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Lord Stimperor posted:If you clog up the only lavatory, is that an urgency or a distress? Knowing the USAF, they'd re-use the E-3's lav, which is basically an old-style porta-potty where there's a toilet bowl sitting on top of the tank, and you can look straight in. Taking a seat was always a dangerous proposition, because if the jet hits a bump Poseidon's not just gonna give you a kiss...he's giving you the bad blue business. It was not uncommon on longer flights for the lav to get nearly full. It was SOP for crew to save to their gatorade or whatever empty bottles, so guys could pee in there and reserve the last of the lav's space for the ladies. And they say chivalry is dead.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Saw that goddamn thing in PopMech forty drat years ago I remember seeing it or one of its earlier iterations on the TV show That's Incredible. If you are old enough to remember that show, sit down and have a prune juice with me.
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Raptor guy posted a video to his personal channel about the thruster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrnu0-vL504
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I remember seeing it or one of its earlier iterations on the TV show That's Incredible. If you are old enough to remember that show, sit down and have a prune juice with me. Watched it every week. BRING ME MAH PRUNE JUICE, BOY  Arson Daily posted:Clive cussler had Dirk Pitt riding around in one of those in a book published in the 90s. Easily the most implausible thing that man ever did and he rose the titanic for gods sake Catching a 16” shell (loaded with a biological weapon fired at Washington D.C. by an aggrieved South African who bought an Iowa-class battleship as scrap) on a helicopter skid was pretty out there Dr_Strangelove fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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Dr_Strangelove posted:bought an Iowa-class battleship as scrap Why can't I go on GovDeals and buy a warship? Huh?
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Salami Surgeon posted:Raptor guy posted a video to his personal channel about the thruster If he's really getting 1500lbs of static thrust from a 90hp input, that's uhhhh... Huge. I also don't for a moment believe its capable of doing that.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Watched it every week. FTFY
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Safety Dance posted:Why can't I go on GovDeals and buy a warship? Huh? It seems that one aggrieved South African ruined it for the rest of us
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Salami Surgeon posted:Raptor guy posted a video to his personal channel about the thruster If he spends all his time and money constantly trying to re invent the wheel he will never get to the point of actually getting off the ground and hurting somebody, so this might be the best outcome you could hope for imo.
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Some wicked Wedgetail crew patches:
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Some absolute legends paraglide to K2 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pilots-history-paragliding-k2-mountain-085255535.html
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I first read that book in 1979 at age eight, then reread it in high school. My memory for fine detail is a tad hazy…
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Humphreys posted:Some wicked Wedgetail crew patches:
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To one-up the patches... JM just posted this, I thought it was a render. Nikon D7500 - Sigma 150-600mm
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It looks like a render because he HDR'd the poo poo out of it. Way too much postprocessing. Cute composition though.
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Humphreys posted:Some wicked Wedgetail crew patches: What's the Latin on #3 say?
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Test pilot stories - how to fly formation with a lifting body test vehicle that drops like a rock * F-16 * 3 *empty* external tanks * gear down right at load limits * speed brake deployed manually * forward slip at 300 kts. https://twitter.com/Stuck4ger/status/1633793825305948160?s=20
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slidebite posted:Plane watcher does a trip on a 732 solely for gravel operations at obscure airports in Northern Quebec Haha, without even clicking I knew it was Alex Praglowski
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illectro posted:Test pilot stories - how to fly formation with a lifting body test vehicle that drops like a rock (click to embiggen)  With the coolest runway-test-flight tow vehicle: 
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Humphreys posted:Some wicked Wedgetail crew patches: LOVE it.
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Humphreys posted:Some wicked Wedgetail crew patches: Great work. Whoever designed these gets an A+.
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Godholio posted:LOVE it. Dr_Strangelove posted:Great work. Whoever designed these gets an A+. Here are a whole bunch more I found: https://bomberpatches.com/collections/all/raaf
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illectro posted:Test pilot stories - how to fly formation with a lifting body test vehicle that drops like a rock This is what thrust reversers are for  
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So much for Reno. https://www.kolotv.com/2023/03/09/2023-mark-final-year-air-races-reno/
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haahaa, I spent an immense amount of time in chuck Yeager and MSFS diving 737(I think) into the runway with thrust reversers on. I would pretend it was the space shuttle.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:So much for Reno. This isn't a huge shock, since the fatality last year probably made the arguments from the housing developers around the airport stronger, but it's still sad since the organizers had been working on a bunch of stuff for the 60th anniversary of the races in 2024. Since the races require a venue with some pretty specific requirements (large areas of empty space around the airport, the ability to deal with a lot of spectators, and decent weather in September to reduce conflict with airshow season), I'm pretty sure they won't do anything next year, and it's pretty likely the event never comes back anywhere.
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MrYenko posted:If he's really getting 1500lbs of static thrust from a 90hp input, that's uhhhh... I love this guy, he's done a ton of work on something that he can't possibly have done any actual calculations on. This is the dude that made the Audi powered deathtrap that never achieved stable flight, right? BRB, designing my Estes powered SSTO spaceplane. MrYenko posted:
Nah, Virginia class. No, the other one. 
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Elviscat posted:I love this guy, he's done a ton of work on something that he can't possibly have done any actual calculations on. Yup, that's the dude. To be fair to him, he did eventually manage to make the deathtrap stabilize up a bit. Some of it may have been PIO; it didn't stagger around the sky in later flights. However, it kept suffering mechanical failures due to his poo poo tier engineering and construction. Ironically, the engine failure which forced him to emergency crashland in a cornfield probably saved his life. At the time, he was attempting to ferry fly the thing from east coast to west coast, but couldn't take it above a few thousand feet. I 100% believe that if he had been able to continue, he was absolutely going to kill himself in a box canyon somewhere in the Rockies. Seems like no lessons were learned and he still thinks that having taught himself to run CAD and CFD software means he can engineer things with revolutionary performance. His hubless ducted fan thing is a hoot.
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FuturePastNow posted:What's the Latin on #3 say? This is a quote from my Italian Step-Father that studied latin. He can't really make much sense of it. Which bummed him as he's a retired paratrooper and it piqued his interest. quote:Non sapio caput translated from Latin to Italian = not a wise head The owner of the patches can get in touch with the crew and will update us all. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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BobHoward posted:At the time, he was attempting to ferry fly the thing from east coast to west coast, but couldn't take it above a few thousand feet. I 100% believe that if he had been able to continue, he was absolutely going to kill himself in a box canyon somewhere in the Rockies. I've seen it supposed that the altitude on the ferry flight was due to him scud running.
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As many times as I watch this, I can't grasp the scale of the plane. It always shrinks a little bit in my mind before hitting the car.
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Elviscat posted:Nah, Virginia class. Albany Class, yo 
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Someone looked at the British Queen Anne's mansion superstructures and got thirsty.
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Humphreys posted:This is a quote from my Italian Step-Father that studied latin. He can't really make much sense of it. Which bummed him as he's a retired paratrooper and it piqued his interest. It's probably just "No Bull poo poo" and whichever online translation service the artist used came up with something anachronistic.
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