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FuturePastNow posted:If I'm remembering right, this Japanese DC-3 was damaged and had to have one of its wings replaced with a DC-2 wing (do to an understandable inability to order spare parts). Besides being a few feet shorter, the wing bolted on and worked, I guess. The Japanese built a bunch of DC-3s under license as the L2D
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Spacex is livestreaming the Falcon 9 Heavy launch. I suspect it's on youtube, but CBC seems to be mirroring it here http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-1.4520242 Should be going in a little under an hour.
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Official livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
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There's a V-22 doing pattern work at the National Guard base next to my office, should I fear for my life? It's been flying directly over our building.
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Marathanes posted:Repost from the funny picture thread: Colonial Air Force posted:There's a V-22 doing pattern work at the National Guard base next to my office, should I fear for my life?
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No, and it's really an Army National Guard base, so I'm not sure why it was there. But I survived, despite rubber-neckers watching the thing land and buzz local homes.
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Colonial Air Force posted:There's a V-22 doing pattern work at the National Guard base next to my office, should I fear for my life? eh the majority of its mishaps have been landing related. we've gotten most of the kinks out that swat it right out of the sky. you good dog.
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Crossposting from airpower, my friend captured the falcon heavy launch on thermal camera from 3 miles away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDZ-TucUCPk
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Platystemon posted:
In honor of today's SpaceX test, this flight is also quite "Falcon Heavy".
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drat, I missed it due to work. Watching the saved stream on youtube was great. The side boosters landing together seemed like scifi to me! Two out of three aint bad! And now the Roadster gets to test it's autopilot in the asteroid field!
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Humphreys posted:drat, I missed it due to work. Watching the saved stream on youtube was great. The side boosters landing together seemed like scifi to me! Two out of three aint bad! And now the Roadster gets to test it's autopilot in the asteroid field! Roadsters never had autopilot.
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drgitlin posted:Roadsters never had autopilot. Space is a big target, the Roadster's non-existent autopilot will get it there.
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This was awesome, put your headphones on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoQqNyRL8Y
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the musk fanboys are getting out of controlEnderzero posted:jpitz 6 hours ago [-]
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Sagebrush posted:the musk fanboys are getting out of control I would not be surprised if there exists materials in 2018 that allow a better solution to a problem than materials in the 1960s.
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hobbesmaster posted:I would not be surprised if there exists materials in 2018 that allow a better solution to a problem than materials in the 1960s. Or better ways of taking pictures from the sky. But what really annoys me about that youtube comment, and it annoys me that it annoys me, is that the SR-71 didn't need to be refueled due to leaks, but for lower takeoff weight.
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Ola posted:Or better ways of taking pictures from the sky. Oh yeah well, spacex could engineer an SR-71 that didn’t need refuelin 
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e.pilot posted:Oh yeah well, spacex could engineer an SR-71 that didn’t need refuelin I mean... technically the SpaceX boosters meet the GO HIGH, FASTLY, TAKE PICTURES requirement without mid air refueling.
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hobbesmaster posted:Whether or not there’s a pilot in it is kinda moot for the fuel issue, and lower altitude will always be higher resolution than orbit. More importantly, the SR‐71 could overfly anywhere on the planet on short notice. The NRO may have enough satellites now that they don’t miss that capability, but they certainly didn’t in the SR‐71/A‐12’s heyday.
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Platystemon posted:More importantly, the SR‐71 could overfly anywhere on the planet on short notice. The government still has that capability in the form of stealth planes both manned and unmanned as well as much better sensors (e.g. SAR) aboard non-stealth planes such that you may not need to penetrate into their airspace to see what you want. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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CarForumPoster posted:The government still has that capability in the form of stealth planes both manned and unmanned as well as much better sensors (e.g. SAR) aboard non-stealth planes such that you may not need to penetrate into their airspace to see what you want. Line of sight is still pretty important, and your average SAR image's resolution is not as good as I think you think it is.
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Godholio posted:Line of sight is still pretty important, and your average SAR image's resolution is not as good as I think you think it is. What if you thought I think its worse than you think I think it is?
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There is a reason we are still flying U-2s. There is a whole lof of "satellite imagery" that is just U-2 photos.
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CarForumPoster posted:What if you thought I think its worse than you think I think it is? I concur.
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CarForumPoster posted:The government still has that capability in the form of stealth planes both manned and unmanned as well as much better sensors (e.g. SAR) aboard non-stealth planes such that you may not need to penetrate into their airspace to see what you want. The SR-71 itself didn't do overflights (officially, anyway; who knows with black ops). The A-12 did, but the SR-71 (aka the family model) had more advanced cameras that allowed it to fly along borders and peek in to snap the good shots. IIRC the Soviets were getting prickly about overflights being overt declarations of hostile intent, even if we were technically above their controlled airspace. That prompted the change, which was basically the spooks going "I'm not touching you, III'm nooot touuuuchiiiing youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu".
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Enourmo posted:The SR-71 itself didn't do overflights (officially, anyway; who knows with black ops). The A-12 did, but the SR-71 (aka the family model) had more advanced cameras that allowed it to fly along borders and peek in to snap the good shots. They did overflights of countries other than the Soviet Union though.
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The only countries they've really admitted to flying over with the SR-71 were various Middle East hot spots (one flight was made nonstop from the US mainland to overfly Israel and back via multiple refuelings) and parts of Southeast Asia the US invaded, since I believe the USSR and China were "off limits" for the Air Force for diplomatic reasons.
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Sagebrush posted:the musk fanboys are getting out of control They're the same kind of assholes as the Jobs fanboys were.
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Zemyla posted:They're the same kind of assholes as the Jobs fanboys were. It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts...
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Comrade Gorbash posted:I'd still take the Musk fanboys over the Jobs fanboys. At least Musk doesn't cast being a toxic unrelenting rear end in a top hat as a business strategy. I don't care for either, but Musk is at least doing some cool, interesting things. I feel like the deification of Jobs is entirely by people who need rich people to worship, regardless of the facts. The schedule for Canada's fighter replacement. The 88 airframes thing makes me think that the F-35 might be priced out of the running. (Thinking about it though, I'm not sure if the Liberals care about the 'price cap' Harper set.) Also GIPers, take note Canada wants to sell its leopard 1s. There are a few tank recovery vehicles in there too if you want. Also, this is something I'd never thought I'd write: a Canadian submarine has been deployed someplace. CBC got a reporter aboard the HMCS Chicoutimi and has filed a few reports. The sub confirmed something that is no surprise: North Korea is getting oil/other things on the sly by trading in international waters. http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/inside-a-top-secret-canadian-submarine-1.4524110 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hmcs-chicoutimi-submarine-canada-pacific-north-korea-1.4511238 http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/sub-culture-aboard-a-canadian-submarine-prowling-the-pacific-1.4512960
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I want a Leopard 1 now  Also, thanks for that link on the sub story. The Captain has a pair of the mightiest eyebrows I've seen in some time
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RIP Pebbles I’m not pro hamster flushing but airlines taking a hard line on “emotional support whatevers” is the right call. Also at first I thought she had to flush it on the plane which would be even worse, poor blue hamster.
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priznat posted:RIP Pebbles She could've stayed home I can't say I'm sympathetic to the hamster murder angle of the story
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