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I don't understand how airplanes are a thing only for 100 years and some. Just look how important and amazing they are. What the hell were humans thinking?Imagine spending 200k years unable to fly or trying to figure it out. Absolutely embarrassing.
>>8044853What sticks with me is the specific jump from glorified paper glider to engine driven flight and how this immediately got dragged into warfare.Sentient monkeys taking to the air in what was essentially a tin can firing pistols at each other. Absolutely wild behaviour.
>>8044853>>8044858The worst bit is that after all the many years and decades that human aviation and aeronautics has been a thing we actually consciously took the huge step backwards from having the option of supersonic passenger aircraft capable of reliably fast truly global travel to NOT having that as an option simply because it was deemed 'too expensive'... meanwhile our ability to conduct aerial warfare on each other has only continued to get faster, more advanced, and more deadly, year on year regardless of the costs involved...
>>8044718might as well post my nationalist wallpaper
>>8045068Residents don't enjoy sonic booms constantly happening over them.
>>8045213One wonders if the whiny-assed american residents would have complained quite so much if it'd been the 2707 or the L-2000 that was trying to land at/take off from Kennedy Airport back in the day.
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>>8045068The Boom project might actually make this a reality very soon. If it proves out for private planes, I can see it becoming the norm commercially in about 10 years. A big bottle neck imo is how niche engine design and manufacture is. Techs who can actually assemble them are few and far in between, and these engines currently cannot be assembled without human hands. The breakthrough might actually be more effective automation on the factory floor to do this.
>>8045356>Techs who can actually assemble them are few and far in betweenIf only more folks could be persuaded to take on actually useful degrees in things like science and engineering instead of pointless crap like media studies or lesbian dance theory... maybe then the world wouldn't be technologically 100 years behind where it should be at this point.
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>>8047490Idk if this belongs because it's a missile, but I really liked a wallpaper that I got from here of this F-15 launching an ASAT missile with text on it. I tried to make a similar one.I fucking love the Sprint ABM it's so fucking cool.
Dassault Mirage III
>>8044840what's the name of this plane?
>>8049581it is a short sunderland flying boat
>>8044840>>8049581>>8049612They have one of these birds on display at the London RAF Museum in Hendon (North London), it's really quite an impressive machine to see in person.Actually the museum in general is well worth a visit if you get a chance; they have multiple hangers and other spaces on site that are full of aircraft and other related exhibits, not just covering the 100+ years of the RAF, but also from places around the world like America, Germany, Japan, etc.Alternatively there's another RAF Museum in the Midlands near Cosford, and there's an Imperial War Museum site near Cambridge that's also mostly dedicated to military aviation in general and the RAF in particular.
Love this one
I have so many jet papes
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>>8044782Why not center it
>>8050784Ask the Air Force person that took the picture.
>>8050783At least that Anon contributed actual interesting on-topic content to the thread; what did you contribute apart from your shitty attitude?>>8050784They did it deliberately just to fuck with people, gotta love military humor :P
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>>8049958>>8050893That's an Su-22UM3K of the Polish Air Forcepicrel is the other variant of the Su-22 used by the Polish Air Force, the Su-22M4the M4 variant is single-seater, the UM3K variant is two-seater, other than that the way to differentiate the two variants is by looking at the base of the leading edge of the vertical stabiliser.
>>8044723what's the plane in the background?
>>8044723>>8052452That would be a single-seat MiG-29A flying in Polish colors.The Polish Air Force also operate a handful of two-seater MiG-29UB's (picrel) as training aircraft.
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Amazing composite image from Monday.
>>8056645>>8055628>>8055627>>8055178>>8055177>>8054640>>8054080>>8053662>Harrier appreciation Kiss me on my fucking mouth. I did not expect to see so many Harrier pics.
>>8057506No problem.
>>8044781that's not an MQ-9, that's a chinese knockoff.
If anyone has a better resolution version of this same image, please share it.
>>8044783i love those f2 liveries
>>8058294Use yandex image search next time
>>8044908>>8044909>>8044910based SAAB.
>>8052243Me410 captured by the Brits
>>8061391and to think the Germans were almost on the bones of their ass in terms of resources while they were producing stuff like that... makes you wonder how different things might have turned out if their war priorities had been focused elsewhere other than on an ongoing series of increasingly desperate and bigger/heavier/more powerful, and/or more high tech 'wonder weapons'
anyone have any AWACS or global hawks pictures?
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>>8044762This looks so good
>>8074422Made a little something, the main title I took from McDonnell F-4 Phantom: Spirit in the Skies. London: Aerospace Publishing, 1992. Hope everyone likes
Got a few OC pics for yall.
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>>8074980Got to meet the mig pilot in the process of walking up to the hangar for these pics, nice guy. turns out if you have a big camera and a badge you can just walk in anywhere.
yall got any cool pics of the A-4?
>>8044768>>8044762>>8044767>>8044788These go so fucking hard
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>>8049961unrelated but whats the name of this statue?
>>8076221Alexander Column, St. Petersburg.Don't know if the figure is St. Michael or another angel.
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>>8051347>aa sticks on intruderauthor's imagination or they actually flew with these?
>>8053309>Coast Guard's AW-101 with sonar as guard helicopter>fucking Army's AH-1G on a carrier>that F-4 landing with landing gear up>Navy A-4 and F-4 hanging long enought to be around F-14 and SH-60This is G.I. Joe toys tier of a carrier wing research
>>8079083The painting is accurate, the Intruder absolutely could carry and use a variety of different missiles, including the AIM-9.
>>8079083Those aren't >aa sticks.Those are AGM-45 ARMs. Combined with the CBUs, would suggest the aircraft is an A6B flying the Iron Hand mission.
