Quicksand Fans

Is anyone else's Tik Tok being inundated with instructions on how to TC various military vehicles? So far I've recieved instructions on how to start/operate an F16, an F18, an A10 Warthog, and (ok a little outdated but still) a B17 Flying Fortress. The conspiracy part of my brain is telling me that I'm being subconsiously trained for when WWIII breaks out.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S4KxUR/

It's always better to have a skill and not need it than to need it and not have it.

DangerGirl--- great skill with that avatar!!

MadMax359 wrote:DangerGirl--- great skill with that avatar!!

Thanks, MadMax. As fond as I was of my old QSA avatar, it was time for a change. Don't know that I'd call it skill, though; just an old photo, a bit of patience, and lots of tweaking the AI prompts until I got what I wanted. It's actually based (imperfectly) on a scene from a Highlander fan-fic story I wrote years ago.

I know how to start a lot of aircraft Must've been something similar you watched, maybe some kind of "how-to" video, cause I've had similar instances where I watched say, the "history of hamburgers," and forever after I get all kinds of cooking video suggestions.

Okay, since we're on the subject of starting aircraft, I seem to recall some older models of the F-15 (and probably other fighters also) didn't have a master battery, but instead, a hydraulic accumulator. Pulling a handle in the cockpit would release the accumulated hyd. fluid into a Jet Fuel Starter, similar to an Auxiliary Power Unit on a civilian jet, except, it only starts the main engine, and does not supply electrical power. Once one engine is up and running, it's generator will supply electrical power, and it's hydraulic system or bleed air can be used to start the second engine. I just thought that was interesting coming from the civil aviation world how I guess batteries and external power aren't reliable enough when you need to scramble in five minutes, and an APU is just too much added weight and something else that can fail and needs to maintained.