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Taosman
Your Cousin In New Mexxico
My favorite jet(rocket engine) has always been the X-15. I built multiple models when I was a kid.
"As of 2015, the X-15 holds the official world record for the highest speed ever reached by a manned, powered aircraft. Its maximum speed was 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h), or Mach 6.72."
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"As of 2015, the X-15 holds the official world record for the highest speed ever reached by a manned, powered aircraft. Its maximum speed was 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h), or Mach 6.72."
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F 15s were always my favorite of the modern jets. But all time? I used to build every P-51 model airplane I could find when I was a kid...
Me too.
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Hadn't thought about what I am about to write until watching this vid. I used to live out west around an electronic bombing/missile range. Different bombers would fly through this range at really low altitude trying to evade radar and "electronic missiles" while attempting to simulate dropping bombs/launching munitions. Three different times when I was out in the hills I was overflown by different bombers at very low altitude. I'm talking like less that 100 feet. The first time was by a B-52 and it was after dark so it was pretty amazing after I figured out what was coming at me. At first it looked like a scene from Close Encounters until I could process what I was seeing. The second time I was actually in a boat fishing on a small reservoir and was overflown by a British Vulcan. The last time I was out hunting and was on the side of a hill with a few relatives and friends and we thought we were experiencing an earthquake as the ground started to shake and a few seconds later a B-1 appeared coming out of the canyon we were entering at the same height as we were from the floor of the canyon. It came so close to us that I could actually read the warnings printed on the side of the plane near the engine intakes. As it passed the pilot looked out of the cockpit at us and waved as they went by. These were the only times we were that close to any of the planes but it was common to see them off in the distance at really low altitudes dodging between the hills. The majority were B-52's due to the years this was taking place but towards the end of the life of the range there were more B-1's as they were replacing the 52's in service. Only ever saw a Vulcan 1 or 2 other times.
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The maneuvers this Su-30 MKM pulls are unreal, especially at the 50-sec mark where it falls horizontally (flat in relation to the ground) and does a 180...
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A little love for the airplane that I work on for a living, C-17A Globemaster III
This is one of my favs, highly under-rated. Rode 'em between Doha and Kerplakistan... the C5s are bigger, but that backwards seating stale air (do they use dry ice for the vents or what?) on top is god awful.
On the 17 you can pass the eff out on the floors once you're airborne. Best experience I've had in any passenger/cargo aircraft - commercial or military.
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Maybe the wrong thread for this, but how can you sleep like that on an airplane? I'm a nervous wreck on planes, between turbulence and noises I don't recognize thinking an engine is about to shut off or fall off... I probably look strung out on crack when I'm on airplane.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
A little love for the airplane that I work on for a living, C-17A Globemaster III
The last C-17 leaves Boeing's factory in Long Beach, California
That's it. There ain't no more. After 24 years of flight, Boeing stopped making one of the biggest airplanes in the world on Sunday.
With aviation enthusiasts cheering and snapping photos, the final C-17 Globemaster III took a victory stroll along a runway at an airport in Long Beach, California, not far from the Boeing factory where workers crafted more than 270 of these amazing machines.
A large group of teary-eyed fans of the plane gathered at the airport to witness the last flight out. They said goodbye to a jet that employed thousands of workers at the Long Beach facility. "It was a very emotional event," Aviation Week and Space Technology senior editor Guy Norris said. "The impression I got was that a lot of these folks or their family members had worked on the production line at one time or another."
During its 3 million total flying hours, the C-17 delivered troops, military equipment and humanitarian aid around the world.
"The plane did a sort of pirouette in front of the crowd -- a three-point turn," Norris said. "Very unusual ... almost like it was showing off a final display of its handiwork to the workforce. Then it took off to the north, did a turnaround and then did a low pass over the factory, before executing a dramatic pullup on its way toward the horizon. It was quite a spectacle, really."
The Globemaster's destination was a storage facility in San Antonio, where it will be delivered to the Qatar air force. Breaking down the numbers, Boeing said it has delivered 223 C-17s to to the U.S. Air Force and 48 to international customers Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, India and NATO.
Total delivered so far: 271. Four are still in storage and expected to be delivered to Qatar in 2016.
Entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/us/last-c-17-globemaster-iii-military-cargo-jet/index.html
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