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I prefer boats because I prefer to offend Poseidon rather than Tengri.
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Ommin posted:This is the good stuff. Thanks for sharing. I love niche hobbies and the people that invest in them. It may not be my thing, but I admire the dedication. Aw, shucks 
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ishikabibble posted:If jets still just needed small air-to-air rockets and guns they could be so much smaller, but because they've basically taken over for bombers in most situations they've ballooned in size to be able to lug around giant bombs. Yet another problem that could be solved with nuclear weapons.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I prefer boats because I prefer to offend Poseidon rather than Tengri. My current airline literally paints the planes in his devotional colours pal He smiles when his children take to the sky  We don’t fly 757s but the planes do look like that (hypothetically-budget to repaint eh.) I assume this guy is some airline fan artist But Tengri famously knows it’s the thought that counts Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:Yet another problem that could be solved with nuclear weapons. Funny you should mention that. This is on the right panel of the F-16 cockpit:  It doesn't do anything, the plane can't carry nukes
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Forgot what thread I was in and thought that looks like an obnoxious guitar pedal.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Forgot what thread I was in and thought that looks like an obnoxious guitar pedal. same but eurorack module
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Hyperlynx posted:My realisation came about because I thought there was this thing it can do that no other planes can, because the USAF uses it to do this thing. And then I learned that nope the F/A-18 can do that too, it really can do everything, it's just that the USAF doesn't have any. Not to be too grognardy, but the F/A-18 has a much shorter range than the F-16. This doesn't matter when your home base is a carrier that can move around and position itself in range of the target, but when you're taking off from a static land-based location, especially in a hostile environment where you may not get tanker support, the short range of a F/A-18 can become very limiting.
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There was a second eponymous member in the rock band Van Halen 
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Captain Hygiene posted:There was a second eponymous member in the rock band Van Halen There are three! 
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credburn posted:There are three! Lol, I didn't know they had a kid member (also I didn't pay attention to them in their legacy band years, so I don't feel bad about missing that one)
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Yeah, the F-16 can do lots of things an F-18 can't, like pull 9 G turns, or give you hydrazine poisoning if you approach a crashed one
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spookykid posted:Not to be too grognardy, but the F/A-18 has a much shorter range than the F-16. This doesn't matter when your home base is a carrier that can move around and position itself in range of the target, but when you're taking off from a static land-based location, especially in a hostile environment where you may not get tanker support, the short range of a F/A-18 can become very limiting. No kidding! I've always found the fuel time of the F-16 really limiting, and figured it was on the small end. I didn't realise the Hornet was even smaller. Huh! Ok, it might be able to carry four more AMRAAMs, and also HARMs, and probably Mavericks it doesn't have to loving calibrate first, but it can't go as far  Phy posted:Yeah, the F-16 can do lots of things an F-18 can't, like pull 9 G turns, or give you hydrazine poisoning if you approach a crashed one Well, it's more that you shouldn't really need to pull 9 Gs any more. The Viper's a better dogfighter, but dogfighting isn't a thing any more.
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Hyperlynx posted:The Viper's a better dogfighter, but dogfighting isn't a thing any more. Oh, well, if we're gonna talk about things it's good at that are useful... (Not to get too deep into the weeds here, but as a fan of both the F-16 and Ace Combat, it always annoyed me how bad it comes off in those games. Low tier or even starter planes that can't turn for poo poo. Makes me wonder who at Project Aces has such a bug up their rear end about the Viper.) Phy has a new favorite as of 06:28 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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PYF Thing You Just Realized And/Or Facts About Combat Aircraft (Real Or Videogame)
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ishikabibble posted:The fun thing about that is you don't even need to see one up close. They literally have a 'human for scale' feature in the form of the cockpit, where you can see the pilot. But somehow the proportions of everything just make us think its so much smaller.
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Ommin posted:Are you all just really into military hardware yeah pretty much
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A-10's don't have afterburners, the engines are for all internet comparison intents identical to a crj's, far as I know. The F-18a-d are not the same airplanes as the F18e-f, they are two different airplanes camouflaged to look the same for budget approval reasons, same as the JAS-39A-D and E/F. The E 'versions' are almost twice(?) the size by volume. The arguably most tedious people online are people who want to debate tanks and airplanes. Dogfighting gets instantaneously reintroduced once you've fired the not-enough missiles you brought, ask Ukraine. The F-16XL is the best viper. All the best airplanes have the wings in the back and make them triangular.
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Best plane is the one shaped like a cigar that swims in the water
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Best cigar is the one without water
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:A-10's don't have afterburners, the engines are for all internet comparison intents identical to a crj's, far as I know. (It was a long time ago, and the job was basically "Make the software periodically read a bunch of sensors from each engine. When temperatures/pressures/rpms/vibration do X, generate code Y". Then those codes made ground personnel do different kinds of inspections or maintenance on the engine. I never had to really know much about why various patterns of readings were bad)
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Can we please stop jerking off about war machines in a random pyf thread?credburn posted:There are three! I knew that there were two Van Halens in Van Halen, but I am just realizing that Eddie Van Halen isn't the lead singer.
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The band Van Halen was named after the original members" hobby. They used to cruise around in a van, huffing paint thinner. Called it van 'halin'
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Foxfire_ posted:You'd think I'd remember these things after working on the engine monitoring box for multiple years. I think I used to read your posts in the AI air thread. I might have forgotten if I still do too 
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DontMockMySmock posted:Can we please stop jerking off about war machines in a random pyf thread? Sure thing. I realised in the shower yesterday that the word "rhetorical" in "rhetorical question" has literally the same meaning as "rhetoric", as in speaking well and convincingly. That a "rhetorical question" is literally "a question asked for the sake of rhetoric", and therefore doesn't expect an answer. Up until then, I'd sort of assumed that the word "rhetorical" there had some other special meaning, something like "do the opposite thing to what you'd normally expect", since it's a question you're not supposed to answer. Like, say, if a "rhetorical chair" was a chair that's not supposed to be sat in and only admired.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I think I used to read your posts in the AI air thread. I might have forgotten if I still do too
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Hyperlynx posted:Sure thing. Clint Eastwood's Rhetorical Chair would be a good name for a really insufferable band. (It's me. It's a one-man band.)
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DontMockMySmock posted:Can we please stop jerking off about war machines in a random pyf thread? For those wanting to continue the discussion, there's a Cold War thread where jerking off about war machines would fit right in. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3910801
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I'm too used to shows like Battlestar Galactica having choral intros with languages from antiquity like Sanskrit. I assumed The Expanse was the same. It's gibberish Norwegian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoemQv0LYhk
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The band Van Halen was named after the original members" hobby. They used to cruise around in a van, huffing paint thinner. Called it van 'halin' They're RV enthusiasts & like to praise their tour transport. Van Hailin' Or maybe they really like putting out fires? Van Halon
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The street directory that was in every car when I was a kid growing up here in Melbourne Australia isn't called Melways, it's just Melway Pretty much no one uses it any more so I hadn't thought about it in years E: even the first line on the Wikipedia page says that everyone calls it Melways Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Dec 15, 2023 |
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You got me to check my childhood now but Sydney was loving normal. It was called Gregorys.
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Inceltown posted:You got me to check my childhood now but Sydney was loving normal. It was called Gregorys. yodathereisanother.png 
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I heard “filet mignons” today. People have probably always said that, but now it’s going to bother me forever. It’s multiple filets. That’s the part that should get the “s”, not the adjective.
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Platystemon posted:I heard “filet mignons” today. People have probably always said that, but now it’s going to bother me forever. They aren't speaking French, presumably They don't even know that is technically an adjective. As a loan term it's effectively just a two word noun
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Two eggs mcmuffin.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Two eggs mcmuffin. 
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That is three sausage McMuffins with eggs Mange a trois
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Ok there's a Canadian bacon in there too and only 2 eggs so it's just a delicious mongrel
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