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Wombot posted:So correct me if I'm wrong here, but he says 1 mile every 1.6 seconds. That's 5760 mph, or mach 7.5 at Sea Level (8.64 @ 85,000 feet). I want to say he might have embellished a bit on that speed.
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Muffinpox posted:This is like explorers in the 1600s, they would come back with fanciful tales of monsters and dragons. Later on people went after the pioneers and guess what, there isn't poo poo that's exciting; the magic is gone and no one cares anymore when huge revolutions come in small pieces. I think that's why public support cooled for things like space flight, but I was trying to make a different point.
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Apr 8, 2010 07:08
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dietcokefiend posted:I want to say he might have embellished a bit on that speed. "1.6 miles every second" is a fairly precise embellishment. Regardless, even if he was doing 1.6 km/s, that's still mach 4.7 @ sea level.
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Apr 8, 2010 07:11
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Wombot posted:"1.6 miles every second" is a fairly precise embellishment. you got it backwards. he said 1 mile / 1.6 seconds, not 1.6 miles per second.
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Apr 8, 2010 07:24
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NightGyr posted:you got it backwards. he said 1 mile / 1.6 seconds, not 1.6 miles per second. Yeah. 60/1.6 = 37.5 miles per minute = 2250 mph. Right what it should be.
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Apr 8, 2010 07:31
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OptimusMatrix posted:I read the whole thread but I'm not sure if this story was posted. It's an article from Gizmodo about a Sled Driver on a mission over Libya. It's a heart racing read. I want to read Sled Driver, but can't justify the cost  nurrwick posted:Lately, I've come to the desire to go down and catch a shuttle launch VikingSkull posted:This thread just made me really sad Frank Dillinger posted:pretty sure the pilot was Brian Shul, going by the story about his model SR-71. In related news, ITS HERE! ITS HERE! I HAVE SLED DRIVER, BITCHES
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Apr 8, 2010 08:36
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Wombot posted:"1.6 miles every second" is a fairly precise embellishment. But he's not at sea level, he's way the hell up into the stratosphere. And he wasn't doing 1.6 km/s, but one mile every 1.6 s which is 1 km/s. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/mach.html 25908 meters altitude (85k feet) and 1000 m/sec = Mach 3.369 This is based on a standard day so unknown factors are exact altitude and the temp/pressure of that day. edit: so excited about sperging I missed the others, but at least I brought a NASA link to the game.
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Apr 8, 2010 09:25
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Why are they called sled drivers?
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Apr 8, 2010 10:25
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Santa flies mach 3 at 80,000 feet? Best part of the whole thing. "Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground." 
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Apr 8, 2010 13:16
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Frank Dillinger posted:In related news, ITS HERE! ITS HERE! I HAVE SLED DRIVER, BITCHES oh you utter, utter bastard. I'll give you twenty bucks for it once you're done 
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Apr 8, 2010 15:45
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Preoptopus posted:Santa flies mach 3 at 80,000 feet?
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Apr 8, 2010 17:09
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The Ferret King posted:Our radar displays only show two digit speed in tens and hundreds. Not sure how they got such a specific figure. Depends on the system. Ours reads down to singles, but nobody bothers reading that far because it's not accurate enough.
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Apr 8, 2010 22:42
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NightGyr posted:you got it backwards. he said 1 mile / 1.6 seconds, not 1.6 miles per second. Welp, I'm a dumbass. Thanks.
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Apr 9, 2010 01:52
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This thread needs more Eagles. Screwing around at the hush house before a burner run, thought this was a pretty sweet angle.  VTEC's kicking in, yo!  My baby. I loved this jet, it might have been useless in a real war (2-seat training varient) but drat if I didn't love that jet like a child!  Easily my favorite picture of me, I got called in to do a launch at 0300 one day and didn't know the base paper was there photographing me. It made the front page a few days later and being a reletively new airman, I was thrilled. I have the full-sized file and its been my wallpaper ever since. I work on F-22's now and while it is a sexy aircraft (I just noticed today that the tips of the wings droop ever so slightly and its very aesthetically pleasing), but there's a special place in my heart for the F-15. Some crusty old chief told me once that you fall in love with the first jet you crew and like any first love, nothing ever really replaces it. I went to the Air Force museum at Wright-Patt a few months back and it was amazing. I'll have to get around to uploading the pictures I took.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I have the full-sized file and its been my wallpaper ever since. Would you mind posting it? It's a drat good photo.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Would you mind posting it? It's a drat good photo. Yeah, the original is here, its too big for waffleimage http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/080423-F-0523M-168.JPG
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Apr 9, 2010 03:21
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Yeah, the original is here, its too big for waffleimage Awesome and thanks! It's now in my rotation.
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Apr 9, 2010 03:22
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Awesome and thanks! It's now in my rotation. Hells yeah, I'm famous Found this in my folders.  The Hornet and the Flanker sure are cute.
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Apr 9, 2010 03:30
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InterceptorV8 posted:Why are they called sled drivers? I'm guessing they're likening the plane to rocket sleds.
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Apr 9, 2010 03:51
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nvm; missed a page.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
Fulcrum. :P
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Apr 9, 2010 04:51
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Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. You really have to ask? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBmm5YnoKsk [e] this one is better. Love that scream just before it passes you.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. The F-15 in full afterburner on takeoff. Which makes me insanely jealous of that rear end in a top hat a few posts up.
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Apr 9, 2010 05:05
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Gas0LCl3o Jets are nice but when you have a bunch of old warbirds going past just give you a tingle that you don't get from turbines.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. Anything with an obscenely large piston engine. I had the chance to see about a dozen Spitfires flying in formation a couple of years ago, and the sound of that many Merlins and Griffons running simultaneously was absolutely breathtaking.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-UFCyrunpY My favourite is the sound of four Merlins. I remember well one day working in the workshop and hearing this, I poke my head out the door to see it doing a banking turn over the field next door.
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Every year there's an air show in at the Chino Airport. I was working at Staples at the time and had forgotten about the air show. Shortly after noon the entire building shook, like three times, had no idea what the gently caress, until I walked outside and saw the 4 F16s flying in formation over the store. Also there is a sweet yellow flying wing that is kept at the Air Museum at Chino that flys.
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That yellow N9M might be in this shot, one of my favorite aviation photos. Two graceful little wings, with the huge YB-35 flying wing bomber behind them.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. If you really, really need it, there's no sound like a bunch of Pave Lows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tMzSQQ2rpk
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. I don't know if it's my favorite, but the Starfighter howl is something special. Here's two taxi demos from Bodø, Norway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8m7A63otQ Howling at 1:46-ish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIRwMhRVRY Howling at 0:53 This resonance happens somewhere around the throttle setting used for approach, so since it was easily heard from the ground the Starfighter got its local nickname; "the Westfjord Bull". Ola fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Apr 9, 2010 |
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Schindler's Fist posted:That yellow N9M might be in this shot, one of my favorite aviation photos. Two graceful little wings, with the huge YB-35 flying wing bomber behind them. Reading up on this made me realize how cut-throat multi-billion dollar defense contracts must be, and what incredible havoc can be wreaked with just one paid-off mechanic. What an amazing aircraft to have failed utterly. The wikipedia said that one of them crashed due to an overspeed in a stall recovery because they were too low drag(?)... Sucks that we didn't build more B-2 bombers to pay his family back. Dude got screwed.
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Sorry, but I think this has got to be the coolest shot of all of a Northrop flying wing. I believe it was a last ditch effort to impress congress enough for full production funding. Sadly it didn't work 
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. Seen enough F-4 flybys as a kid that it still sticks with me.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:F-15 stuff To anyone who has a favorite plane other than the F-15, you'd appreciate seeing one do a full power climb in person. It's amazing, and you'll realize why there's not a MiG on this planet that can run with it. Mobius1B7R posted:Wow a double post, I am an idiot. Well lets make something fun out of this, what is the best engine noise to your ears? I personally love the howl of the RBs on the 757. Whatever is on the C-5. I've said it's annoying because after 3 decades it can be at times....but that shriek is just so powerful. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 9, 2010 |
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There are some middling strange airplane pictures here: http://planeshots.tumblr.com/ and http://xplanes.tumblr.com/ Updated pretty regular like. I know a lot of airplanes, and xplanes finds ones I've never heard of before with some regularity. There is also this: http://up-ship.com/blog/ Which has lots of drawings and documents of experimental never-rans, but also has lots of dumbshit politics and pictures of his cats. Mixed bag.
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I was watching a show the other day about stunt aircraft and how they can pull upwards of 13g. I think the most I've ever seen a fighter capable of is ~9g. Is this done because of the weight of the fighter vs. stunt plane or because the pilots in a stunt plane are only subjected to that force for a very short time?
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Apr 9, 2010 18:11
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My library loan of Sled Driver came today 
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~9g is right on the edge of what the human body can take with a g-suit. 13g is defiantly pushing it, although if the maneuver is short enough you can probably get away with it.
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