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SlapActionJackson posted:He runs the thing nearly dry and isn't even planning to tear down the engine for inspection. He's going to fly again on an engine I'd hesitate to take on a freeway. Yeah it seems like he's hellbent on not learning any lessons at all, from anything, ever. He mentions normalizing deviance and then turns around and does it again. Also the reason for the leak is hilarious/awful: when the retaining clip for a seal on his prop speed reducer was giving him trouble, he decided to skip installing it because he thought there was no way anything was coming loose. With some of the recent posts about his antics I've begun to understand the Patey hate, but man, the contrast between him and Peter Muller is huge. Somehow Muller has managed to turn far less talent and fanbase into a much bigger ego trip.
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BobHoward posted:With some of the recent posts about his antics I've begun to understand the Patey hate, but man, the contrast between him and Peter Muller is huge. Somehow Muller has managed to turn far less talent and fanbase into a much bigger ego trip. One is building an airplane for himself, ad bucks, and business promotion, and the other is trying to convince people who have already put deposits down that they won't die if they buy a kit from him. I'll take the over enthusiastic self promoter over the back to the wall snake oil salesman, but I'm not watching either one's videos regularly either! Kermit Week's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c?KermitWeeks444?videos) has great footage of him flying a lot of golden age aircraft, and he usually talks about the airplane without too much self promotion or politics. I've found those to be really nice low energy things to watch with my small child when he wants to look at airplanes.
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Feb 10, 2021 23:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiDyfQOnqaI Oh, its based on a Mosquito. That engine failure in hover still looked very dangerous, though. He rotated 90 degrees with full right pedal. There should be no yaw at all, especially when it's 'planned'.
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Oh I see I confused Raptor guy and STOL guy when you were talking about the oil incident. Yeah Raptor guy is definitely going not going to make it to 2022.
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Feb 10, 2021 23:29
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Tag yourself. I'm the giant AGM in the center. NightGyr posted:Is that an AGM or targeting pod? Coming from a ways back, but that huge thing is a practice bomb dispenser. As an aside, one of my instructors back in the day was a former CF-104 pilot, and he told a story about how one of his squadron mates had an electrical malfunction in his aircraft, which made it that every time he used the push-to-talk switch for the radio, it dropped a practice bomb. He only found out when he arrived at the range in Germany with an empty dispenser!
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Feb 11, 2021 00:44
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The STOL guy only builds his plane for himself and isn't trying to sell it to anyone, right?
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Feb 11, 2021 00:52
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wzm posted:Kermit Week's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c?KermitWeeks444?videos) has great footage of him flying a lot of golden age aircraft, and he usually talks about the airplane without too much self promotion or politics. I've found those to be really nice low energy things to watch with my small child when he wants to look at airplanes. I've just discovered Dave Hadfield's channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_o38eGPcI7Oe8oaAeJO0UA/ - which has very similar content, albeit on a smaller scale. Dave is chief pilot at Vintage Wings Canada so there are a number of nicely-commentated flights in various warbirds, plus some of his personal vintage/classic aircraft. He's also a former Air Canada 777 captain, published singer/songwriter and brother of ISS commander Chris Hadfield.
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Cojawfee posted:The STOL guy only builds his plane for himself and isn't trying to sell it to anyone, right? He's just building planes for himself, yeah. He does shill for the family aviation-related business by wearing merch and putting its logo on the planes, but that business builds R/C tugs to help people move GA airplanes around hangars, not airplanes.
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Feb 11, 2021 01:05
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Random thing I noticed on FedEx Cessna Super Cargomasters : their strobe lights blink at different rates on each side. Edit: 208B operated by Empire Airlines Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Feb 11, 2021 02:47
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MrChips posted:Coming from a ways back, but that huge thing is a practice bomb dispenser. 
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Charles posted:Random thing I noticed on FedEx Cessna Super Cargomasters : their strobe lights blink at different rates on each side. More than you could ever want to know about strobes. TLDR, they’re not synced in any way, and wear at different rates, so they flash at different intervals.
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Feb 11, 2021 02:57
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Charles posted:Random thing I noticed on FedEx Cessna Super Cargomasters : their strobe lights blink at different rates on each side. More than you could ever want to know about strobes. TLDR, they’re not synced in any way, and wear at different rates, so they flash at different intervals.
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Feb 11, 2021 02:58
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Charles posted:Random thing I noticed on FedEx Cessna Super Cargomasters : their strobe lights blink at different rates on each side. More than you could ever want to know about strobes. TLDR, they’re not synced in any way, and wear at different rates, so they flash at different intervals.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:00
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More than you could ever want to know about strobes. TLDR, they’re not synced in any way, and wear at different rates, so they flash at different intervals.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:01
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Hey the site is a little wack tonight, take it easy 😂 But it's always those FedEx Cessnas that I notice it on  🤷🏻♂️
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Feb 11, 2021 03:02
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Charles posted:Random thing I noticed on FedEx Cessna Super Cargomasters : their strobe lights blink at different rates on each side. More than you could ever want to know about strobes. TLDR, they’re not synced in any way, and wear at different rates, so they flash at different intervals.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:13
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Charles posted:Random thing I noticed on FedEx Cessna Super Cargomasters : their strobe lights blink at different rates on each side. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/september/07/aircraft-maintenance-sustaining-your-strobes TLDR, they’re not synced in any way and wear at different rates, so they flash at different intervals.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:15
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Oh gently caress you awful app. Lolol
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Feb 11, 2021 03:16
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Wowww haha. I made a report in the tech forum that the site is going really slowly tonight.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:19
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More than you could ever want to know about strokes. TLDR, they’re haven't really done anything good since the early 2000s, although their latest album was considered a return to form. I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Feb 11, 2021 03:43
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Yep. That was more than I ever wanted to know.
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Feb 11, 2021 04:07
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Aeronautical Insanity: More than you could ever want to know about strobes
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Feb 11, 2021 04:41
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Cloudflare is eating poo poo tonight, PlayStation Network was down for a while too.
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Feb 11, 2021 04:42
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Midjack posted:Cloudflare is eating poo poo tonight, PlayStation Network was down for a while too. Despite knowing what’s causing it it’s still incredibly funny whenever it happens. However nothing will ever beat the guy who posted 10 copies of a giant fitness log in a depressing thread about an abortion doctor.
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e.pilot posted:Aeronautical Insanity: More than you could ever want to know about strobes
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Aeronautical Insanity: Inverted flight: Where down is up, and up is expensive.
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Mr.Yenko is not the only one with issues right now: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bombardier-cuts-jobs-ends-learjet-production-1.5909993?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar Bombardier is cutting 1600 jobs, will no longer build learjets quote:Slow decline Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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The writing has been on the wall for learjet for years now, the 75 is not competitive in the market space it's positioned in and the name doesn't have the same cachet it used to.
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If the Canadian government gives yet another loving donation to Bombardier I'm going to be livid they totally will
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The Drive gives us our Russian Strategic bomber trio. I'd upload the pics here but the internet has caught the lurgy lately 
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Feb 11, 2021 22:40
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Nebakenezzer posted:I had to google the A-7 to find out how it was different from the Crusader  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ZttmTHj28 the F-8 is so loving cool tho, best us jet fighter by a country mile looks extremely good in any squadron markings  and i'll probably never see one fly  there's supposedly some hundred-millionaire restoring one to flyable in florida but it's in that early-temperamental-supersonic category that doesnt make me hopeful HookedOnChthonics fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Stupid question from non-aeronautically informed person. I've seen some episodes of Air Disasters where it's mentioned that some systems are powered by the engines, and that if they lose them, they lose power to those systems. So why don't they have a battery back-up? Even if it's just for the displays and such.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Stupid question from non-aeronautically informed person. Without knowing which planes and systems you're referring to this is impossible to answer intelligently but most likely the answer is size, weight and/or power.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Stupid question from non-aeronautically informed person. They do have batteries for displays and such. The real problem is that without the engines you lose hydraulics.
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MrChips posted:Coming from a ways back, but that huge thing is a practice bomb dispenser. Oh come on! My dad was on the squadron that had to fix that. I've heard that story at least once a year my entire life. This thread is now six degrees of Starfighter.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Stupid question from non-aeronautically informed person. Usually, things like the cockpit displays and instruments are designed so they can run off of a battery if all else fails, but as other posters mentioned, stuff like flight controls usually requires some kind of hydraulic power to run. Many larger airplanes will also have a Ram Air Turbine (basically a little windmill that pops out of the fuselage somewhere) that can provide some level of electrical and hydraulic power if everything else quits.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Stupid question from non-aeronautically informed person. In addition to the Ram Air Turbine azflyboy mentions, many planes also have an Auxillary Power Unit, basically a generator that runs on jet fuel which can power electrics and hydraulics. In the F-16 this is called the Emergency Power Unit and runs on highly toxic hydrazine.
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Official USA(A)F documentation sometimes called auxiliary piston engines “putt putts”.
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I thought it was the APU that makes that weird noise on airbus planes but it's something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEG1ZfPHkVo
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Can't watch a video right now but I'm going to guess it's the "dog bark" and iirc it's landing gear hydraulics? How'd I do?
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