• Miles O'Brien
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    161 month ago

    I don’t understand why everyone in the aviation community seems to hate canards and atthis point in too afraid to ask why…

    • Da Bald Eagul
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      91 month ago

      I didn’t get it either, they look pretty cool. According to Wikipedia they are bad for stealth, though.

      Canard aircraft can potentially have poor stealth characteristics because they present large angular surfaces that tend to reflect radar signals forwards.

      Source (Wikipedia)

      • Miles O'Brien
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        61 month ago

        Oh well the answer is obvious, as Ellen Mosque once said, no plane is actually a stealth plane because cameras can still see them, so canards obviously don’t make a difference!

        • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 month ago

          I also wonder about acoustic signatures on these supercruise 6th gen models. Sure, you spend less cumulative time behind enemy lines, but microphones are cheap and sonic booms are nicely all-at-once and loud. Especially if you’re flying nape of the Earth for the additional radar and IR/optical cover.

  • nukeM
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    151 month ago

    I don’t care if she has elf ears, I’m still gonna fuck her

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Just going to point out that these are not a comparison between American and European design bureaus, it’s a comparison between American and European artists.