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"Coal dust RAM" was just Horton trying to make himself look good in the 80s. https://airandspace.si.edu/collections/horten-ho-229-v3/stealth/ quote:Dobrenz and Spadoni explained that, "during our inspection of the Horten 229 at the Smithsonian museum, it appeared that a material similar to carbon black or charcoal was mixed in with the glue between the thin layers of the leading edge shape." After examining the aircraft, the men analyzed sections of the leading edges of the jet's center section using a portable radar reflectometer called the Next Generation Sensor. They compared the Horten data to a plywood sample 2 centimeters (3/4 inches) thick, presumably a 'control sample,' against which the Horten data could be compared. The findings revealed that:
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cowboy elvis posted:I saw this airplane today A long, long time ago on a jr. high field trip I touched that airplane.
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Finger Prince posted:
The full length video of that in HD starts at 0:30 in this video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FVeZeT_TEA
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Actually pretty impressed how drones can bash into poo poo and just keep on trucking sometimes.
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priznat posted:Actually pretty impressed how drones can bash into poo poo and just keep on trucking sometimes. Yea, if the don't lose a blade or have some other catastrophic failure from the impact, the newer drones control software is pretty amazing at recovering from things as long as they have a little bit of altitude to work with.
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I noticed several of those incidents involve the drone basically running straight into a building or cliff or some such. Is that due to something in their guidance system glitching out and locking in a constant direction, or is it just the person steering it loving up?
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I noticed several of those incidents involve the drone basically running straight into a building or cliff or some such. Is that due to something in their guidance system glitching out and locking in a constant direction, or is it just the person steering it loving up? There are some really bad drone pilots out there, but there's also some really glitchy drone software too. It's often impossible to tell in a video which was which.
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Default Settings posted:Reading through German articles on that thing, "carbon-impregnated plywood" just seems be a reference to the carbon particles in the glue used to laminate the wings. Some sources claim this gave the laminate radar-absorbent properties. Here's a cross-cut: Clearly because the nazis were contacted by aliens and given stealth technology wake up people 
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Random Aussie photodump. RAAF crew messing around with an FA-18  "A RAAF Huey being pumped with exhaust fumes from a jeep to kill a snake which had entered the helicopter"  E7A Wedgetail AWE&C  Naked FA-18G Growler  USAF F-16 & RAAF F18 above Sydney   Indonesian Flankers & RAAF FA-18s above Darwin  Crew of a Globemaster III playing cricket in Antarctica  F-111 low pass (not really, main gear failure in 2006, bellylanding)  C-130 firefighting sometime in the circa 1980  Pig with dummy bombs  A pair of F-111s. Bonus Mirage III learning to fly via Chinook  Busy flightline at RAAF Amberly, 1970 Saving the best for last... 
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Nice photodump! One correction: drunkill posted:
That's an F-15
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drunkill posted:Saving the best for last... Great dump! On the Aussie theme, would anyone like some Connellan Airways (ConnAir) dumps/info? I'm good friends with the family and (with permission) post some cool stuff from the archives the family has. The Connellans are notorious for their pranks and a favourite while in school was being taken hook line and sinker with an old photo framed of the Concorde composited over Ares Rock with the ConnAir logo on it. They called it the Conncorde. Not my photos but:     I'll touch base with them and see what stuff I can get. And of course the grandson does this bullshit crazy stuff: (not Edward) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxAbTUk8bw (featuring the most ever used song in badass flight videos) Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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What airplane is this?
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Nebakenezzer posted:What airplane is this? It's a de Havilland Heron.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's a de Havilland Heron. Looks like a Riley Skyliner conversion.
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drunkill posted:
Vietnam.txt
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ehnus posted:Looks like a Riley Skyliner conversion. Other way around. The Skyliner is a Heron conversion
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Ok... So in the foreground, we have the XB-52. In the middle we have a B-36. Way off in the distance is an F-84. Parked almost off frame to the right is a C-97. What the HELL is parked behind the port wing of the B-36? I've been searching for like an hour now. I'm normally pretty good at this.  Picture is from Wikipedia, Carswell AFB, 1955.
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My best guess is one of these ...or rather, the only one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2J_Super_Savage
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MrYenko posted:Ok... XA2J Super Savage? e: Better pic
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Humphreys posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxAbTUk8bw This is insanely cool. I can't believe the most effective way to do this is get two guys to fly helicopters and a half dozen on cars and bikes...but I suppose it makes sense to find stragglers
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Captain Postal posted:Other way around. The Skyliner is a Heron conversion I may not have been clear but that's what I meant. As in "Riley Skyliner conversion [of a Heron]". I am phone posting so left a few words out.
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CarForumPoster posted:This is insanely cool. I can't believe the most effective way to do this is get two guys to fly helicopters and a half dozen on cars and bikes...but I suppose it makes sense to find stragglers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze4lIPpJ0iY
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Apr 25, 2017 00:02
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Was wondering if anyone was gonna pick that up... 
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Psion posted:My best guess is one of these ...or rather, the only one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2J_Super_Savage YES. I knew I kindof recognized it, but couldn't place it. Thanks.
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MrYenko posted:YES. I knew I kindof recognized it, but couldn't place it. Thanks. for future reference, I don't know how two beers did it but I saw it had contrarotating props and searched for USAF planes with contrarotating props. Wikipedia had a list and it wasn't hard to spot the Super Savage when I got to that page.
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Psion posted:for future reference, I don't know how two beers did it but I saw it had contrarotating props and searched for USAF planes with contrarotating props. Wikipedia had a list and it wasn't hard to spot the Super Savage when I got to that page. Yep, that's pretty much what I did too.
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We could have gotten a bunch of awesome turboprop planes if the T-40 hadn't been a big piece of poo poo.
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These are from the Oshkosh EAA Museum. They had a big selection of bomber nose art on display too. 1940'sish  nose art.       Not at the EAA museum but sitting in the middle of a sad park near a dentists office. 
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Looks like a TA-4, trainer Skyhawk
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:What is this? I believe it was a TA-4J. I forgot to take a photo of the plaque.
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Huh, I thought it looked Skyhawky but I couldn't place it. I've never seen the Skyhawk trainer though.
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FuturePastNow posted:We could have gotten a bunch of awesome turboprop planes if the T-40 hadn't been a big piece of poo poo. Also if it hadn't turned out that making turboprop planes just a little too awesome would give the flight crews diarrhea
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Sagebrush posted:Also if it hadn't turned out that making turboprop planes just a little too awesome would give the flight crews diarrhea From the wikipedia article on the XF-84H: wikipedia posted:Lin Hendrix, one of the Republic test pilots assigned to the program, flew the aircraft once and refused to ever fly it again, claiming "it never flew over 450 knots (830 km/h) indicated, since at that speed, it developed an unhappy practice of 'snaking', apparently losing longitudinal stability".[14] Hendrix also told the formidable Republic project engineer, "You aren't big enough and there aren't enough of you to get me in that thing again". And reputedly this is a sound recording of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItexQxJS9U Not loud enough to make you poo poo yourself, sadly. FuturePastNow fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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FuturePastNow posted:And reputedly this is a sound recording of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItexQxJS9U Not loud enough to make you poo poo yourself, sadly. If it was, I'd be annoyed You know, once I got myself cleaned up
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I have many questions, but I'll start with "How do you even nosewheel?" and go from there. 
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