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Jonny Nox posted:https://theaviationist.com/2019/01/16/one-of-the-u-s-air-force-aggressor-f-16s-will-get-the-russian-su-57-stealth-jets-digital-paint-scheme/ A college friend that now works at the Austin airport sends me photos on occasion.  
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00 there is the only one of it's kind in existence. I got to see them play around at Miramar in ....2014? They are tiny in person.
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VFC-13 at Fallon has a couple in black. They look loving SHARP.
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slidebite posted:Never seen so many Mig 28s!! And no F-14s left to handle them 
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Dannywilson posted:00 there is the only one of it's kind in existence. I got to see them play around at Miramar in ....2014? They are tiny in person. Is it a 2 seater? Looks like it at a glance
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Mazz posted:Is it a 2 seater? Looks like it at a glance Yup! That's a full custom job right there. You need a 2 seater for training when there's nothing else really out there with the same performance envelope anymore.
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Dannywilson posted:Yup! That's a full custom job right there. You need a 2 seater for training when there's nothing else really out there with the same performance envelope anymore. I lived next to Sheppard AFB for like fifteen years so all I see in the F-5 is a T-38 with camo, what am I missing? 
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Radar, different engine inlets, LERX things. Probably more that I don't know.
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Wikipedia says to move around the Blue Streak MRBM and to get something with a then-brand-new autoland capability
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FBS posted:I lived next to Sheppard AFB for like fifteen years so all I see in the F-5 is a T-38 with camo, what am I missing? As Godholio said, radar, LERX, but also more dry thrust, more wet thrust, wing shape, tail shape, airbrake design, drag chute, landing gear, some other minor stuff.
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simplefish posted:Wikipedia says to move around the Blue Streak MRBM and to get something with a then-brand-new autoland capability While I think the part where the RAF was all 'we need a heavy lifter' and Short working on the design makes sense, I'm baffled by the RAF then going "all we need is ten" (if so why not just buy American) and 10 years later retiring the fleet so a private company could rent them the Belfast at greatly inflated prices. These honkies got used in Gulf War 1. e: vv good point vv Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jan 18, 2019 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:and 10 years later retiring the fleet so a private company could rent them the Belfast at greatly inflated prices I can't imagine a more British decision than this.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Why did the Short Belfast exist? the long one wouoldn't fit in the terminal
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sandoz posted:the long one wouoldn't fit in the terminal 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Why did the Short Belfast exist? Interesting seeing a bunch of CF-100’s parked behind it. I wonder if it was over in Canada when that picture was take. The Counk was not a sexy plane but it did it’s job well for the era it was designed in.
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It's Gander airport, the short time "air support command" was a thing says the photo was taken around '67-'73. Fun fact: this picture is actually full color, this is what direct sunlight looks like in NL between November and April
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When did Newfoundland/Labrador joind conferderation? '63? Oh poo poo I was way off. 1949.
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This is kind of out there, but does anyone know where I can get an energy-maneuverability diagram for an A6M5 Zero? I'm polishing off Paul Kennedy's The Engineers of Victory, and he claims that the Hellcat could outperform the Zero in every way (climb rate/energy addition, yes, sustained/instantaneous turn rate though?) Found one for the Hellcat, but I can't seem to dig one up for the Zero.
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Some new footage of the Shoreham Airshow crash released during the trial of the pilot... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vyzS5rp7M4&t=94s
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wibble posted:Some new footage of the Shoreham Airshow crash released during the trial of the pilot... Holy cow, I missed hearing about this somehow. How did he survive that, unscathed it looks like. Is he Unbreakable??
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wibble posted:Some new footage of the Shoreham Airshow crash released during the trial of the pilot... Man, that's a pretty weak defence case if "G-induced hypoxia" is the best thing they can come up with. It's not like G-forces are an unexpected phenomenon, so even if you buy that claim, his first mistake was planning that routine over a populated area without knowing how the G's would affect him. They're basically arguing "it's not pilot error, it's, uh, a different type of pilot error..."
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They're hoping it's the type that doesn't earn him a guilty verdict on 11 counts of manslaughter. That they're taking this course at all tells me he's hosed.
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Just finished reading up about the Cirrus that went down at Hobby back in 2016. The pilot had 250 hours PIC, 300 total. VFR rated. She did 3 go arounds before stalling into a flat spin and crashing into a parking lot. All three aboard were killed. The comms are heartbreaking. She’s trying to accept all these tight pattern instructions from the tower and there isn’t a hint of frustration in her voice. They kept pulling her out of sequence because commercial traffic was closing too quickly, and she never protested or asked for vectors. Just kept accepting turns trying to get her in between other arrivals rather than handing her off to approach for resequencing. On the third attempt they brought her in way too close and she couldn’t get down fast enough, and there was another jet inbound. They called her go around and asked her for a mid-field pattern entry and kept telling her to keep it right and low. She raised the flaps about 15kts below the clean stall speed, started rolling left, and entered a spin around 500 feet. She didn’t attempt to deploy CAPS. Not that it would have mattered as the spin deployment altitude is 920 AGL. Here’s the details: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=188000 And here’s a decent video covering it: https://youtu.be/2w5gIEmVIXo
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Jealous Cow posted:They kept pulling her out of sequence because commercial traffic was closing too quickly That's some bullshit. If ATC fucks up and sequences me too close behind a slower plane or whatever, they tell me to go around, as it should be. I don't give a gently caress if you're in a Seneca or a 737, why the gently caress should the person in front and lower get hosed over because ATC didn't space the traffic properly?
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PT6A posted:That's some bullshit. If ATC fucks up and sequences me too close behind a slower plane or whatever, they tell me to go around, as it should be. I don't give a gently caress if you're in a Seneca or a 737, why the gently caress should the person in front and lower get hosed over because ATC didn't space the traffic properly? Exactly, but she didn’t speak up and force them to fix their spacing. Edit:   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/02/vintage-plane-rips-runway-take-off-inwolverhampton/ Jealous Cow fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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Inside Putin's IL-96-300PU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL20cnH6_xQ Love the remarkably ghetto mid-90s Hi-Fi console @ 1:46. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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PT6A posted:That's some bullshit. If ATC fucks up and sequences me too close behind a slower plane or whatever, they tell me to go around, as it should be. I don't give a gently caress if you're in a Seneca or a 737, why the gently caress should the person in front and lower get hosed over because ATC didn't space the traffic properly? Because Southwest Airlines brings a lot of money into the airport. More than your GA pilot’s purchase of 8 gallons of AVGAS? Gotta keep the airliners on time! ATC’s legal obligations are 1. Safety 2. Efficiency. But in typical day to day workflows #2 is pushed a lot harder than #1.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Inside Putin's IL-96-300PU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL20cnH6_xQ Remarkably drab for probably the wealthiest man in history That’s like NK level decor
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Because Southwest Airlines brings a lot of money into the airport. More than your GA pilot’s purchase of 8 gallons of AVGAS? Gotta keep the airliners on time! ATC is completely independent of the airport, I guarantee this is 100% about convenience to the controller.
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