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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
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
Originally posted by BLand BLand wrote:

If they glued a paintball to something, wouldn't the paintball's shell start to get soft and fall off or something?


It's not like a paintball will disintegrate because of a small bit of glue.

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Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 8:42am
Sweetness.

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Posted By: Wes be popen
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 9:27am
what?

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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 9:53am
Originally posted by Wes be popen Wes be popen wrote:

what?
He said that your a 12, maybe 13 year old kid with no friends, or no girlfriends, or nothing better to do than to spam up a paintball forum because you dont get enough attention from your whore mother, and coke addicted father. Thats pretty much what I got at least.


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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 10:23am
Apu







Anyways thats pretty interesting.

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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 10:24am
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
Originally posted by Bolt3 Bolt3 wrote:

Why don't I get the Military Channel.



Its one of the Discovery channels.  It used to be discovery Wings.


Posted By: The_Sniper
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:21am

Good god, what happened to KRL.



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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:26am
He went back to hell.

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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:44am
Originally posted by .Ryan .Ryan wrote:

He went back to hell.


You mean Iraq?


Posted By: Curlyman666
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 11:57am
either way hes in a better place

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