"The Ghost of Oppo" (gohstoklasa)
04/24/2020 at 10:40 • Filed to: None
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"The Ghost of Oppo" (gohstoklasa)
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I fell down multiple Wikipedia rabbit holes this week thanks to ttyymmnn’s history packed !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Surprisingly the most interesting thing I learned was not directly plane related, but that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . What don’t those guys make? But long story short I just wanted to share this picture of a GAU-8 out of an A-10 next to a type 1 Beetle.
Happy Friday!
WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> The Ghost of Oppo
04/24/2020 at 10:53 |
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I can only i magine how jealous the dish washer guys were of the giant gun of doom guys.
facw
> The Ghost of Oppo
04/24/2020 at 10:54 |
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Well, GE designed the M61, but the Gatling gun predates it by a century, and there were earlier rotary cannons. The Gatling gun had fallen out of favor for a variety of reasons, but in the age of jet aircraft, ample power was available to drive the mechanism (one disadvantage of a Gatling gun compared to a machine gun is the need for external power to operate it), and for aircraft it’s highly desirable to have a gun that won’t jam on a misfire.
Here’s a surprising aviation related invention I only learned about last year:
That’s a Lear Jet Stereo 8 player, because apparently the 8-Track tape was invented by someone at Lear Jet, as part of a multi-company effort headed by Bill Lear :
ttyymmnn
> The Ghost of Oppo
04/24/2020 at 11:14 |
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:D
For Sweden
> The Ghost of Oppo
04/24/2020 at 12:01 |
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Air cooled vs. water cooled.
wafflesnfalafel
> The Ghost of Oppo
04/24/2020 at 21:49 |
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I love that pic - “lets make a G a tling gun the size of a VW Beetle, put it in an armored vehicle, oh, and we are going to make that vehicle fly and do amazing aerobatics too .”