Aeronautical Insanity: switching to secondary tolerances

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Murgos: Oct 21, 2010

Platystemon posted:

Aviation stole cockpits from ships and now no one knows ships can have cockpits, too.

Tanks have hulls and sponsons.

Tanks are actually boats.

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vessbot: Jun 17, 2005; I don't like you because you're dangerous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40?wprov=sfla1

# ? Sep 8, 2020 22:55

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Platystemon posted:

I wonder how the terminology is handled when ships� pilots are returned to port via helicopter.

That's what Pilot in Command is for.

# ? Sep 8, 2020 23:33

Cat Mattress: Jul 14, 2012; by Cyrano4747

Murgos posted:

Tanks have hulls and sponsons.

Tanks are actually boats.

So do many helicopters. There are a lot of boats in disguise.

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vessbot: Jun 17, 2005; I don't like you because you're dangerous

I know this has been posted before, but...

# ? Sep 9, 2020 00:22

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

vessbot posted:

I know this has been posted before, but...

I'm not sure which gets me more, the sharks, or the sailboat.

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:21

ImplicitAssembler: Jan 24, 2013

Charles posted:

So you have a cyclic, collective, anti-torque pedals, and a throttle to manage simultaneously?

Yeah, you quickly learn to give the collective a little bump up on approach, so that you have time to set the carb heat.
Best thing is that the throttle works *opposite* of a motorcycle throttle, just to confuse matters even more.

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:39

Elviscat: Jan 1, 2008; Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

babyeatingpsychopath posted:

https://twitter.com/goatmaster89/status/477115343500877825

Indeed. For those not acronym-ready, that's the Main Reduction Gearbox for an Arleigh-Burke Destroyer. It takes input from a pair of GE LM2500s, which is basically a CF6 in a box. 40k RPM in, 40 RPM out, with just a bit more torque.

Oh hey, I work on those, much like the turbine engines they connect to, do NOT drop things in there.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Hell, aviation stole "pilot". My old squadron got quarterly shipments of "pilot charts" on a CD which I thought was really handy until I looked at them and realized they were nautical charts for piloting a boat into a harbor.

e: which is why the Navy, having to deal with both roles, call the people who drive airplanes "aviators" to avoid potential confusion.

It goes so far that the Navy refers to the big steam spun things that move the Aircraft Carrier as Turbines (tur-bin) and the little fuel spun things that drive the aircraft as Turbines (Tur-bine)

I do not know how this plays out on destroyers where the floaty things and the flyie things are powered by the same thing.

I would love to see the Space force forced to adopt Naval ranks, I'm sure all the Sergeants will love being Petty Officers.

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hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Huh, I don�t think I�ve ever heard someone switch between �turbin� and �tur-nine� before.

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Wingnut Ninja: Jan 11, 2003; Mostly Harmless

Elviscat posted:

I would love to see the Space force forced to adopt Naval ranks, I'm sure all the Sergeants will love being Petty Officers.

That or add "space" in front of every rank. Space Sergeant. Space Captain. Spaceman First Class. Space Colonel.

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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Space Station Door Gunner

# ? Sep 9, 2020 03:59

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Space Station Door Gunner

How can you shoot space women and space children?

# ? Sep 9, 2020 04:02

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Cojawfee posted:

How can you shoot space women and space children?

Easy... you don't lead their spaceships so much.

# ? Sep 9, 2020 04:11

Elviscat: Jan 1, 2008; Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Wingnut Ninja posted:

That or add "space" in front of every rank. Space Sergeant. Space Captain. Spaceman First Class. Space Colonel.

Or both, but adopt the Navy's extremely baroque rating and warfare system for enlisted.

Space Electronics Technician, Nuclear Trained, First Class, Spaceship Qualified, Eviscat, reporting for duty, Sir!

# ? Sep 9, 2020 04:47

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

If the space force adopts navy ranks, good luck to any airman coming from tech school figuring out what rank anyone from the space force is. The navy's ranks are confusing as poo poo and everyone has shiny things on their shoulders.

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Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

What really sucks is that the term Air Marshal, which is used in Britain and the commonwealth for generals of the air forces, got appropriated in the usa for policemen. It's way too good a title for that.

IMO give that title back to the air force, and for the cops on planes I propose Flying Pigs

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Elviscat: Jan 1, 2008; Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Cojawfee posted:

If the space force adopts navy ranks, good luck to any airman coming from tech school figuring out what rank anyone from the space force is. The navy's ranks are confusing as poo poo and everyone has shiny things on their shoulders.

Um, excuse me, we now have illegible pixelated blobs on our chests to conform with other branches of the armed forces.

Don't tell me you can't tell the difference between a Perched Eagle Surmounted on a Chevron versus a Spread Rampant Eagle! That's a paddlin'!

# ? Sep 9, 2020 07:44

Carth Dookie: Jan 28, 2013

Elviscat posted:

Oh hey, I work on those, much like the turbine engines they connect to, do NOT drop things in there.

You're not my supervisor. :colbert:

# ? Sep 9, 2020 10:42

vessbot: Jun 17, 2005; I don't like you because you're dangerous

Elviscat posted:

It goes so far that the Navy refers to the big steam spun things that move the Aircraft Carrier as Turbines (tur-bin) and the little fuel spun things that drive the aircraft as Turbines (Tur-bine)

If someone ever wants that out of me then looool

# ? Sep 9, 2020 12:43

Murgos: Oct 21, 2010

Elviscat posted:

I would love to see the Space force forced to adopt Naval ranks, I'm sure all the Sergeants will love being Petty Officers.

By using air-force ranks we will end up with colonels commanding space ships and generals commanding space fleets.

More evidence that we live in the worst time line.

# ? Sep 9, 2020 14:01

Safety Dance: Sep 10, 2007; Five degrees to starboard!

Space Force is just going to be sitting in Nevada ordering drone strikes but from satellites for the natural lifetimes of any of us here. I think a colonel is capable of that.

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KYOON GRIFFEY JR: Apr 12, 2010; Runner-up, TRP Sack Race 2021/22

Ardeem posted:

I'm not sure which gets me more, the sharks, or the sailboat.

for me it's the elevators full of water why are you lifting all that mass god drat

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Ambihelical Hexnut: Aug 5, 2008

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Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Cojawfee posted:

If the space force adopts navy ranks, good luck to any airman coming from tech school figuring out what rank anyone from the space force is. The navy's ranks are confusing as poo poo and everyone has shiny things on their shoulders.

The senior dudes in Space Force were in the Air Force when McPeak tried his navalization bullshit. Expect them to burn everything down before going down that path willingly.

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