J-58. My favorite Navy jet engine.
The man still puts on a world class show
In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :
And Alison Krauss is still amazing in just about every way!
Ford F-1000s from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Wonder what shipping is on one 25+ years old.
Barn art !!
This feels good all over, more than anywhere else: 
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In reply to 914Driver :
Nice watch. encapsulated oil keeps accuracy and prevent shock.
^^^^ dam good looking watch. $45K is out of my reach.
In reply to Duke :
Not on planes, but they certainly put it to use on ships. The pic below really shows how disorienting it can be. I think it's primary effect was to break up the lines of the ship to make it hard to determine what the ship was at a distance (e.g. cruiser, destroyer, patrol boat or merchant marine)
In reply to aircooled :
Yeah, I'm familiar with dazzle schemes. I had just never seen it used on an aircraft before, and I don't think I'd seen it much outside of WWI.
In reply to Duke :
I don't know how useful it would be on aircraft. Aircraft you aren't lobbing shells or torpedoes at to where you need to know the exact range.
Meanwhile, if you can't gauge how large a ship is, you can't gauge how far away it is, and your fire will be ineffective.
Unless you have radar...
In reply to Duke :
Yeah, no, I was not aware they tried it on planes either.
As noted, it's usefulness on a plane would be far lower. Figuring out exactly what type of plane it is is less useful since with or without camouflage it's pretty hard to determine that until they are very close (thus the need for US fighter esscort (spelled that way to avoid the filters) fighters to stay well away from US bomber formations!).
You thought it was hot in that tank on that south Pacific island? Attach a huge flamethrower to it! (Those early tanks must have been incredibly miserable in the Pacific / North Africa!). Yes, most of the heat is thrown far away, but it's still has to have an effect.
Duke said:I'm not really sure how this happened:
It's just having a nap!
The US employed an angular 'dazzle' paint scheme on many aircraft starting with VF-301 F-4s.
Here is a vid with Commander Heatley describing how he came up with it and how effective it was.
In reply to myf16n :
Interesting. I guess they just went with low visibility gray as an easy compromise.
So... you are saying this is NOT a good camouflage schema? 
Actually I suspect if you went with this on the body and made the wings low visibility gray, it would be like dogfighting a pencil, you would have no idea what roll aspect the plane was in (not that dogfighting an F-104 is going to be a huge challenge generally!)
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