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I only ever saw the scene where some pilot-mans takes a girl for a joyride in a P-51 (ignoring the fact it only has room for one person, barely) and they even managed to make that part suck poo poo.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Ehhhh, of all the awful, awful bullshit in that movie I'm not going to call out fitting two people in a one person cockpit too loudly. There are dozens of well documented instances of pilots of non-jet aircraft in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam landing to pick up downed buddies and flying out with another full grown dude sitting in their lap. I'm also pretty sure a lot of WW2 aircraft had crudely adjustable seats, sitting on a rail similar to how you would adjust non-powered seats in an older car. I know it was certainly a thing that happened but to be fair in those situations the passenger was also a pilot, probably with training for the exact plane they were picked up in, and could help the actual pilot work around any issues stemming from stuffing two people into a small cockpit. In any case it is far from the worst thing about that movie. It was just the first thing that occurred to my spergy 12 year old brain when I saw it years ago. I'll stop making GBS threads up this excellent thread now.
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My great-grandfather flew C-47s during WWII, mostly in the North Africa theater from what he's said. I have several pictures of him and some fellow pilots on camels in front of the Pyramids, pretty cool. As far as I know he never flew again after the war, instead becoming a traveling salesman.
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Holy poo poo, looks like I found out what to do with some of my vacation time this year, and I was just trying to figure that out this morning. I always swore that I had no reason or desire to ever go back to Florida but drat, that museum just sounds way too cool to miss. Also would be down for an Ohio museum trip if it happens, that ones even closer 
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Jan 28, 2014 00:13
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mikerock posted:Don't they refuel planes which are going to make a long flight right after takeoff because takeoff eats up so much fuel? I thought it was that they don't takeoff with a full load of fuel so they could get as much cargo as possible on, and refuel in the air before continuing on their way. e: f;b
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Feb 2, 2014 23:19
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Blistex posted:Was it Darmok or Jalad? Shaka
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Feb 19, 2014 03:21
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Snowdens Secret posted:The enlisted man, with his slothful and deviant ways and constant perversions For some reason I really wanted this to be a reference to something (it isn't, so thanks for this wonderful phrase), and when I put it into the googles the first result was something called "The Grand Strategy of the Reptilians" and now I can't stop laughing.
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I can't remember if it was this thread or the Aeronautical Insanity thread in AI where there was a multi-page discussion about exactly this. The crazy thing I learned from it is that as long as the pilots maintain 1g through the roll you could be a passenger and not even notice that you were (temporarily) upside down, unless you looked out a window of course. Ever since then I've always imagined bored 737 pilots executing lazy barrel-rolls and chuckling to themselves.
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Memento posted:Sweet Jesus what did that thing weigh? 188 goddamn tons, according to my copy of My Tank is Fight!.
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Xerxes17 posted:Matthew Riley is a Australian treasure and I will hear no words against him I've been waiting for him to be brought up for a while. His books are great bathroom books because you don't need to be invested in them (and even if you are you can finish them in a couple hours at most), and every other page something explodes. Reading one of his books is like watching 5 summer blockbusters rolled into one with your brain doing the CGI, and it's awesome. The third book features a bounty hunter that flies a modified Sukhoi SU-47 that has a galley and a holding cell for prisoners like loving Boba Fett. And he's one of the good guys. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 01:17 on May 21, 2014 |
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May 21, 2014 01:13
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Kid in the middle should be given a medal for attempting to defend the motherland from foreign invaders 
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I wish they'd had the time/balls to build a second Credible Sport C-130 with improved sequencing controls for the rockets. Can you imagine how  that rescue would've been? Directors would get into fistfights over who got to make the movie.
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Akion posted:I have a friend that races Jet Dragsters. He drives one that looks like Thomas the loving tank engine and is powered by a J-79. Yeah, I'm gonna need a picture of this for...reasons
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Jul 28, 2016 20:56
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That's awesome as hell, thanks for sharing 
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Jul 28, 2016 21:19
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Dandywalken posted:So the AGM-114 Hellfire we all know (and some people may even LOVE???) is capable of doing the whole LOBL/LOAL thing to fire from behind cover, etc. Nice try, comrade.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:11
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Aargh posted:Yep it sure does  Connies are so loving awesome. The former Air Force One Connie flew right by my campus on it's way to it's restoration hangar, that was a nice treat.
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Sep 3, 2016 17:40
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Slo-Tek posted:I wasn't in on that, but Powercube and I just decided that Northrop B-2.1 Black Joke is the way to go on this. Tagline: "gently caress 'em if they can't take a Joke!" This or B-21 Lemay gets my vote. Raider isn't terrible though, especially considering the Dick Cole angle.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:57
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Effective-Disorder posted:I thought satellite "maintenance" was part of the original plans for X-37's capabilities. Like shooting ducks in a barrel.
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Sep 21, 2016 20:43
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Godholio posted:More or less. I wonder how much of them is Russian made bits at this point.
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B4Ctom1 posted:Some scary but no crashie.. but scary. This carrier hungers for vodka enriched blood Did the plane @ ~30sec in the second video take off with its wheel brakes applied? It left some hellacious skidmarks up the ramp.
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Dec 5, 2016 17:14
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Seveneves kicked a lot of rear end all the way up to the 5,000 year leap into the future, and then it just fell apart. If he'd spent more time talking about how humanity had learned to survive and grow in space, like a continuation of the first halfs "holy poo poo how do we make this work" it could have been great. I wanted to know more about how the diggers and the pingers adapted and survived too. Genetically engineered space-racists was just an insultingly bad way to end what was otherwise a pretty good near-future scifi novel.
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Apr 4, 2017 16:32
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a kitten posted:"Germany rolls up sleeves, looks at France and punches Belgium" makes me laugh every time. The part about Japan calling out that it was on Britain's side and then staying on the other side of the room killed me. I like to imagine it took a sip from its drink while casually observing the scuffle.
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Jun 4, 2017 05:23
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I have only read Hunt for Red October and after reading this thread for many years I can say unequivocally that I made the Right Choice.
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Aug 2, 2017 05:56
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Gnoman posted:That would be Treasure, and the car was a Cord L-29. Undoubtedly Clive spent at least a paragraph talking about the Cord being front wheel drive and how this made for better snow traction, too, I'll wager. I love Clive Cussler novels, and the fact that he has become his own character is awesome as hell.
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Aug 7, 2017 05:05
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:I always picture this poor guy in a soundproof room in the Pentagon with a bunch of really bored enlisted musicians. I wish I could 5 individual posts.
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I miss 50FA 
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Dec 4, 2017 23:24
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JcDent posted:SPEAKING OF RUSSIA Yes, speaking of Russia because someone already beat you to posting that video. Well done.
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Dec 7, 2017 17:25
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Gonna show that ballpoint pen tip thing to all my idiot friends that think China is on par or even surpassing us in tech and engineering.
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Dec 19, 2017 14:07
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The dude with the world record for most lightning strikes survived was electrocuted while working on his pool's filtration pump. Life's a bitch.
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Dec 30, 2017 17:10
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Hello thread, I visited the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum this weekend. I took some pictures. https://imgur.com/a/cNzENdm https://imgur.com/a/tDglN9j
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I did, and I meant to get a picture of that adorable little turbojet but my phone battery was dead af by the time I hit the engine room, so I was focusing on the cutaways. Luckily I have a friend who lives like 10 minutes away from the museum so I'll definitely be going back. If I lived in the area I'd volunteer as a docent/caretaker, I actually ended up answering a few people's questions about various displays while we were walking around anyway...
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Aug 13, 2018 00:17
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TimNeilson posted:
It’s the waveguides for the emitting part of an airborne radar off of I want to say the F-4? The entire radar is in that album, probably directly after that image. The waveguides are on the bottom underneath the dish.
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Aug 13, 2018 13:06
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A.o.D. posted:Since it isn't a hand hold, it's obviously a step. 
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Aug 13, 2018 23:11
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Xerxes17 posted:Yeah that was more Beria's style. 
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Oct 3, 2018 12:49
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Cat Mattress posted:Lead, too. Lead and ethanol serve entirely different purposes in fuel, it’s not an either/or thing. Lead was put in gasoline back in the day because the valves and valve seats in older engines weren’t hardened as much as they are now and the lead in the fuel actually acted as a cushion between them, increasing engine longevity immensely.
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Oct 23, 2018 12:59
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RandomPauI posted:I'm glad I stopped the reading the books and watching the movies at "Hunt for Red October" 
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Nov 4, 2018 23:57
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shame on an IGA posted:One Weird Trick To Hate FL410 This got lost in the shuffle a few pages back but I laughed.
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Kebbins posted:Just got back from seeing Blackbird #30 in Tucson. Did some other dorky cold war stuff and I gotta say the Titan Missile Museum has one of the coolest, most unique, and most thoughtful souvenirs I've ever seen at a museum gift shop. That looks identical to one of the elevator service keys I have on my keyring at work. It would not surprise me in the least if they are literally the same bitting.
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