>"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.
>>65205184No, the wingman is getting Fenabbed into another dimension, and with high year tenure will be out of the Navy within months of the investigation which will be open and shut. They will never fly for money for anyone ever again, and it's highly possible they will get a Pink sheet on their airman file so they can't even fly single engine land without pax. They are turbo fucked.
