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slidebite posted:Curious Droid guy? He's pretty solid. No, the regular sized one with all the click bait channels, "today i found out" was the one I remember him from
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Hadlock posted:That thumbs down button exists for a reason But since Youtube stopped showing the number of dislikes you can't tell which videos are total poo poo before you start watching them.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:No, the regular sized one with all the click bait channels, "today i found out" was the one I remember him from I liked watching Today I found Out for a while but then got sick of it. Maybe it's the guy, idk. And using an AI voice to narrate a video is a massive mistake. In my brain, it would put it in the same category as those channels that make AI narrated videos full of fake info about science and technology.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:No, the regular sized one with all the click bait channels, "today i found out" was the one I remember him from That's Simon Whistler, he's in the worse-than-wikipedia tier from what I've seen of him. It's not that unexpected from someone who churns out content at that rate. It's a general problem with YouTube channels that even if they're started with someone that has legitimate expertise in a particular field, sooner or later they run out of things to talk about and enshittification ensues. One of the many reasons to admire This Old Tony is that he never became "a youtuber". TheFluff fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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TheFluff posted:That's Simon Whistler, he's in the worse-than-wikipedia tier from what I've seen of him. It's not that unexpected from someone who churns out content at that rate. This is why I Do Cars is the best youtuber. There’s no visible end to his content.
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Water pumps
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Warbird posted:What is their channel about? Clearly LISP?
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Salami Surgeon posted:Water pumps Water pump gaskets
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Jonny Nox posted:This is why I Do Cars is the best youtuber. There’s no visible end to his content. When I have overnight shifts I spend a large part of them watching his videos. It's such a great channel.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:No, the regular sized one with all the click bait channels, "today i found out" was the one I remember him from Yeah I didn't know his name. Looks like simon whistler. I don't watch most of them but he puts out so much content he inevitably pops up. Can't miss ol baldy with the red brick background
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a patagonian cavy posted:The hundreds of 737s stored at KMWH are there because their customers can’t take them- they’re largely Chinese-bound frames and China did not approve the 737 MAX for commercial service until a few months ago. Additionally, each frame will require rework to bring it up to the new approved standard (MCAS fixes plus a few other things). This is correct, that tweet thread sucks
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joat mon posted:Oil dipsticks Uncle Rodney and getting his lost bearings
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This is wild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae_38 One of the Horton Bros in Argentina in the 1950s tried to adopt their flying wing work into an aircraft that could carry oranges from West Argentina to Buenos Aires. The railway took a long time, and the roads were not built up enough for trucks.   The aircraft took ten years to get flying, and proved poor at flying, so the subject was scrapped.
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i like that they made it orange. thats a good color for the orange plane
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Plane posting, ama. Also if anyone has hot tips on squeezing extra free internet out of American lmk.
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Nebakenezzer posted:This is wild Cool swept-wing grand caravan, bro
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Couldn't they have just bought you know, second-hand DC-47's or something, rather than 'We have to design and build an experimental plane for this task'?
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Deptfordx posted:Couldn't they have just bought you know, second-hand DC-47's or something, rather than 'We have to design and build an experimental plane for this task'? Argentina wanted to build itself an aerospace industry and this was part of that effort.
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Deptfordx posted:Couldn't they have just bought you know, second-hand DC-47's or something, rather than 'We have to design and build an experimental plane for this task'? That wasn't Argentina's way in the late 1940s/early 1950s. The Peron regime had 1) a lot of money 2) burning desires for modernisation, self-sufficency and to make Argentina a world power 3) a lot of scientists and engineers who had recently emigrated from Germany for inexplicable reasons... There was a lot of weird cutting edge stuff coming out of Argentina in that period - more accurately a lot of ideas for weird cutting edge stuff because you can have money and Kurt Tank and Reimar Horten but without an aeronautical industry you can't realistically bring any of their concepts to reality. But that's why there's all these bizarre FMA projects like "build a giant flying wing to transport fruit" or a "five-engined regional jet airliner that's faster than a DH Comet".
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Yeah keep in mind Argentina is "built" a lot like Midwestern us. Big and flat. Argentina made most of their money feeding Europe during WW1 and 2. Italians and others flew there to be farm hands making 5x the European rate, sending most of it home. There was a big sense that, like Cuba, Argentina would be a major world power some day. Having their own aviation industry didn't seem out of the question
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Burying the lede to not mention "with an annular fuselage air intake" there
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Hadlock posted:Yeah keep in mind Argentina is "built" a lot like Midwestern us. Big and flat. Argentina made most of their money feeding Europe during WW1 and 2. Italians and others flew there to be farm hands making 5x the European rate, sending most of it home. There was a big sense that, like Cuba, Argentina would be a major world power some day. Having their own aviation industry didn't seem out of the question Thinking about it, pre-ww2 many nations had their own aeronautical industry that you might not think of. I guess minus the superpower competition, having a domestic aircraft industry was more like having a domestic auto industry or a domestic shipbuilding industry. The one I know from Argentina: FMA IA 58 Pucará COIN aircraft that came disturbingly close to killing a lot of British dudes in the Falklands war.   There's also this Jet trainer:   Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Burying the lede to not mention "with an annular fuselage air intake" I dunno, I'd be impressed if it was one big turbofan back there.
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Nebakenezzer posted:
There was no way to know.
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Nebakenezzer posted:
Is that the one with code name "mittens" or something?
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Preoptopus posted:Is that the one with code name "mittens" or something? The 'Mitten' is a Yakovlev advanced trainer that looks like a Funko Pop F-16. The FMA Pampa is effectively a straight-wing version of the Dornier Alphajet.
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BalloonFish posted:The 'Mitten' is a Yakovlev advanced trainer that looks like a Funko Pop F-16. I went down this rabbit hole last night and came across this made by the same argentine group https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_A-4AR_Fightinghawk quote:The program was named Fightinghawk in recognition of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, which was the source of its new avionics. Kind of nice to see this technology getting recycled into multiple aircraft 
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Hadlock posted:I went down this rabbit hole last night and came across this made by the same argentine group Somewhere, the Canadian defense minister stops whatever he is doing and shouts uncontrollably "WAIT, WHAT IF WE PUT F-15 AVIONICS IN CF-101s?!" He then passes out Speaking of rabbit holes, I'm kinda amazed at how many people actually spent money modernizing the A-4. quote:Project Kahu was a major upgrade for the A-4K Skyhawk attack aircraft operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) in the mid-1980s. (The project was named after the Māori-language name for the New Zealand swamp harrier.)  The Argentines also designed a double wasp powered...Mosquito copy, but it worked pretty well. They were even contemplating a Merlin-powered version, (which I guess is still less weird than Kurt Tank designing the Ta 154, making it out of wood, and calling it the Mosquito) but first they thought a succsessor aircraft would replace it  And it is basically a DH Hornet, but that was cancelled when Tank started building his jet fighter. (That didn't end well.) Platystemon posted:There was no way to know. One problem with Horton in particular is that he wasn't an engineer; him and his brother were enthusiast amateurs. That doesn't necessarily knock the dudes; I forget the guy's name, but the A-4 was the last aircraft designed by a self-taught engineer who had high school and a drafting course under his belt. He was also the chief designer of the Dauntless dive bomber.
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Nebakenezzer posted:One problem with Horton in particular is that he wasn't an engineer; him and his brother were enthusiast amateurs. That doesn't necessarily knock the dudes; I forget the guy's name, but the A-4 was the last aircraft designed by a self-taught engineer who had high school and a drafting course under his belt. He was also the chief designer of the Dauntless dive bomber. Ed Heinemann of Douglas.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm kinda amazed at how[/url] many people actually spent money modernizing the A-4. Looking at it, it kind of looks like the A4 was sort of the first "export grade" fighter jet, probably because it was subsonic and only has three weapons pylons to start? Like a quarter step above a jet trainer with automatic weapons, or something
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Nebakenezzer posted:Speaking of rabbit holes, I'm kinda amazed at how many people actually spent money modernizing the A-4. Seems like they got 21 A4s for the cost of like 5 F-16s. Not a bad deal if your air force is pure deterrent/relationship token.
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CarForumPoster posted:Seems like they got 21 A4s for the cost of like 5 F-16s. Not a bad deal if your air force is pure deterrent/relationship token. Big “Swiss and the F-5” energy
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Hadlock posted:Looking at it, it kind of looks like the A4 was sort of the first "export grade" fighter jet, Full Collapse posted:Big “Swiss and the F-5” energy Wikipedia posted:the Kennedy Administration revived the requirement for a low-cost export fighter 
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Amusingly, those Swiss F-5s are coming back home.
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Aww, they finally get to be flown in anger.
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Aww, they finally get to be flown in anger. Well, they did get to take their aggression out on the sides of mountains at AXALP, one of the most unique "air shows" in the world, where people hike two hours up to watch said F-5s and F-18s dump cannon fire into targets.
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Is there any reason why they're shipping 70 year old airframes by ludicrously expensive air freight instead of by boat
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Hadlock posted:Is there any reason why they're shipping 70 year old airframes by ludicrously expensive air freight instead of by boat Is it particularly glib to think that perhaps they could have been flown over under their own power? Would have been a fun hop over the pond.
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