>"HAMMOND YOU BLITHERING IDIOT!!!"
>>65204801So they reproduce like salmons ? I can see four egg grapes being released and then the parents just die
>>65204801what do you think they talked about while they gently floated to Earth?
>>65204801This was supposed to be formation flying, not Fusion flying
>posting jet porn
Planes IRL actually collide like goofy Warthunder models.
>>65204974Reality is often stranger than fiction
>>65204974If you told me when two planes collide midair they just sort of float there for a bit before tumbling, I'd say you had been watching a cartoon.
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>>65204974At low speeds they do. Anything higher and its a shitshow.
>>65204837>i just destroyed a plane worth more money than i'll see in my entire lifetime>i hope they let me fly planes again :(
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>>65205102>i hope they let me fly planes againThey probably will if this was the pilot's first fuck up.
>>65204801I want to see the accident report. At least the preliminary one.I still don't understand why they are doing acrobatics with aircraft that are not optimized for that role.
>>65204801>-28,000 SL
>>65205865So only custom UAV's should do aerobatics?Precisely the reason they practice aerobatics in war planes is 1) Could be handy in a lot of ways - like for instance in AIR COMBAT. 2) Probably really experienced and skilled FIGHTER PILOTS might just be a teensy bit better at it than posers who never practiced A.C.M.
>>65205184can you fuckin imagine just genuinely screwing up some piloting input and just destroying 2 fighter jets, my pride would never recover holy shit lmao
>>65205865>doing acrobatics with aircraft that are not optimized for that rolemy brother in christ the Blue Angles fly F-18s and you could reach out and touch the other plane they fly so close together, I know the Growler is a EW plane but it's still an F-18
>>65206014Nah, I'll just wait two days.
>>65204801CLARKSON!!!!
>>65204801aww, they found each other
>>65206130I once cost an employer like 1300 bucks so I know exactly how that feels
>>65204819Pretty much.
>>65206228I cost my employer a 100k a year contract but he never knew why they cancelled it :)
>>65206137Do you really think they fly stock F-18s? Or hell, stock F/A-18Es? Aerobatic planes are ricced the fuck out for a reason
>>65206472Are they? The only difference I know with the Blue Angels is they don't wear G-suits.
>>65204801Oh fuck me running.
>>65204801>give her a medal!
>>65206341I want to fuck these horses
>>65206137>>65206472>>65206664These weren't riced out acrobatics Rhinos, nor stock F/A-18s. These are EA-18G Growlers, built from the ground up to carry a bunch of expensive electronic warfare equipment. You cannot modify a finished plane to become a Growler, they look the same, but they're fundamentally different. They also don't make these anymore either, there's no replacement coming down the pipe either. I don't know much they cost, but it's a fuckton. Why they fly them at airshows I'll never know. >t. boatnigger
>>65206845yeah its loaded weight is like 10k more lbs, not exactly a light load but I'm pretty sure an F-18 is more then capable of maneuvering pretty effectively even in its Growler format, at least so you don't just literally run into your wingman lol
>>65204801This is what happens when you cut money out of the military and put it into healthcare!
>>65206845>You cannot modify a finished plane to become a GrowlerI'm reasonably sure that part of Australia's initial superbug order of 24 planes included 12 with additional wing wiring to allow future conversion into a Growler if desired. In the end they liked the plane enough that they just ordered new production Growlers and retained the existing planes as-is.Obviously special provisions from the factory for it mean it's not a simple process but I wonder if a motivated enough USAF and Boeing could do it with a finished airframe.Or if they're really desperate, maybe trade with the RAAF to get those units in exchange for standard production planes.
>>65206925>USAF and BoeingI meant USN and Boeing, of course. I'm sure the USAF would like to come so they can point and laugh though.
crofled last crofls.. .
>endless empty space to fly in>see how close you can fly to each other withooops....
>>65206845>Why they fly them at airshows I'll never know.That's the dumbest part of this. Honestly its party trick can't even be shown because firing up the jammer at a fucking airshow would be retarded. There's really no point flying growlers at an airshow instead of having them on the tarmac as static displays for chink tourists (spies) to photograph.
>>65206228I almost caused a nuclear reactor shutdown once.
