The Tiger gained the dubious distinction of being the first jet aircraft to shoot itself down. On 21 September 1956, during a test-firing of its 20 mm (0.79 in) cannons, pilot Tom Attridge fired two bursts midway through a shallow dive. As the trajectory of the cannon rounds decayed, they ultimately crossed paths with the Tiger as it continued its descent, disabling the aircraft and forcing Attridge to crash-land the aircraft; he survived with a broken leg and multiple broken vertebrae.
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I think just saying that it hit itself due to its high speed doesn‘t really tell the whole story.
That sounds like bullshit though, the bullet would have the same speed when released from the shell in addition to speed generated by the blast in the shell. Did the plane fire and then accelerate enough to catch up to the bullet? That’s pretty convoluted and unlikely, you would have to actively try to shoot your own plane.
EDIT: The dumbass shot at a slight down angle and then engaged the afterburners. Skill Issue.
Yeah, the initial velocity of the bullets would be the sum of the plane’s velocity plus whatever velocity the bullets gain coming out of the barrel.
But, what apparently happened is perfectly believable (if extremely unlucky). It’s not that the F-11 was faster than its bullets, it’s that it flew in a way that its path intersected the path of the bullets it had fired. As soon as the bullets left the barrel they would have started slowing down, eventually ending up on a ballistic trajectory. The F-11 would have stayed at approximately the same speed, but if the pilot hit the afterburners it would have sped up considerably.
Still, the likelihood of the speeding up plane hitting the slowing down bullets is extremely low.
Lmao, done that before. You do have to worry about the resolution of the textures when changing the model’s size, though.
Also, I’ve made small caves systems and mountains like this, before slapping myself for not remembering terrain generation.
Edit: this is a bit of tangent, but I’m super excited to see more boulders rendered using polycam. Generally, the models are a bit janky and never have straight polygons (along the x,y,z axis) So things like furniture and corridors won’t work. Boulders though, it’s perfect!
Out of curiosity I’ve let it rate Low<-Tech Magazine, a website run on an ARM SBC powered exclusively with off-grid solar power, and that only achieves 87% / A.
I prefer to get mine from the source. That way you get to see how they have been treated. Free range hormone free microplastics really are worth the extra money
You’re not wrong. Unfortunately I live in the middle of nowhere where there’s just farms and shit. I have to drive all the way to the city to get anywhere near producers of free range plastics.
Back in my day, we had to churn our plastics by hand, for hours. My grandfather wouldn’t let us play until we finished our chores. Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it.
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