Early variants of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon came with black paint over the radome, this in order to not interfere with the radar system behind them, as the color, a product of a rubber-based compound , was deemed the least likely to mess with radar signals.
It was eventually changed to lighter tones after development in paints allowed for different hues, this after pilots actively complained the color made the aircraft easier to spot in the air.
for all of reddits faults its at least the best place to go when im standing in HEB and hear a loud ass plane and im thinking "goddamn that was a loud ass plane" and i wanna like, make sure its just some military cunts doing a flyby and not a Worryingly Low Plane or st
anyway @identifying-planes-in-posts whos this bitch bejng loud over HEB
Saw this video on tik tok and loved it so much. Of course I immediately knew it wasn’t an aircraft carrier, but because I’m me I did some digging on the effects of rough seas on aircraft carriers.
I remember seeing the pitching deck covered in an episode of Carrier, a PBS documentary covering life on an aircraft carrier that I refuse to shut up about. In a previous post I highlighted the effects of the pitching deck on pilots during nighttime carrier landings and just how TERRIFYING they are by adding a video from PBS Carrier episode Rite of Passage. During that episode a pilot had this to say:
Dude, all I know was I was in close and they’re like ‘a little power’ and I look down and saw the ******* back of the ship above me and I was like AHHHHHHH!!!!
But it’s dark and we can’t really see from that one video just how much it’s moving but like holy swear word tumblr won’t let me say!
And it’s crazy because to those below deck it looks a little different. Thanks to the sheer size and intricate design of aircraft carriers, there’s nothing more than a little sway to those on board.
I mean one wrong step and you’ll be hitting something hard I’m sure.
Of course there’s more to it than that. One person stated that you really just had to time when to go up ladders like when the ship falls off of a big wave you’ll kind of float up the ladder. He also had the following to say:
The North Atlantic is a bitch during winter. On the USS Kennedy 1976, in really bad weather, the seas were very rough. The ship turns into the waves, and goes up and down, no “rolling”. I watched 6 sailors, watching the TV in the berthing compartment, rise 4 feet into the air, and fall back to the Deck. no one even moved from the chairs. They were watching the recorded “Muppet Show”. A big hit back then!