Just throwing this out there - Page 5

Roboslob · #41 12-15-2009, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by xX-SiLeNcE-Xx

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video

Ah, one of my favorite planes.

kozzm0 · #42 12-15-2009, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Yeah he was on standby for the Falklands, but never flew out there.

However, my brother's god-father flew chinooks at the time and was co-pilot taking a special forces team through the mountains at low altitude. But because there's no visual reference for scale, they all just watched this mountain in front of them getting closer. Then they flew straight into it as they had no idea how close it was.

The pilot was killed and my dad's friend was seriously injured, including losing a leg. The only reason they survived is because the guys in the back were obviously trained in surviving in extreme conditions.

It was harsh at the time, but he can laugh about it now. We were in Cyprus recently for my bro's wedding, and we joked he could put tomato ketchup on his stump and come hopping out of the sea yelling "shark!". But then we thought that permanently traumatising little children for lols probably wasn't a great idea

I rode one of those when I was fighting wildfires in 1994, at Tyee Creek in Washington state, a big 250,000 acre fire way up in the mountains. Big fat loud thing. Glad it didn't crash into anything. Much louder than the little choppers were.

InfiniteStates · #43 12-15-2009, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by kozzm0

I rode one of those when I was fighting wildfires in 1994, at Tyee Creek in Washington state, a big 250,000 acre fire way up in the mountains. Big fat loud thing. Glad it didn't crash into anything. Much louder than the little choppers were.

Wow. Big fire

Yeah they're designed for carrying tanks etc. Or huge buckets of water

They do look badass though...check out this documentary for some great cinematography of them. BTW, the guy I mentioned knows the dudes in this documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZEVbYVcFc

EDIT: just watched that documentary through again... it's superbly put together, but may leave you feeling a bit down. You're warned

Wissam24 · #44 12-15-2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Spitfire23

More like 3,900 rpm

now thats one powerful sucker, and to think it used to throw out 4,200

Yup....rps I meant *slaps head*

And that Stormbirds game looks like it would have been hella cool

kozzm0 · #45 12-15-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Roboslob

If you want a plane with a gun, you should check out the A-10, that thing means business.
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And the Su-25 to balance out the a-10. It's not as heavily armed but it's a bit more agile. There's some great in-cockpit combat video of them in the recent Russo-Georgian war:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXcN25Imxm4

The computer voice reminds me of realistic mode, it keeps saying "maximum angle of attack" and "danger (low) altitude" over and over again, the pilot clearly ignoring it...

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Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Wow. Big fire

Yeah they're designed for carrying tanks etc. Or huge buckets of water

Doesn't mean 250,000 all at once, it counts the "black" as well as the fire itself. But it was the biggest that year... big fires like that crop up every few years in the US, mainly because of the lame-brained policy of putting out wildfires at all.

The ch-47's didn't do bucket drops, they used skycranes for that. Sikorskiys I think. What the chinooks did was drop us off in a big flat field they somehow found in the mountains, and then they dropped off MRE's there. I didn't like them. I got a sense like they were a death trap.

Vulcan607 · #46 12-15-2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Yeah he was on standby for the Falklands, but never flew out there.

Did he get to Wideawake on Assention?

Wissam24 · #47 12-15-2009, 06:55 PM

Sweet vid Kozz

Deascendent · #48 12-16-2009, 07:14 PM

To fly a bear?? The best bomber to fly would no doubt be the B1 going speeds upwards of mach 2 at 500 feet with it's terrain following radar...

Robotic Pope · #49 12-16-2009, 07:43 PM

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To fly a bear?? The best bomber to fly would no doubt be the B1 going speeds upwards of mach 2 at 500 feet with it's terrain following radar...

No B-1 Lancer could go mach 2 that low. The B1-B is faster at low altitude than the original B-1 would have been had it not been canned. And the B1-B can't hit even mach 1 that low.

I doubt any plane could go much faster than that at low altitude.

Deascendent · #50 12-17-2009, 04:24 AM

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No B-1 Lancer could go mach 2 that low. The B1-B is faster at low altitude than the original B-1 would have been had it not been canned. And the B1-B can't hit even mach 1 that low.

I doubt any plane could go much faster than that at low altitude.

The B1-B wasn't canned... as for the rest, I'll have to ask my dad tomorrow, he flew 'em in the GANG. Lol.