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NutLoose
19th Apr 2024, 22:25
I mean that has to be live and is still running…
https://twitter.com/escortert/status/1779547432310706602
https://twitter.com/escortert/status/1779547432310706602
langleybaston
19th Apr 2024, 22:37
I mean that has to be live and is still running…
https://twitter.com/escortert/status/1779547432310706602
Always good to be reminded that there are folk sillier than I am
Ascend Charlie
19th Apr 2024, 22:47
(*Snap!") Bang.
Hydromet
20th Apr 2024, 02:13
(*Snap!") Bang.
Wallop, what a picture,
Wallop what a picture,
What a photograph.
Tommy Steele song.
falcon900
20th Apr 2024, 08:26
Darwin had something of relevance to say, if I remember correctly
OwnNav
20th Apr 2024, 11:33
Not so much Fly By Wire but Fly Into Wire.
Strucky
20th Apr 2024, 13:40
Looks like a capability used for decoy or ARM - the Iranians (and Russians) will know by now and start copying them soon.
Wee Weasley Welshman
20th Apr 2024, 14:14
Jesus Christ are some people dumb when equipped with a smartphone.
WWW
Lonewolf_50
20th Apr 2024, 18:29
WWW, it is quite possible that the heirs of Charles Darwin invented the smartphone to cull the dumb. :}
Clever, when you think about it.
bobward
20th Apr 2024, 18:39
Another example of the phone having more intelligence than the operator.....
Sue Vêtements
21st Apr 2024, 12:52
It's the Royal Navy's new Carrier Landing Practise facility - (no carrier required)
NutLoose
21st Apr 2024, 13:24
You may laugh Sue, but there used to be a system using wires to catch aircraft.
Herod
21st Apr 2024, 13:44
Nutty, I believe somewhere in the distant past, the RN had that idea. They used catapults to launch as well.
They used catapults to launch as well.
Including live humans.
Surface to Air Recovery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system)
NutLoose
21st Apr 2024, 15:20
Nutty, I believe somewhere in the distant past, the RN had that idea. They used catapults to launch as well.
I am talking the Brodie system for taking off and landing on a ship.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/432x250/image_4bcad5f4f8cf27c7a37abdb97b28d5b736ca875f.jpeg
Brodie (http://aerofiles.com/brodie-rig.html)
Herod
21st Apr 2024, 16:13
Thanks Nutty. I didn't even think of that. It was somewhere in the back of my memory, but now time to bring it forward.