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All of the above is correct re humidity and surface water. The temperature change is due to pressure and causes the condensation which makes it visible. It's always there and why we don't walk in front of large turbine engines. It also happens over wings, esp when flaps or slats are extended. Most of you will have seen it. The pressure change that gives us lift causes a temperature change and condensation in moist air. Ideal gas law or Avogadro's Law (might have spelled that wrong - always thought of it as Avocado).
No @MajorRage nothing has changed. If someone asks I will still bore you with science or flying stories.
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@majorrage said in Planes:
@g-man I can explain that, but I get told off around here for that sort of thing so I won't.
Probably time you got over the nomination honestly. It was a joke then, its still a joke now & this is a thread about planes which a lot of people enjoy.
Besides, it's not like @kirwan has stopped banging the Toeava or Akira drum ....
Either that or you are being sarcastic, and it's not showing over the internets ...
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@machpants said in Planes:
One of the two polish squadrons had the highest kills in the BoB, even though they started late. RAF wouldn't let them fight, initially. Their tactic was to get a close as possible, whereas initially the RAF had their guns harmonised at 400 yards. Only the greatest of shots could get a deflection hit at that range. It dropped to 200 during the battle, even that's a challenge in air combat
Len Deighton in his book Fighter gives a great account of the Polish squadrons. There were stories of RAF pilots getting warning shots from Polish pilots who wanted to get in close to the Germans first.
Heard a story from a Pole that when the RAF did their victory flypast after WW2, there was pressure from Russia not to include the Poles. The RAF responded by having a single Polish pilot in the exact centre of the flypast. Classy response if true.
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Still a plane, soon to be space ship
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Could also be in awesome shit thread!
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@machpants said in Planes:
Could also be in awesome shit thread!
Holy shit! I have done some pretty stupid stunts in planes but that is batshit crazy.
Love it.
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@machpants said in Planes:
Still a plane, soon to be space ship
Very cool. Regional airport for horizontal T/O and LDG rocket powered spaceships. Wow.
Without taking the piss, because what they are doing is amazing, I did laugh at the 3400ft altitude.
That is most definitely sub orbital, barely get you out of the McKenzie basin.
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Not like anyone thought otherwise, but irradiated balls for fighter crews confirmed!
Cancers Strike US Fighter Pilots, Crews at Higher Rates, Air Force Finds
Nearly 30% higher likelihood of testicular cancer and roughly 25% for skin and prostate cancer, according to the military’s most comprehensive study yet.
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@machpants planes with powerful radars are associated with cancers? Next they'll be saying locating radars make you sterile. (Actually we already knew that).
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Saw this thread pop up on the front page, not sure I've ever posted in it.
Is anyone else getting Gulfstream ads on Youtube? Do Gulfstream think someone is going to stumble on to one of their ads after watching a Forgotten Weapons episode and magically decide to drop multiple millions on a private jet?
Although, I guess it makes a change from the constant ads for different Google products and people (grifters) trying to sell their financial advice all using the same moving hands style of speaking.
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@machpants is that because your nuts are already freakin' massive?
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@antipodean said in Planes:
Well designed engines - can barely hear them coming and then they're right on top of you!
This is the thing about modern aircraft that makes curfews in Sydney ridiculous. We're not flying 707s over your house anymore.
Very quiet on approach. Fucking loud once it passes, tho for only a few seconds, really.
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@mariner4life said in Planes:
@machpants is that because your nuts are already freakin' massive?
I dunno, but they've got a nice glow
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