Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Ah lads, now you're just being silly.
Cold War Aviation Porn
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Ah lads, now you're just being silly.
David Clapson
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Anyone else follow this blog by a former F-15 pilot? Air-Minded Article Index | Paul's Thing It's terrific. Anyone care to recommend other blogs?
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
That does look good, but it also looks like the kind of time-suck from which you would emerge with a long white beard stretching down to your knees.
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
It's highly addictive. I read about 10 posts a day.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
"He thought he could handle it".
David Clapson
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It's because they don't want ramp tramps clattering traditional boarding ladders into the side of the fuselage and ruining the expensive LO coating.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
LO ?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Low Observability. The more realistic, and less Star Trek, description for what's usually called Stealth.
Nothing is invisible to radar/other techs, it's just less visible.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Hello!
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Shot and killed by armed gangsters in his first outing just at the start of the Cold War.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
This is not me as ZE734 didn't get that scheme until the late noughties. She was one of the few F3s that hadn't had its longerons bent by hoodlums over g-ing it so she would fly straight and was considered a 'hot ship'.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
This is not me as ZE734 didn't get that scheme until the late noughties. She was one of the few F3s that hadn't had its longerons bent by hoodlums over g-ing it so she would fly straight and was considered a 'hot ship'.
I love this, it's so cheeky.
T & P
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I was recently reading an article about China recently painting their non-stealthy J-16s in LO paint. You’ve already pointed out that all LO paint does is to make an a/c somewhat less observable, and nowhere near invisible by itself. Indeed, most Western observers have poured scorn on China’s alleged boasts that the J-16 is now fairly stealthy, and not that far off 5th-gen birds.
So I was wondering if such seemly wasteful and pointless exercise it’s a budgetary decision? Either that the PLAFF might have plenty of cash to burn, or on the other hand that they’re broke and can’t afford churning out their 5th-gen models in significant numbers, so this is their best alternative, I guess...
The alternative would be that China is right and LO paint does make a tangible difference on non-stealthy frames, but the US, Russia and Europe haven’t followed suit with their 4th-gen aircraft because they can’t afford it... which doesn’t sound likely to me...
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Funny looking ambulance.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Old mate has good hands. Look at his control inputs in comparison to how smooth the jet flies. He never lets it get away from him.
2hats
Dust.
It is prohibitively expensive. Besides, their fuel is far more valuable for managing vehicle lifetime in the face of orbit decay and guaranteeing precise disposal at EOL. They also, for operational reasons, operate in (pairs of) pairs in fixed sun synchronous planes, one morning, one afternoon. This maintains consistent lighting angles over targets so aiding image interpretation.
It's getting hard to avoid all the visual IMINT spysats as there are simply so many of them. Their orbital parameters are all in the public domain. Far easier to wait for thick cloud and then avoid the SAR platforms, though those are gradually proliferating too (but typically an order of magnitude lower resolution than optical).
T & P
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As it's safer to land against the wind, do aircraft carriers sail against the wind regardless of the heading (if the situation allows it) to aid the landings, or do pilots have to make do even in crosswind conditions?
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
They almost always launch and recover into the wind. Naval aviation is difficult enough without throwing a crosswind into the mix. The carriers also have to be 'in limits', in terms of roll and pitch, for aviation. This is quite low for CATOBAR carriers; something like 3 deg of pitch.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Cheers DD.
I googled this for the rest of us penguins* that don't know what that meant.
en.wikipedia.org
CATOBAR ("Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery" or "Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery") is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Under this technique, aircraft launch using a catapult-assisted take-off and land on the ship (the recovery phase) using arrestor wires.
*That's what the pilots call the ground crew at Duxford, because we can't fly.
I googled this for the rest of us penguins* that don't know what that meant.
CATOBAR - Wikipedia
CATOBAR ("Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery" or "Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery") is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Under this technique, aircraft launch using a catapult-assisted take-off and land on the ship (the recovery phase) using arrestor wires.
*That's what the pilots call the ground crew at Duxford, because we can't fly.
not-bono-ever
meh
I found an eagle annual at the charity shop today
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Despite having a degree in Aeronautical Engineering I have never heard of a 'Welsh Hat fin'.
