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f16s truly are the prettiest jet fighter, they're aesthetic even in their death throes
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thats sick af, the f22 is sick af
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HookedOnChthonics posted:f5s truly are the prettiest jet fighter, they're aesthetic even in their death throes Fixed for A E S T H E T I C
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No they ain't, wings look square and unsofisticated. The 16xl was much better, but still. Even the F14 is more elegant than either the 16 or 22
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Oct 3, 2023 08:42
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the F22 will always have a special place in my heart, just because of how they implemented it into Command and Conquer Generals, one of my favorite games of all times
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i am extremely pro-general-aviation-zero-zero-ejection-seat. mostly just so i can try one
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Parachutes are great, but they won't help you low to the ground, which incidentally is the exact place you probably won't have many other options. I wonder what the specs are, how low and slow can you be and the chute would work as intended. Or still gain some benefit. If I have just landed and notice another plane or something else is about to cross the runway in front of me, I might deploy it for just extra braking.
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Saukkis posted:I wonder what the specs are, how low and slow can you be and the chute would work as intended. Or still gain some benefit. If I have just landed and notice another plane or something else is about to cross the runway in front of me, I might deploy it for just extra braking. Cirrus's CAPS has been tested as low as 260 feet.
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Mikojan posted:the F22 will always have a special place in my heart, just because of how they implemented it into Command and Conquer Generals, one of my favorite games of all times Huh. Never noticed before, but that model is based on the YF-22 rather than the production F-22A. I guess the plane wasn't yet operational when the game came out
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Mikojan posted:the F22 will always have a special place in my heart, just because of how they implemented it into Command and Conquer Generals, one of my favorite games of all times Did one of its vert stabs get shot off, or is that just the model in-game?
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Corn Burst posted:Did one of its vert stabs get shot off, or is that just the model in-game? It's probably just a flat polygon that is lining up perfectly with the camera so that it's too thin to be rendered.
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Saukkis posted:I wonder what the specs are, how low and slow can you be and the chute would work as intended. Or still gain some benefit. If I have just landed and notice another plane or something else is about to cross the runway in front of me, I might deploy it for just extra braking.
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evil_bunnY posted:officially 400 feet but it’s been deployed successfully under 3. How to reject a takeoff in one easy step
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Cactus Ghost posted:i am extremely pro-general-aviation-zero-zero-ejection-seat. mostly just so i can try one how do you feel about severe back pain
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Mr Lanternfly posted:It's probably just a flat polygon that is lining up perfectly with the camera so that it's too thin to be rendered. Yeah this. I played a lot of C&C Generals back in the day and it's a fast-paced RTS, you were not meant to be looking at that model up close and zoomed in during 99.99% of gameplay. Absolutely believable that the model would have had zero-thickness tailplanes to reduce poly count.
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That image seems odd, because all the ingame screenshots on the c&c wiki correctly show both: https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Raptor_(Generals)?file=Gen1_Raptor.jpg King Raptors in Zero Hour were even more absurd. how about more powerful missiles and built-in point defense 
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Kesper North posted:how do you feel about severe back pain i'm for it
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Mr Lanternfly posted:It's probably just a flat polygon that is lining up perfectly with the camera so that it's too thin to be rendered. yeah you can see a few pixels forming a straight line where it should be
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There was that Sega Genesis game, too, F22 Interceptor that had funky looking version. edit: here's a short vid about it and I forgot it had aircraft carrier capability.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQ8Ppcf_DA AzureSkys fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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F22 XL - Extra Long Carries all of the missiles. All of them.
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AzureSkys posted:There was that Sega Genesis game, too, F22 Interceptor that had funky looking version. If you are bad at drawing wings and tail, just keep going with what you know.
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The thrust vectoring capabilities are crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rxv1gO9zkA
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I was watching the airspace over Israel over the last two days and was surprised to see all commercial traffic is kept below ~FL150 until it flies out over the med or crosses into Amman FIR. I imagine they keep higher alt for military ops?
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Mokotow posted:I was watching the airspace over Israel over the last two days and was surprised to see all commercial traffic is kept below ~FL150 until it flies out over the med or crosses into Amman FIR. I imagine they keep higher alt for military ops? The chip shortage has affected IAI's decoy drone manufacturing, had to resort to the next best thing.
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here's a firefighting B-17. What are some cool firefighting planes?
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This was a good episode of FPP that covers firefighting aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSAHPFwJ-A
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:here's a firefighting B-17. What are some cool firefighting planes? I think the weirdest one was probably the Grumman AF-2.
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are there any firefighting planes that aren't cool? or just firefighting apparatus in general? it all hits that little kid BIG TUCK button for me
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Wingnut Ninja posted:This was a good episode of FPP that covers firefighting aircraft: That was awesome thanks Cactus Ghost posted:are there any firefighting planes that aren't cool? or just firefighting apparatus in general? it all hits that little kid BIG TUCK button for me This is the coolest: 
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:here's a firefighting B-17. What are some cool firefighting planes? Some of the more interesting firefighting airplanes were permanently grounded in 2002 after two airplanes (a C-130 and PBY4) crashed about a month apart after their wings separated due to metal fatigue. Now, the US fixed wing air tanker fleet is all turbine, and consists of a mix of C-130's (both private and government owned), BAE-146's, Air Tractors and MD-87's. If foreign companies (usually Canadian) get called in, there's some firefighting 737's, Q400's, and some CL-415's that can also be used. There's a couple of DC-10's still doing firefighting, but the 747 tanker project ended when Evergreen went bankrupt, with one airplane being scrapped, and the second being resold as a freighter, although there's a company running a scam claiming to be getting one flying again.
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i saw an erikson aircrane support truck on the highway the other day and it made me happy those big dumb spiders are still flying
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:
Oh boy, look how wrong you are 
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slothrop posted:Oh boy, look how wrong you are I love this monster soo much. It's firmly in the "If it sounds stupid and it works, it's not stupid"
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I thought I was looking at Warhammer 40K for a moment.
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is that two turbojets on a tank turret
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Cactus Ghost posted:is that two turbojets on a tank turret https://youtu.be/j7Ss3BMrscE?si=oKyrBI8eLzPRKIAM Big Wind. Hungarian engineers took a Russian T34 tank and strapped MiG-21 jet engines to the top. Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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