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hobbesmaster posted:Its a wild weasel - so its an ECM pod on the centerline, AGM-88 on the inner pylons then a tank, AIM-9 and AIM-120 on each wing. Up front is the HTS. NICE ONE DAD 
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cowboy elvis posted:Were we discussing ugly airplanes again? No, we're discussing those rare people struck with a combination of Tourette's and Creutzfeld-Jacob's disease.
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The Locator posted:Looks more natural in the video, guess the making it into a gif (frame dropping) was making me think something just looked... wrong. Well you're only limited to 256 colors in an OG .gif (unlike the much superior gifv/mp4/webm) and that gif is also slightly sped up making it appear even more "off".
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So I've decided at some point in the next 6-8 months to fly out to LA to visit the Edwards AFB Flight Test Museum, because I want to see the two-seater A-10 and *both* F-16XLs up close, and just in browsing, I came across this image and it presents a dilemma - which is sexier? It's really not that far, it's maybe an hour and a half drive to Palmdale, get something to eat, whatever. Then another 45 minutes to Edwards. You also can't get in unless you have base access. e: Or are you talking about Black Bird Air Park on Plant 42? Plinkey fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Aug 4, 2017 |
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cowboy elvis posted:Were we discussing ugly airplanes again? V-bombers were mentioned, so yes.
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Plinkey posted:It's really not that far, it's maybe an hour and a half drive to Palmdale, get something to eat, whatever. Then another 45 minutes to Edwards. I work for DoD so it shouldn't be an issue. I'll probably pre-register for one of the monthly tours anyway. I know I definitely want to go during the late winter/early spring, since walking around a desert in the summer doesn't sound like fun.
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joat mon posted:No, we're discussing those rare people struck with a combination of Tourette's and Creutzfeld-Jacob's disease. Welp, this covers it, laters 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I work for DoD so it shouldn't be an issue. I'll probably pre-register for one of the monthly tours anyway. I know I definitely want to go during the late winter/early spring, since walking around a desert in the summer doesn't sound like fun. It's really not all that bad in the summer unless it's like Aug. early winter is probably your best bet, like Novemberish. It's not cold as poo poo in the mornings yet and it still gets up into the 60s-70s or so in the afternoon. Spring is windy as gently caress.
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Victors were definitely ugly as hell but in the most awesomely terrifyingly way possible.
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They're pretty much the epitome of the absurd thing a mad Brit banged together in a shed and conquered the world with class of technologies.
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TTerrible posted:Talking poo poo about V Bombers should be a probatable offence. Sadly it'd take 8 mods and an admin to do it, and it's still only be a 6 hour probate at worst.
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Mr. Despair posted:Sadly it'd take 8 mods and an admin to do it, and it's still only be a 6 hour probate at worst. This is a good post.
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Mr. Despair posted:Sadly it'd take 8 mods and an admin to do it, and it's still only be a 6 hour probate at worst. nice
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Platystemon posted:
Closed cycle phase change expansion fuel turbopump. What you're witnessing is the fuel heater.
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Duke Chin posted:Well you're only limited to 256 colors in an OG .gif (unlike the much superior gifv/mp4/webm) and that gif is also slightly sped up making it appear even more "off". Technically you're limited to 256 colors per frame, and there are many examples out there of trickery using zero delay frames in an animated GIF to overlay as many colors as you need. That said if you need more than 512 colors per frame doing that ends up taking up more space than a standard 24 bit bitmap would have so its generally stupid to do.
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Platystemon posted:
Rolls Royce makin' sure that the fuel has a bit less ice in it! 
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cowboy elvis posted:Were we discussing ugly airplanes again? Inherently, no airplane is ugly, but is instead a fantastic marvel of industrial engineering. On the other hand, airbusses are, at best, "office hot"
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Coooobraaaaaaaa! (80s kids will get this)
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He's a real pilot, now! This may well be a fake video, but I can see someone being this fuckin' nuts. Just not sure what the left capacity is on those things. https://twitter.com/TripleSixGod/status/893243149417578496
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mlmp08 posted:He's a real pilot, now! This may well be a fake video, but I can see someone being this fuckin' nuts. Just not sure what the left capacity is on those things. No way that is lifting a real person.
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https://m.imgur.com/r/woahdude/LqGqgzq (Not sure how to just share it as a gifv or webm or whatever from mobile, but it's a hammock dude and it's a drat sight more heavy duty than the drone in the tweet) (But I'm pretty sure this is hung from a crane, looking at the bit where he's over water) simplefish fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Aug 4, 2017 |
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mlmp08 posted:I can see someone being this fuckin' nuts. A pale imitation of previous greatness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7w_v9J7iOc
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An Osprey hit the drink off the coast in Australia during Talisman Sabre wargames. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-05/search-underway-for-us-marine-corps-aircraft-crew-off-queensland/8778202 23 marines rescued, three missing presumed dead
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Thwomp posted:Ummm... I swear to god I can't stop unseeing this as an F-16 with a smaller, fully loaded F-16 on a wing-mounted pylon.
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So why doesn't Lockheed offer the XL and still just the block 60/70 whenever they throw the 16 at people? It can't be that much more.
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F16 production is dwindling, it is an old design now. I guess countries with the cash to but new planes these days want the new hotness.
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mlmp08 posted:He's a real pilot, now! This may well be a fake video, but I can see someone being this fuckin' nuts. Just not sure what the left capacity is on those things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3xcj-pTjg
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Deptfordx posted:F16 production is dwindling, it is an old design now. I guess countries with the cash to but new planes these days want the new hotness. It's not exactly that they want the new hotness, but that pretty much everyone with money to buy fighters has the F-16's roles covered and are looking for aircraft to supplement those capabilities.
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MrYenko posted:The Navy's have. The Marines still have some Prowlers kicking around. And the Navy only got rid of their last Prowlers within the last couple of years.
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