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Godholio posted:It realized it was a helicopter and an affront to God. Not just a helicopter, two helicopters sharing the same body. Truly an abomination. Sounds really cool though.
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Linedance posted:Not just a helicopter, two helicopters sharing the same body. Truly an abomination. Sounds really cool though.  Thanks GIS. That was a long shot.
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Mortabis posted:I think it was a ground resonance test. It was not. Phanatic posted:That video's interesting for a couple of reasons. The Youtube claim is that it was intentional; it wasn't. The Army decided to use that airframe for a weapons effects test, but didn't actually contact any of our engineers for advice on what to do. They decided to pull the landing gear and chain the thing down to the ground, and it went into resonance because it didn't have any oleos to damp it out and shook itself apart before the Army even got to shoot it with anything. Tail number was M3060, an A-model converted to a D-model. Here's more: https://books.google.com/books?id=i...0report&f=false
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Best description of a Chinook I ever heard: "You see, that right there, Sarn't?... That's two palm trees, loving a dumpster." We've got a bunch that are organic to us down here at Soto Cano Air Base (Honduras), and I'm always like 'man, they're so much larger than Blackhawks'... ...Then the SPMAG-TF Marines come down to play with their -53s and I just can't believe how much larger than a Chinook they are, and the fact that they're that much bigger and yet single rotor. Holy hell they're enormous.
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Aeronautical Insanity: A Pakistani home-built helicopter. http://www.dawn.com/news/1160826 I really cant tell which part of it scares me more.
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MrYenko posted:Aeronautical Insanity: A Pakistani home-built helicopter. Six months old dateline, did it really fly?
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Midjack posted:Six months old dateline, did it really fly? insha'Allah the way the pilot switches from (urdu?) to English in the interview is kinda cool. Has a real "the Universal Translator just kicked in" feel to it.
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thetechnoloser posted:Best description of a Chinook I ever heard: "You see, that right there, Sarn't?... That's two palm trees, loving a dumpster." the hookers (47 guys) always like to act smug around blackhawk crews about the cargo mission with the whole 'why don't you let the big boys handle it' routine. then a pair of 53s comes in and parks on the ramp one day and you never hear another word. there's always a bigger fish, though: 
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brains posted:the hookers (47 guys) always like to act smug around blackhawk crews about the cargo mission with the whole 'why don't you let the big boys handle it' routine. then a pair of 53s comes in and parks on the ramp one day and you never hear another word. I tried really hard to find a picture of an Mi-26 parked next to a CH-53, and couldn't.
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here's a bigger version, for scale. the fuselage is the same size as a C-130.  fun fact, at that density altitude they are so heavy they have to do a max gross weight takeoff (basically a rolling takeoff like a fixed wing) and use almost the entire runway.
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Graphically compare sizes of up to 5 helicopters: http://www.aviastar.org/scale/ (It only has the CH-53A, which is about 11 feet shorter than the -E.)
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brains posted:here's a bigger version, for scale. the fuselage is the same size as a C-130. I got curious - the tail rotor of the Mi-26 is the same diameter as the main rotor on a R22 - except the Mi26 tail is 5 blades and the R22 main is 2
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Someone in the Spaceflight channel posted this and wanted help to ID what it used to be. We haven't been able to get anywhere with it. It seems WW2 era-ish, but it's got tricycle gear, which is drat uncommon in single-seat planes of the era, and it doesn't match any of them that I've seen.
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T-28 Trojan
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drat, that was quick. I was suspecting it was postwar, but didn't really know where to look. Thanks!
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 My dad spotted this flying over the English Channel and would like to know if anyone can ID it
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_T-6_Texan
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MrYenko posted:
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TTerrible posted:What? It has the Navy paint scheme.
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TTerrible posted:What? T-6s bought by the Navy (that one is wearing USMC markings) are called SNJs. It's totally a T-6, I was just nerding the gently caress out.
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thetechnoloser posted:Best description of a Chinook I ever heard: "You see, that right there, Sarn't?... That's two palm trees, loving a dumpster." The RAF refers to the Chinook as the Contra-rotating Death Banana...
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Ohh right, ok. You have outnerded me. 
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Cheers, I was really wrong on my guess.
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MrYenko. On a roll.
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I wouldn't bet on what version it is from the paint scheme alone, people paint them like whatever they think is cool without regard to how they started out all the time.
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It's one of the few planes of that vintage that I know by sight. Mainly because it has a greenhouse welded to the top of it. 
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vessbot posted:I wouldn't bet on what version it is from the paint scheme alone, people paint them like whatever they think is cool without regard to how they started out all the time. Absolutely true.
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Since it's in the UK it might well have originally been a Harvard.
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rocket_350 posted:Since it's in the UK it might well have originally been a Harvard. Yup! And those were license-built copies that did have some differences from the T-6/SNJ besides the name on the data plate. Such as: - no gear doors for rough fields - long exhaust that allows for cabin heat to rear cockpit - Commonwealth-style ring on the top of the stick - barrel-shaped (as opposed to ball) throttle knob
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It's a new design! Why would I need a warranty? 
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Nebakenezzer posted:It's a new design! Why would I need a warranty? Ball 3 as of 2014: 
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I saw then landing at MIA a week ago, turns out the new Eastern only has scheduled flights between Miami and Cuba, and I guess they charter the Panthers hockey team around too.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I saw then landing at MIA a week ago, turns out the new Eastern only has scheduled flights between Miami and Cuba, and I guess they charter the Panthers hockey team around too. Ya, they only have a handful of airplanes, as of yet.
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TTerrible posted:It's one of the few planes of that vintage that I know by sound... FTFY
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Went to the March Field airshow last week and uh, I guess this is a thing now:
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StandardVC10 posted:Went to the March Field airshow last week and uh, I guess this is a thing now: So its going to rocket straight up and then nosedive into the ground?
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StandardVC10 posted:Went to the March Field airshow last week and uh, I guess this is a thing now: I’ve seen Buttcoiners’ “best” practices and what they think about regulation. I wouldn’t want to be within the maximum range of that thing.
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StandardVC10 posted:Went to the March Field airshow last week and uh, I guess this is a thing now: Flight plan: direct up uP UP
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Flight envelope for that is about as stable as the future of cryptocurr. Hope they pull up to the pump at the FBO "ummm you can scan my block chain qr right  "
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