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As a very not-autistic, super cool and normal guy, he's definitely autistic if his favorite plane is the F-16 and not the SR-71!? I can DM you the paper I wrote on it in college for an assignment on the subject of love, entitled Love is Like an SR-71 Blackbird.
I just love MiG's. Why? Because the ruskies just rawdogged everything. They saw the F16 with all that fancy fly by wire stuff and made a nimble MiG without any real computer assisted flying with the fulcrum. You have the fastest plane with the SR-71? Well fuck that, here , we've put an after burner on that MiG-31 so big it more or less matches the SR-71 speed. It just burns through the engine in one flight and the airframe also takes a big hit when you use it but who cares about costs, we're commies.
Soviet aerospace engineers man. You just have to love them. They really used that hammer logic (hit it harder!) on everything.
Or the approach which led to the hind heli. What? You need a gunship and you need a troop transport? What do you say, the Americans have pinpoint precision on that superCobra and that shiny Apache thingy?
Here, i've made it big so it can fit a lot of troops. I've added some large wings so you can fill her up with all kinds of low tech Rockets so you don't need pinpoint precision. Just point and click in the general direction and everything over there is annihilated. Yeah, that goes for that tank and that family of twelve 100m further down the street where you didn't aim at as well.
But, they aren't us anyway so.... And next to that the fucker is really fast for such a big helo..
The design principles are so fantasticly wack. Matching (try to) western computertech with low tech solutions.
I am glad you made this comment about the MiG 31 so I didn't have to, lol.
Fancy schmancy j58 turbo "ram" jet with convoluted design that has two different afterburner / bypass loop modes, with crazy air bypass/recycling plumbing?
Nah, fuck that.
Just make the entire engines out of titanium and nickel, we have a lot of that shit in Siberia, and, use a fuck off huge heat exchanger system in the single bypass loop.
Also, this quote:
During the flight research period, two aircraft were lost - the first prototype and the first production one. There were no casualties, and this, in comparison with the results of other machines being created, was quite a good indicator.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/secrets-of-the-d-30f6-turbofan.44489/
Apparently this is where you go when you're too old to know what a 'Warthunder' is, lol.
I love Soviet stuff, too, but didn't know the story of the MiG. I actually have a small collection of Soviet watches, mostly space/aeronautics themed.
Paper Skies on YouTube has a lot of videos about soviet aircraft littered with cool facts. The supersonic booze carrier, the gun that was so powerful it could stall the plane carrying it...
Did your paper include the ground speed check story?
And the fuel leakage due to thermal contraction at rest?
Yes to fuel leakage, no to the ground speed check story. I didn't encounter that until later, as I was in college ~2003-2007.
I believe my paper predated my exposure to that story, as I was in college ~20 years ago. Maybe that story was circulating then, too, I don't remember.
Well fuck you for insinuating 2005 was 20 years ago. No need to be so hostile!
Could I....um see it please
At the very least the f15 strike eagle (the most successful combat airframe of all time if you look at missions to frame losses or mission success).
The SR-71 is really fast and sleek, sure, but how can it be your favourite when it doesn't even have a massive gun that goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!...?
This "fact sheet" looks like Lockheed Martin marketing material. I feel like an enthusiast's fact sheet would be more likely to focus on the plane itself instead of the programs and partnerships.
Perhaps they have the plane autism that's about the business side of things.
Business autism. Loves working with others.
Feel like a it's more a Big Short type deal where you're constantly wondering why the Finance Bros seem more interested in doing cocaine and strippers than identifying numerical trends, the freaks
Right and the facts aren’t even that great. I lowkey call bullshit on this.
I high key call this a joke
You don't joke about plane facts! Especially not when laminated!
And boring marketing material at it.
I remember as a kid, a good friend gave me the marketing material for (at the time) Aérospaciale helicopters. That stuff was premium with beautiful, detailed drawings of a Super Puma on very fancy paper. I loved that shit.
But he's wrong. The F-15 is... Oh, no
You too?
I think it's spreading via plane facts!
F-15? That's a funny way of writing F-111
I actually did this with warbler identification sheets, I feel so called out 😭 At least they’re not hitting Mach 2 I guess, that probably makes them easier to identify.
Tried to find the sheet online, and found this: https://sustainability.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/aero/documents/April2023F16FastFacts.pdf
Husband works at Lockheed Martin.
Favorite Plane
Not the F22
Call a divorce lawyer immediately
I may be a 41 year old, never married, single man, but the A-10 is the best plane ever built.
I will die on this lonely hill.
I bet this autistic husband is popping champain getting that promotion every time there is a war!
He's so autistic he does not care that his company has been the top supplier for genocides around the world.
Tell him we found remenants of his products dropped on a school bus stained with children blood in Yemen :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KB3zJ32AJE4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vziPmz0ZsTk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBCLi-g_-3I
https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_D7ANYVS1Q
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oGdYgIRQvLs
https://www.mintpressnews.com/bomb-yemen-school-bus-lockheed-martin/247536/
Also been funding Israel for decades
You had me at "laminated".
I think laminator ownership is enough for clinical diagnosis
So many butthole logos at the bottom :)