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http://www.airliners.net/photo/Italy---Army/Agusta-AB-205A-1/1824786/L/&sid=bdf01e0bdafe858e7d38a0c5e7899288 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Italy---Army/Agusta-AB-205A-1/1157580/L/&sid=bdf01e0bdafe858e7d38a0c5e7899288 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Italy---Army/Agusta-AB-205A-1/1081169/L/&sid=bdf01e0bdafe858e7d38a0c5e7899288 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Italy---Army/Agusta-AB-205A-1/0934266/L/&sid=bdf01e0bdafe858e7d38a0c5e7899288 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Italy---Army/Agusta-AB-205A-1/1505269/L/&sid=bdf01e0bdafe858e7d38a0c5e7899288 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Greek---Army/Bell-UH-1H-Iroquois/2142440/L/

Japs seem to love their Huey! http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/1613953/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/1653257/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/1901345/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/2076936/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/2089368/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/0981858/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 Is this a blank firing adapter on the fifty or why does it look like that? http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/1560224/L/&sid=6d2ce09bc24c9bd75b3ca33c08c26b59 http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan---Army/Bell-(Fuji)-UH-1J/2218650/L/&sid=7728c9026fedc7969c8922b366409b73

http://russianplanes.net/id95910

Here it is. I'm sure it's okay to post. I have posted even in English as with my Russian typing skills it would take forever and with many errors. Their activity is nowhere near our screenshot thread so some foreign spice would only be positive! http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=40283&page=77

Allright... who of us is gonna confess? :D

Perhaps to increase the usability of NVG's for soldiers on the ground? Night is great for advanced militaries. It's a huge advantage to see when your enemy doesn't. NVG's still need light to work and on moonless dark nights it might become dark even with NVG's. Well I'm just thinking. Hopefully not terribly wrong. :)

"Joining an oeuvre that already includes 2001's Band of Brothers and 2010's The Pacific, the untitled miniseries will explore the aerial wars through the eyes of enlisted men of the Eighth Air Force -- known as the men of the Mighty Eighth. The project will use at its source material historian Donald L. Miller’s nonfiction tome Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-developing-third-wwii-miniseries-413632

The comments suggest that they are illumination rockets. Nothing unusual.

"like having an argument with a woman" :D

Yeah I've read tutorials and will try to remember that. :) I'm a little skeptic about how will it work with my IDE drive that connects through a SATA adapter though. I've heard SSD's are still super fast even in IDE mode so in worst case scenario I might have to use that to keep my old drive as a backup.

I guess so. :) The fuel goes to the HMU which meters and distributes fuel for burning and various control systems. Do I remember wrong or does the F-18 actuate the exhaust nozzle with "fueldraulics"?

I just ordered the Sandisk! I'm sure Samsung is great despite the "cheapo" memory type but being a couple pounds cheaper, faster and proven, I think Sandisk is a good choise. I'm a bit puzzled with sudden Amazon price increase on checkout. The initial price was £129.62 but during checkout it was suddenly £133.94 even with free delivery. Go figure. It does the same with Samsung though. Erforce, I expect my hard drives to last at least 5 years for sure. :) Only had one failure and it was for an external drive. I have two internal drives, one SATA and one IDE. The IDE is the oldest and serves as a backup drive. I don't see how even my old hard drives couldn't have some use. They're great for backup, secondary internet PC etc so I would value the high life expectancy.

Perhaps they mean the common use of fuel as hydraulic fluid in the engine's own systems. Commercial turbofans use fuel to actuate VSV/IGV, VBV and cooling valves through Hydro Mechanical Unit. The hydraulic fluid itself is not used anywhere in the engine to control it's systems.

Like aerobatic team displays? I thought these look even cooler in helicopters. Some tight maneuvers with all those spinning dingys around.

The wonders of a coaxial rotor (animation):

Nice! Was it still decently flyable at 5500m? That's what the manual gives for service ceiling. O/T: These guys are amazing and Jetranger isn't even near what their other equipment can do (AS-350). They rescue people from those altitudes! http://www.pprune.org/7627312-post868.html

Yeah of course I don't look at the "original" price but what it is now. It's all that matters and both drives are comparable. I'd like to order from amazon as they ship free and I can include other stuff with it. :) One thing bothers me a bit is that the Samsung is made of cheaper memory modules, thus slower speeds and supposedly should last less time. However anandtech review explains why that doesn't matter really and it should last but I'm still skeptical as it hasn't been proved in long run. :huh:

A dilemma about SSD's. Time to get one and I'm stuck with two candidates about the same price. 250 GB Samsung 840 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Series-250GB-Solid-State/dp/B009LI7C9Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1358524134&sr=1-1 240 GB Sandisk - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006EKJ8UI/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers Theoretically the Samsung is slower in write but from what I've read, you won't notice this in normal use and someone said that an average user doesn't need write speeds over 250 MB/s. Sandisk is Sandforce and that turns some people off although many say Sandforce is great these days and the bad reputation should be forgotten. The guarantee is the same 3 years for both. So basically Samsung has a better €/GB value and Sandisk has better speed. Anything else?

New issues of these free magazines have been released. They seem quite nice. Alot of ads but not big deal to me. http://www.kiakahamedia.com/vip

Bump. I just remembered to set the new background yesterday.

Nice find!

These guys are just cool! I envy their work and scenes. And their helicopters have really cool paintjobs. Shame I can't embed the photos but here's an example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45115614@N05/7703165100/sizes/h/in/pool-1361994@N23/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/45115614@N05/sets/72157630763139124/detail/ In case you ever wondered how a navy helicopter folding tail mechanism and shaft coupling looks like.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billkatygemma/7840756210/sizes/o/in/pool-1361994@N23/

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Mikoyan-Gurevich-MiG-31/2208455/L/&sid=459f970183b8c01b7ac1cf5c31220b75 http://russianplanes.net/id94303