Zmey Smirnoff Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 "Shot through the heart and you are to blame........." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CiscoKid Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Which is the better fighter? Brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fishwelding Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) I meant to ask this over in the FAQ section, but is there some kind of executive summary of the whole Moai Vincent thread? No and deliberately not. Because we want to keep executives out of the loop. Go back to the beginning of the thread and start reading. Edited January 21, 2008 by Fishwelding Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zactoman Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wakko807 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :D I think that picture was...ahem...photoshopped... :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crazydon Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Inconceivable !!!! :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Walker Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Fish killer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zactoman Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zactoman Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :blink: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Rat Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Farley Fruitbat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TomcatFanatic123 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I dunno which one's better...the Bug with all the drop tanks or the lawn dart :blink: :P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :wacko: Now I've seen this one 301 times and it just keeps getting funnier ! Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stevearado Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Pink Sumbrero Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zactoman Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan 88 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 :D OMG. No you didn't....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 That's pretty cool Chris but where's the right horizontal stab ? Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zactoman Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 That's pretty cool Chris but where's the right horizontal stab ?Try hitting your refresh key... :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karl Sander Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Oh, its on now...you 'bout to get served... Hidden camera picture of Waco about to deliver said, um, serving Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Try hitting your refresh key... There it is ! :D Musta been edge on the first go around ... :D Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trigger Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Tweet is not a joke for all of us here. You bet your grandmother's *** The Almighty Tweet* is no joke! It is the aviation alpha and the omega! Almighty Tweet pilots are among God's own prototypes; they're some kind of high-powered mutants never even considered for mass-production. Too weird to live and too rare to die. The T-37 itself is a force of nature! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever! Above: A T-37 displays it's rarely seen VTOL capabilities. The T-37s immensely successful design has spawned many clones... CT-114 "Snow Tweet" You think the Snowbirds fly the CT-114 because it's cheap? No way; the Snowbirds are no fools. They choose the CT-114 because of it's Almighty Tweet heritage, making it the most bad*** aircraft in the CAF. A-6 "Sea Tweet" Grumman took the basic T-37 arrangement and beefed it up for this clone so that it would have more room under the wings for pylons and additional internal space for fuel (the A-6 was powered by jet fuel, but the T-37 was powered by a fusion reactor and had no need for large fuel tanks). The A-6 Sea Tweet was the most bad*** aircraft to ever grace an aircraft carrier (sorry Tomcat Mafia, but it's true). L-29 "Tweetski" In an attempt to create the most bad*** aircraft in the Soviet air forces, the builders of this clone tried to re-arrange the seating from a side-by-side solution to a tandem one (to reduce drag). While it failed to live up to the original, as a result of lessons learned from this and to try to capture lighting in a bottle, Sukhoi chose a side-by-side solution for the Su-34 and Kamov for the Ka-52; just like The Almighty Tweet And deep down inside we know it's just a trainer. Ah yes, thank you to my personal assistant for reminding me to address the claims of the doubters. What he has done is to cite a great example of what people who cannot cope with the sheer awesomeness that is The Almighty Tweet tell themselves. It doesn't subscribe to their personal politics or morality and they don't know how to deal with it otherwise. Oh, they'll try to belittle or marginalize the T-37's contribution to aviation and world history, but they just end up sounding like Jodie Foster from "Nell"—chika-bayyyyyyy, chika-bay-hay....., chicka-tayyyyyy—and their logic being as useful as a snooze button on a smoke alarm. *-that is actually the proper way to refer to the T-37 or the A-37. The A-37 may also be referred to as "Dragonfly" or "Killer Tweet" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janman Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 as a result of lessons learned from this and to try to capture lighting in a bottle, Sukhoi chose a side-by-side solution for the Su-34 and Kamov for the Ka-52; just like The Almighty Tweet Oh, so if side-by-side arrangement is a pure Tweetism, I must be driving a land-based Tweet myself, don't I? And for the record, L-29 is a Czech aircraft. Maybe you knew it, but anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fishwelding Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 A-6 "Sea Tweet" Grumman took the basic T-37 arrangement and beefed it up for this clone so that it would have more room under the wings for pylons and additional internal space for fuel (the A-6 was powered by jet fuel, but the T-37 was powered by a fusion reactor and had no need for large fuel tanks). The A-6 Sea Tweet was the most bad*** aircraft to ever grace an aircraft carrier (sorry Tomcat Mafia, but it's true). Indeed, Grumman's first business was Locomotives, heavy cranes, and massive steel ingots used for weight measurements by the Moais, but they had built a few airplanes sometime during the war crisis of the 1940s. Grumman essentially just added parts from their 250-ton overhead mill crane to the T-37 to produce the A-6. For the EA-6, they simply added electronics gear purchased from the (infamous) but later-to-be prosecuted "Crazy Eddie." The F-14 was frankly less of a success, most aviation experts agree, because Grumman attempted to develop their own airframe, instead of using a Cessna starting product. Grumman closely studied the North American Turkey-Buzzard, hoping to gain insights on this (to their mind) remarkable bird. The result was the eponymous Tomcat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fishwelding Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Hidden camera picture of Waco about to deliver said, um, serving Just another day training new USAF fighter pilots. Airman Magazine, when they published this photo, commented that Waco's instruction methods were of "an older style than is commonly employed in AETC today." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trigger Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Oh, so if side-by-side arrangement is a pure Tweetism, I must be driving a land-based Tweet myself, don't I? Another great example of The Almighty Tweet's contribution to world history! And for the record, L-29 is a Czech aircraft. Yup. Outsourcing. It was a great way to throw off western spy agencies; none of them expected Czechoslovakia to produce such an aircraft at that time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smithery Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 NOT funny. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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