Lisias Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 There's always someone going the Kerbal way on everything!! A racing car with AIR BRAKES! (and the turbo intake on the pilot's left ear!) https://uopshadowicons.com/product/can-am-shadow-special-edition-package/ https://www.instagram.com/goodwoodrrc/reel/C5wSkAfIzMv/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroWolfie Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 This was 2 years ago, but still. It's crazy! reminds me of BDArmory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroWolfie Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 context: I have an extension on my laptop that lets me get random, wacky news from around the world, in no particular order. This was one that showed up this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 10 minutes ago, AstroWolfie said: This was 2 years ago, but still. It's crazy! reminds me of BDArmory. My father apparently had something of roughly this category rigged into one of his first, late Soviet cars, alongside a loudspeaker under the hood (an Oka had a lot of space under the bonnet next to the anemic engine). Then of course there's this classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 https://imgur.com/gallery/x1zrbUi Its an battery powered compressor taped to the wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Until individual tank ECM and micro-flak are perfected, nerds are going to be subjected to aesthetic suffering That thing looks like solid sheet metal, not nets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 To the roots. Spoiler Anyway, the combat drones are now like the WWI ones. Spoiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 3 hours ago, kerbiloid said: To the roots. Hide contents Anyway, the combat drones are now like the WWI ones. Hide contents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug Oh, wait until I fetch you US's first UCAV. Same energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 "What if Jaws and Saw had a crossover?" - evolution, 270 mln years ago At the turn of the previous century, a rather unusual Permian-era fossil was spotted by an ethnographer Alexander Bessonov in the literal town of Perm and referred to Alexander Karpinsky It was quickly concluded that these are teeth, shark teeth to be specific (although the various early sharks have been further broken down and this is now deemed closer to a ratfish). The "teeth whorl" and its owner were dubbed Helicoprion bessonowi, and an elephant in the room remained: where did this thing go on the animal? Not pictured is one tentative suggestion that this thing was rotary. And yes, Karpinsky did end up sticking it on every imaginable part of the beast. The latest view by the guys interviewed a decade ago by NatGeo suggested a single file of teeth on the lower jaw, growing from the mouth outwards, and with the jaw closing they would very much perform a buzzsaw motion. Edit: ah, found the artist's webtsite. Perfect. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 4 hours ago, DDE said: "What if Jaws and Saw had a crossover?" - evolution, 270 mln years ago At the turn of the previous century, a rather unusual Permian-era fossil was spotted by an ethnographer Alexander Bessonov in the literal town of Perm and referred to Alexander Karpinsky It was quickly concluded that these are teeth, shark teeth to be specific (although the various early sharks have been further broken down and this is now deemed closer to a ratfish). The "teeth whorl" and its owner were dubbed Helicoprion bessonowi, and an elephant in the room remained: where did this thing go on the animal? Not pictured is one tentative suggestion that this thing was rotary. And yes, Karpinsky did end up sticking it on every imaginable part of the beast. The latest view by the guys interviewed a decade ago by NatGeo suggested a single file of teeth on the lower jaw, growing from the mouth outwards, and with the jaw closing they would very much perform a buzzsaw motion. Edit: ah, found the artist's webtsite. Perfect. Hide contents The rotating lower jaw one was amphibious and used by intelligent dinosaur to cut down trees and make planks. Flintstone was pretty accurate outside the humans and the pointless cars. They had everything from fast cabs to +100 ton trains pulled by the huge dinosaurs. They was expanding out of current day Mexico. They did not have an space program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 This shark should be first to roll onto the land from the sea, and the mammals would be sapient bikers joint with bikes. If not the sneaky mudskippers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 (edited) Crazy, almost desperate idea from WW2 era: doing MEDEVAC on pods mounted on the bomb mounts of a P-38. What could possibly go wrong? ("Bombs awa..." uh... Whoops.. ) (but it would be a hell of view!) https://aviationhumor.net/experimental-air-ambulance-version-of-the-p-38/ Edited April 24 by Lisias Tyops, as usulla... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Could drop 'chutists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Could drop 'chutists. Or pigeon bombs! (but with the pigeons replaced!). Way easier to train, but extremely hard to deploy... (could work to the japs, however...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 4 hours ago, Lisias said: Crazy, almost desperate idea from WW2 era: doing MEDEVAC on pods mounted on the bomb mounts of a P-38. What could possibly go wrong? ("Bombs awa..." uh... Whoops.. ) (but it would be a hell of view!) https://aviationhumor.net/experimental-air-ambulance-version-of-the-p-38/ It keeps coming up and coming up. I know several sides in WWII had this sort of kit. This was the latest known attempt to bring it back: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 5 minutes ago, DDE said: It keeps coming up and coming up. I know several sides in WWII had this sort of kit. This was the latest known attempt to bring it back: You know... Sooner or later someone will try to deploy Commandos with these things! ("Commandos away...." ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 2 hours ago, Lisias said: Sooner or later someone will try to deploy Commandos with these things! ("Commandos away...." ) That was one of the proposals, yes. Ah, yes, I found the IRL Helldiver pod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted Friday at 01:34 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:34 AM (edited) A classic medevac chopper: Edited Friday at 01:36 AM by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted Friday at 02:26 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 02:26 PM When you hit "stage" by accident... Quote A befuddled crewmember near the plane’s tail reflexively shouted “Bombs away!” Carp, meanwhile, came barreling out of the bomb bay exclaiming “I didn’t touch anything! I didn’t touch anything!” The B-36’s radio operator sent a frantic distress call to base, telling the horrified tower operator, “We dropped a hydrogen bomb!” Poor cow. https://medium.com/@shermikeholmes88/the-time-we-accidentally-nuked-new-mexico-301489770be2 Spoiler There's also another similar incident, involving a B-47 in South Carolina - some people got hurt in this one. Specially worrying, however, was the B-52 incident also depicted on the same article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BA-Forums Posted Friday at 07:07 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:07 PM On 4/24/2024 at 10:26 AM, DDE said: That was one of the proposals, yes. Ah, yes, I found the IRL Helldiver pod. same vibe lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted Friday at 07:31 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:31 PM On 4/24/2024 at 4:45 PM, DDE said: It keeps coming up and coming up. I know several sides in WWII had this sort of kit. This was the latest known attempt to bring it back: Back in the Korean war this was standard for helicopter medevac as you could not fit an stretcher inside the two man cockpit. It was also realized giving trauma treatment during medevac significantly increased the survival chance after serious incidents. 25 years ago I studied engineering and the student dorms was previously only used by nurse student because we was next to an hospital. One spring night I woke up in shock an binding light filled the room and it was very noisy. It was an medevac helicopter using our high rise as an visual aid toward the hospital. It I had someone with something critical like an stoke I would also gone in very tactical, the students just start drinking again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted Friday at 09:19 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:19 PM https://t.me/fotozak/6548 A helicopter refueling while carrying an external load... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted Saturday at 03:50 AM Share Posted Saturday at 03:50 AM (edited) Mi-28 has a radio compartment, also purposed for the evacuation of 2 (3 if tamp) people, or bail out a squad of hobbitroopers. Spoiler Edited Saturday at 03:50 AM by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted Saturday at 01:38 PM Share Posted Saturday at 01:38 PM Interesting, than rocket-like thing in the background is laying on back ground, or it's the way in which the true pilots do taxi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted Monday at 02:18 AM Share Posted Monday at 02:18 AM On 4/26/2024 at 8:50 PM, kerbiloid said: Mi-28 has a radio compartment, also purposed for the evacuation of 2 (3 if tamp) people, or bail out a squad of hobbitroopers. Reveal hidden contents It would be so cool to know how this thing would have fitted into Soviet doctrine in Central Europe had the Pact not fell. It’s very different from the Mi-24. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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