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haveblue posted:producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards this would look amazing on a guitar
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ADINSX posted:Fighter jets should be required to look like this. It’s all dick waving make work projects for engineers anyway so they might as well look like cool 50s sci fi jets yeah agreed, 1950s jets were basically the best. they were turning out a new prototype like every month and they all looked cool as hell
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for more modern aircraft i always liked the f-20 for some reason shame they never produced them
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Good news! The F-5 and T-38 are essentially the same plane and they made thousands of both.
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yeah i mean the modifications they made to the f-20 sound cool it's not the best looking plane, i just think its neat. like marge with potatoes
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i think that prize goes to the sr-71 looks like a plane batman would have. til that paint is actually blue
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Beeftweeter posted:i think that prize goes to the sr-71 uhhhhhh it's actually the plane the x-men had please try to keep up
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Beeftweeter posted:i think that prize goes to the sr-71 so much of it works the exact opposite of how all other planes work - the fuel is specially formulated not to burn. to start the engines you basically have to throw a lit molotov cocktail into them - the skin is not super smooth but rough and corrugated like cardboard - the metal fuselage gets stronger (not weaker) with repeated flights - the fuel efficiency goes up (not down) the faster you fly it all done using jfk-era technology and design tools and materials just incredible
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They have one at the Boeing museum in Seattle and it’s cool
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FMguru posted:the sr-71 is so weird and so awesome https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003 this book talks a lot about the sr-71 development too
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they have a A-12 prototype at the intrepid, it's pretty great -its joints are intentionally loose on the ground and it's dripping various liquids as it takes off, in flight thermal expansion seals the joints and it stops -not only does fuel efficiency go up, the engine almost transforms into a ramjet at cruising speed, most of the ingested air is routed around the turbines and dumped directly into the afterburner
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rotor posted:i like the osprey so does the ground, lol
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rotor posted:i like the osprey they fly those over Miramar all the time. they’re loud
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I saw one ready for takeoff at the south street heliport once but I couldn't wait around to watch it happen
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i saw those flying over the hudson exactly once, very loud
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I saw one landing at the Pentagon a few years ago when I was biking by
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FMguru posted:i hear those things are awfully loud it glides as softly as a cloud
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Beeftweeter posted:it glides as softly as a cloud hahaha
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lol "easy to install" … "just use our program to reduce it to 12 steps"
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Beeftweeter posted:lol "easy to install" … "just use our program to reduce it to 12 steps" first step is to admit you have a problem
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the ole twin mustang is cool as heck. Its most notable use was as an early radar-equipped night fighter, with a giant radar pod slung between the two fuselages. This variant was called the "long dong"  the air force also made an attempt to improve the firepower of the aircraft over the original 6x 50-cal machine guns: the installation of a gun pod directly underneath with an additional 8x M2s bringing the total to an absurd 14x 50 cal guns, all centrally mounted with no need to worry about convergence or anything.  it didn't solve any of the plane's actual problems though, so this version wasn't ever used
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Beeftweeter posted:lol "easy to install" … "just use our program to reduce it to 12 steps" anything that takes 12 steps isn’t worth doing, couldn’t agree more.
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post hole digger posted:anything that takes 12 steps isn’t worth doing, couldn’t agree more.
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FMguru posted:ill drink to that!
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Beeftweeter posted:lol "easy to install" … "just use our program to reduce it to 12 steps" this was 1999, so partitioning was still a mostly manual affair and you had to choose what modules to include in your kernel
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A lot of Linux-distributions was pretty easy to install back in 2000, provided you ran in to no issues... which was pretty likely back then
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IIRC Debian used to ask like 50 questions in the installer and also I want to say that it also defaulted to a dumb threshold for prompts for packages so you would get like 500 trivial questions from individual packages too I assume the debian installer is better now but that was one of the improvements that ubuntu made over debian at the time since the ubuntu installer just asks a few questions, all at once, before it starts installing mystes fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Mandrake 7 was about as easy as any windows installer if I recall correctly... again, provided you ran in to no issues
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mystes posted:to be fair I want to say the windows installer was also a lot worse back then Try to find a linux installer that can do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXzMBA9VU4
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i remember installing red hat back then, the gui for installing it was similar to (and i remember thinking it was easier than) the one for windows which really weren't that complex anyway. if you just paid attention to the text based portions it wasn't really that bad
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