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The Sopwith Rix pictured really doesn't look that terribly far behind the Swordfish
That landing is fantastic. The spitting image of those Moon and Mars landings from Sci Fi movies of the 1950's.
Uncontained engine failure on departure a few hours ago in Sydney: https://twitter.com/flightorg/status/873912558616330241
Which turbine was being used? A China special?
China Eastern A330s use Rolls Royce engines.
They probably just spastically hit the "Maintain" button and then shit out of bunch of bolts, like a degenerate loser from Yorkshire would.
http://m.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2100242/elderly-flight-passenger-throws-coins-engine-luck-delays-take
Chinese passenger opens emergency exit ‘to get some fresh air’ as plane prepares for take-off
Chinese tourist destroys with three swift kicks what nature took 3,000 years to build
Chinese couple arrested over airport runway brawl that saw husband’s shirt torn off and wife pinned to ground
Chinese PhD student banned from Air France flights after slapping airport check-in staff
misbehaving air passenger detained for slapping ground staff in central China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnfoeY77LI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWu2LGiACLshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThoZNxy2JZk
It would appear Russian pilots just go for it; regardless of conditions. No wonder they, and the passengers, drink so much vodka.
There are a few stories of pilots in Russia using cheap vodka as a makeshift deicing fluid too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIU94dg1ek
A high energy laser system mounted under the stub wing of a US Army AH-64E Apache has successfully acquired and hit a target during tests of the directed-energy weapon at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.The laser firing, conducted by Raytheon with the US Army Apache Program Management Office and the US Special Operations Command in mid-June, was the first time a fully integrated laser system successfully shot a target from helicopter, which Raytheon says proves the feasibility of a laser attack from the Apache.The laser system tracked and directed energy on a stationary target at a line-of-sight range of 1,400m while the Apache was flying at a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes and airspeeds.Data collected from the tests, including the impact of vibration, dust and rotor downwash from the Apache’s main and tail rotor blades, will help Raytheon develop future high-energy laser systems.While in an early experimental phase, should a laser attack system be integrated into an Apache’s weapons suite, a laser strike could prove to be more accurate and effective, while being much cheaper, than firing a Hellfire missile at a target.
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