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DarkMoineau wrote:
GrahamKennedy wrote:Okay, another one. What's this and why does it look so weirdly cool?

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It's the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin parasite fighter :)
Yep. Designed to be carried by the B36 bomber, but not as a test vehicle - the idea was to drop it so it could fight off attacking enemy fighters and defend the bomber. Short video.
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I give myself partial credit.
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Me!

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You look like one of those dudes from Despicable me.
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He looks like he comes from Remulak!

In France.
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Kinda disturbing.
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McAvoy wrote:Kinda disturbing.
I think that might've been one of the points. ;)
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You would hope so.
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Were you made to narftle the Garthak on account of having one eye? (congrats on winning if you were!)
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A sulfur miner stands inside the crater of the Kawah Ijen volcano at night, holding a torch, looking towards a flow of liquid sulfur which has caught fire and burns with an eerie blue flame. (© Olivier Grunewald)
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Miners labor in hellish conditions to retrieve the sulfur - Photographer Olivier Grunewald describes the smell as overwhelming, requiring a gas mask for safety, which few of the miners possess. (© Olivier Grunewald) #
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Is that the.... I want to say "Arrow"?
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Is that the Canadian Air Force on patrol?
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Just to let you know that sort of thing is common. On my first deployment back in 2004 we had a 'hard down' plane that we could not fix in time to be flown off before we pulled in. Like hell the rest of the ship will wait for us to fix the plane before pulling in after doing 7 months out to sea. So instead, we took the wings off (F-14B Tomcat), both engines, defueled it, among other things so it can fit on the highway and be light.

Incidentally, we fixed that plane within a week and a couple of months later it had an electrical fire, gutting out the whole plane. We ended up using the plane for spare parts until the carcass got cut up into razor blades.
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I saw this and I had to post it. Fantastic speed and agility.

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