Author Topic: HAPPY TREASON DAY! (Read 3026 times)

WLJ · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2019, 08:51:25 AM »

Quote from: bedlamite on July 05, 2019, 12:22:02 AM

The P-39 had a shorter, pointier nose, and the cockpit was at the leading edge of the wing, the engine was right behind the pilot. Not very common, most of them were sent to Russia during the war.

The P-39 Airacobra was one of those missed opportunities of the war. Somewhere along it's development as an interceptor someone decided to to omit the turbo-supercharger and go with only a single speed supercharger to reduce cost. What resulted was an aircraft with great performance as long as it stayed below 12,000 ft above that it turned into a dog. Apparently along the line someone forgot that an interceptor kind of really needs to perform above 12,000ft. As a result it mostly shipped off as lend lease with some being relegated to close air support in US service, some of which received the P-400 designation. It's successor, the P-63 King Cobra, really more or less a refined P-39, fixed the turbo-super charger issue and by all accounts was a superb fighter but by this time the Army AF was getting supplied with the later models of the 38, 47, & 51 so most 63s were shipped off to the USSR.

Fly320s · « **Reply #26 on:** July 05, 2019, 09:11:17 AM »

It is a P-51 Mustang. The Cadillac of the skies!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ouJ_WyS9v8

HeroHog · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2019, 09:44:46 AM »

Quote from: Jamisjockey on July 05, 2019, 08:08:56 AM

Pretty much wrong on all counts.
It's a P51 mustang. WOT for the mustang is near 400 knots. The stall speed on an F16 is around 160. F15 is like 130 and the A10 is like 120.
They are all operating well within their performance window.

Shows how little I know about planes. In my defense, I DID correct myself on the Mustang. Can I get partial credit?

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #28 on:** July 05, 2019, 11:30:24 AM »

Quote from: HeroHog on July 05, 2019, 09:44:46 AM

Shows how little I know about planes. In my defense, I DID correct myself on the Mustang. Can I get partial credit?

You only get credit for making it up as you went along on that one.

Fly320s · « **Reply #29 on:** July 05, 2019, 11:36:14 AM »

Quote from: Jamisjockey on July 05, 2019, 11:30:24 AM

You only get credit for making it up as you went along on that one.

That technique gets me through life.

K Frame · « **Reply #30 on:** July 05, 2019, 05:19:07 PM »

How the heck do some of you not recognize a P-51D Mustang?

Thunderbolt? The P-47 had a radial engine. That's not a radial.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 05, 2019, 08:49:00 PM »

Quote from: Jamisjockey on July 05, 2019, 08:08:56 AM

Pretty much wrong on all counts.
It's a P51 mustang. WOT for the mustang is near 400 knots. The stall speed on an F16 is around 160. F15 is like 130 and the A10 is like 120.
They are all operating well within their performance window.

Thanks. I was confused as I didn't know what a "get" was.

HeroHog · « **Reply #32 on:** July 06, 2019, 12:41:31 AM »

Damn, I missed that... Fixed. Thanks

230RN · « **Reply #33 on:** July 06, 2019, 04:30:12 AM »

If you're not a dyed-in-the-wool aficionado or pro, it's relatively easy to get the model numbers themselves mixed up, even if you know what the plane "is."

I had to look up WOT, EGTC.

ConstitutionCowboy · « **Reply #34 on:** July 06, 2019, 06:56:30 PM »

I had to look up EGTC as well.

Woody

Look at your rights and freedoms as what would be required to survive and be free as if there were no government. Governments come and go, but your rights live on. If you wish to survive government, you must protect with jealous resolve all the powers that come with your rights - especially with the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Without the power of those arms, you will perish with that government - or at its hand. B.E. Wood

Fly320s · « **Reply #35 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:19:51 PM »

Hello, Constipated Cowboy! Welcome to the party.

RocketMan · « **Reply #36 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:32:08 PM »

Welcome, ConstitutionCowboy, to our wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Don't mind Fly320s. He's just our very own mildly mentally retarded airline pilot.

HeroHog · « **Reply #37 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:01:49 PM »

ConstitutionCowboy, you wouldn't believe HOW many membership requests I check and weed out every day. Congrats on being one of the few making it in and welcome to the forums!

WLJ · « **Reply #38 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:05:51 PM »

Quote from: RocketMan on July 06, 2019, 07:32:08 PM

Welcome, ConstitutionCowboy, to our wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Don't mind Fly320s. He's just our very own mildly mentally retarded airline pilot.

So you're saying he's more functional than most?

230RN · « **Reply #39 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:08:45 PM »

Even Given The Context. Hell's bell's, I've got a right to make up arcane acronyms. It's an unenumerated right in the Constitooshun. Left to the States. Or to the People. Or me.

You should read it as "I had to look up WOT, even given the context."

Just another skirmish in my losing battle against the stupid overuse of stupid acronyms. Nothing personal, you undertand.

RocketMan · « **Reply #40 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:09:03 PM »

Quote from: WLJ on July 06, 2019, 08:05:51 PM

So you're saying he's more functional than most?

Well, so far as we know he hasn't crashed yet, so he must be functioning at least around mid-range.

WLJ · « **Reply #41 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:13:23 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on July 06, 2019, 08:08:45 PM

Even Given The Context. Hell's bell's, I've got a right to make up arcane acronyms. It's an unenumerated right in the Constitooshun. Left to the States. Or to the People. Or me.

Read it as "I had to look up WOT, even given the context."

Here's a Wot, Seriously it's called a Wot

Fly320s · « **Reply #42 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:15:31 PM »

Quote from: RocketMan on July 06, 2019, 08:09:03 PM

so he must be functioning at least around mid-range.

I certainly was today. Slapping dead center on steel at 500 yards.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #43 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:18:36 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on July 06, 2019, 08:08:45 PM

Even Given The Context. Hell's bell's, I've got a right to make up arcane acronyms. It's an unenumerated right in the Constitooshun. Left to the States. Or to the People. Or me.

You should read it as "I had to look up WOT, even given the context."

Just another skirmish in my losing battle against the stupid overuse of stupid acronyms. Nothing personal, you undertand.

Wouldn't that be an initialism instead of an acronym?

(I figured out WOT from the context, had no idea what an EGTC was)

bedlamite · « **Reply #44 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:20:43 PM »

I just figured he was from Emily Griffith Technical College.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #45 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:57:42 PM »

Quote from: RocketMan on July 06, 2019, 07:32:08 PM

Welcome, ConstitutionCowboy, to our wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Don't mind Fly320s. He's just our very own mildly mentally retarded airline pilot.

If this guy minds Fly, he isn't going to be able to handle the rest of us.

Welcome, Constitution Cowboy.

HeroHog · « **Reply #46 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:32:46 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on July 06, 2019, 08:08:45 PM

Even Given The Context. Hell's bell's, I've got a right to make up arcane acronyms. It's an unenumerated right in the Constitooshun. Left to the States. Or to the People. Or me.

You should read it as "I had to look up WOT, even given the context."

Just another skirmish in my losing battle against the stupid overuse of stupid acronyms. Nothing personal, you undertand.

Be glad I didn't use WFO, from my motorcycle days!
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230RN · « **Reply #47 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:39:10 PM »

Howdy, Woody !

Doggy Daddy · « **Reply #48 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:35:53 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on July 06, 2019, 09:39:10 PM

Howdy, Woody !

That's what she...

230RN · « **Reply #49 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:04:04 AM »

Quote from: WLJ on July 06, 2019, 08:13:23 PM

Here's a Wot, Seriously it's called a Wot

Had to check that one out, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currie_Wot

Has that thing got any wheels? The photo makes it look so low that it looks like it was built to generate ground loops.

Terry, Groundlubber

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Author Topic: HAPPY TREASON DAY! (Read 3026 times)