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karoshi posted:Inflatable plane, what could possibly go wrong? Fun fact, until the pandemic started I was regularly working alongside the stored first prototype Inflatoplane (on the left of that first image), so this is a personal Special Subject. It is definitely in the category of "Wacky Cold War Ideas" though. The popular "bow and arrow" joke is a myth, apparently they tested airmat fabric against a .45 round and it still held up.
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MrYenko posted:How many separate procurement programs do you think it would take to get that done? Three? Four? Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Fun fact, until the pandemic started I was regularly working alongside the stored first prototype Inflatoplane (on the left of that first image), so this is a personal Special Subject. That's pretty cool. I could see the fabric standing up to a bullet pretty well, in the sense it's just going to just be a hole.. it's not like the bullet should appreciably deform.
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BobHoward posted:I've beaten this drum before but FTFY I mean, just imagine a dozen of these fuckers in tight formation: 
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Stealing this from Julius CSAR, but let's say you have $1500 AUD to burn, an indie Ace Combat-alike game's Kickstarter offering to let you pick a plane to put in their game at that backer level, and you're Canadian. What plane would you pick? The answer ...probably surprises nobody in this thread.
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Psion posted:Stealing this from Julius CSAR, but let's say you have $1500 AUD to burn, an indie Ace Combat-alike game's Kickstarter offering to let you pick a plane to put in their game at that backer level, and you're Canadian. Totally would have picked the Fairey Gannet
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priznat posted:Totally would have picked the Fairey Gannet Canadair Argus
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I am fully aware the Gannet isn’t  it’s just the goofiest option I could think of  The correct option would have been the CF-101 Voodoo in Electric Voodoo livery armed solely with AIR-2A Genies.
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My dream flight simulator is basically 100% Weird Fifties Jets. Yak-23, F4D Skyray, Gloster Javelin, maybe throw in some of those experimental jet seaplanes too.
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StandardVC10 posted:My dream flight simulator is basically 100% Weird Fifties Jets. Yak-23, F4D Skyray, Gloster Javelin, maybe throw in some of those experimental jet seaplanes too. Cutlass or bust.
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StandardVC10 posted:My dream flight simulator is basically 100% Weird Fifties Jets. Yak-23, F4D Skyray, Gloster Javelin, maybe throw in some of those experimental jet seaplanes too. I've seen a Convair F2Y Sea Dart and that would be an entertaining takeoff sequence, that's for sure. e: apparently there was a plan that never made it past the napkin phase to put three of them in a submarine as a sub carrier, and if that's not made for a flight game what is MrYenko posted:Cutlass or bust. or? Psion fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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karoshi posted:Inflatable plane, what could possibly go wrong? Another quality product from the Acme Corporation.
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Psion posted:or? You are third in line for an emergency landing
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StandardVC10 posted:My dream flight simulator is basically 100% Weird Fifties Jets. Yak-23, F4D Skyray, Gloster Javelin, maybe throw in some of those experimental jet seaplanes too. An Area 88 game where you just do mercenary bullshit in a weird tiny 1970s bush conflict with all yesterday's worst gear and occasionally a squadron of themed assholes in matching english electric lightnings or g.91s or FMA I.Ae. 37s shows up to throw down, hell yes give me a game where i can fly the pzl skorpion for gently caress's sake e: runners-up for best unexplored flight sim game world would be a latter-day WWII 1947 setting of piston and prop pushed to their absolute extreme, XF-12s, Mixmasters, Thunderscreeches, etc., and alt-1930s "victory through air power" world where it's all multi-engine air cruisers with 37mm cannons chasing after each other HookedOnChthonics fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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StandardVC10 posted:My dream flight simulator is basically 100% Weird Fifties Jets. Yak-23, F4D Skyray, Gloster Javelin, maybe throw in some of those experimental jet seaplanes too. If you ever find yourself on the south coast of England go find the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, it's a lovely little museum on a now closed airfield staffed mainly by retired RAF members. One of the things they have there is a basic simulator built into the shell of a RAF Lightning operational procedures trainer, it's not a fancy sim, just a wall projector with all the controls hooked into the shell. But what it will come with if you are lucky is a Lightning pilot standing next to you telling you what to do and telling you anecdotes of flying the real thing. Oh, and laughing his arse off when you gently caress up the landing. It's a fun place, all the staff are more than happy to talk to you about anything in the museum for as long as you want to listen.
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Jekub posted:If you ever find yourself on the south coast of England go find the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, it's a lovely little museum on a now closed airfield staffed mainly by retired RAF members. Can confirm - it's a great place and the staff are excellent. They usually outnumber the visitors too, if the times I've been there are indicative, so they're usually pleased to have someone new to talk to and you can spend hours on what's essentially a personal deep-dive tour round the place.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:
Alternatively, a flight sim set in the interwar period and the design doc is just a vhs copy of Porco Rosso
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karoshi posted:Inflatable plane, what could possibly go wrong? It's a shame it's Goodyear and not Michelin, "Un Avion Gonflable" would be a dece username
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I posted this in the cold war thread, and it should also be posted here: The American DoD has posted this sweet PDF covering hypothetical variants of the XB-70. Come for the SST transport, stay for the VTOL 
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Minuteman launching XB-70. That is...an idea.
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My ideal flightsim planes would be turboprop trainers like the PC-21 or T-6 and light helicopters.
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I was hoping for the pants-on-head renderings of the Search and Rescue XB-70 on skis, but these are pretty good.
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My ideal flight sim would be a Sprint strapped to a Buick LeSabre.
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Nebakenezzer posted:A good space force emblem: Since all they really did was spin off Air Force Space Command and made it its own thing, they should have kept the name. US Space Command sounds way cooler than US Space Force
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Blue Footed Booby posted:My ideal flight sim would be a Sprint strapped to a Buick LeSabre. Just stay clear of buttes or other landscape features and you'll do juuust fine.
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Thomamelas posted:Minuteman launching XB-70. That is...an idea. No more  -worthy than the ICBM launching 747 variant. It even housed three of them internally and dropped them out an enormous bomb bay door.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:No more Or the C-5A that actually did it. With the XB-70 Minuteman, I'm picturing it launching the ICBM then showing up over the target to pulverize the rubble some more.
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e.pilot posted:Since all they really did was spin off Air Force Space Command and made it its own thing, they should have kept the name. US Space Command sounds way cooler than US Space Force US Space Command exists.
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Thomamelas posted:Or the C-5A that actually did it. With the XB-70 Minuteman, I'm picturing it launching the ICBM then showing up over the target to pulverize the rubble some more. I always thought that was a Minuteman III until I looked into it more. It was an MM1.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykahkYxsA6g lol
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ImplicitAssembler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykahkYxsA6g As I've said, I'm not an aviation buff, but it strikes me that, "The oscillations aren't as bad as they were," while technically an improvement, is less than ideal.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykahkYxsA6g I can't decide if my favorite part is where he manages to stall the canard on initial rotation, or if he talks about the wallowing rolling motion in flight to be in his "comfort zone" in the second flight of a new airplane design. I don't think there is a test pilot alive today who would be comfortable in the second flight of literally any aircraft, let alone one that somebody kludged together in poor fashion against all given good advice.
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charliemonster42 posted:I can't decide if my favorite part is where he manages to stall the canard on initial rotation, or if he talks about the wallowing rolling motion in flight to be in his "comfort zone" in the second flight of a new airplane design. I don't think there is a test pilot alive today who would be comfortable in the second flight of literally any aircraft, let alone one that somebody kludged together in poor fashion against all given good advice. And thats the difference between a test pilot and a software engineer with cash and an idea.
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The Hunley had to sink multiple times to advance submarine tech. There are going to be risks when you're the first human to build and fly an airplane.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:The Hunley had to sink multiple times to advance submarine tech. There are going to be risks when you're the first human to build and fly an airplane. Orville Wright was the first person killed in an airplane accident. We are not talking about Orville Wright here, we are talking about someone willfully ignoring 100 years of effort to do things 'their way because they are smaht'.
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