Author Topic: W-H-I-Y-L - boom shake-shake shake the-room. (Read 4007067 times)

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #21400 on:** July 02, 2012, 08:04:12 am

Quote from: Nuke on July 01, 2012, 06:48:01 pm

dekker needs a photo with a really big gun

Didn't get any unfortunately (yet) buuuut,

APC Duuuudes.

z64555 · **Reply #21401 on:** July 02, 2012, 12:41:20 pm

Quote from: Dilmah G on July 02, 2012, 05:42:55 am

Was close to throttling my sister earlier, after she decided fairly firmly that her smoking (at 16 years old) had more benefits than costs.

As long as she doesn't become an utterly addicted heavy smoker, she has the ability to ninja into the smoking crowds... which sometimes have some very important people.

deathfun · **Reply #21402 on:** July 02, 2012, 04:37:55 pm

Why ninja when you can grab the biggest damned cigar there is and smoke the **** out of it

Scotty · **Reply #21403 on:** July 02, 2012, 06:26:12 pm

Went in and took my ASVAB (Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery, for those who don't speak acronym) today in preparation for enlisting.

I maxed it. 99th percentile, and almost maximum marks across the board. I can be literally anything I want in any branch of service I want.

It's a good day.

FireSpawn · **Reply #21404 on:** July 02, 2012, 06:45:31 pm

Quote from: Scotty on July 02, 2012, 06:26:12 pm

Went in and took my ASVAB (Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery, for those who don't speak acronym) today in preparation for enlisting.

I maxed it. 99th percentile, and almost maximum marks across the board. I can be literally anything I want in any branch of service I want.

It's a good day.

In the future, will we be able to say that we know\knew a General?

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #21405 on:** July 02, 2012, 06:53:30 pm

Engineers EOD is the way forward Scotty. Be the best!!

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NGTM-1R · **Reply #21406 on:** July 02, 2012, 07:14:35 pm

Quote from: Dekker on July 02, 2012, 06:53:30 pm

Engineers EOD is the way forward Scotty. Be the best!!

An ordnance tech at a dead run outranks everyone.

Dilmah G · **Reply #21407 on:** July 02, 2012, 10:15:03 pm

Quote from: Scotty on July 02, 2012, 06:26:12 pm

Went in and took my ASVAB (Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery, for those who don't speak acronym) today in preparation for enlisting.

I maxed it. 99th percentile, and almost maximum marks across the board. I can be literally anything I want in any branch of service I want.

It's a good day.

Good work! Do the Army or whatever want to send you back to College so you can take the AFOQT?

Scotty · **Reply #21408 on:** July 02, 2012, 10:29:03 pm

Not sure. I'm practically guaranteed a waiver for my eyesight if I want to fly (and LASIK if I ask for it), so I might just go that route and take a trip through Warrant Officer School and pilot helos for a few years. I can think of more boring ways to serve.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #21409 on:** July 02, 2012, 10:32:22 pm

why pilot helos when you can pilot fighters?

NGTM-1R · **Reply #21410 on:** July 02, 2012, 10:35:39 pm

Quote from: Klaustrophobia on July 02, 2012, 10:32:22 pm

why pilot helos when you can pilot fighters?

Probably because you get more flying time.

Scotty · **Reply #21411 on:** July 02, 2012, 10:39:51 pm

And probably because to pilot fighters I'd have to go Air Force, and I'm not sure I want to do that.

deathfun · **Reply #21412 on:** July 03, 2012, 03:12:42 am

Quote from: Klaustrophobia on July 02, 2012, 10:32:22 pm

why pilot helos when you can pilot fighters?

"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter - and unsafe. "

"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to. "

"Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them. "

"If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage / classic helicopter fly-ins?"

"A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion. "

Nuke · **Reply #21413 on:** July 03, 2012, 05:00:20 am

helicopters are awesome.

headdie · **Reply #21414 on:** July 03, 2012, 05:15:46 am

Helicopters are an inelegant solution to the problem of flight and as a result they constantly on the edge of killing you.

They are also, as Nuke points out, cool!

Nuke · **Reply #21415 on:** July 03, 2012, 05:18:14 am

looking at the mechanical parts on my r/c heli i dont see anything inelegant about it.

headdie · **Reply #21416 on:** July 03, 2012, 05:36:02 am

I am not saying the are components are crude, I am saying the concept is. The fact that continual application of power is needed in order to prevent falling at terminal velocity dosn't strike you as inefficient? combine that with the need to continually use power to stop the thing from counter spinning the rotors? Compared to a the average fixed wing where loss of power don't equal vertical drop, and you don't have to waste power on a secondary function to prevent crashing.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #21417 on:** July 03, 2012, 05:40:42 am

Fixed wings (fuel hungry vtols/stops aside) can't fly backwards

headdie · **Reply #21418 on:** July 03, 2012, 06:22:30 am

well that comes down to appropriate application

deathfun · **Reply #21419 on:** July 03, 2012, 06:52:09 am

Quote from: Dekker on July 03, 2012, 05:40:42 am

Fixed wings (fuel hungry vtols/stops aside) can't fly backwards

No, but they can fly upside down and do far more impressive ACM's
(AH-64 excluded as it is a helicopter that can do loops. Bloody cool I might add)

But of course, Choplifter makes helicopters a win

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