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TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 1 point2 points ago* 

The silver lining is once you were airborne you were pretty safe from fighters and guns

For 8 minutes. I believe that was the average on station time before they ran out of fuel.

Then you get to glide back and hope a P-51 isn't waiting for you on final. Further, you get to hope that if he does hit you and by some miracle you don't explode none of the damage allows any remaining fuel from the tank into the cockpit as it would dissolve you into a pool of goo before you put the plane on the ground and got out of it.

No thank you.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 4 points5 points ago

Dunkirk II: Electric Boogaloo.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 0 points1 point ago

Right-o.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 0 points1 point ago

I feel a sick day coming on in April.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 8 points9 points ago

it put unescorted, lumbering cargo craft like the He 323 into range of Beaufighters and Mosquitos

Now there's a great idea.

"Hey fellas, we're going to load you into the largest, slowest wooden aircraft we have, and send you unescorted against heavily-armed-twin-Merlin-sporting-arguably-the-fastest-the-Allies-have-in-inventory (which also just happens to be wooden) aircraft and see what happens. Please report once you reach your new post. Sieg Heil."

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 0 points1 point ago

I believe I heard in a radio interview with one of their bigwigs that they will be receiving one of the recently decommissioned shuttles and the Enterprise will be moving to the Intrepid in New York. Not sure which one or when, though.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 1 point2 points ago

The Coast Guard also used pigeons for guidance with Project Sea Hunt.

The pigeons were 93 percent accurate at locating objects floating at sea and their false positive rates were extremely low. Human flight crews were accurate 38 percent of the time.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 14 points15 points ago

Home of the Caspian Sea Monster.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 19 points20 points ago

You had to be out of your freaking mind to fly a Komet. The fuel in those things was extremely hazardous. Occasionally a pilot would push the throttles forward for take off and BOOM ... time to patch the runway. Again.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 1 point2 points ago

I would take "able to assemble in minutes" with a grain of salt, though. I've heard estimates of 60 to 90 minutes to put one together before.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 144 points145 points ago* 

The Germans in WWII were legendary for harebrained ideas like that. Most never made it off the drawing board or prototype phase but some of 'em actually worked. Well... sort of.

How about a glider so big it was more of a danger to the pilots and crew on landings than to any invaded country it overflew? The Me321 was initially launched by towing it with three other aircraft. But they still didn't consider it exciting enough for everyone involved so they also strapped jet edit: rocket engines to the damn thing. It became too dangerous so the Germans developed a specialized five engine tow aircraft by putting two medium bombers wingtip to wingtip, wielding them together and adding a fifth engine (He 111z) in the middle and towing it that way.

Eventually they just said "Das ist mir furzegal!" and strapped six engines on the thing and called it a day.

TIL The Japanese Had An Underwater Aircraft Carrier during WWII by tikrinin todayilearned

[–]roland19d 23 points24 points ago

The National Air & Space Museum restored a Seiran in 2000. It's on display at the Udvar-Hazy annex.

Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Stewart Duncan performing on NPR. Amazing strings! by TreeBeardsin Bluegrass

[–]roland19d 1 point2 points ago

Outstanding. Thanks for posting this.

Reddit, what's the worst song you ever had stuck in your head? by Osmebsin AskReddit

[–]roland19d 0 points1 point ago

Rocky Raccoon by The Beatles is the thermonuclear weapon of earworms.

"The Magic Christian". Dear Lord. How is it I've not seen this yet? by roland19din movies

[–]roland19d[S] 0 points1 point ago

It's got a "Laugh-in" meets "Clockwork Orange" meets "Yellow Submarine" feel to it. And not in a good way.

Maybe that's why I've never heard of it before.

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"Greatest charlatan to ever see his name associated with an airplane" who designed and built "what is considered by many to be among the worst aircraft ever constructed." (virginiamemory.com)

submitted ago by roland19d to aviation

"The Magic Christian". Dear Lord. How is it I've not seen this yet? by roland19din movies

[–]roland19d[S] 3 points4 points ago

I mean... the cast alone. Yul Brynner in drag?

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"The Magic Christian". Dear Lord. How is it I've not seen this yet? (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted ago by roland19d to movies

Regarding Reddit and puns. by dstarmanin TheoryOfReddit

[–]roland19d 2 points3 points ago

Bad puns are easy by definition. Good ones not so much.

YSK Tobacco auctioneers start with the price the have instead of the price they want and operate several levels above personal property auctions. And you will never hear it for real ever again. by roland19din YouShouldKnow

[–]roland19d[S] 1 point2 points ago

From the video: Personal property auctioneers call out the price they are looking for whereas tobacco auctioneers call out the bid they currently have to continue the bids. However, auctioneers were replaced by machines that count down the price on bales to be sold until a buyer hits a "buy" button. Due to market drop and allotment selling (contracting with buyers in the spring before the crop is even raised) the open bid warehouses and free market sell is now extinct.

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YSK Tobacco auctioneers start with the price the have instead of the price they want and operate several levels above personal property auctions. And you will never hear it for real ever again. (youtube.com)

submitted ago by roland19d to YouShouldKnow

The Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of Constant Sorrow by Beaky_in Music

[–]roland19d 0 points1 point ago* 

Heh. Didn't see the [5] from RES earlier. That's about right.

Love the fact you hear the toke before getting started on "The Lowest Pair".

Haha! by Irish407in Military

[–]roland19d 2 points3 points ago

I've always heard the other way around. "Snake eater" is SF. "Tab hunter" was a Ranger. <shrug>

oh, yes it does. by JimKBin comics

[–]roland19d 1 point2 points ago

I... I kind of expected... well... more, frankly.

The Russian Knights Flying Over Iran by quadcemin aviation

[–]roland19d 0 points1 point ago

I fear I may have struck a nerve. I'm not commenting on the Iranian pilots' professionalism. Just their lack of surplus parts.

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