"My hovercraft is full of eels" (my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels)
11/30/2018 at 15:28 • Filed to: None
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"My hovercraft is full of eels" (my-hovercraft-is-full-of-eels)
11/30/2018 at 15:28 • Filed to: None | 5
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The bad news is: y
ou have to travel to Iran.
(Photo credit: facebook/tsungfang.tsai)
Just Jeepin'
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 15:35 |
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I’ve long wanted to visit Iran, but with my luck I’d discover upon my return I wasn’t allowed back into the U.S.
ttyymmnn
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 15:36 |
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I would love to know how they keep those things in the air.
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ttyymmnn
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 15:37 |
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Also, that is a lot of outdated iron in that last shot.
facw
> ttyymmnn
11/30/2018 at 15:39 |
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You figure at this point they must be building parts themselves. Even cannibalizing existing planes and whatever parts they had on hand (or went to them through Iran Contra?) , I don’t think they could go 40 years without new spares.
That’s hard, but they are also trying to build 40 year old tech, so I don’t think it’s impossible.
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ttyymmnn
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 15:45 |
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KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 15:59 |
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My #1 favorite aircraft of all time.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 16:02 |
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All Tomcats should have Highway to the Danger zone playing when viewed. Also, how can Iran take itself seriously when it appears to use F-4 Phantoms.
7:07
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 16:16 |
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rawr
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ttyymmnn
> Future next gen S2000 owner
11/30/2018 at 16:17 |
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As of 2018, 60 years after its first flight, the F-4 remains in service with Iran , Japan , South Korea , Greece and Turkey . (Wiki)
Although I thought I had read that Greece retired theirs. I could be wrong.
f86sabre
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 16:20 |
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That bottom pick is pretty epic. Wouldn’t it be amazing if people could get past all their petty crap and just enjoy each other’s company? Then we could check out stuff like that.
Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
11/30/2018 at 16:32 |
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It’s complicated, but something to do with the Bernoulli Principle. Forget it, too hard to explain.
/s
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Ash78, voting early and often
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 16:33 |
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Those F-4s won’t go into retirement until America decides it needs another sequel to Iron Eagle and we’re needing to cast someone as the bad guys.
Decides? I meant “realizes.”
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ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
11/30/2018 at 16:36 |
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Bernoulli’s Principle also plays a role in trumpet playing. True story.
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My hovercraft is full of eels
> ttyymmnn
11/30/2018 at 16:41 |
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They only retired the reconnaissance version (so did Turkey). BTW, I happened to come across a couple of the Turkish Rhinos at an airshow this summer.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
11/30/2018 at 16:43 |
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You should make a Tornado Fuel Saver for the trumpet.
23% reduction in breath force!
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ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
11/30/2018 at 17:03 |
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At my age, I can use all the help I can get!
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ttyymmnn
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 17:09 |
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I’ve only seen them a couple of times here in the States, and this one I photographed back in 2012 at a show in Fort Worth. It’s quite a thing to see them huffing around in the sky. As somebody on Oppo quipped, they stay airborne through brute force.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
11/30/2018 at 17:10 |
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Hear hear.
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> ttyymmnn
11/30/2018 at 17:15 |
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I love me some F-4 but they are old. Massive power for their day though.
Jayvincent
> My hovercraft is full of eels
11/30/2018 at 20:36 |
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> ttyymmnn
11/30/2018 at 21:31 |
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“Tehran turned to the black market, paying huge sums to shady middlemen to sneak F-14 parts into Iran. American authorities became aware of the illicit trade as early as 1998. In March of that year, federal agents arrested Iranian-born Parviz Lavi at his home in Long Island, charging him with violating U.S. export law”
n 1998, an aircraft parts vendor in San Diego
told
U.S. customs officials that Multicore Ltd. in California had requested price information for air intake seals used only on the F-14.
Massive bribes for parts for illegally exported through 3rd parties.