gently caress not. https://vimeo.com/70994185 1:13 in, but watch the whole thing. And watch it like 50 more times. Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Yeah that shot of the F-15 rolling over and going burner is just  also that is one pretty F-4 shortly afterward. Always a good watch.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Says the guy who lathed his own bits and literally rigged the whole loving thing. That's material work though, and is fun. Painting skills are magic voodoo poo poo.
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A C-5 popping flares is like the most optimistic thing in the world.
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Jonny Nox posted:Time to mention of Avro Arrow? less than a 30 seconds. edit: volume warning for first second Aww. I didn't even know we'd looked at the Viper.
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Some of those flare shots look like movie CGI. Also the F-16(I think) one where they're spraying it all over the place upwards is the best one
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Phy posted:Aww. I didn't even know we'd looked at the Viper.
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slidebite posted:Single engine sealed its fate. But not the F-35's; which, despite Trudeau's promise to scrap it, is still the clear favorite.
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Canada buying single engine fighters is almost as dumb as single-engine powered-lift.
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Cat Mattress posted:But not the F-35's; which, despite Trudeau's promise to scrap it, is still the clear favorite. Trudeau's administration is the third consecutive to cut back on Military spending. Canada's military procurement has always been laughably bad but reached crisis level during Harper's administration. The air force might be in better shape than the Navy too. When we actually do purchase planes, it will be an emergency procurement of whatever is cheap in insufficient numbers and will take multiple years to finalize.
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Jonny Nox posted:Canada's military procurement has always been laughably bad but reached crisis level during Harper's administration.
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I think the RCN has the worst of it. A single destroyer that can't cross the Atlantic, a handful of frigates, and four subs that have spent more time in drydock than underwater.
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Let's not forget the twelve coastal defense vessels we have as well!!!
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I can't wait for the Arctic patrol ships to come out. They're going to be hilarious. (There's no such thing as a fast icebreaker, and I say this as someone who mostly drove cargo ships around at 12 knots.)
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Well in another 50 years they won't need any icebreakers at this rate
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rscott posted:Well in another 50 years they won't need any icebreakers at this rate We'll have Icebreakers by then Slightly cheering note: the FWSAR looks like it will have an actual aircraft soon.
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Nebakenezzer posted:We'll have Icebreakers by then What's the update on FWSAR? They really better just end up going C130s, the airbus and agustas seem a little too new and untested vs a familiar (albeit large) platform.
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priznat posted:What's the update on FWSAR? They really better just end up going C130s, the airbus and agustas seem a little too new and untested vs a familiar (albeit large) platform. They've narrowed the field down to four aircraft and are actually doing flight testing. The C-130 was dropped as too expensive to maintain/buy. Right now it's the Embrier KC-390, C-295, and the Alita Spartan.
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Cat Mattress posted:But not the F-35's; which, despite Trudeau's promise to scrap it, is still the clear favorite. The F135 is going to be a lot more reliable than the F100. Single-engine isn't the same concern it was in the 1970s.
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Nebakenezzer posted:They've narrowed the field down to four aircraft and are actually doing flight testing. The C-130 was dropped as too expensive to maintain/buy. Right now it's the Embrier KC-390, C-295, and the Alita Spartan. It's going to be the Embraer. Because Air Canada just pencilled a bunch of C Series orders, and are dumping most of their 190s, so to keep the Brazilians from crying to the WTO again and suing us, we'll throw them some military procurement bones.
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Godholio posted:The F135 is going to be a lot more reliable than the F100. Single-engine isn't the same concern it was in the 1970s. Plus it will just execute anyone without enough whale blubber to survive in the cold for a couple days.
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Nebakenezzer posted:They've narrowed the field down to four aircraft and are actually doing flight testing. The C-130 was dropped as too expensive to maintain/buy. Right now it's the Embrier KC-390, C-295, and the Alita Spartan. C130 too expensive! ~buys untested platform which required millions in refits once they are found to be inadequate while in service~ Yup checks out.
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Nebakenezzer posted:They've narrowed the field down to four aircraft and are actually doing flight testing. The C-130 was dropped as too expensive to maintain/buy. Right now it's the Embrier KC-390, C-295, and the Alita Spartan. Phwoar look at them ace combat manufacturers
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Koesj posted:Phwoar look at them ace combat manufacturers  
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