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Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: bozon on August 22, 2006, 01:44:47 AM

cool pic :)

check out: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060822.html

(deleted direct link, pic too big.)

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Furball on August 22, 2006, 02:22:29 AM

I AM SMOKACUS GOD OF SMOKE! FEAR MY WRATH!! AHH!

(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/smokeangel_usaf.jpg)

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Reynolds on August 22, 2006, 03:22:28 AM

Awesome!!!

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Nilsen on August 22, 2006, 03:54:43 AM

cool! :)

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Heater on August 22, 2006, 04:12:34 AM

Humm....
if they (flares)were released from the C-17, then why is it heading toward the smoke, in place of away from it??

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: moot on August 22, 2006, 04:26:54 AM

The plane's heading towards the camera, so are the flares.. The center of the eye vortices are furthest back.

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Trikky on August 22, 2006, 04:50:07 AM

Why is the vertical stab so freakin huge on the C-17?

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Airscrew on August 22, 2006, 10:08:36 AM

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Originally posted by Trikky
Why is the vertical stab so freakin huge on the C-17?

maybe because of the freakin huge wing and those 4 freakin hugh round things hanging under the freakin hugh wing?  That hugh freakin wing probably creates a hugh amount of freakin turbulance and it needs a hugh freakin stab so the pilots can fly that hugh freakin plane...
this of course is just a huge freakin wag on my part though ;)

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: RightF00T on August 22, 2006, 11:42:01 AM

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Originally posted by Furball
I AM SMOKACUS GOD OF SMOKE! FEAR MY WRATH!! AHH!

(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/smokeangel_usaf.jpg)

OH NOES ITS THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: slimm50 on August 22, 2006, 12:39:01 PM

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Originally posted by Airscrew
maybe because of the freakin huge wing and those 4 freakin hugh round things hanging under the freakin hugh wing?  That hugh freakin wing probably creates a hugh amount of freakin turbulance and it needs a hugh freakin stab so the pilots can fly that hugh freakin plane...
this of course is just a huge freakin wag on my part though ;)

Heh, Air...goodun.

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Trikky on August 22, 2006, 02:15:01 PM

It even has a ladder in it.

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: FiLtH on August 22, 2006, 02:50:50 PM

In case of an emergency the elevator section separates and becomes another airplane. Kinda like Start Trek, but no phasers, bald captains or chicks in camel-tards.

Title: Smoking wingtip turbulance
Post by: Trikky on August 22, 2006, 03:46:30 PM

Now thats the kind of answer I was looking for.