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CarForumPoster posted:This is true within big defense as well. Could not agree more. I think the costs are what they are due to the typical amount of money getting plowed through the system. That and the make work programs...
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I'm convinced the French affinity for delta wings is somehow influenced by the fact that over 80% of the populace has toxoplasmosis from the use of undercooked meat in French cuisine...I'm thinking the same is true of English airplane design, only with whatever parasite you can get from eating blood sausage and entrails.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I'm convinced the French affinity for delta wings is somehow influenced by the fact that over 80% of the populace has toxoplasmosis from the use of undercooked meat in French cuisine...I'm thinking the same is true of English airplane design, only with whatever parasite you can get from eating blood sausage and entrails. Delta wings are the sexiest aeronautical shape. Just compare the boring old F-16 with the F-16XL.
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Dark Helmut posted:http://www.netimperative.com/2016/03/new-linkedin-duedil-helps-uncover-contacts-within-companies/ What is this?
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Cat Mattress posted:Delta wings are the sexiest aeronautical shape. Just compare the boring old F-16 with the F-16XL. It's really strange that the F-16XL didn't take off, especially considering Japan has their own weirdo F-16 variant as it is.
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From what I remember it was a perfectly good fighter but the F-15E required less modification and therefore was cheaper.
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Party Plane Jones posted:It's really strange that the F-16XL didn't take off, especially considering Japan has their own weirdo F-16 variant as it is. I think you'll find it did in fact take off. Several times, even.  
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Cyrano4747 posted:What is this? Derp wrong thread.
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Cyrano4747 posted:What is this? Probably posted in the wrong thread/forum.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I'm convinced the French affinity for delta wings is somehow influenced by the fact that over 80% of the populace has toxoplasmosis from the use of undercooked meat in French cuisine...I'm thinking the same is true of English airplane design, only with whatever parasite you can get from eating blood sausage and entrails. My brain parasites take offense to that. Blood and organs are good and good for you. Also, about 50% of the populations of Asia, South America, and Africa are infected with Toxoplasmosis, and I'm not seeing delta winged grognards flying from their pretty pretty swirly sparkly eyes ooh so fluffy who wants to hug a kitty.
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Forums Terrorist posted:From what I remember it was a perfectly good fighter but the F-15E required less modification and therefore was cheaper. That still makes zero sense considering they spend something like 80 million per unit for the Mitsubishi F-2 which already is pretty decently modified from the standard F-16s.
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Cat Mattress posted:Delta wings are the sexiest aeronautical shape. Just compare the boring old F-16 with the F-16XL. God that was a beautiful plane.
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Party Plane Jones posted:That still makes zero sense considering they spend something like 80 million per unit for the Mitsubishi F-2 which already is pretty decently modified from the standard F-16s. I think part of the F-2 price tag comes from the requirement that it be built/engineered in Japan, and they don't have a huge production volume to spread the costs out over. Something like that, anyway.
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Pretty sure Toxoplasmosis also explains why cat memes are a thing.
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priznat posted:Pretty sure Toxoplasmosis also explains why cat memes are a thing. And cat people in general.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, let me get this straight: I think your step 1 is wrong. Putin doesn't actually care about ISIS and doesn't need to do anything about ISIS since the US is already on the case. For the Russian regime this has been about propping up a client state since the beginning, and blowing up humanitarian aid has the bonus of destabilizing Europe.
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Arglebargle III posted:I think your step 1 is wrong. Putin doesn't actually care about ISIS and doesn't need to do anything about ISIS since the US is already on the case. For the Russian regime this has been about propping up a client state since the beginning, and blowing up humanitarian aid has the bonus of destabilizing Europe. Eh, I think he's also keeping his toe in the water just in case the US fucks up horribly in some way, so he can point the finger at us on the world stage. It is Putin, after all.
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Putin is absolutely sitting back and laughing his rear end off as we fight our own Mujahadeen-like enemy.
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Platystemon posted:Russian observers visit Hanford’s B reactor annually (that’s the second serious nuclear reactor ever built, 1944) to confirm it remains decommissioned. BIG HEADLINE posted:Nah, because they have to keep telling their friends back home that not only are Jordache jeans out of style now, but also that they're really hard to find. Oh my goodness, it's called the "grumbler" 
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Alaan posted:
I thought I was looking at an upside-down X-32 for a second.
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The French have a thing for visually striking design:  Leduc 0.22 e: rehosted, album with all four pics is here: http://imgur.com/a/UzUnn aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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First image is broken, try rehosting it.Suspect Bucket posted:My brain parasites take offense to that. Blood and organs are good and good for you. Also, about 50% of the populations of Asia, South America, and Africa are infected with Toxoplasmosis, and I'm not seeing delta winged grognards flying from their pretty pretty swirly sparkly eyes ooh so fluffy who wants to hug a kitty. Haven't countries in all those regions bought French planes? China's made a few delta planes as well.
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aphid_licker posted:Leduc 0.22 Good god, look what it did to his face. 
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aphid_licker posted:The French have a thing for visually striking design: You've got to admire anyone with big enough balls that they look at thath thing and say "yes, I will get in that and fly it thousands of feet above the ground."
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aphid_licker posted:The French have a thing for visually striking design: You can say that again:         And my personal favourite,  In order: SNCASO (Sud-Ouest) SO.4000, SNCASO SO.4050 Vautour, SNCASO SO.6020 Espadon, SNCASO SO.9000 Trident, SNCASE (Sud-Est) SE.212 Durandal, Nord 1402 Gerfaut, Nord 1500 Griffon, Nord 1601 and the SIPA S.200 Minijet
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Butterfly in the sky / I can fly twice as high /
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The thing I posted apparently was the first use of a ramjet and was supposed to reach Mach 2, but they got the area rule wrong somehow and never managed to get above Mach 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leduc_0.22 I can't get over how mental the thing looks.   Second one is an earlier prototype. Can't stop laughing. Apparently humanity was a proper area ruling away from ending up with this instead of the Mirage III. e: the Nord 1500 Griffon is so funny. The cockpit and nose just sorta randomly sprout out the top. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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aphid_licker posted:The thing I posted apparently was the first use of a ramjet and was supposed to reach Mach 2, but they got the area rule wrong somehow and never managed to get above Mach 1. Just a guess but I'd imagine maintenance access on that thing was probably pretty easy.
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The French prototyped a swing-wing fighter bomber in the late 60s, powered by a SNECMA produced version of the TF30. The later two prototypes switched to the Atar turbojet.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS90boHTAO0
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[/quote] "poo poo I drank all weekend instead of designing a plane, oh gently caress... Oh wait bullets go supersonic, I'll just slaps some wings on that."
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C.M. Kruger posted:The French prototyped a swing-wing fighter bomber in the late 60s, powered by a SNECMA produced version of the TF30. The later two prototypes switched to the Atar turbojet. poo poo it looks like a mig-23 had a baby with a Tornado
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MrChips posted:
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Ridleux, a eu toutes les Beemans?
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