Stupid questions about the Rhino (Super Hornet)

[A4sForever]

And here I thought it was all about the PRES's 'tint' being kinda 'green' in this particular photo -- between him & the canopy, its all 'green'.

Nice fucking job with the camera, Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class !!! Let's hope you make 1st Class some fine day ...

 

[Pepe]

That was my initial thought too! Then I read the article, and found it almost as funny.

 

[statesman]

A couple of years ago I remember seeing an interview where Richard Branson claimed one of his companies had been able to produce a bio jet fuel that could be put into current a/c engines. He didnt say what the price / lb was though... which is a big part of it being feasible

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2...uels-unit-to-produce-algae-based-jet-biofuel/

 

[Beans]

Let's cut the guy a break. This Green Hornet thing has been SECNAV's baby since he took office. So while I agree that the whole thing is a publicity stunt (I.E. we're never going to have significant quantities of biofuel in the Navy's operational fuel supply system), there's very little in politics that isn't, so let's not act as though this is some new phenomenon we should blame on democrats.

So let's review: The President wants to build a new generation of nuke power plants and drill for oil off our shores. Not exactly the calling cards of the hard left extremist you make him out to be.

Brett

I can guess, with nearly 100% certainty, that if this had been rolled out 15 months ago it would have been met with praise and comments like "watch how the Dems scramble to turn this against the POTUS" by the same folks who are calling foul on it now.

And designing a gas turbine to burn some alternative fuel doesn't strike me as that big of a deal. I bet the hardest problem is keeping the hot section clean. At OPRs above 20, you can get just about anything to burn.

 

[Jim123]

"100331-N-5549O-112 ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE (March 31, 2010) ... following a speech by President Barak Obama."

I double checked the photo caption on http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=83850 and www.whitehouse.gov to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. Sure enough, they misspelled the CINC's name. Well, seeing as the captions get aircraft recce wrong now and then what's a missing consonant here or there?

 

[phrogdriver]

The REAL Green Hornet:



When you fly on the Green Hornet's wing, is your callsign "Kato?"

Anyway, it may be a publicity stunt, but it might be worthwhile someday. If the excrement hits the fan in Iran or thereabouts, and there's an another oil embargo, I'd like to at least have the option of using something other than hope, rainbows, and wishful thinking to power our military aircraft.

 

[RobLyman]

The BIG question is "what does biofuel smell like when you man up @ 0600 so hung-over you're afraid you're gonna puke at any moment?" JP-5 at that moment was particularly nauseous, so one can only hope biofuel is easier on the stomach & brain.

I hear vehicles running on biofuel smell like french fries. My flight suits all small like jet fuel and hydraulic fluid. I can't wait to come home smelling like I worked at Micky D's all day. (yes...that was sarcasm, in case you didn't catch it)

Oh, and I thought the Green Hornet comment was referring to our CinC's complexion in the photo. He does look a little green.

 

[Cron]

"100331-N-5549O-112 ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE (March 31, 2010) ... following a speech by President Barak Obama."

At least they didn't call him Baraka...

 

[PropAddict]

I hear vehicles running on biofuel smell like french fries.

I had a buddy with a boat that he would run on straight recycled cooking oil. He had to run it on diesel for maybe 15 minutes or so to warm up, then swap the tanks. You could always tell when he switched because everyone started wanting MickeyD's. . .

 

[phrogdriver]

I've met a couple guys who started making their own biodiesel for their cars and trucks. It takes a lot of work, and an understanding wife, just to save a few bucks.

 

[FlyingOnFumes]

100331-N-5549O-040 ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (March 31, 2010) President Barack Obama, with the Navy's F/A-18 Green Hornet, announces additional measures to boost domestic energy production for the Nation to include strategic efforts by Department of Defense to enhance energy security. The Green Hornet is part of the Navy's biofuel fuel program to develop alternative fuel sources to reach the Secretary of the Navy's energy reform targets. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released)

100331-N-5549O-112 ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE (March 31, 2010) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus speaks with Navy F/A-18 Green Hornet test pilots Cdr. Beau Duarte and Lcdr. Tom Weaver following a speech by President Barak Obama. The Green Hornet is part of the Navy's biofuel fuel program to develop alternative fuel sources to reach the Secretary of the Navy's energy reform targets. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released)

100331-N-9565D-137 ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (March 31, 2010) President Barack Obama, with the Navy's F/A-18 Green Hornet, announces today additional measures to boost domestic energy production for the Nation to include strategic efforts by Department of Defense to enhance energy security. The Green Hornet is part of the Navy's bio-fuel program to develop alternative fuel sources to reach the Secretary of the Navy's energy reform targets. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Clifford L.H. Davis/Released)

Wow, it's "PI" ("Princeton Idiot"). Got to meet him at PAXRIVER Air Expo last year. Good dude!
He being one of the many NASA pilot naval astronaut applicants, ironic that he'd be the one with Obama when he just killed our manned spacecraft program. Could only imagine what "PI" was thinking when he met him...

There was talk about how the BUFFs (B-52s) had tested the biofuel in cold Minot Wx back in '06.

Good that there is an alternate source of fuel to supplement the petrolium-based ones.

 

[Bevo16]

Anybody got good ideas of what we can use as an alternate food source after we turn all of our corn and soybeans into ethanol and JP-5?

Nobody seems to think about that shit.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Anybody got good ideas of what we can use as an alternate food source after we turn all of our corn and soybeans into ethanol and JP-5?

Nobody seems to think about that shit.

The better question is where are we going to grow our alternate food source? Farm land is becoming scarcer as the world procreates.

 

[Brett327]

Anybody got good ideas of what we can use as an alternate food source after we turn all of our corn and soybeans into ethanol and JP-5?

Nobody seems to think about that shit.

Soylent Green? I hear they're making it out of dead hippies now.

 

[JIMC5499]

Soylent Green? I hear they're making it out of dead hippies now.

Now that fits right in with the new health care bill!