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gets out of airplane; immediately picks fight with the driver of the van he crashed into
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Aug 8, 2017 01:43
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slidebite posted:More XL please 
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Aug 8, 2017 02:30
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I was looking up information on those tip-ramjet-powered kit helicopters you used to see in the back of magazines. I vaguely remember that there was one guy behind a lot of such designs, and that a lot of them were total nonsense that'd never been built. Anyone know who I'm thinking of? Btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qar7yH5Wq1I "Why are you on Tinder?"
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Groda posted:I was looking up information on those tip-ramjet-powered kit helicopters you used to see in the back of magazines. I vaguely remember that there was one guy behind a lot of such designs, and that a lot of them were total nonsense that'd never been built. Anyone know who I'm thinking of? "I'm on Tinder because your uncle Jack is obviously dead now and I'm trying to find a more reliable life partner." Ola fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Aug 8, 2017 08:55
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Groda posted:
Considering this didn't end up in the shadenfreude thread first this, sadly, didn't end as expected.
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Groda posted:I was looking up information on those tip-ramjet-powered kit helicopters you used to see in the back of magazines. I vaguely remember that there was one guy behind a lot of such designs, and that a lot of them were total nonsense that'd never been built. Anyone know who I'm thinking of? I'm pretty sure this wasn't the guy (Richard Frank of Wooster Engineering), since he was advertising like 30 years earlier than the ads I saw, but here's what you'd get for sending in your $1.00 to an actual back-of-the-magazine ad back in the day: http://imgur.com/gallery/ThpPJ
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Aug 8, 2017 09:43
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Should be Wooster  Engineering
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Aug 8, 2017 19:53
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I grew up 10 miles from Wooster. I'm kind of surprised I didn't know of this.
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Aug 8, 2017 20:22
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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. Acebuckeye13 posted:A pale imitation of previous greatness. Vitamin J posted:This one's real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzSlRO57itI
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Aug 9, 2017 03:50
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Well it's a slow night at the airplane thread in the car section of the internet comedy forum. Here, have a documentary from 1980 by the Canadian National Film Board on the Canadair Challenger. Complete with 70's doco slow psychedelic horror mood music, interview audio played over material shots, and long uninterrupted, non-frantic sequences that make for an immersive and enjoyable, if not slightly boring, watch. I stuck it out to the end since it's the daddy of my current ride, and was rewarded by a beautiful closing sequence of the prototype frolicking around the camera plane in front of some dramatic terrain, set to Pachelbel's Canon. vessbot fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Aug 9, 2017 03:55
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Groda posted:I was looking up information on those tip-ramjet-powered kit helicopters you used to see in the back of magazines. I vaguely remember that there was one guy behind a lot of such designs, and that a lot of them were total nonsense that'd never been built. Anyone know who I'm thinking of? Colin Furze would get it to work.
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Aug 9, 2017 05:59
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Kebbins posted:Colin Furze would get it to work. Not everyone has access to his punk majyyks.
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Aug 9, 2017 06:04
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Just saw Dunkirk on this thread's recommendation. If it doesn't win all the awards for sound it will be a great injustice. I was bouncing in my seat with glee when the planes roared or screamed on screen.
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Aug 9, 2017 07:28
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Wow lotta posts to catch up on! Coast Guard One sounds pretty badass really.
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Aug 9, 2017 07:32
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Slo-Tek posted:I grew up 10 miles from Wooster. I'm kind of surprised I didn't know of this. Hah, I grew up just outside with a Wooster address and went to Triway. What's up Wayne County buddy? I learned the other day that the first (or among the first, she was in the first graduating class) woman aviator in the US Navy was from Wooster. Why we didn't learn about that in school I'll never know. Judy Neuffer CroatianAlzheimers fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Aug 9, 2017 16:44
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Not sure if this is viewable outside Ireland, but this is a clip from the Irish news in 1992 about a guy who built a Rutan Long-EZ in his flat in the middle of Dublin for a bet with his friend: http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0801/894464-homemade-light-aircraft/
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Aug 9, 2017 17:19
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I've said it before and I'll say it again... It's so goddamn delightfully optimistic  https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/895308766945697792
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Aug 10, 2017 01:35
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what the gently caress are those
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Aug 10, 2017 01:39
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Light attack/COIN planes. Right is Textron's Scorpion, left is Sir Tractor. They're for bringing back the OA-10 mission. Fake e: autocorrect but leaving it in. God I love the Airtractor
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Aug 10, 2017 01:47
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Holy poo poo yeah I am 100% calling it Sir Tractor™ from now on.
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Aug 10, 2017 01:49
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Oh, right, the plane that's literally an armored crop duster.
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Aug 10, 2017 02:03
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Light attack/COIN planes. Right is Textron's Scorpion, left is Sir Tractor. They're for bringing back the OA-10 mission. Do you mean the OV-10?
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Aug 10, 2017 02:24
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Just bring back the Bronco!
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Aug 10, 2017 02:24
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We need a modernized P-47.
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Aug 10, 2017 02:36
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pthighs posted:We need a modernized P-47. I think those (or better yet, a Skyraider) are way more plane than they have in mind.
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Aug 10, 2017 02:41
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Dannywilson posted:Do you mean the OV-10? Yes  The Bronco and the Mohawk were two of my favourite planes as a kid.
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joat mon posted:I think those (or better yet, a Skyraider) are way more plane than they have in mind. P-47 "only" had a bomb load of 2500lbs, the jet in that picture (scorpion) claims 9200lbs of armaments. Modern combat aircraft are huge compared to WWII aircraft.
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Aug 10, 2017 03:08
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hobbesmaster posted:P-47 "only" had a bomb load of 2500lbs, the jet in that picture (scorpion) claims 9200lbs of armaments. Case in point: the tiny ov-10 is close-ish to the size of a P-38, while only 2/3 the weight. A Su-27 is the size of a B-17.
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Aug 10, 2017 03:36
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Case in point: the tiny ov-10 is close-ish to the size of a P-38, while only 2/3 the weight. A Su-27 is the size of a B-17. Same with the F-15 and (for the E model) it can carry about 4-5x the ordnance to the same combat radius. And once it drops its bombs it's still a loving mach 2.5 air superiority fighter. Jet engines make magical things possible, y'all.
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Aug 10, 2017 06:12
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Either way, they need a shark/tiger mouth. We went to the Udvar-Hazy museum recently, where they have a Flying Tiger P-40. My 5 year old daughter pointed and said, "Oooh, that's a fighter plane, it's got a mouth." She was not wrong. (She also pointed at the SR-71 and shouted "Blackbird!" Unprompted. I was proud.)
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Aug 10, 2017 06:23
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The Flying Tigers were disbanded and reformed into the 23d Fighter Group, which still paints shark mouths on their A-10s. But by god they looked better in green: 
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Aug 10, 2017 06:38
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Godholio posted:The Flying Tigers were disbanded and reformed into the 23d Fighter Group, which still paints shark mouths on their A-10s. I just always assumed the mouth was a factory requirement? EDIT: I started thinking of emojis to put on planes and the F35 just needs poop on it in a never ending pattern. ESPECIALLY at the rear when it does the VTOL stuff.
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Aug 10, 2017 12:35
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Godholio posted:The Flying Tigers were disbanded and reformed into the 23d Fighter Group, which still paints shark mouths on their A-10s. When the Arkansas Air National Guard switched from F-16s to A-10s, they added tusks.
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Aug 10, 2017 12:52
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Aren't tusks on A-10s a combat badge sort of thing (at least at one time, for some units)? Kinda like US cavarly does with spurs.
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Aug 10, 2017 14:50
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So, the Selfridge Open House returns to Selfridge AFB this year, and they just released this flyer for the glorious, star-spangled Friday Night buttrock extravaganza to kick off the weekend's festivities. Festivities that include a performance by the Thunderbirds. Anyone notice anything strange about the composition? 
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Aug 10, 2017 14:56
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:So, the Selfridge Open House returns to Selfridge AFB this year, and they just released this flyer for the glorious, star-spangled Friday Night buttrock extravaganza to kick off the weekend's festivities. Festivities that include a performance by the Thunderbirds. Anyone notice anything strange about the composition? That's Randy Ball's MiG-17F. He puts on a badass show.
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Aug 10, 2017 15:10
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Also goddamn that's a hell of a lineup.
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Aug 10, 2017 15:16
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I'm planning my trip to see Blackbird #26 which will take me to Detroit and then Kalamazoo the first weekend of September. Is there anything Cold War or aviation-related up in Michigan that's worth seeing?
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:So, the Selfridge Open House returns to Selfridge AFB this year, and they just released this flyer for the glorious, star-spangled Friday Night buttrock extravaganza to kick off the weekend's festivities. Festivities that include a performance by the Thunderbirds. Anyone notice anything strange about the composition? legit thought this was a kid rock campaign flyer.
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