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priznat posted:F-15EX just set canada’s fighter procurement back 15 years, dammit! CF-15EH
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~Coxy posted:I finally understand how quasars work.
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We could always try F111s again! Right? In the land of venomous frogs even we don't want to deal with anymore:  https://theaviationgeekclub.com/her...QmuSUhl3cSbWBVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80OadL7f8Lo OF COURSE this has nothing to do with the F111 lawsuits quote:Another aspect of the F-111 which drew criticism was the poor work conditions for F-111 ground crew involved in sealing/de-sealing F-111 fuel tanks resulted in a class action lawsuit and the Australian government paying out more than A$20 million in damages. The health issues with chemical exposure included permanent brain damage to a number of ground crew before conditions were improved.[75] https://www.dva.gov.au/financial-support/compensation-claims/claims-f-111-workers Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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priznat posted:F-15EX just set canada’s fighter procurement back 15 years, dammit! Just wait for Boeing's bankruptcy, the F-15 will get parceled off to General Dynamics Or maybe Kawasaki
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https://twitter.com/adamcooperF1/status/1357275470895677441 It doesn't look quite so sexy from certain angles.... https://twitter.com/autocar/status/1357253322256887808 https://twitter.com/AirspeederHQ/status/1356852418231758850
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/adamcooperF1/status/1357275470895677441 At some point techbros are going to realise multirotors are hugely inefficient. Surely.
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Humphreys posted:We could always try F111s again! Right? That F-111 on the flatbed finally manages to properly show the size of these jets.
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Xakura posted:At some point techbros are going to realise multirotors are hugely inefficient. Surely. The buzzing sound will drive you nuts mind.
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e.pilot posted:Why are they burying them instead of recycling the aluminum Asbestos sandwiched in the panels. Apparently they recycled anything that was worth dealing with and buried the rest.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Isn't the main benefit of multirotors that you can improve the failure mode? Instead of having to spend a lot of money engineering in a lot of reliability, you can just have a lot of relatively cheap rotors and if you lose one-or-two, there's still a bunch of redundancy to keep you in the air. (that aircraft does not do that) Sure, if you have excess power.I mean, sure they may be able to lose a motor or 2....but if power fails, it's a brick. It can't glide, it can't autorotate. It's 100% reliant on electronics to control it. It's such a stupid idea.
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Xakura posted:At some point techbros are going to realise multirotors are hugely inefficient. Surely. I mean, it's a racing series who cares if it's hugely inefficient if it looks and runs cool?
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dupersaurus posted:I mean, it's a racing series who cares if it's hugely inefficient if it looks and runs cool? Racing against what? At the very best it'll be time-trials. They'll never get those things racing in proximity with eachother.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Racing against what? At the very best it'll be time-trials. They'll never get those things racing in proximity with eachother. Now THIS is podracing.
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well obviously they just need to put an airframe parachute on the vehicle 
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Oh sweet, step one of this becoming a reality.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Racing against what? At the very best it'll be time-trials. They'll never get those things racing in proximity with eachother. And? I'm not making any comment on whether it'll succeed or not, but a purpose-built racing vehicle of any type is pretty much the dictionary definition of stupid and impractical
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dupersaurus posted:And? Ok, even as a racing vehicle, it's stupid and impractical.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Ok, even as a racing vehicle, it's stupid and impractical. This has literally never stopped anyone. Look at swamp buggies. Look at drag boats. Look at dedicated burnout cars.
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In this sociological paper, we will establish that there's basically two kinds of airplane weirdos; the  'sAnd 
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Sure, if you have excess power.I mean, sure they may be able to lose a motor or 2....but if power fails, it's a brick. It can't glide, it can't autorotate. If you lose a motor on a quad, you still have up to 50% lift available, but you lose all yaw control, and most of your authority in pitch and roll. The opposite motor will go to zero, and you’ll descend (straight down) on the remaining two. They can’t deliver 100% though, since the flight controller is still throttling them down dynamically to keep the quad flattish. You need at least 6 motors to really have any kind of redundancy with a multi rotor, but even with a hex, losing one generally means you lose yaw control unless it’s dead still wind. You generally still have enough reserve thrust for a safe landing, but it’s definitely a time-to-land-right-now kind of thing. Octos and octo-quads are the standard for bigger multirotors for this reason. All of that said, I 100% agree; multirotors are amazing for cheap, disposable applications, but gently caress flying people around in them. To paraphrase Lin Hendrix, “You aren't big enough and there aren't enough of you to get me in that thing.”
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Hog get away from that thing!
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Isn't there a very, very similar video from much more recently of someone who came into money and their first thought was 'my backyard is totally a heliport and i can totally self-teach in an r22?' Think I might have seen it here, if a long time ago...
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The crazy thing is that you can legally (in the US anyway) buy a Mosquito helicopter and fly it without a licence.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Or maybe Kawasaki F-15s now only come in lime green
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Phy posted:F-15s now only come in lime green Ola posted:We were [lime green percentage] successful in communicating paint codes to subcontractors this quarter!
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Isn't there a very, very similar video from much more recently of someone who came into money and their first thought was 'my backyard is totally a heliport and i can totally self-teach in an r22?' Think I might have seen it here, if a long time ago... I remember that video, I'm pretty sure it was a kit helicopter someone put together and tried to take off from a hill with on their first flight with no instruction.
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This is a recent home built heli I saw. There was a post a while back about one of the first helicopter tests and how the guy doing it didn't buckle in and got thrown into the blades. This gives me similar vibes. https://youtu.be/GceJKtKSx9E
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AzureSkys posted:This is a recent home built heli I saw. There was a post a while back about one of the first helicopter tests and how the guy doing it didn't buckle in and got thrown into the blades. This gives me similar vibes. I don't know why anyone would want to get in a home made helicopter. Someone I knew died in a kit helicopter he had bought pre-built. Some part that was behind a fairing had corroded or the weld failed or something and the tail fell off while he was flying it.
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According to reports on a couple other message boards, Raptor guy flew again today, requested an early landing, shortly after declared emergency due to low oil pressure, then a couple minutes later reported engine out. He seems to have landed safely. Hopefully this will be a wakeup call to him that he is not good at engineering.
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BobHoward posted:According to reports on a couple other message boards, Raptor guy flew again today, requested an early landing, shortly after declared emergency due to low oil pressure, then a couple minutes later reported engine out. He seems to have landed safely. Nah he just needs to add more oil pumps.
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know why anyone would want to get in a home made helicopter. Someone I knew died in a kit helicopter he had bought pre-built. Some part that was behind a fairing had corroded or the weld failed or something and the tail fell off while he was flying it. like there's a reason that birds evolved wings instead of rotors.
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AzureSkys posted:This is a recent home built heli I saw. There was a post a while back about one of the first helicopter tests and how the guy doing it didn't buckle in and got thrown into the blades. This gives me similar vibes. All of my test flights start with first positioning the aircraft in a suburban backyard.
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AzureSkys posted:one of the first helicopter tests and how the guy doing it didn't buckle in and got thrown into the blades now this one i do know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k562IriqnlA it was a bell executive who wandered onto the test pitch and pulled a 'hold my beer;' didn't fasten the seatbelt, was bodily carried up out of the cockpit and thrown 10 feet by the rotor and managed to walk away with a broken wrist  
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:All of my test flights start with first positioning the aircraft in a suburban backyard. You gotta wonder what the neighbours think. "Oh. Jim's testing his deathmachine 30' from our house again. Honey! Go tell the kids not to play out the back today."
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:All of my test flights start with first positioning the aircraft in a suburban backyard. the one valid reason for HOAs to exist is so you don't have to suffer your neighbor's homebuilt aircraft's noise every day
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marumaru posted:the one valid reason for HOAs to exist is so you don't have to suffer your neighbor's homebuilt aircraft's noise every day I'd rather be helicoptered to death than deal with your average suburban HOA.
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HOAs are something I thought were stupid american myths.... But no, literal Karen Organizations.
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