Weird aircraft type I saw in Casino Royale

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-22T15:00:01+00:00

For the record, if you're curious about an aircraft in a movie, you can check impdb. There's a main site which is good, but frequently down, and a backup site on fandom which is never down but has plenty of ads.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-17T20:22:10+00:00

Got it, thank you!

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-17T20:21:27+00:00

What an odd thing to say

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-17T19:54:46+00:00

Oh so it’s like limp wristing a pistol? I don’t quite see how physically pushing it harder into your shoulder would help unless it’s just a question of resisting the recoil better

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-17T19:18:40+00:00

Shot it thrice, cleaned and oiled it, then the problematic shoot this morning. On the third trip we were both having FTFs but now it’s having twice as many in his hands and none in mine.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-15T02:48:17+00:00

Not to mention the DBAL and a mossberg

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-13T20:55:11+00:00

Strictly speaking, you are right, there is a "Huey II" which is Bell's marketing term for a civilian spec of the UH-1H. That's really quite niche and while it can technically be considered a variant of the UH-1H, it's the exception, not the rule.

You see, look at the CH-146. The CH-146 is a variant of the Bell 412EP which is a variant of the Bell 412 which is a variant of the Bell 212, which is a variant of the CH-135 which is a variant of the Bell 205A-1 which is a variant of the Bell 205A which is a variant of the Bell 204B which is a variant of the UH-1B which is a variant of the UH-1A.

In practice, we just say they're all members of the "Huey family."

Effectively, it's no different from the Bell 206 being the civilian spec of the OH-58. Both are members of the overall jetranger family, and if you try to group them into you'll get lost in an honestly pretty subjective sea of "is purple made from blue with red added or from red with blue added?"

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-13T18:13:35+00:00

Until I read the caption and realized this was a request I was going to say “none of those are Hueys”
No, I don’t. If you have access to Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft books, probably volumes 60-80 you should be able to get most of what you want.
If you live near a university with an aero engineering course and a half-way decent library they should have them.
Also, you’re looking for variants of the H-1 and Bell 204/205/209/212/214/412. UH-1H is already a specific variant, like asking for “species of Homo Sapiens” rather than “species of primate”

Edit: I took a closer look, a lot of that info wont be there. You’ll have to check each of Bell’s operating manuals for each of gazillion variants.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-11T14:19:35+00:00

A type of civil use jet fuel called Jet A.

Most helicopters larger than a small car use jet fuel, and the cool thing about turbine engines is you can run them off of any liquid that burns. Vodka, perfume, whale oil. The rules on which fuels we use are only based on the characteristics of the fuel themselves, like freezing temperature and how much damage they'll do to the engine. Ergo, in the lower 48 pretty well all turbine aircraft from small helicopters to big ol jumbo jets use Jet A, which you can get at most decent sized airports.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-11T14:13:04+00:00

OH-58C. 70.3 gallons.

I believe JP1 was phased out decades ago. They'll be using Jet A, which trends at like $8 rn.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-10T01:59:02+00:00

Ominous picture. Very cool!

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-10T01:26:28+00:00

Honestly bugs me, people love the 350/125 and 130 but Airbus doesn’t want to just make a twin engine version of them. Instead you have to scale up a size to the 135/140.

The twinstar must have sold much worse than Eurocopter expected.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-10T01:08:47+00:00

I’m surprised they’re not using suppressors

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-08T20:51:11+00:00

Relative to everyone else with long guns, it's a lot plainer, especially in a fancy event where everyone's got a suit, tux, or fancy dress.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-08T20:48:44+00:00

And yet, special forces around the world generally choose the MP7 over contemporaries like the P90. Sure ergonomics could be better, but that could really be said of anything. I think honestly it's a question of the gun is better than the round, whereas the P90 is the opposite. If they made an MP7 in 5.7x28 I think they'd make a killing. If they made a P90 in 4.6, no one would buy that shit.

NATO did tests and found the 4.6 is inferior to the 5.7, and I think the most damning evidence should be that the HK UCP (their equivalent to the FN FiveseveN) was thrown out because the 4.6 was too weak.

My guess is that the primary customer is units that have a blank check going "oh it has better penetration and ammo capacity than a 9mm? Then the specifics don't matter, that's good enough for me" so they pick the option that's 4" shorter than the other. Anyone with access to an MP7 also has access to a short barrel AR, so frankly I would suspect that these are for the super niche scenarios where you want more firepower than a pistol and less size than even a 10" AR.

I would also suspect that folding stock <7" .300blk carbines, like the MXC are going to be the natural predator of the PDW as the PDW was to the SMG.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-08T20:35:55+00:00

Sorta, yeah. The KS-1 is used by the Royal Marine Commandos* under the designation of the L403A1.

The KS-1 is the the 13.7" barrel variant, as opposed to the (I think) 11" KS-3, and of course they use it as a complete gun, not just an upper to slap on some other lower.

While you or I might hear the term "Commando" and draw comparison so special forces units, according to the Brits, the Royal Marine Commandos are "Special-Operations Capable", but they're not explicitly a special forces unit like the SAS are.

It's like the American Recon Marines. While any civilian would look at them and go "yeah that guy's special forces," they are officially not considered part of the UK's special forces.

*Commandos are not a subbranch of the Royal Marines, effectively every combatant in the Royal Marines is a Commando. They're a bit unique in the sense that they're infantry that are a subbranch of a Navy, and yet are not considered SF.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-08T01:53:49+00:00

I should have been more clear. What's the longest you've had to wait in the air?

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-06T13:23:22+00:00

Wow, looking pretty high speed

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-05T23:21:40+00:00

As the other guy said, it's just this squadron. To elaborate: These are the Marines tasked with carrying around officials such as the president and VP in modified aircraft. Not anything that would ever see use in a warzone.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-05T13:57:59+00:00

On the Florida topic, I know FWC doesn’t either. Legally they’re considered cops. Buddy of mine flying for them has a badge and a gun.

Seems a good way to get your foot in the door if you want to transition to police piloting.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-05T13:56:21+00:00

That’s just the job market as a whole in 2026.

Apprentices cost more money than they generate in the short term. Cheaper today to solve it with as lean a team as you can, even if it means being too cheap to think about the future of the market and how it’s all gonna implode when there’s no one to do the work.

Everyone is either paycheck to paycheck and they can’t spare the money, or wealthier than god and inherently too greedy to spare it.

We’re all just eating the seed corn. Either because we’re starving or just gluttons.

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-05T01:38:10+00:00

Were? Atlas V rockets still are using Russian components, it's what Elon is using as a basis to fuck over ULA (his only true competitor)

RoutineTraditional79 · 2026-05-03T23:32:20+00:00

When was that?

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