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hobbesmaster posted:Throw floats on it and you can fish where other people with less power can't! oh yeah they definitely have their place, I’m just saying don’t expect some amazing high performance airplane
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e.pilot posted:oh yeah they definitely have their place, I’m just saying don’t expect some amazing high performance airplane These are just lies told by Big Aerodynamics to convince you that you can't bolt a Viper V10 to a 172 and outperform a Mooney.
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CommieGIR posted:The future we really wanted: I dream bigger. 
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The other excerpt from North Atlantic Cat. So after doing a ferry flight with an aging HP Hampton from Ireland, across the Arctic to Vancouver (which was a terrifying aircraft in several ways, not the least of which was apparently the flaps and landing gear switches were contained in a tin box with a spring-loaded opening) McVicar gets a plum assignment: flying the Prince of the Netherlands back to the UK. (You'll have to tell me who this is, as McVicar doesn't name him.) Anyway, he gets the aircraft of choice for the ferry command pilot: a B-24. Thus the stage is set for some Zeppelinaut/Blackbird pilot/Soviet Space program aeronautical insanity:    Next chapter: our hero gets drunk with an American, and instead of makin' time with a lady, he follows the lout to the "bad" side of Montreal (IE the entirely french part) where the American gets jumped and robbed in a strip-club restroom, a fight ensues, the RCMP arrive and get the wallet back and take the servicemen home (while saying "why did you have to cross X street anyway, ya dingus") American gets his gun in the hotel room intending to murder the robbers, and it ends up with McVicar with a class 1 hangover in his superior's office, being told he's the best pilot when working and the stupidest one when not. Also have a ferry flight to India, we need to get you out of Montreal for awhile. MrYenko posted:I dream bigger. Same but B-36 flying boat
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I need a European class 2 private pilot certificate to apply for ESA's astronaut program. I need to fill out a form to give to my doctor before my visit. This form asks if I smoke cigarettes. Does anyone know if this information is written on said certificate? ESA asks for people who are free of addictions, obviously, and also very obviously, this is a habit I can stop to make my dream come true.
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e.pilot posted:I’ve also flown 150hp 150s, they still cruise at the blistering speed of about 85kt. We had one of those (even better, actually, a 152 with a 180hp O-320) at the flight school and the owner took it back and it was a bummer because it was a lot of fun to fly. If you forgot to pull the throttle after leveling off you'd be at the yellow arc by the downwind turn  Fairly severe stall characteristics compared to one with the regular engine, though. All that extra weight up front. Also that specific plane, N714SW, was the very first 152 off the production line so it's cool to have it in my logbook
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MrYenko posted:I dream bigger. Stratolaunch converted to catamaran when edit: 
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Feb 23, 2021 22:11
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CommieGIR posted:
Looks like something Sea Patrol would have.
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I get big Tales From The Punchbowl / Southbound Pachyderm vibes from the Sea-130
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Nebakenezzer posted:(You'll have to tell me who this is, as McVicar doesn't name him.) Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld, the article says he was a pilot and he fits the description.
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That weirdo STOL guy who makes the little pushcarts should work on making the Sea-130 a reality instead of crashing more carbon cubs.
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go play outside Skyler posted:I need a European class 2 private pilot certificate to apply for ESA's astronaut program. I need to fill out a form to give to my doctor before my visit. This form asks if I smoke cigarettes. you should stop smoking whether you want to be an astronaut or not.
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gently caress that... if I don't open the hatch to the French module and immediately get side-eye from three dudes sitting there smoking Gauloises I'mma just go back to earth.
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hannibal posted:Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld, the article says he was a pilot and he fits the description. Man: Fighter Pilot, combat vet Wanted to work in British Intelligence, there was resistence until on the personal request of Churchill Ian Flemming did his security screening Helped found the WWF (the World Wildlife Fund) Helped found the Bilderberg Group Had to step down as chair for same as he was involved in the Lockheed bribery scandals
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Carth Dookie posted:you should stop smoking whether you want to be an astronaut or not. 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Same but B-36 flying boat 
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marumaru posted:turboprop 172 172s aren't too much smaller than a 206, right?  https://achtungskyhawk.com/2019/04/22/photo-file-pratt-my-ride-the-pt6-cessna-206-s5-dot/
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This was a thing Convair engineers briefly considered.
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-deepening-787-inspections-point-to-risk-of-longer-delay/ I am literally doing jack poo poo for 6 hours a day because we can't ship any 787 stuff except for assemblies related to this rework and there's no end in sight
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This short take off thing is getting out of hand https://twitter.com/FloRacing/status/1364615078532632577
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That could've been real ugly. Looks like the driver activated the chute quite early in the sequence, so it had time to inflate and pull the wheels back in line with the track before the car went into a wall.
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BobHoward posted:That could've been real ugly. Looks like the driver activated the chute quite early in the sequence, so it had time to inflate and pull the wheels back in line with the track before the car went into a wall. I'm kinda baffled by the physics of that landing. Its like he landed perpendicular to the road on a concrete barrier then it somehow straightened out?
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hobbesmaster posted:I'm kinda baffled by the physics of that landing. Its like he landed perpendicular to the road on a concrete barrier then it somehow straightened out? drag cars barely have tires in the front compared to giant meaty slicks in the back, there’s vastly more grip in the back
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e.pilot posted:I’ve also flown 150hp 150s, they still cruise at the blistering speed of about 85kt. Speed goes up with the third root of power, so if you take a 160 horsepower 172 and put in a 400-horsepower engine, you're going to go like 125 knots instead of 90. 
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So I guess the torque from the engine lifted the front, and that increased the angle of attack, and since it was already at speed that lifted it off the ground?
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Diatribe because I'm in ~a mood~ If you're wondering if this is a dumb clickbait headline, it is. This author is literally just making up that they said this. They did not in fact admit this. In the opinion of the desperate lovely author, they admitted this. But this author is dumb. Zero integrity about this headline. quote:The 17-ton, non-stealthy F-16 is too difficult to upgrade with the latest software, Brown explained. Instead of ordering fresh F-16s, he said, the Air Force should initiate a “clean-sheet design” for a new low-end fighter. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Forbes is basically a medium.com with a once prestigious magazine name. Also wouldn’t scores of cheap fighters be basically cannon fodder that would get slaughtered, just build drones which already exist.
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If the idea was to be cheap or have reasonable operating costs... I dunno, I know lots of people are at the acceptance stage of the whole thing, but I'm not sure that the F-35 isn't so fundamentally flawed developing two or three aircraft from the technology wouldn't be better
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Cojawfee posted:This short take off thing is getting out of hand annual reminder that with enough thrust, anything will fly
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Nebakenezzer posted:If the idea was to be cheap or have reasonable operating costs...
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brains posted:annual reminder that with enough thrust, anything will fly that was more a demonstration of angle of attack imo
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Nebakenezzer posted:If the idea was to be cheap or have reasonable operating costs... Is the F-35 fundamentally flawed?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Is the F-35 fundamentally flawed? The B is.
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