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Push a Button, Land on a Carrier
sane? writes "Putting an aircraft down on a carrier in bad weather is the stuff of melodramatic Hollywood films. Automated systems for conventional aircraft and big carriers has been done for a while, but getting a hovering Harrier, helicopter, or future JSF to land on a pitching deck of a smaller ship is a different matter. This week QinetiQ demonstrated a complete autoland - a significant step towards making the future JSF work."
Ground Control to Yoda Doll
Ground Control to Yoda Doll
Take your ass grease pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Yoda Doll
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love shove up you
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Shove Up
This is Ground Control to Yoda Doll
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose butts you tear
Now it's time to leave the suppository if you dare
"This is Yoda Doll to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm stinking in a most peculiar way
And the ass look very different today
For here am I sitting in an ass can
Far inside the butt
My face is turning blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand bowels
I'm feeling very still
And I think my buttship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I ream her very much, she knows"
Ground Control to Yoda Doll
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Yoda Doll?
Can you hear me, Yoda Doll?
Can you hear me, Yoda Doll?
Can you....
"Here am I floating in my ass can
Far inside his Moon
My face is turning blue
And there's nothing I can do."
I hope it doesn't run on windows, then it would bring such fatal irony to the infamous blue screen of death...
Your skill in reading has increased by one point!
Not trying to troll, but how is this "News for Nerds."?
Foxed Design
you get disYtraCted
Know a lot about avionics do you? No? Didn't think so.
Why so slashdotters think they are qualified to criticise technology they know nothing about? These people are pro avionics experts, engineers and mathematicians. You, most probably are not. I seriously doubt you are all three. If 10cm is a problem, you can be damn sure they would know about it, and would have taken it into account.
You, sitting there are your chair, taking a break between bashing out perl web scripts or whatever everyday menial tech job you probably do, do not know enough about avionics to even understand this.
Yes, you may well be a professor or avonics or something, but all slashdotters seem to criticise technology they don't understand, so this is a general problem.
what kind of FAGGOIT BUTT PIRATE goes to da newgrounds.com i'd rather have lunix on my computer than watch that shiznit
~NO CRACK NO SMACK NO ANGEL DUST~ PEACE OUT TO MAH HOMIEZ IN DA OG WORD ON DA STREET SEZ I AM DA KING OF THREADZ -
If only so much money and effort could be directed at improving peoples lives in the third world. What a skewed perspective we have.
I played around with MS Flight Simulator for a while, the realism is incredible. I know I could land a jet on an aircraft carrier without a problem.