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2 minutes ago, GenMarkof007 said:
S! Firefly,
Thanks for sharing Firefly...
Here are the links to my visit at the Flight Museum of Seattle in 2017!
For the new JG1 members...Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Cheers,
GenMarkofNice one mate, cheers!
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Three years ago today I landed in Duxford for Flying Legends 2017. I actually arrived a day early to check out the museum, which has an incredible collection of WW2 birds. I even got to sit in the cockpit section of a Bristol Blenheim - was that a tight fit (I am not a big lad by any stretch of the imagination)! I took some pictures along the way, thought I'd share them here for your viewing enjoyment. Please excuse the subpar quality, I'm not a very good photographer... I resized them to 50% of the original size so the upload time is manageable, the internet here is a stinking pile of horse manure. Anyway, enjoy!
Day 1:
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Holy smokes, that looks amazing!
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Just found out that Lando shortened Lewis' lead on the last lap not by half a second, but by 1.5 seconds... I realise Hamilton was being held up, but WOW, what a stunning performance from Norris! Btw, apparently McLarens recorded the fastest times in every sector. There's some serious pace from the MCL35. I'm really glad that Zak Brown's hard work is paying off now. They couldn't have timed that performance better, as the team looked like it was going to get into serious financial trouble. Now they'll have an easier time finding a long-term investor.
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True, Albon was 2/3rds of a car length ahead of Hamilton. @Barton - McLaren didn't take that long to get on the podium, remember Hamilton's penalty and Sainz's belated podium in Brazil last year? There's a popular theory circulating the interwebs - if Hamilton hits Albon a McLaren ends up on the podium.
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Agreed, Bottas kept a cool head under enormous pressure. Hamilton's penalty was IMHO justified, but whether Albon was bit optimistic when he went for an outside pass is another matter. Vettel looks like he doesn't give a flying crap about what's going on, he's there to collect his pay and bugger off at the end of the season. Carlos drove a fine, measured race and demonstrated why Ferrari picked him over a 4-time world champion. Leclerc is showing incredible maturity and drove so well he must've made The Professor (Alain Prost) proud, and that's with a car that's now firmly in the midfield in terms of raw pace. Norris has incredible one-lap speed (he gained half a second on Hamilton on the last lap! On fresh rubber, I know, but still) but needs to get used to running at the front of the field - maturity will come with experience. It's great to see McLaren second in the constructors' standings, but I don't think that will last (IMHO their best-case scenario is third, which would've been unthinkable two years ago). Red Bull has had a catastrophic start of the season. Worse still, that was on their home turf. The Pink Panthers screwed up by not calling in Perez during the first Safety Car. Checo is renowned as a master of tyre management, but in these conditions and after so many laps on mediums he had few options left. The Mercs looked imperious, but I wonder if they can keep those reliability woes in check - that gearbox issue looked very serious.
If the rest of this year's races are going to be half as eventful as this one then we're gonna have a very exciting season. Can't wait for next week!
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Hello DJ, welcome to JG1 boards. Our CO will drop you a message shortly.
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Not much to say except that I'm VERY excited for this weekend. Can't wait to see how the boys in orange do in the race, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Carlos. I also wonder if the pink Mercedes is going to live up to the hype. Ze Germans picked up right where they left off in 2019, dominating free practice. I was hoping the Red Bulls would be nipping at their heels, but the RB16 appears skittish and tricky to drive. The Italian teams are nowhere - looks like the pandemic affected them worst. Renault's pace seems promising, but I'm not holding my breath - their response to Danny Ric's departure to McLaren for 2021 has been anything but professional. Looking forward to FP3 and quali tomorrow.
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I've seen that before, it's on my list of things to do before I kick the bucket.
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Wow, just wow.
From the first comment (pinned by the author of the video):
QuoteIt's actually more amazing when you look into the details of how the system works. What he's demonstrating is only a very basic direct mode where guns' aim is matched to the sight head. The full system function is unbelievably sophisticated; there is a central fire control computer that takes the sight's inputs, supplied by synchros in the sight, and applies a series of correction schedules for all kinds of variables, like parallax error between the sight and gun, true airspeed, air density, temperature, bullet ballistics, range data from the sight, etc etc, and the COMPUTER aims the guns, which is almost never the same as the sight's position at any given time. The gunner just tells the computer where the target is and how far away with his sight head and the central computer takes care of the rest. Although it's not controlling flight controls, this is in fact the world's first "fly-by-wire" system, where the the user inputs a command to achieve a desired state, and a computer makes a bunch of calculations to independently drive the component being controlled wherever it had to to achieve the commanded result.
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On 4/30/2020 at 3:04 AM, Klaiber said:
Been watching a lot of Wings of the Red Star, with Peter Ustinov.
And salivating at the possibility of a MiG-23 in DCS.
As much as I like Peter Ustinov, this documentary has a few errors... The rather unflattering description of the Zvezda KM-1M ejection seat is a case in point.
As for the videos I've been watching, this is a fascinating one:
I also found this gem in my YouTube favourites - 9000 rpm of 4-rotor goodness housed in a purpose-built tube frame chassis. I've been infatuated with the Wankel rotary ever since I test drove a first-gen RX-7 way back in 2006.
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Not sure if I'd posted this before, but it's worth a watch. It's a 1990s helmet cam taken by a Viggen pilot during ACM training. Press "CC" for English subtitles.
Here's another one, a 1970s documentary about the Swedish STRIL air defence system.
- wheelsup_cavu, Klaiber and Britchot
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23 hours ago, Klaiber said:
You're a man after my own heart.
Respect your elders! When I was young, pilots didn't have touchscreens, they smashed buttons with a hammer!
5 hours ago, Jonne said:As it is going to be a German version, its choice of weapons, espacially in the air to ground role, is rather unimpressive, espacially compared to the JF-17. Apart from that, I really don't need another 4th Gen multirole.
Exactly. Tranche 1 Eurofighters are purebred air superiority fighters, not the multirole combat aircraft that the latest versions have become.
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This was by far the best airshow I've ever been to, plus the museum is world class. Glad you enjoyed the pictures!