Upside Down Air Force
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·February 25, 2025dylan604
"This must be the full-service island"
I'm dead. For that to be one of the only captions, I'm just glad I wasn't taking a sip when I read it.
latchkey
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The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40544829 (June 1, 2024 — 84 points, 14 comments)
dmurray
> Instead of flying the aircraft over test antennae, the airframes (usually minus their tails) are suspended upside-down, under or near the instrumentation.
Why not make a hole in the ground and put the antennae under the airplane that way?
KineticLensman
Because then the interesting electronic emissions would be radiating into the ground, not to nearby test equipment.
I'm a current DoD contractor employee at Griffiss, and it's a real trip to see just how much cool stuff is/was being done at the base when it was still active. There is still cool research being done but nothing at this scope for a while now. It makes me kind of sad to see all of this activity being sent away from NY to Cali, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, etc. Not a whole lot of large-scale testing/development going on up here nowadays. Getting stories from the old timers is always fun, though.