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Godholio posted:These U-2s were built in the 80s Huh, that's even more surprising. I assumed they'd just been kept around like the B-52s. Did Lockheed somehow get paid to keep the tooling around to build new ones?
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I suspect they kept it on their own, expecting follow on orders; remember, that was an era where aircraft were replaced every few years. Suggesting airframes would fly for fifty years or more would've gotten you locked in a padded room. They're actually still trying to sell the DOD on an upgraded model with a lot of shared components.
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Duke Chin posted:
I was thinking more about his head - if you look the very top of his head is barely sticking up above the cockpit, it looks like the wing of the other plane pushed his head down a bit when it went over. I'm guessing the fuselage behind his head pushed the wing up just enough to make it just skim the top of his skull. I'd be worried about a concussion or neck issues at least.
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The video is posted to the pilot's youtube account. His description has a great explanation of what's going on.
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Godholio posted:The video is posted to the pilot's youtube account. His description has a great explanation of what's going on. The only part of his description that makes me, with hindsight obviously, cringe is how the gently caress do you not shrink down and go fetal position after the first two planes rip by?
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I don't understand why the other plane didn't brake or try to avoid the non-moving plane in front of him earlier. Maybe it looked like it was in motion from a distance or something?
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Inacio posted:I don't understand why the other plane didn't brake or try to avoid the non-moving plane in front of him earlier. Maybe it looked like it was in motion from a distance or something? Hard to see over a tail dragger and you can't just stop on a time if you see the other plane when you start rotating.
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Inacio posted:I don't understand why the other plane didn't brake or try to avoid the non-moving plane in front of him earlier. Maybe it looked like it was in motion from a distance or something? I'm gonna hazard a guess and say it's probably not the easiest thing to stop a raceplane from takeoff throttle in the space given. Plus, we don't know if he was braking or not and he didn't hit the cockpit, so at the end of the day all that matters is both pilots are alive and well (hand notwithstanding)  Also what they said^
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mlmp08 posted:Hard to see over a tail dragger Oh yeah, forgot about that. Probably the reason Spaced God posted:I'm gonna hazard a guess and say it's probably not the easiest thing to stop a raceplane from takeoff throttle in the space given. I did say earlier 
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Phanatic posted:Just got an email from an actual PhD who wants an explanation for some discrepancies he's seeing in the flight data we recorded. It seems that sometimes, just sometimes, the radar altimeter parameter and the pressure altitude parameter are different from one another. Email him a white paper or something describing cosmic ray effect on airliner electronics. That should keep him busy.
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I'm not sure what type of escape mechanism the AH-64 has for inverted recoveries but if it doesn't have something to blow the panels off, those dudes might be toast... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSv-rvGrkgU
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Thom Richard seems to have poo poo luck with his airplanes on the ground. He's the owner/pilot of Precious Metal (a Griffon powered P-51 with counter-rotating props that ran in the Unlimited class), which was destroyed by a fire on the ground while flying to Reno last year, and obviously his Formula 1 airplane didn't fare very well either.
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McDeth posted:I'm not sure what type of escape mechanism the AH-64 has for inverted recoveries but if it doesn't have something to blow the panels off, those dudes might be toast... Man it's gotta suck to be the gunner seeing all that water in your windshield knowing the idiot in the backseat is about to give you a hard bath. σηκώσει σας γαμημένο ηλίθιο!
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So AWACS goons, is balls-five a good or bad tail?
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Isn't it either Balls 5 or Balls 8 with the constant electrical trouble? I remember someone in here worked on that particular plane or something.
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Forums Terrorist posted:Isn't it either Balls 5 or Balls 8 with the constant electrical trouble? I remember someone in here worked on that particular plane or something. Balls 9 (83-0009) was the electrical piece of poo poo, and the last USAF E-3 off the assembly line. The one before it, Balls 8 (83-0008) is the one that had the hard landing at Nellis in 2008 or 09 and was a total loss. Balls 5 is a mid-production run jet. I have no particular recollection of it being reliable or not, which means it was probably about average. However, that screencap says it's an E-3G now, which is the major upgrade from the Block 30/35 E-3 B and C model to the Block 40/45 G model. Which means it's fresh from the maintenance depot, which means it's a steaming pile of poo poo for the next 12 months until the maintainers get it sorted. Edit: I bet they were just controlling SCANG F-16s right off the coast. Those dudes were always good to work with, and their airspace is awesome. I never had any issues with ATC making things more difficult than absolutely necessary. It was a good day when we'd find out we were scheduled to work with Swamp Fox. Godholio fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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If it just came out of Depot, it's either gonna be a peach or a total heap of poo poo for at least a year (LOL GIVE IT TO ALASKA, LET THEM SORT IT). There's no in between.
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Godholio posted:Balls 9 (83-0009) was the electrical piece of poo poo, and the last USAF E-3 off the assembly line. The one before it, Balls 8 (83-0008) is the one that had the hard landing at Nellis in 2008 or 09 and was a total loss. Balls 5 is a mid-production run jet. I have no particular recollection of it being reliable or not, which means it was probably about average. However, that screencap says it's an E-3G now, which is the major upgrade from the Block 30/35 E-3 B and C model to the Block 40/45 G model. Which means it's fresh from the maintenance depot, which means it's a steaming pile of poo poo for the next 12 months until the maintainers get it sorted. JSTARS depot recently sent back an aircraft with the combat radar radome filled with water. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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Balls 7 is my favorite AWACS. She was my deployed jet.
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Dannywilson posted:If it just came out of Depot, it's either gonna be a peach or a total heap of poo poo for at least a year (LOL GIVE IT TO ALASKA, LET THEM SORT IT). There's no in between. I've been watching too much Drag Race 
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CommieGIR posted:JSTARS deport recently sent back an aircraft with the combat radar radome filled with water. I love this story. holocaust bloopers posted:Balls 7 is my favorite AWACS. She was my deployed jet. 0556. That jet got quick turned for like a week straight without a single complaint while *number redacted* others sat on the desert ramp, broke as poo poo. I never, EVER, had a flight on 556 that had a problem.
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Im pretty sure 0552 was the boom killer we had in Alaska.
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Yes! That was the main boom killer. 0552 felt like it had a claim to the throne.
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Godholio posted:
A real hero, that's who.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Yes! That was the main boom killer. 0552 felt like it had a claim to the throne. How were they breaking tankers?
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CommieGIR posted:JSTARS depot recently sent back an aircraft with the combat radar radome filled with water. We got one Hawkeye back from a major mod with new radios, a glass cockpit, and a full can of 7-Up installed behind a cockpit panel.
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Duke Chin posted:Man it's gotta suck to be the gunner seeing all that water in your windshield knowing the idiot in the backseat is about to give you a hard bath. It's ok, Germany will buy the Greeks a new one
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CommieGIR posted:JSTARS depot recently sent back an aircraft with the combat radar radome filled with water. An MH-47 came into BGAD for mod and it turned out that the piss tube had been draining into the ramp and there were gallons of stale urine sloshing around in there.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:a full can of 7-Up installed behind a cockpit panel. ... still closed, I hope ...?
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ehnus posted:... still closed, I hope ...? Evidently.
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When I was working backshop for the AWACS, I one time took apart a pilot's/CP's comms box and found a half can's worth of dried soda and what looked to be 500 calories of potato chips inside. How it got there I have no idea.
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^I've heard of ziploc'd sandwiches being found behind interior fuselage panels. I know for a fact that when ceiling panels fall, anyone who gets hit signs the back before putting it back up.tactlessbastard posted:How were they breaking tankers? Holly Bloops will correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding (at least, this is how it was explained to me at the time) is that the boom latches into the receptacle on the receiver. Some rear end in a top hat jets, like 0355, refuse to release the boom on command. However, if the receiver pulls back beyond the approved range of motion for the boom (or in any direction, I guess), the result is a "brute force disconnect." That requires several hours of maintenance to manually inspect some of the odds and ends inside the boom. That tanker's mission is immediately over and they're RTB and mx is pissed.
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Godholio posted:^I've heard of ziploc'd sandwiches being found behind interior fuselage panels. I know for a fact that when ceiling panels fall, anyone who gets hit signs the back before putting it back up. This was inside a sealed LRU, panels are one thing, but this took taking the LRU out, then like 7 or 8 screws to take the thing apart. HOW DID THE CHIPS GET IN THERE. This is still mind boggling to me like 15 years after it happened.
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Dannywilson posted:This was inside a sealed LRU, panels are one thing, but this took taking the LRU out, then like 7 or 8 screws to take the thing apart. HOW DID THE CHIPS GET IN THERE. They were in there from assembly? Or, the last time it was refurbished. These are high tech, high skilled workers. Imagine whats in the panels of your car or house... I've seen like, half a case of beer get left in the spaces between drywall framing and I've only been to a couple of construction sites.
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Murgos posted:These are high tech, high skilled workers. Imagine whats in the panels of your car or house... I've seen like, half a case of beer get left in the spaces between drywall framing and I've only been to a couple of construction sites. I find that implausible, given the drywallers I know. Reason being: your story involves a full beer and a drywaller presumably being in the same place for some length of time.
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