Paintball helping the unmaned aircraft
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Topic: Paintball helping the unmaned aircraft
Posted By: WGP guy
Subject: Paintball helping the unmaned aircraft
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:21am
| I was just watching a show about unmaned autonomous aircraft on the Military Channel. They were talking about the X-47. It is a reconosence(sp?) plane made to take off and land on an aircraft carrier. To test the plane on a normal runway, Northrop Grumman glued a paintball to the tail hook so they could see exactly were it hit. Basically telling them if they would hit the arresting cables or not. |
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Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:42am
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If they glued a paintball to something, wouldn't the paintball's shell start to get soft and fall off or something?
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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:46am
| I dunno thats what they said.. |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 8:41am
It's not like a paintball will disintegrate because of a small bit of glue. ------------- 
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BLand wrote:Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 8:42am
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Sweetness.
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Posted By: Wes be popen
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 9:27am
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what? ------------- 
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 9:53am
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 10:23am
 Apu
Anyways thats pretty interesting. ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 10:24am
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Yeah, I saw that too. The guy said they glued a paintball to the thing
that catches the line on the aircraft carrier so they could see exactly
where it hit. I saw it at like 4:00 this morning though. Cool show.
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Posted By: Bolt3
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:05am
Why don't I get the Military Channel.
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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:14am
Its one of the Discovery channels. It used to be discovery Wings. |
Posted By: The_Sniper
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:21am
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Good god, what happened to KRL. ------------- My PB Stuff. Tippmann 98 Coustom M4 Stock M4 Style top sights Romote coiled hose G2K Richochet hopper 4-1 pod holder 3x 20 once tanks PMI Themeral mask JT Full Protection goggle system |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:26am
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He went back to hell.
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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:44am
You mean Iraq? |
Posted By: Curlyman666
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:57am
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either way hes in a better place ------------- signature |