Oh no I've got stuck in the weirdly specific YouTube hole of watching Vulcan bomber flybys.
I don't even care about planes or vehicles or machines or whatever but every few month YouTube recommends me a video of the Vulcan and then I get stuck watching them for like twenty minutes.
I think this is my favourite one so far because it actually makes a child cry, lol
I got to see this plane at an airshow right before she was grounded forever. It was very cool.
Because of the way the waterfront makes a big bowl down at Plymouth, all the air show stuff there used to be able to go very low and very fast, which was always fun, but one year when there was a Vulcan in the display, it came in fairly low and slow, turned round the island in the bay and then punched into the SCRAMBLE launch climb at about 70-80 degrees, full afterburners. It was incredibly loud and the best thing was you could see this massive dent pushed into the sea from all the thrust.
Yeah the show I saw it at was Bournemouth which was lucky because I think by that point it wasn't able to do certain manoeuvres over land any more (?) but could over the water.
We also saw the Eurofighter there which was also very loud but it didn't sound like a goddamn kaiju the way the Vulcan did.
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[edit] Actually this is probably RATO right? Still, an absurd solution to a largely non-existent problem.
It's so they can do rapid vertical climbs out of combat zones, which are hard for a baseline C130. They do an insane nearly vertical descent into combat zones for the same reason, you don't want to spend time hanging around at mid altitudes.
[edit] Actually this is probably RATO right? Still, an absurd solution to a largely non-existent problem.
It's so they can do rapid vertical climbs out of combat zones, which are hard for a baseline C130. They do an insane nearly vertical descent into combat zones for the same reason, you don't want to spend time hanging around at mid altitudes.
Oh, that makes much more sense.
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I do feel kind of icky acting like a fanboy over something designed to kill and destroy. But there's a very primitive part of my brain that just goes "Ooh big thing in sky go fast make loud!"
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I was a big fan of P-61 Black Widow night fighter for some reason
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It looks like the plane equivalent of that tiny car Jeremy Clarkson drove into the BBC offices
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The SAC museum is so cool. I like their rocket garden out front. It’s got one of only… six(?) Snark missiles remaining in existence. Notably absent is any mention of how absolutely useless the Snark was at its job of intercepting aerial threats.
In Lancaster they've got a sort of mixed outdoor museum and plane graveyard where you can check out some of the more intact exhibits while dozens of others fall apart under the desert sun beyond the public fenced area
my father was an a-10 pilot, so for a long time I didn't realize just how much people love 1) fighter jets 2) the idea of being a fighter jet pilot, and how special his position was
Jars on
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I like the SR71 because it up high and also it go very fast
I was less enamored with fighter jets when growing up because while the town was heavily focused on aviation, and still is, that also includes the darker part of it. Things like how a bunch of pilots trying to break the sound barrier all died from cratering their jets into the ground until finally one of them didn't or how an adjacent town was heavily damaged when the Air Force was trying to shoot down an errant drone over populated areas using rockets (and failing).
I was less enamored with fighter jets when growing up because while the town was heavily focused on aviation, and still is, that also includes the darker part of it. Things like how a bunch of pilots trying to break the sound barrier all died from cratering their jets into the ground until finally one of them didn't or how an adjacent town was heavily damaged when the Air Force was trying to shoot down an errant drone over populated areas using rockets (and failing).
I was less enamored with fighter jets when growing up because while the town was heavily focused on aviation, and still is, that also includes the darker part of it. Things like how a bunch of pilots trying to break the sound barrier all died from cratering their jets into the ground until finally one of them didn't or how an adjacent town was heavily damaged when the Air Force was trying to shoot down an errant drone over populated areas using rockets (and failing).
In non-military Certified Good Aircraft, the Lockheed Constellation.
The Connie (1943 to 1958) was the first passenger airline with a pressurized cabin in general use, which allowed it to fly above most bad weather and greatly improved its safety and comfort. With four supercharged radial piston engines and fully feathered props each outputting 3,250 horsepower, the Connie was also able to carry plenty of weight and take it to its destination quickly. The Constellation was initially designed as a military cargo plane, but WWII ended before the plane entered full production. The civilian model, the L-749 Constellation (and my favorite of the several Connies) was the very first passenger plane to offer nonstop service across the Atlantic Ocean.
And it was a real looker, check this thing out.
They also had an optional freight container that could be mounted under the fuselage for additional carrying capacity, the so-called "Speedpack" container. This was something of an early ancestor to roll-on/roll-off (RORO) freight shipping. Seen here on N6022C.
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The constellation is SO good looking. Just like damn.
Because I am a Dad apparently my favorite plane is the Supermarine Spitfire. Lemme look at that Supermarine Spitfire. Lemme just... lemme just touch it a lil bit.
The X-Men fly in a Blackbird, it's de facto the coolest plane
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An SR-71 blew the fuck up over where I was raised. I routinely delivered hay to the ranch where the pilot parachuted down after his plane disintegrated around him.
Tokyo is gearing up to pass 3,000 concurrent cases for the first time since the pandemic began (it's not too close yet but it's getting there and not slowing down)
The Olympics: Just as shitty for the host country as it's ever been
(it's not just the Olympics, but that's a huge contributing factor)
Houk the Namebringer on
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If there is no national mask mandate, most states won't do shit.
If there's no state mask mandate, each city is free to do what it will, unless the governor actively passes laws against mandating masks. Which he absolutely has, and probably will do again.
Oklahoma City is riddled with small-town carcinomas with their own mayors, and mostly people move there so they don't have to pay big-city taxes or follow big-city laws. So even if our mayor wanted to pass a mask mandate, he would be undercut on all sides.
The library system is doomed to be radically open. If nobody is forcing us to mandate masks, we're open to lawsuits we can't afford if we try to enforce a mask mandate as a condition of accessing a public resource.
We're wide fucking open, and I can't imagine how bad things would have to get before we had the power to protect ourselves again. Nothing is fine, and it won't get better any time soon.
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Yeah the show I saw it at was Bournemouth which was lucky because I think by that point it wasn't able to do certain manoeuvres over land any more (?) but could over the water.
We also saw the Eurofighter there which was also very loud but it didn't sound like a goddamn kaiju the way the Vulcan did.
It's so they can do rapid vertical climbs out of combat zones, which are hard for a baseline C130. They do an insane nearly vertical descent into combat zones for the same reason, you don't want to spend time hanging around at mid altitudes.
The B-52 still trips me out. Things that big should not be able to be in the sky.
Oh, that makes much more sense.
At the SAC museum I absolutely can not walk underneath the wings of the giant bombers they have like the B-52. It is an irrational fear I have.
My favorite aircraft there is the XF-85 Goblin which was designed to be carried inside a strategic bomber and launch out for fighter support.
Look at this dumb tiny thing.
https://www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/milestones-flight-air-museum/
Looks like it was closed in 2015 though.
Im an SR71 fanboy, but the Warthog, Tomcat and F15 Eagle all get honorable mention.
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Also that story of the SR-71 pilot taking the piss out of some other cocky pilots is funny as af.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palmdale
jeeeeeeeeeesus
the article doesn't mention any deaths but I wonder if that is just secret
Supposedly there were no fatalities. But those two utility guys sure picked a great time to have a picnic.
shame the actual plane was a piece of hot garbage
The Connie (1943 to 1958) was the first passenger airline with a pressurized cabin in general use, which allowed it to fly above most bad weather and greatly improved its safety and comfort. With four supercharged radial piston engines and fully feathered props each outputting 3,250 horsepower, the Connie was also able to carry plenty of weight and take it to its destination quickly. The Constellation was initially designed as a military cargo plane, but WWII ended before the plane entered full production. The civilian model, the L-749 Constellation (and my favorite of the several Connies) was the very first passenger plane to offer nonstop service across the Atlantic Ocean.
And it was a real looker, check this thing out.
They also had an optional freight container that could be mounted under the fuselage for additional carrying capacity, the so-called "Speedpack" container. This was something of an early ancestor to roll-on/roll-off (RORO) freight shipping. Seen here on N6022C.
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It really is. If any of the mod teams ever adds it to MSFS I don't think I'd fly anything else.
Pretty neat that they let Akira Toriyama design a plane.
It's as big as a whale
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Wait.
SR-71 Blackbird
i def still have this one:
AH-64 Apache
there may have been others we had, but they exist regardless:
C-5 Galaxy?
C-5B Galaxy
i always loved the name:
C-141B Starlifter
I got to see the MD-21 many years ago, when visiting the Seattle air museum. (https://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/lockheed-m-21-blackbird)
So did Alucard.
Straight into an aircraft carrier from above
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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FOR FUCK'S SAKE JUST REINSTATE A NATIONWIDE MASK RECOMMENDATION
The Olympics: Just as shitty for the host country as it's ever been
(it's not just the Olympics, but that's a huge contributing factor)
If there's no state mask mandate, each city is free to do what it will, unless the governor actively passes laws against mandating masks. Which he absolutely has, and probably will do again.
Oklahoma City is riddled with small-town carcinomas with their own mayors, and mostly people move there so they don't have to pay big-city taxes or follow big-city laws. So even if our mayor wanted to pass a mask mandate, he would be undercut on all sides.
The library system is doomed to be radically open. If nobody is forcing us to mandate masks, we're open to lawsuits we can't afford if we try to enforce a mask mandate as a condition of accessing a public resource.
We're wide fucking open, and I can't imagine how bad things would have to get before we had the power to protect ourselves again. Nothing is fine, and it won't get better any time soon.
my county is still blue, at least