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I cannot accept any loudest airplane nominations that aren't "C-5 on final approach flying directly over my backyard".
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I cannot accept any loudest airplane nominations that aren't "C-5 on final approach flying directly over my backyard". A B-1 doing the same thing should be louder but a C-5 is probably pretty close.
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Aug 7, 2022 22:54
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Bone with burners is the only airplane I've ever seen set off car alarms and physically shake windows. F-4 is very close up there though.Vincent Van Goatse posted:I cannot accept any loudest airplane nominations that aren't "C-5 on final approach flying directly over my backyard". As someone who lived under short final for an airport a bunch of T-45s and A-4s would train at, i can get on board with this sentiment
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Aug 7, 2022 23:08
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hobbesmaster posted:A B-1 doing the same thing should be louder but a C-5 is probably pretty close. Yeah I remember Bones making the same approach and they weren't as deafening as a C-5. Looking back it might've been the higher pitch and unholy piercing effect of the C-5 engine noise that made the difference.
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Aug 7, 2022 23:13
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The upgraded C-5M are MUCH quieter than the originals.
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Aug 7, 2022 23:18
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Too bad there are no more T-37s. The 6,000 Pound Dog Whistle. 
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Aug 7, 2022 23:58
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Spaced God posted:Bone with burners is the only airplane I've ever seen set off car alarms and physically shake windows. F-4 is very close up there though. Growing up my elementary school was directly under final approach for one of the fields at China Lake. Recess was always full of .... an interesting variety of aircraft. It was only when I was in 4th grade that I was finally able to identify the Soviet stuff as absolutely ear splitting versus everything else.
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Aug 8, 2022 00:22
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The upgraded C-5M are MUCH quieter than the originals. Ah, I may have a poor point for comparison then.
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Aug 8, 2022 01:06
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hobbesmaster posted:Ah, I may have a poor point for comparison then. C-5B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPiD1KlwHU&t=230s C-5M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vWnzvooF4 Still noisy, but decidedly less "screamey" and more "roary." BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Aug 8, 2022 02:22
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BIG HEADLINE posted:C-5B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPiD1KlwHU&t=230s Engine wise didn’t it almost literally go from being a DC-10 with an extra engine from the 60s to a 747-400?
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Aug 8, 2022 03:45
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I went to college next to McChord AFB and remember the howl of C 141s. I knew poo poo was getting serious before the Gulf War in January 1991 when it was non stop
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Aug 8, 2022 05:25
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hobbesmaster posted:Engine wise didn’t it almost literally go from being a DC-10 with an extra engine from the 60s to a 747-400? They currently have CF6-80C2 engines, the DC-10 had CF6-6D and CF6-50Cs. The original C-5 TF39 was the first production high-bypass turbofan. The CF-6 was developed from it but that’s like saying the CFM56 on a 737 is the same as an F-101 in a Bone; technically true but there are a lot of differences.
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Aug 8, 2022 07:11
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I’ll occasionally see C-5s lumbering along in South Carolina and the big fuckers never fail to break my brain with how some that large and slow shouldn’t be able to fly. Neat plane. Loudest I’ve personally been subjected to was some Navy pilot kicking their F-35 into afterburner while taking off from one of the Pensacola NAS fields while we were poking around my brother’s trainer squadron. Got to go climb on an in service Rhino while I was there, that was cool. They wouldn’t let me in the cockpit since the ejection seats were still armed; I was fine with the risk of getting blasted through the top of the cover they were under but they weren’t having it.
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Aug 8, 2022 13:18
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I cannot accept any loudest airplane nominations that aren't "C-5 on final approach flying directly over my backyard". Do none of you remember A-6s? EA-6B's, specifically? When the wind blows the right way, they'd set off car alarms in downtown San Diego. There was never any point to setting a car alarm within a hundred miles of Whidbey Island.
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Aug 8, 2022 15:12
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Do none of you remember A-6s? EA-6B's, specifically? I lived on final approach to NAS Norfolk. Of course I remember them. Still not as overpowering as the C-5.
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Aug 8, 2022 15:19
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Do none of you remember A-6s? EA-6B's, specifically? When the wind blows the right way, they'd set off car alarms in downtown San Diego. There was never any point to setting a car alarm within a hundred miles of Whidbey Island. Unfortunately, growing up near Oceana in the 80s meant A-6s *and* A/B-model Tomcats so yes, my early ear health remembers getting overflown by both while they were flying patterns over Lynnhaven Mall.
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Aug 8, 2022 17:20
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Dr_Strangelove posted:EXACTLY Oh no I think the US still has its share of 6000-lb dogwhistles
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Aug 8, 2022 17:27
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Phy posted:Oh no I think the US still has its share of 6000-lb dogwhistles oh i get you 
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Aug 8, 2022 23:00
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American jets: *whistle* British jets: *howl* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db8lED0dpjQ
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Aug 9, 2022 04:31
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Cable Guy posted:American jets: *whistle* Didn't they sample the Lightning to use for TIE fighter sounds?
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Aug 9, 2022 14:50
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F-18C/D howl was always good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3WMKri9xs
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Aug 10, 2022 01:18
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PhotoKirk posted:Didn't they sample the Lightning to use for TIE fighter sounds? Fake edit: Huh.... seems I was wrong... quote:Sound designer Ben Burtt created the distinctive TIE fighter sound effect by combining an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement 
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Do none of you remember A-6s? EA-6B's, specifically? When the wind blows the right way, they'd set off car alarms in downtown San Diego. There was never any point to setting a car alarm within a hundred miles of Whidbey Island. Car alarms at Nellis are set off routinely by F-35, F-22, and F-15. I don't recall noticing F-16s doing it, but I wouldn't bet against it. Max-perf takeoffs get loud. Edit: As a kid near Hill I do remember sometime in the late 90s we got hit with two sonic booms as a Viper driver pushed it up a bit too much trying to catch up to his flight lead, and the boom bounced off the mountains.
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Aug 10, 2022 14:35
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Piper makes an emergency landing on the freeway in California. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/small-plane-crashes-on-91-freeway-in-corona-chp/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8Y83uHbmI
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Aug 10, 2022 15:13
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Pro-click but be careful about noise around nine minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZPDfZArP_Q
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Aug 11, 2022 07:03
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That was quite intense! Appreciate the pilot's honesty in showing all this. Stuff can happen quick as does information saturation.
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Aug 11, 2022 09:20
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Pro-click but be careful about noise around nine minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZPDfZArP_Q That was a fascinating watch
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Aug 11, 2022 16:08
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That really was a great video. A lot of humility from that guy and a good person to share it. As soon as he said he lost airspeed I said out loud PITOT HEAT lol
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Aug 11, 2022 17:16
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slidebite posted:That really was a great video. A lot of humility from that guy and a good person to share it. I'm not even a pilot but when he said he was flying over 10k through clouds/precip and his airspeed dropped off I immediately thought the same thing.
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https://twitter.com/twuraychel/status/1557953486301667329
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Aug 13, 2022 13:11
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I would have sworn my mother in law was not on an airplane today.
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Aug 13, 2022 13:33
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"I'm not a *medical* doctor but I do hold a doctorate in Fleecing the Gullible from a certain University that no longer exists."
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Aug 13, 2022 14:10
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Can someone tell me what the Sky Warden is about? As far as I understand it, it's a converted industrial plane made to carry surveillance and light ground attack weapons. It seems to me a drone could fulfill the same role without exposing a pilot to risk. Is it meant for export to other countries or really that much cheaper than a drone? What's the deal here?
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Aug 13, 2022 23:38
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Plainly difficult made a video essay about the "Boeing Scandal". Couldn't watch it yet but on other topics where I know something about, Plainly Difficult usually makes good summaries. This one is on my watch list for tonight. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NDEkH0zd3F8
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Aug 14, 2022 10:58
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My mate caught this here in Australia: https://i.imgur.com/xqSokfc.mp4
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Aug 16, 2022 12:16
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Crikey! That’s the largest boomerang I’ve ever seen!
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XB70 https://youtu.be/2Yu3eZGLsdQ
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Question for the thread: what's Russia spare parts supply for Russian/Soviet aviation assets like? If you've been following the Ukraine war, you may know by now that Russia's Air Force suffers from the same rot every other part of its military does. There's a paper strength, but a heavy swath of that is nonfunctional, thanks to neglect, corruption and in 2014 Russia suddenly being cut off from its biggest turbine experts. This is a eye opening article, written in 2018, explaining some of these issues. Here's a few excerpts for the lazy. Recently, the Ukrainians managed to attack a vital airbase of Russia in Crimea, destroying anywhere from ~10 to 30 aircraft, and this isn't a small deal, because all the aircraft were the modernized versions and flying operationally, IE the good ones. And this got me to thinking. Russia held onto the massive Soviet stock of war making equipment, often to no benefit. Of the 12,000 tanks they have in theory sitting around, the deployment of functionally obsolete T-62s from these stocks has people estimating that 87% of that stock is either worthless or picked over for spare parts for the Russian Army. The only time this legacy from the USSR has proved usable has been with Artillery. The only real military success Russia has had in Ukraine has been with intensive application of artillery, where the stocked shells and barrels are still usable. So this brings me back to the question: how much spare parts can Russia get out of its vast air fleets to keep its aircraft flying? I know trade barriers have cut it off from lots of foreign equipment, but can they still keep some operational ability via salvage?
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Platystemon posted:Crikey! That’s the largest boomerang I’ve ever seen! I know I've seen a bigger one but I can't quite recall where. I'll think on it for a while, I'm sure it will come back to me.
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Humphreys posted:My mate caught this here in Australia: Caught what now?
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