Private Jets
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When I worked at British Aerospace I saw (and heard) one of those taking off on full reheat. Toddled down the runway, lifted off slightly, rotated to 90 degree straight up and whoosh! Gone up through the clouds in seconds! Power to weight ratio of greater than 1 - which means it could accelerate while going perpendicular!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Mad, insane aeroplane, the wing flaps were part of the fuel tanks and they leaked like a sieve. How cool, I wanted to fly one, sadly got too tall and eyesight went then I wanted to go to Thunder City is South Africa, but thats not an option now! (you crash one jet!):cool:
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#realJSOP wrote:
A-10 Warthawg.
awesome performance, terrible gas mileage. kind of like your sportscar. :-D
I'm pretty sure none of the local tree-hugging hippies are gonna give me grief over the gas mileage at the gas station when I have a 30mm gatlin gun stickin outa the nose of my private jet, when it can cut their prius clean in half with a short half-second burst. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Joan
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If you could have any kind of private jet, which type/brand would you choose? [Asking for a friend.]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Probably the SR-71 Blackbird[^]. You know, for all those times I have to go from LA to New York in about an hour. ;)
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What can I do for you? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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I'm pretty sure none of the local tree-hugging hippies are gonna give me grief over the gas mileage at the gas station when I have a 30mm gatlin gun stickin outa the nose of my private jet, when it can cut their prius clean in half with a short half-second burst. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013#realJSOP wrote:
30mm gatlin gun
That is a freakin' beast of a weapon.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm pretty sure none of the local tree-hugging hippies are gonna give me grief over the gas mileage at the gas station when I have a 30mm gatlin gun stickin outa the nose of my private jet, when it can cut their prius clean in half with a short half-second burst. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013#realJSOP wrote:
the local tree-hugging hippies
I thought they'd been hunted to extinction in your neck of the woods!
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If you could have any kind of private jet, which type/brand would you choose? [Asking for a friend.]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Are you asking for Jared Dillian[^]? He wrote about the idea of private jets for cats and apparently discussed it on his Jan 7th broadcast. :laugh:
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
If you could have any kind of private jet, which type/brand would you choose? [Asking for a friend.]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you could have any kind of private jet, which type/brand would you choose? [Asking for a friend.]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When I worked at British Aerospace I saw (and heard) one of those taking off on full reheat. Toddled down the runway, lifted off slightly, rotated to 90 degree straight up and whoosh! Gone up through the clouds in seconds! Power to weight ratio of greater than 1 - which means it could accelerate while going perpendicular!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
When I trained at Vickers Armstrong (what became British Aerospace ) in Weybridge Surrey UK in 1968 ( I was fifteen ) , there was a TSR2 on the runway, I sat beside it several times and ate my sandwiches. It never flew again as far as I know.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Probably the SR-71 Blackbird[^]. You know, for all those times I have to go from LA to New York in about an hour. ;)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
Not a bad choice. I remember reading a science fiction novel where an SR-71 pilot somehow managed to travel back in time to World War II. They refueled him with kerosene, IIRC. Of course the tricky thing about the SR-71 is that they only partially fueled it to start. The pilot would then fly back and forth to raise the skin temperature enough to tighten all the joins, and then they'd do final fueling from a tanker in the air.
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Joan
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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When I trained at Vickers Armstrong (what became British Aerospace ) in Weybridge Surrey UK in 1968 ( I was fifteen ) , there was a TSR2 on the runway, I sat beside it several times and ate my sandwiches. It never flew again as far as I know.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Banana in the tailpipe?
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You'll get a bad reputation.
Too late! :)
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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Not a bad choice. I remember reading a science fiction novel where an SR-71 pilot somehow managed to travel back in time to World War II. They refueled him with kerosene, IIRC. Of course the tricky thing about the SR-71 is that they only partially fueled it to start. The pilot would then fly back and forth to raise the skin temperature enough to tighten all the joins, and then they'd do final fueling from a tanker in the air.
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delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
The pilot would then fly back and forth to raise the skin temperature enough to tighten all the joins,
I've read that they would leak like a sieve if not up to temperature. But when passing bullets like they are standing still is on the menu I could live with that!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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When I trained at Vickers Armstrong (what became British Aerospace ) in Weybridge Surrey UK in 1968 ( I was fifteen ) , there was a TSR2 on the runway, I sat beside it several times and ate my sandwiches. It never flew again as far as I know.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A development of the Caspian Sea Monster! an 'Acranoplan'
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If you could have any kind of private jet, which type/brand would you choose? [Asking for a friend.]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
My company has a few of them. I like the Hawkers. It's nice to turn a nine-hour drive into an hour-and-half flight.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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When I worked at British Aerospace I saw (and heard) one of those taking off on full reheat. Toddled down the runway, lifted off slightly, rotated to 90 degree straight up and whoosh! Gone up through the clouds in seconds! Power to weight ratio of greater than 1 - which means it could accelerate while going perpendicular!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
At an air show near San Diego some years ago I saw a Harrier "jump jet" do its thing. Appeared for what looked like it would be a normal landing. Then just stopped. In the air. Danced forwards backwards and sideways along the strip at about 100 ft altitude. Then it got REALLY noisy, rotated to stand on its tail. And disappeared vertically.
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