Apparently even the US Airforce is using AMD APU's

[XavierMace]

Must be one hell of an overclock.

 

[ao_ika_red]

APU as Auxillary Power Unit.

 

[XavierMace]

I know. I was a joke.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

LOL

 

[arandomguy]

I'm curious but why does this just look like some random uneven hole that was cut/punched? Assuming this is on a plane this seems rather patch work?

 

[XavierMace]

Yeah, it's on a C-5M Super Galaxy.

 

[Panino Manino]

CTS/Viceroy was right then.

 

[DisEnchantment]

CTS/Viceroy was right then.

That's the security hole CTS really meant.

 

[BoomerD]

I know. I was a joke.

That's what she said...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Guessing the exhaust is coming out at an angle, maybe for aerodynamics? Hard to tell what part of the plane we're looking at though.

Normally they are right at the back like this:

I always thought it made it look like the plane had a butt hole. lol

I guess with the GPU shortage they had to settle for APUs.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Must be one hell of an overclock.

From another angle.

It seems odd only because it's military carrier and due to its unique cargo loading door, they have to put apu somewhere else.

 

[Crono]

That's what we call "side booty"

 

[zinfamous]

I know. I was a joke.

Yes, yes you were. But you got better?

 

[XavierMace]

It would appear not.

 

[Linflas]

Not only are they used to provide power they are also used to start the engines. They bleed air off of it to start one of the engines, otherwise you need what we used to call a huffer which was a small standalone jet engine used to start either the APU or one of the engines. The APU itself is started by pneumatic pressure, there was a manual way to pump them up if the pilot forgot to recharge them before shutting down totally which was a real PITA.