^^^ Absolutely Counts!^^^

Good luck with your training. Look forward to hearing some insight.

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Yup! Ditto!!!!

That chit counts!!!!!!

That is quite the probiscus in the third pic. What is that used for?


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Drug plane?


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Daytona Speedway, as seen from the back seat of an AT-6...

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If you've got fire inside the fuselage, that allows you to inject foam where it is needed.

Best
Les

Nice! Thanks Les..

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They took off and left it. Mooney doesn't grow on trees.

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Hey! You can’t park there!!!!!!!

Here is a local fun fact:
The 1991 Disney film “The Rocketeer” featured one of the local planes from Placerville,KPVF.

Was watching it, one of my favs and recognized the tail. The owner has since passed and the plane now belongs to another owner.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4eff333ee9.jpg
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https://youtu.be/USW53vdL_0c

Amazing young lady.

That was great. Thank you.

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The Mysterious Case Of The F-117 Nighthawk’s Flip-Down Radar Locators
The F-117 had extendable antenna farms that could detect and possibly locate enemy radar emitters—or did it?

The F-117 continues to be one of the most intriguing aircraft ever built, even nearly a decade after it was retired, and close to 30 years after it was originally unveiled to the public [at the time this was written in 2020]. From the Nighthawk’s “cloaking device” to its “toxic death” paint job, it seem like some of the most interesting aspects of the F-117’s story are the small bits that have largely gone unreported. Maybe one of the most obscure and enigmatic details of the “Black Jet” is an elusive component called the Radar Locating System (RLS). For an aircraft that survives on its stealthy shape and coatings, these flip-down antenna arrays seem to deviate drastically from the F-117’s modus operandi. But then again, the impetus for their existence may make more sense than not—that is if they really existed at all.

The F-117's Radar Locating System consists (as far as we know) of a pair of small planar antenna farms located under the aircraft's wings, about ten feet from the wing roots, near their leading edges. The idea behind the system seems to have been that the F-117 pilot, who would normally retract all the jet's antennas when moving into hostile territory to minimize its radar reflectivity, could activate the system and its antennas would pop down into the airstream. Once deployed, they would work as a radar homing and warning receiver (RHWR), not only notifying the pilot of the an enemy radar's presence and type, but also its direction and maybe even its general location.

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More: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-mysterious-case-of-the-f-117-nighthawk-s-flip-down-radar-locators

Smells like boooolsjiiit to me.

"The Only picture available"
That picture could be anything, theres no telling if that is even an F117

Furthermore the idea of detecting radar on a stealth plane,
doing that by breaking the stealth design and flipping out a square detector box, which would increase the RCS and make the plane easier to show up to the radar.

is just a big "does not compute" to me.

I doubt they cared all that much, since the F117 was mostly designed to defeat Fire control (lockon) radars, not general Early Warning Radar..
The enemy usually would have a general idea that "somethign" was up there, but they simply could not lock on to it.
Lock on radar has completely different band and wavelength

The EWR locations on the really dangerous sam sites are generally in known locations, Satelite and U2's would have already figured all of that out prior to attacking.

The F117's would then optimize their flight, ingress and egress to avoid bad angles vs such big radars... (pule radar only detects changing distance to the radar, if you fly perpendicular it detects nothing)

And the regular RHAW gear does not use antennas that look like that RLS at all,
they are very simple systems that don't need much antenna to detect the powerful big radars..

A 1942 photo of the massive Douglas XB-19 prototype. It was used by the USAAF mostly for a test bed for development of of large bombers such as the B-29 and B-36.
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Is there anything louder than a F-35? How about 4 of them?

Wisconsin Air National Guard received their first 4 of 20 today, and they stopped in La Crosse. My house is only about .6 of a mile from the main runway, and the noise was deafening. We're only the second state to get F-35s.

I’ve been around plenty of jets and by far the F-35 has been the loudest single engine, the B-1 loud but it takes 4 engines to match the F-35

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Working on the per-plans failed fuel valve.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...88d6c816e3.jpg
Wasn’t an easy removal, especially with fists of ham working in a small opening/area.
Replacing it with an Allen valve, however I will need to figure a way to connect it to the torque tube that controls what tanks flow. Discovered there is a small difference in shaft length(that’s what she said too[emoji6]). Worse case scenario is that I replace the length of aluminum used for the TT with a longer section. A major pain, but doable. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...888057c7b6.jpg
Teflon tape noted on AN fitting in a fuel valve, what could possibly go wrong?????[emoji848][emoji849][emoji848]
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Also planning on losing all rubber fuel hoses with numerous screw clamps. I will be replacing them with compression fittings on the aluminum tank lines and then stainless shrouded Teflon fuel lines with crimped AN fittings. These will flow to a Y-connector rather than a T-fitting.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8e66a40edd.jpg
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This was the original Chit-show that was discovered, a per-plans design. Every clamp was finger tight and the glass fuel filters were sloppy. The glass filters are getting tossed since there is a dedicated gasgolator in the firewall.
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With loose fittings, sloppy leaky fuel filters……. I find myself wondering if this was the prior fliers mantra.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...de9467c331.jpg


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