>>65204801
So they reproduce like salmons ? I can see four egg grapes being released and then the parents just die

>>65204801
what do you think they talked about while they gently floated to Earth?

>>65204801
This was supposed to be formation flying, not Fusion flying

>posting jet porn

Planes IRL actually collide like goofy Warthunder models.

>>65204974
Reality is often stranger than fiction

>>65204974
If you told me when two planes collide midair they just sort of float there for a bit before tumbling, I'd say you had been watching a cartoon.

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>>65204974
At low speeds they do. Anything higher and its a shitshow.

>>65204837
>i just destroyed a plane worth more money than i'll see in my entire lifetime
>i hope they let me fly planes again :(

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>>65205102
>i hope they let me fly planes again
They probably will if this was the pilot's first fuck up.

>>65204801
I want to see the accident report. At least the preliminary one.
I still don't understand why they are doing acrobatics with aircraft that are not optimized for that role.

>>65204801
>-28,000 SL

>>65205865
So only custom UAV's should do aerobatics?
Precisely the reason they practice aerobatics in war planes is 1) Could be handy in a lot of ways - like for instance in AIR COMBAT. 2) Probably really experienced and skilled FIGHTER PILOTS might just be a teensy bit better at it than posers who never practiced A.C.M.

>>65205184
can you fuckin imagine just genuinely screwing up some piloting input and just destroying 2 fighter jets, my pride would never recover holy shit lmao

>>65205865
>doing acrobatics with aircraft that are not optimized for that role

my brother in christ the Blue Angles fly F-18s and you could reach out and touch the other plane they fly so close together, I know the Growler is a EW plane but it's still an F-18

>>65206014
Nah, I'll just wait two days.

>>65204801
CLARKSON!!!!

>>65204801
aww, they found each other

>>65206130
I once cost an employer like 1300 bucks so I know exactly how that feels

>>65204819
Pretty much.

>>65206228
I cost my employer a 100k a year contract but he never knew why they cancelled it :)

>>65206137
Do you really think they fly stock F-18s? Or hell, stock F/A-18Es? Aerobatic planes are ricced the fuck out for a reason

>>65206472
Are they? The only difference I know with the Blue Angels is they don't wear G-suits.

>>65204801
Oh fuck me running.

>>65204801
>give her a medal!

>>65206341
I want to fuck these horses

>>65206137
>>65206472
>>65206664
These weren't riced out acrobatics Rhinos, nor stock F/A-18s. These are EA-18G Growlers, built from the ground up to carry a bunch of expensive electronic warfare equipment. You cannot modify a finished plane to become a Growler, they look the same, but they're fundamentally different. They also don't make these anymore either, there's no replacement coming down the pipe either. I don't know much they cost, but it's a fuckton. Why they fly them at airshows I'll never know.
>t. boatnigger

>>65206845
yeah its loaded weight is like 10k more lbs, not exactly a light load but I'm pretty sure an F-18 is more then capable of maneuvering pretty effectively even in its Growler format, at least so you don't just literally run into your wingman lol

>>65204801
This is what happens when you cut money out of the military and put it into healthcare!

>>65206845
>You cannot modify a finished plane to become a Growler
I'm reasonably sure that part of Australia's initial superbug order of 24 planes included 12 with additional wing wiring to allow future conversion into a Growler if desired. In the end they liked the plane enough that they just ordered new production Growlers and retained the existing planes as-is.
Obviously special provisions from the factory for it mean it's not a simple process but I wonder if a motivated enough USAF and Boeing could do it with a finished airframe.
Or if they're really desperate, maybe trade with the RAAF to get those units in exchange for standard production planes.

>>65206925
>USAF and Boeing
I meant USN and Boeing, of course. I'm sure the USAF would like to come so they can point and laugh though.

crofled last crofls.. .

>endless empty space to fly in
>see how close you can fly to each other withooops....

>>65206845
>Why they fly them at airshows I'll never know.
That's the dumbest part of this. Honestly its party trick can't even be shown because firing up the jammer at a fucking airshow would be retarded. There's really no point flying growlers at an airshow instead of having them on the tarmac as static displays for chink tourists (spies) to photograph.

>>65206228
I almost caused a nuclear reactor shutdown once.

>>65205184
No, the wingman is getting Fenabbed into another dimension, and with high year tenure will be out of the Navy within months of the investigation which will be open and shut. They will never fly for money for anyone ever again, and it's highly possible they will get a Pink sheet on their airman file so they can't even fly single engine land without pax. They are turbo fucked.

>>65206090
you're a retard who spews acronyms you don't know the meaning of. A demo team of a an F-18 in a growler config is retarded when the F-18 demo team already exist.

>>65204819
Wait do salmons die when they have kids?

>>65207474
They coom so hard they die, yeah. That's why bears can catch so many of them; they are exhausted and dying.

>>65207080
Based fellow power plant operator.

>>65207474
Yep. They go through massive physical changes, stop eating, and swim up the rivers they started their own lives in to breed. By the time they finish many of them are already starting to look like they're rotting alive. After breeding they die. They do their breeding runs in such huge numbers that even the massive numbers of predators waiting for that exact thing don't make a dent in breeding numbers. The thing that hits them hard is dams without things like fish ladders.

>>65206472
Pretty much, yes. There’s a couple minor alterations like the inclusion of smoke cans and probably some software modifications, but one of the tenets of the demonstration teams is that they can go from show-ready to deployable in 72 hours.

>>65205865
>Aerobatics

>>65204977
The pilots forgot the golden rule, you don't actually start falling until you look down and realize there's no ground beneath you. COME ON PEOPLE, you're millenial pilots, you watched Tiny Toons, you remember the episode where they took advantage of that by walking across a chasm by not looking down.

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>>65204801
MOMMY SAYS "when two planes love one another very very much, they make love!" and that's how baby planes are made!

>>65210556
Do planes lay eggs? What even is a baby F-18? An F-16? An F-4? Do they grow their landing hooks at puberty?

>>65207679
Not an operator, I accidentally fed operators wrong values while they were reaching 100% after refuelling and they got scared. My boss and his boss had to attend like 5 meeting because of me.

>>65210910
> Do planes lay eggs?
I dunno. But I plan to find out.

>>65206472
>>65206664
>>65208986
Main thing is they pull the cannon. Angels get selected airframes. Specifically, they get the best rated planes that have reached the end of their carrier life.

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>>65211451

Here u go

>>65210910
>Do planes lay eggs?
Internet sources say yes.

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>>65211516

>>65211342
lmao Good job anon. That had to have pissed some folks off once they figured it out.

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>>65211516
>F-18
Teen pregnancy is unfortunate.

>>65207474
You know the classic deep red salmon with the weird sickle head?
That's their body rotting and falling apart, they look like normal fish before they do their zombie death swim up a river.

>>65211516
Why on god's green Earth does the opening look like that? Bad clanker! BAD! BAD CLANKER!

>>65208973
not exactly. fish ladders exist at most dams and those without usually have a hatchery or some kind of relocation setup to get them upstream and spawning.
the dams effect the little salmon swimming to the ocean. the reservoirs are full of invasive predators that eat them. also, water temperatures tend to be higher in the reservoirs effecting their metabolic rate.

>>65204801
The fact that all four managed to eject is a fucking miracle.

>>65206918
>healthcare
Do Europeons really believe the US doesn't have hospitals or doctors?

>>65211516
We've strayed so far from God's Grace I'm honestly starting to wonder if He ever existed at all...

>>65204974
Momentum transfer is all about closing speed. Flying plane crashes into stationary plane: vaporized. Planes flying in opposite directions meet: double vaporized with revengeance. Two planes moving on the same vector with a sub-20mph closing speed: BUMPERCARS!

https://files.catbox.moe/tkh2pt.mp4

>>65216944
that's one hell of a case of adding 2 plus 2, and getting 3,950,034.2 there. Why does the word "healthcare" make you start leaping to conclusions about Europeans?

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lmao imagine floating back down to the ground with 3 of ur airmen bros as your irreplaceable F15e's detonate into massive fireballs right below you, probably one HELLUVA RUSH!!!

>>65217459
> irreplaceable F15e
Lol
Lmao
Rofl even

>>65217518
>"we didnt want them anyway!"

>>65207130
>Fenabbed
I have no idea what this word means but I sort of get the gist of what you were trying to say.

>>65208986
I don't know jack about the Navy's F-18 aerobatics team but I'm nearly 100% positive that the USAF's F-22 Demo team is flying planes that aren't even combat coded.

>>65216944
Oh we know you have the most advanced healthcare in the world. The issue is that it's paywalled because the Republicans and their puppeteers from the Healthcare industry have managed to gaslight more than half of the country into believe that having a public tax-funded healthcare infrastructure is the first step to implementing Communism in American, and that my dear Burger Anon is fucking retarded. And on the other side of the coin you have the braindead Democrats wanting to kill all of the private Healthcare industry and transition to a Canada-style public healthcare in where people are pressured to accept euthanasia over the slightest of health problems.

>>65217624
Sure. But not because they’re hot-rodded or “ricced the fuck out.” In fact, it’s the opposite since the demo F-22s are the oldest ones in the fleet.

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>>65206472
>>65217687
I'll add onto this that the reason you fly the oldest planes in the fleet is because aerobatics both puts more strain on airframes and is more likely to result in an accident. You want to sacrifice as little useful airframe lifespan as possible to those two elements, plus they're also the airframes least likely to have all the little product improved or block revision enhancements of later planes.
A military aircraft also doesn't really need to be 'riced out' to begin with. They're already insanely agile and controllable aircraft.
The biggest functional modification that the Blue Angels use is a heavy centring spring on the stick, I believe the idea is that it makes it easier to hold a very precise input for an extended duration when you're bracing against the spring pushing the other way and to feel precisely how much stick you're giving it. In regular flight it doesn't particularly matter if you're at 55% or 65% stick deflection but when there's four other planes breathing down your neck it becomes quite important.

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>>65204819
Lmao

>>65207474
They don't want their kids living with them into their 20's.

>>65217638
>tax payer funded
Congratulations you either get European style "6 month waiting periods for basic shit" or you spend more than 70% of your GDP on healthcare. We ALREADY spend more taxpayer money on Medicare/Medicaid, and you low IQ morons want to spend EVEN MORE.

>>65218262
That’s totally untrue, and quite frankly you should feel ashamed to even think that.

You also have the option of Canadian style healthcare, aka “Oh, you have a cold? Have you tried killing yourself?”

I just wanted to make a Simpsons reference, I'm sorry guys

>>65211549
Is that Hammond of Texas?

>>65214091
>invasive
People who believe there's a non-abitrary difference between "invasion" and "biological success" are basically creationists who are in denial about being creationists

>effect vs affect
Yep.