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Trump and Hillary are cut from the same cloth. They're both "I've got money, you stupid little people don't need to worry about things" types, except Trump has embraced the populist tactic of "I will say whatever gets me attention and votes."
 
He's donated thousands of dollars to the Clinton Global Initiative, supports "reasonable restrictions" on "assault weapons", donated to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign, and didn't donate money to Republican political campaigns before 2012.

I'm just going to say this: If for one reason or another Trump becomes US president, the US will lose all the respect I still had for them. Because fuck that guy.

The Problem of Space Travel (PDF, 7mb), (Higher quality 26mb version)
The Slovenian engineer Herman Potočnik's 1928 book on space travel. Apparently had a good amount of influence on Oberth and Korolev.

The AIM-9X has been tested against boats and vehicles. And back during Vietnam they messed around with using a version of the AIM-9B against trucks on the Ho Chi Minh trail at night, apparently the headlights/exhausts put out enough of a IR signature for a lock.
 
 
I suspect that anti-radiation/home-on-jam for the SDB-II and Brimstone will eventually show up, as another mode to their radar guidance packages. (IIRC the Air Force and Raytheon have already worked on a version of the SDB specifically for killing GPS jammers)

Trump supporters are scared by the world and treat women like objects.
Anime nerds are scared by the world and treat women like objects.
 
Yeah, it checks out.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbWh4kBnkA
(HITLER ICONOGRAPHY!)

If Molyneux is changing your mind, it's time to become more close-minded. ;P

Trump fucking lost money running a casino.

Trump fucking lost money running a casino.

"Moderate anti-zionists" claim they captured and repaired a Merkava.



 
"Hakeem! Start the engine!" *Flintstones running noises*

Why would anyone take what Trump says as what Trump actually means or intends?

Take Trump's platform, and throw it out. Think about who Trump is as a person (a sleazy, mediocre businessman). Would Trump be a good president? He would make us thankful for how little the position matters, I think.

A closer example to the disgust some of us have-
 
"You need a license to buy a book. Any book the government finds to not meet it's criteria for public consumption, you need to pay a tax on, and allow the government to inspect your bookshelf at a moment's notice. If you are found in possession of a book the government finds offensive, without having paid the proper taxes and licensing fees, you will be subject to a fine and prison time."
 
That is a fair summation as to how absurd I find the vast majority of firearms laws to be.

I'm pretty sure he was mocking ausairpower.

It bums me out that the first thing anyone does when they hear about good food these days i "ugh, fucking hipsters."

Another similar "huh we just don't know why it's not working" failure was the XFV-12, designed for the Sea Control Ship.


 
Convair also proposed a great looking light fighter for the Navy. The model 200 would have had a F100 with a F-35 style three-section rotating exhaust plus two 10k lbf lift jets (The Rolls-Royce ones on the previously mentioned aircraft had around 5k lbf) behind the cockpit, while the Model 201 would have been a conventional fighter.
 



 
(The tiltwing in the back looks to be a Canadair CL-84)
 
And apparently after General Dynamics bought up Convair they further refined it's lines into the Rafale Model 218.

You mean the VAK-191B? It was pretty similar in stats and layout to the Yak-38 but one of the lift engines was moved to the tail section instead of having both of them up front. It was intended to be a strike fighter with a secondary dash-to-intercept role, and like the Yak-38 turned out to have crap performance.

 
There was also the Do 31 transport, which was intended to be used to supply rough airfields operating the aforementioned VTOL fighters. The internal pods each housed a Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine (same as the Harrier) and the outer pods each have four Rolls-Royce lift engines as used on the Mirage and VAK191B. Useful load would have been around 3,500kg.


 
It also had a large analogue-digital hybrid computer for preforming the differential equations needed for takeoff/landing.

 
(Interestingly the lift engines found a much longer life on the Hawker Trident airliner, being mounted conventionally in the 3B version to give the airplane a boost in thrust for takeoffs in hot conditions.)
 
Lockheed also made a couple joint ventures. They cooked up the CL-704 with the Shorts Brothers, which was a F-104 Starfighter, the main engine would have been replaced by a more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey, while the tip tanks would each be replaced by 7(!) lift engines. It was canceled due to the development of the Kestrel/Harrier, to the presumable relief of the wives of Marine aviators. I can only imagine how quickly it would go through it's fuel with seven lift jets and the bigger Spey engine.


 
And the Ryan triangle wing proposal. From what I can find the triangle was intended to spin around like a helicopter blade for takeoff, then lock into position for regular flight.

You mean the VAK-191B? It was pretty similar in stats and layout to the Yak-38 but one of the lift engines was moved to the tail section instead of having both of them up front. It was intended to be a strike fighter with a secondary dash-to-intercept role, and like the Yak-38 turned out to have crap performance.

 
There was also the Do 31 transport, which was intended to be used to supply rough airfields operating the aforementioned VTOL fighters. The internal pods each housed a Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine (same as the Harrier) and the outer pods each have four Rolls-Royce lift engines as used on the Mirage and VAK191B. Useful load would have been around 3,500kg.


 
It also had a large analogue-digital hybrid computer for preforming the differential equations needed for takeoff/landing.

 
(Interestingly the lift engines found a much longer life on the Hawker Trident airliner, being mounted conventionally in the 3B version to give the airplane a boost in thrust for takeoffs in hot conditions.)
 
Lockheed also made a couple joint ventures. They cooked up the CL-704 with the Shorts Brothers, which was a F-104 Starfighter, the main engine would have been replaced by a more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey, while the tip tanks would each be replaced by 7(!) lift engines. It was canceled due to the development of the Kestrel/Harrier, to the presumable relief of the wives of Marine aviators. I can only imagine how quickly it would go through it's fuel with seven lift jets and the bigger Spey engine.


 
And the Ryan triangle wing proposal. From what I can find the triangle was intended to spin around like a helicopter blade for takeoff, then lock into position for regular flight.

You mean the VAK-191B? It was pretty similar in stats and layout to the Yak-38 but one of the lift engines was moved to the tail section instead of having both of them up front. It was intended to be a strike fighter with a secondary dash-to-intercept role, and like the Yak-38 turned out to have crap performance.

 
There was also the Do 31 transport, which was intended to be used to supply rough airfields operating the aforementioned VTOL fighters. The internal pods each housed a Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine (same as the Harrier) and the outer pods each have four Rolls-Royce lift engines as used on the Mirage and VAK191B. Useful load would have been around 3,500kg.


 
It also had a large analogue-digital hybrid computer for preforming the differential equations needed for takeoff/landing.

 
(Interestingly the lift engines found a much longer life on the Hawker Trident airliner, being mounted conventionally in the 3B version to give the airplane a boost in thrust for takeoffs in hot conditions.)
 
Lockheed also made a couple joint ventures. They cooked up the CL-704 with the Shorts Brothers, which was a F-104 Starfighter, the main engine would have been replaced by a more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey, while the tip tanks would each be replaced by 7(!) lift engines. It was canceled due to the development of the Kestrel/Harrier, to the presumable relief of the wives of Marine aviators. I can only imagine how quickly it would go through it's fuel with seven lift jets and the bigger Spey engine.


 
And the Ryan triangle wing proposal. From what I can find the triangle was intended to spin around like a helicopter blade for takeoff, then lock into position for regular flight.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=202304
 

Have conspiracy theorists realized that the parking area is shaped like a cobra's head yet?

Have conspiracy theorists realized that the parking area is shaped like a cobra's head yet?