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It's a shame we never got to see the A380 stretch. The oversized wing would finally be in proportion...
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I mean if four engines are bad and two are good, was three kind of middling or nah because the capacity loss negated any edge it might have had on the A340?
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Apr 22, 2020 06:23
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Forget the A340, bring back Zeppelins.
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Apr 22, 2020 06:24
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Warbird posted:You absolute fool. Everyone knows the only way to take down a zeppelin is with an even larger zeppelin. Put lipstick on that big butt blimp and dress it in some provocative attire and it can lure zepplins looney tunes style
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNAjBPIyjQ Æronautics commences at 8:10 Platystemon fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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Apr 22, 2020 07:15
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Bobby Digital posted:I thought that was true of the 600s but they still had some 300s going All is an exaggeration. Not sure how many are left
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Apr 22, 2020 07:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFD0Zyl_f0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8veDpPwFCVM
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I will always love that the slogan of Lady Bird Johnson’s anti-littering campaign was subsequently adopted as the official state threat.
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Apr 22, 2020 07:59
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Midjack posted:the slogan of Lady Bird Johnson’s anti-littering campaign Huh! edit: dammit, ya got me
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Apr 22, 2020 08:21
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meltie posted:And the A340s will never fly again. So I just read this thing on Boeing's catasterfuck 767 tanker program, and right now is I think the time to develop tanker kits for aircraft that would otherwise be grounded, like the A340.
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Apr 22, 2020 13:59
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Really when we are talking about Long Airplanes you must consider ratio of fuselage diameter to overall length, because that is what gives the visual appearance of length. Some Long Airplanes, evaluated: code:I tried some little stuff like the Metroliner but it's not that competitive, there's kind of an overall minimum diameter to fit people in it so planes below a certain size just don't really work.
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Apr 22, 2020 15:36
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https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1252713947687346176?s=19 Wonder what kind of deal Delta is going to get, Boeing has probably never been more desperate to book some sales
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Apr 22, 2020 15:54
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Really when we are talking about Long Airplanes you must consider ratio of fuselage diameter to overall length, because that is what gives the visual appearance of length. I get 16,7 for B-52, but that's with image editor measuring tools, I couldn't find a value for fuselage width. Also, the fuselage is taller than it is wide, makes it seem less long.
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Apr 22, 2020 15:56
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NightGyr posted:It's a shame we never got to see the A380 stretch. The oversized wing would finally be in proportion... the A380's wing is already the most beautiful wing and it's perfect shUT UP 
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Apr 22, 2020 16:05
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So I was reading the 1982 National Reconnaissance Office report on the development of the Hexagon Spy Satellite and noticed a tid-bid about the U-2 I hadn't seen before: Does anyone know anything else about the plan for one-way U-2 flights over Russia? The fact that Powers was already on a one-way flight (presumably to ditch in the sea ala Doolittle) is an interesting dramatic wrinkle to the story.
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Apr 22, 2020 16:50
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Does that not mean take off in Japan and land in England or something?
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"One-way" in that case means they would land at a different air base from the one they started at, not that they'd ditch the plane. For instance they might take off from somewhere in the middle east, fly over the rocket testing ranges in the steppes, and then continue on to land in europe rather than turning around and going back home.
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Apr 22, 2020 16:56
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Oh obviously that makes more sense! I was all wrapped up in disposable film canisters that slipped my mind.
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Apr 22, 2020 16:58
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What do they do to fix the center of gravity again when they planelongen? Add some depleted uranium bricks to the cockpit floor? Or is moving the CoG not as big a deal as I thought it was? e: holy poo poo the 757-300 and CRJ-1000 look weird
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aphid_licker posted:What do they do to fix the center of gravity again when they planelongen? Add some depleted uranium bricks to the cockpit floor? Or is moving the CoG not as big a deal as I thought it was? I think they just longen both the front and the back of the plane.
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Apr 22, 2020 18:30
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Sagebrush posted:I think they just longen both the front and the back of the plane. E.G.  
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Apr 22, 2020 18:44
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the A318 is so cute  it has smaller engines than the A320, right? what would it be like if it didn't? would it be comically fast and temperamental?
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Apr 22, 2020 18:59
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Airbus A317 Boeing 737-20  Airbus A3 
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Apr 22, 2020 19:12
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Sagebrush posted:Airbus A317 well once i'm a billionaire i know what bizjet(s) i'm getting
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Apr 22, 2020 19:16
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Ah poo poo I got mixed up because the Airbuses in that pic are left-justified but yeah they add whole extra doors to the front section. Sorry.
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Apr 22, 2020 19:34
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Inacio posted:well once i'm a billionaire i know what bizjet(s) i'm getting Chode planes.
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Apr 22, 2020 19:42
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Inacio posted:the A380's wing is already the most beautiful wing and it's perfect shUT UP The -1000 actually looks correct.
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Apr 22, 2020 20:17
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Now just photoshop the flight deck to the correct position (  ) and the A380-1000 would be a real nice aircraft
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Apr 22, 2020 20:27
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Inacio posted:the A380's wing is already the most beautiful wing and it's perfect shUT UP FTFY 
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Apr 22, 2020 20:43
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Inacio posted:the A380's wing is already the most beautiful wing and it's perfect shUT UP need a front angle render of the -1000 to see if the forehead looks any smaller on a bigger plane
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Apr 22, 2020 20:56
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FuturePastNow posted:need a front angle render of the -1000 to see if the forehead looks any smaller on a bigger plane It doesn’t.
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Apr 22, 2020 20:57
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FuturePastNow posted:need a front angle render of the -1000 to see if the forehead looks any smaller on a bigger plane It isn't a bigger plane from head on though which is where it looks worse, angle isn't going to help.
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The cockpit needs to be up at the top of the plane. That's literally all that is needed to turn the A380 from  to  and it's also the only way to do it.I understand that the main reason they put the cockpit down low was so pilots have a similar sight picture as the smaller planes but to that I say just HTFU and learn to touch down while you're 50 feet off the ground
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Apr 22, 2020 22:28
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Sagebrush posted:
I've never thought that argument held a lot of water. It's an Airbus -- under normal law, all you need to do is wait for the radar altimeter to go "ping" and then move the flight selector switch from "yes" to "standby".
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Apr 22, 2020 23:10
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When I built double-decker Lego airliners as a child, I always put a cockpit window on both decks, so one passenger seat would have a great view.
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Apr 22, 2020 23:13
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FuturePastNow posted:When I built double-decker Lego airliners as a child, I always put a cockpit window on both decks, so one passenger seat would have a great view. Having a private first-class suite with a full observation window at the very front of the main deck of a 747 would be absolutely loving amazing.
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PT6A posted:Having a private first-class suite with a full observation window at the very front of the main deck of a 747 would be absolutely loving amazing.  lol, it looks so tiny and alone
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Apr 22, 2020 23:21
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 the il-76 has a bottom cockpit for the navigator.
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Safety Dance posted:I've never thought that argument held a lot of water. It's an Airbus -- under normal law, all you need to do is wait for the radar altimeter to go "ping" and then move the flight selector switch from "yes" to "standby". Last time the argument came up in this thread, it was said the reason was you can't put passenger seats in front of the cockpit anymore. (747 was from before this regulation.)
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Inacio posted:the A318 is so cute The A318s delivered to LAN (and operated by Avianca Brasil most recently) had Pratt and Whitney PW6000 engines, while the rest had the same CFM56s as the rest of the first-gen A320 family. The CFM56 can have its thrust rating changed with the swap of a plug on the engine, so it's not like you're going to have the same thrust as you would in an A321.
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