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Well now, this is timely since I spent some time this past weekend at Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson. Which, for anyone who doesn't know, actually has a SR71 and a D21, among other crazy poo poo, in their inventory. For some reason the D21 is off in their storage yard, while they finished a nice new exhibit for the SR71. As a bonus, while wandering around outside, the pilots at Davis-Montham Air Force Base decided that Saturday was a great day for some hooliganism and acrobatics in a F15. I need to get the pics my wife snapped as it flew directly overhead, at low altitude, at full afterburner. 
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oxbrain posted:Bombers are so 20th century. I think a random NPC in Mass Effect 2 put it best: "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest motherfucker in space!"
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Mar 22, 2010 23:30
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What the hell is going on in those images because it looks amazing.
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Mar 31, 2010 02:10
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Nice timing for all of the Hornet love. My wife and I are scanning in some old photos, and the story behind these is that her kindergarten teacher's husband was in Desert Storm, sent these back to her, and she just ran extras for her class. So, check out all of these much younger F/A-18s, probably C's by the timing but I'm sure someone can correct me if they're actually A's. Edit: Wikipedia (by searching VMFA-235) calls them out as F/A-18Cs.      The Hornet is such a pretty plane, too. IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Apr 18, 2010 |
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Apr 18, 2010 06:55
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gently caress that, just strap wings and a cockpit to a GE90. "My fuselage makes 115k lbf, now what?"
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Jun 3, 2010 02:18
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Just scanned this in tonight - my wife got it at a small WWII airshow years ago. Sat and talked with him for a good while, too.
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Jun 23, 2010 06:43
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I just think the Skycrane looks awesome because it looks like it really is the bare minimum of what needs to be there to call it a helicopter. Not even a goddamn engine cowling.
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Oct 8, 2010 18:10
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VikingSkull posted:The pinnacle of all things AI, in one post, connected by one man. Smokey Yunick is pretty much the patron saint of AI.
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Sep 29, 2012 04:46
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That last picture seems uncomfortably close between helicopter and model.
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Jan 18, 2013 23:51
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Alereon posted:Bonus Edit: Even Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, which was an egregious case of unprofessional behavior, may not have occurred if the pilots had received adequate training in the high-altitude performance of their aircraft so they knew exactly how stupidly dangerous what they were about to attempt is. In short, you can call out the pilots for doing something stupid, but you need to call out their airline for not making sure they knew how stupid it was. I've never heard of this but I'm glad you posted it. It sounds like the most expensive "HOLD MY BEER AND CHECK THIS OUT" ever.
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Jul 9, 2013 00:52
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Illuminati by Nature posted:Apologies if a respost It is pretty damned steep. I've flown out of there a few times on Southwest 737s and it's also quite noticeable in that flying out of Sky Harbor and most other airports, they don't even stop after they make the final turn onto the runway. At SNA, every time, they make the last turn as tight as possible in order to start the plane as far back on the runway as they can, lock the brakes, throttle up, and then release the brakes. Even knowing it's coming, the transition from having the throttles firewalled to near-idle is disconcerting as all hell.
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Aug 8, 2013 20:47
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movax posted:I could make IOC mad by suggesting people report posts that call the A-10 ugly Give this guy a mod-star for his correct opinion...oh wait! In all seriousness while I do love the A10 I will probably at least give you a 6h slap if the only reason you probate someone is because THEY DON'T LIKE THE PLANE I LIKE WAAAAH But anyone who doesn't like the A10 is indeed wrong.  It's beautiful in a form-over-function makes it wrap back around from ugly to badass sort of way.
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Aug 26, 2013 23:26
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Captain Apollo posted:Aeronautical Insanity: Creative Aviation Cosplay! So who's the Concorde and who's Heathrow? 
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Sep 4, 2013 00:14
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According to the NTSB, the model aircraft pilot's fault - he was apparently operating in an area specifically off-limits to R/C aircraft at that event, and had not been in contact with the coordinator for clearance to fly. The only reason the biplane was that low is because he was attempting to land on that runway and did a go-around instead.
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Sep 12, 2013 23:26
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Geoj posted:I'm pretty sure Southwest exclusively flies 737s. Yep, 737-only. They got some 717-200s when they bought AirTran, but they're leasing those out to Delta as they can.
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Mar 27, 2014 19:37
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The Locator posted:Phoenix Sky Harbor lands planes simultaneously on the parallels, but I have no idea if they can do that in bad weather, since we never have any. I never sit around long enough to watch but it always seems like they're staggered by ~30 sec, one runway then the other. And you can't mention PHX airport weather without mentioning the day we went off the charts.
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Mar 28, 2014 01:03
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Once you go A380, you'll never go back.
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Apr 15, 2014 20:53
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SybilVimes posted:Any military base is going to be the same kind of deal - night won't be much sanctuary. It's worth noting that military aircraft are considerably louder. When I was at UofA, it wasn't uncommon to have to stop mid-lecture because an F16 or A10 from Davis-Montham was taking off at full throttle or making a particularly low final approach. With that said, being out of the flight path will reduce the noise quite a bit. I work about a mile from the runways at PHX but because I'm not in the takeoff/landing areas east and west of the runways, you never hear planes while inside the building and rarely even hear them standing outside.
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Apr 17, 2014 17:33
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Nebakenezzer posted:Speaking of codes, I suspect U of A is University of Arizona but my brain read it as University of Alberta and was deeply confused for a second  Yes, yes it does mean University of Arizona.I'm not saying it was a bad noise, but they were very noticeably louder than any other aircraft at any other airport I've spent time in the vicinity of.
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Apr 17, 2014 20:18
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Fayez Butts posted:That's glorious. Also this It's Mr. May's expression that really makes this photo.
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Jun 16, 2014 20:24
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slidebite posted:Totally from my rear end guess, but I think in reality we'd probably be a little disappointed. Yeah; the reality is that the SR71 is a one-and-only because the ability to throw a satellite in space that needs no pilot and can be monitored in real-time trumps the astronomical cost of keeping SR71s in the air to do the same thing. It's also why I'm glad Pima Air & Space has probably one of the most complete SR71 setups around, especially since they were able to finally build it a hangar and full exhibit. The first time I went there, the SR71 was outside protected by nothing but a velvet rope, and the D21 drone was rotting in a side yard without so much as a placard.
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Dec 11, 2014 22:45
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Alereon posted:The more you know about the cold war, air power, and nuclear deterrence the better this movie gets. It's truly a masterpiece. Also, "turgid" is a great word. This, and yet a bit more thread relevant: 
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Sep 9, 2016 17:35
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Suicide Watch posted:Wow I never realized Pima had not 1, not 2, but 3 B-52s in their collection. Also two B-29 variants and a B-47. Pima Air and Space is loving awesome. I need to get down there again now that my daughter is probably old enough to enjoy it on at least some level.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:21
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Duke Chin posted:Actually it was two middle fingers thrust vigorously in the air whilst proclaiming "SUCK MY BALLS, GRAVITY!!!"  Just take it, indeed.
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Sep 27, 2016 18:25
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Jealous Cow posted:I'm in airports weekly and vastly prefer the type of sit down establishments those iPads and card readers enable. I've never had an issue with any of the equipment and it lets me have a decent meal during layovers where waiting for waitstaff to take my order/standing in line wouldn't work. Yup, used this to great benefit on a layover in MSP earlier this year.
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Ola posted:Unembeddable video of King Air landing with stuck nosegear, very nicely done. Applauding himself at the end. 
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Oct 19, 2016 22:54
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jammyozzy posted:This video is excellent. It never occured to me that you'd only get 16 goes at starting/lighting the afterburner on each engine. Wasn't the whole point of carrying all of that starter fuel the fact that the J58 is not an easy engine to keep running?
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Nebakenezzer posted:Trump reveals another military secret, says USAF is getting F-35s you literally can't see Could you imagine the living hell your life would be if it was your job to explain to Cheeto how the gently caress any reasonably modern military technology worked?
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Oct 5, 2017 03:24
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(should not be engine parts)
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Do you like gladiator movies?
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Oct 11, 2017 15:24
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Mr. Despair posted:I really liked that the new blade runner kept pan-am around (since it was still around in 2019 in the original). Was a nice touch. And the cccp. It's a future version of that future after all, not today's future.
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Oct 15, 2017 00:34
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Official livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
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monkeytennis posted:Look at the size of this thing! Sorry for FB link I’m on iPad and cant embed a video for some reason. It’s the new GE9X engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsY5g3iV1rg
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Mar 16, 2018 01:22
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FBS posted:"Is your airplane physically on fire?" "Did you say someone - you know what nevermind"
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Apr 17, 2018 23:08
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FuturePastNow posted:
kilroy was here
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Apr 9, 2020 21:59
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hobbesmaster posted:You just have another 747 refueler following the 747 carrier and 747 AWACS around. [img-Operation-Black-Buck.svg]
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Apr 14, 2020 17:43
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Hah, I thought I was the only one who had Zach's book. It should be required reading for everyone here.
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Apr 19, 2020 16:59
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Inacio posted:well once i'm a billionaire i know what bizjet(s) i'm getting Chode planes.
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That's not gone well. Crash itself isn't seen, but there is a fatality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-R7Md_T8k Edit: apparently the tailrotor came off 
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