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That's a very credible reproduction of a Frank Piasecki fever dream circa 1947.
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I was thinking the CGI russian killdrones from that one companies advertising videos, but built by actual humans.
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Sep 9, 2018 07:14
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That doesn't have nearly enough absurdly complicated mechanisms emerging from the Nth dimension to be a Dahir Insaat creation.
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Fender Anarchist posted:That doesn't have nearly enough absurdly complicated mechanisms emerging from the Nth dimension to be a Dahir Insaat creation. Thanks, I couldn't remember the name of the company.
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Ardeem posted:I was thinking the CGI russian killdrones from that one companies advertising videos, but built by actual humans. Turkish, actually. :cryingerdogan:
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Sep 9, 2018 10:02
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Also here is a buttload of HD video of Hornets and Freedom Fighters firing guns, dropping flares, doing low passes and poo poo in the Swiss Alps. The video is some seriously nice work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVXMyo8iwI
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Vahakyla posted:Also here is a buttload of HD video of Hornets and Freedom Fighters firing guns, dropping flares, doing low passes and poo poo in the Swiss Alps. The video is some seriously nice work. The lame cannon sounds got me wondering - is there any modern HD footage of a WWII plane firing guns while flying? For that matter, are there any vintage/restored WW2 planes that have operational weapons or is that simply not legally possible?
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Stumbled up this on youtube. Xplane 11 video with a few add-ons. It's probably the most incredible video I've seen of any flight simulator. https://youtu.be/0ftzrcv_GHY
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david_a posted:Pretty sure this is a repost from several years back but it’s still good. This should answer both, although I assume they are firing blanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO3gE7VA0Hs
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BadOptics posted:
It's time to think outside the box. Because Christ alive I do not want to be inside that box.
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Sep 9, 2018 16:36
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It it’s range measured in feet?
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slidebite posted:Stumbled up this on youtube. Xplane 11 video with a few add-ons. It's probably the most incredible video I've seen of any flight simulator. They forgot to put in waiting for a gate for the next half hour.
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Sep 9, 2018 16:45
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Mazz posted:It it’s range measured in feet? Just get two of them and fit a buddy refueling system. Problem solved #semperfi.
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Sep 9, 2018 16:47
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vessbot posted:They forgot to put in waiting for a gate for the next half hour. Though it would be hilarious if a simulator included things like no gates available and sorry, there's no ground crews available at this time, we'll get one out to you as soon as one comes available.
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X-Plane How Fast Airline Travel Could Really Be
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Sep 9, 2018 17:34
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Finger Prince posted:Though it would be hilarious if a simulator included things like no gates available and sorry, there's no ground crews available at this time, we'll get one out to you as soon as one comes available. If there could only be a way to simulate that it's day 4 and your commute is parked at the next gate over. But serious talk, I'm sure there is a demographic that would go for that. I forgot if it was in this thread or the other one, where people were talking about people doing real time ocean crossing flights (and real time submarine patrols  )
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Sep 9, 2018 18:49
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vessbot posted:They forgot to put in waiting for a gate for the next half hour. Theres also a cloud over NYC and they didn't appear to be holding for an hour?
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Sep 9, 2018 18:49
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david_a posted:For that matter, are there any vintage/restored WW2 planes that have operational weapons or is that simply not legally possible? https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/10/21/restored-p-51-mustang-real-browning-m2-50cal-machine-guns/
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Sep 9, 2018 19:26
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AN-225 is landing at OAK in about an hour, leaving tomorrow morning early. https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1038804736798015488?s=21 I really wish I could get over to see it.
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Sep 9, 2018 23:41
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What mentally deranged person in the USSR came up with the idea that cockpits should be that colour?
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PT6A posted:What mentally deranged person in the USSR came up with the idea that cockpits should be that colour? Comrade Ilyushin's brother in law administered the paint factory that only made that colour paint (a byproduct of various nuclear testing programs).
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Sep 10, 2018 01:41
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Supposedly it's supposed to be easy on the eyes and prevent fatigue, but that feels like one of those ditties going around with questionable basis in reality. Also the DC-9 cockpit is that color.
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vessbot posted:Supposedly it's supposed to be easy on the eyes and prevent fatigue, but that feels like one of those ditties going around with questionable basis in reality. You know that old story of how Boeing wanted Soviet titanium expertise and the Soviets wanted to know how hang engines under wing, so they set up a secret meeting between a couple of engineers at a bar and they shared knowledge literally on the back of napkins? Well Douglas was the same only they traded their sideways mounting tech for that wicked paint.
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Finger Prince posted:You know that old story of how Boeing wanted Soviet titanium expertise and the Soviets wanted to know how hang engines under wing, so they set up a secret meeting between a couple of engineers at a bar and they shared knowledge literally on the back of napkins? um could you link an article or anything of the like? That is 100 percent my kind of poo poo to read.
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Preoptopus posted:um could you link an article or anything of the like? That is 100 percent my kind of poo poo to read. Joe Sutter talks about it in his 747 book. Boeing engineering met with Russian engineers at a restaurant to discuss exactly that. It's a good read, if a bit rose-colored glasses in feel. I enjoyed it, though.
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Preoptopus posted:um could you link an article or anything of the like? That is 100 percent my kind of poo poo to read. https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-titanium-gambit-3804526/
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Ahhhhh thats the stuff. ty And yea I need that book. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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Sep 10, 2018 07:16
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ATC and video of the An-225 at Oakland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwQiaH5ZsU
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BIG HEADLINE posted:ATC and video of the An-225 at Oakland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwQiaH5ZsU Every time I see pictures of the An-225 it reminds me of something I would have doodled as a kid. "More engines!"
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Sep 11, 2018 16:28
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How long is the An-225 going to last before it wears out?
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david_a posted:How long is the An-225 going to last before it wears out? That's not the right question to be asking. What you should be asking is "is the An-225 still operating?". The answer is another question: "are there still operationally ready B-52s?"
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Sep 11, 2018 18:03
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They were talking about building another one with a partially finished one still in storage.
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Finger Prince posted:That's not the right question to be asking. What you should be asking is "is the An-225 still operating?". The answer is another question: "are there still operationally ready B-52s?" There are dozens of B-52 sorties a week, so sounds like a yes!
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Finger Prince posted:That's not the right question to be asking. What you should be asking is "is the An-225 still operating?". The answer is another question: "are there still operationally ready B-52s?" How long does a air freighter normally last? Say a 747.
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Sep 11, 2018 19:12
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david_a posted:Yes, but the B-52s can’t carry as much payload as when they were new due to fatigue, right? They’re also part of a military supply chain that can practically ignore maintenance/running costs. A normal 747 freighter? As long as it's profitable. A freighter that's a product of soviet/russian/Ukrainian engineering and maintenance, in a lax regulatory environment? How much sheet metal and baling twine you got?
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Most commercial jets go 20-25 years in revenue service from construction to scrapping. Freighters tend to go a bit longer, maybe 30 or 35 years. Heavy checks start to get significantly more expensive after that, in addition to the economic benefits of newer models. Thing with the AN-225 is that it is a unique capability. As long as nothing competes with it in outsize or ultra-heavy air freight, it will probably continue to be profitable, even when the heavy maintenance checks begin turning up major discrepancies.
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Yeah, I'm going to guess in this case the life of the AN-225 will be 1 fewer landings than takeoffs.
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david_a posted:Yes, but the B-52s can’t carry as much payload as when they were new due to fatigue, right? They’re also part of a military supply chain that can practically ignore maintenance/running costs. They carry more now than originally, mostly due to in the 1940s when they were first being designed our modeling was a lot more basic and we know the true limits now. The maintenance and operating costs are actually pretty comparative to other bombers since a lot of the high failure stuff has been replaced with modern equivalents, but there is still the occasional thing where no only does no one make that particular part, but the entire industry that made and used them went extinct 30 years ago, like vacuum tubes for example. Xenoborg fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 11, 2018 |
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StandardVC10 posted:It's time to think outside the box. Because Christ alive I do not want to be inside that box. So, um...you get in it but it is a ROV?
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