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Godholio posted:I didn't expect it to have cut almost completely through the tail, wow. Watching the way the CRJ got torqued around in the A380 collision makes it believable that somebody in the torture tube could have neck pain; I doubt anyone in the 767 (a big two-aisle plane) would be injured.
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Godholio posted:I didn't expect it to have cut almost completely through the tail, wow. EMBEDDED gently caress
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# ? Jul 16, 2011 17:48 |
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Boomerjinks posted:EMBEDDED gently caress Dang. Since the winglets are just a retrofit/add-on and not load-bearing, they probably detach a lot easier, and why not? This way they can just move an intensive periodic inspection forwards, replace the winglet, and be up in the air again. That's not the worst CRJ accident ASA's ever been involved in: quote:BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The regional airline, ASA, denied Wednesday that one of the aircraft involved in a freak hangar accident is to be written off as a total loss. "There has been no such determination by ASA or our engineers working on the event," said Kate Modolo, spokesperson for Atlantic Southeast Airlines. As a height-haver (6' 4") I'm kind of bummed I have two CRJ flights coming up in August
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# ? Jul 16, 2011 18:15 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Rutan's final project is a Flying Car. Destined to be filed away as a novelty with all the other flying cars. Shame that Rutan spent his time on this project as his last.
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# ? Jul 17, 2011 02:39 |
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Mustang, Skyraider mid-air at Duxford last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_A4xdGFXoE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xctYWSuwoYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLQsJS7zQOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDxkLtPuX4
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# ? Jul 17, 2011 09:24 |
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Sorry, no pics. If you guys are ever around Virginia Beach check out this place: http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org. It's a great collection, and most of the aircraft are flyable.
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Can't believe the F-22 fleet is still grounded.
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# ? Jul 17, 2011 18:11 |
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Ola posted:Mustang, Skyraider mid-air at Duxford last weekend. Is it just me or did that Mustang still look flyable? I don't question the pilot's choice to eject but still, it would be a shame if it could have been landed.
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rcman50166 posted:Is it just me or did that Mustang still look flyable? I don't question the pilot's choice to eject but still, it would be a shame if it could have been landed. It didn't appear to have lost any flight surfaces (the only piece that fell out of the sky appeared to be the Skyraider wing), but a couple angles show a fair amount of damage to the bottom of the fuselage just ahead of the tail, so it's possible he lost his control linkages to the tail/rudder. It's a bummer to lose the plane, but it was sure nice to see the pilot got out safely, and to see the Skyraider land after the crash. Tough airplane.
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# ? Jul 17, 2011 18:55 |
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rcman50166 posted:Is it just me or did that Mustang still look flyable? I don't question the pilot's choice to eject but still, it would be a shame if it could have been landed. I think if maybe if he took time to assess the situation at such a low level, problems could have compounded very quickly - and there was no way for him to know exactly what was damaged or how badly it was damaged. As sad as it is, he did the right thing, and did it very well. It really did look flyable, and I bet it was - but there aren't many options at such a low altitude. A less professional pilot probably would have tried to save the plane - as weird as that logic may seem.
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Styles Bitchley posted:Can't believe the F-22 fleet is still grounded. You aren't the only one. It has been amusing to see a lot of the crap out there regarding speculation...both about how this is the end of the program and the AF is getting ready to scrap all the jets as well as the flip side on how it's all just a ruse to deploy the jets somewhere else and how I live near base X and they've totally been flying around all summer Unless you're at Edwards, they haven't. ursa_minor posted:I think if maybe if he took time to assess the situation at such a low level, problems could have compounded very quickly - and there was no way for him to know exactly what was damaged or how badly it was damaged. As sad as it is, he did the right thing, and did it very well. Given the situation he was in, he could've run out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas pretty quickly had something (else) gone wrong. Doing a manual bailout at that altitude is pretty impressive.
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iyaayas01 posted:
Especially considering the parachute deployed about 2 seconds before he hit the ground. He must be some old military pilot or something, to just go into that fearless, mechanical self-preservation mode.
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# ? Jul 18, 2011 02:16 |
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Why are the F-22s still grounded? Mechanical fault, or software issues?
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# ? Jul 18, 2011 10:29 |
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MA-Horus posted:Why are the F-22s still grounded? Mechanical fault, or software issues? Issue is the system that generates oxygen for the pilot. Random link: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7098675&c=AME&s=AIR
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# ? Jul 18, 2011 14:30 |
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An excerpt from Techniques for the new Airbus Pilot:quote:Being new on an Airbus brings new meaning to being new on lets say a Boeing aircraft. When I tell the Captain that I am new on the Airbus, I commonly don't get the standard response of, "Oh, well that's okay," from him or her. It is usually, "Oohhhh, well, are you getting the hang of it now?" See the difference? That's because all I can tell you is that compared to a Boeing (or similar jet aircraft) the Airbus can give the impression of being a really wacky machine. That is until you get to learn its brain and naturally its logic. Even all the Check Airmen and Captains who have 9000-plus hours on the plane all comment that the Airbus is indeed very unusual. They even go on and say sometimes they see something new that they have never seen before. Well that's comforting, isn't it?
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Styles Bitchley posted:Issue is the system that generates oxygen for the pilot. Fuckin' pilots, what a bunch of whiny crybabies. oh we want oxygen waah waah we need it to live waaaah
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Fuckin' pilots, what a bunch of whiny crybabies. At least theirs is simple and easy to fix: From http://www.b737.org.uk/airconditioning.htm
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BonzoESC posted:At least theirs is simple and easy to fix: I am not sure if you're being sarcastic, because that actually looks a lot simpler than I would have expected.
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BonzoESC posted:An excerpt from Techniques for the new Airbus Pilot: The fact that the Airbus' throttle levers don't physically move when auto thrust in engaged is so loving to me. Even moreso after it was noted it was probably a contributing factor in the crash of flight 447. I am not a pilot though.
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iyaayas01 posted:Given the situation he was in, he could've run out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas pretty quickly had something (else) gone wrong. Doing a manual bailout at that altitude is pretty impressive. That dude owes his rigger a bottle of booze.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 05:54 |
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BonzoESC posted:An excerpt from Techniques for the new Airbus Pilot: How much of that is because Airbuses are relatively uncommon in the US market?
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The Electronaut posted:That dude owes his rigger a bottle of booze. Still impressed with the awareness to edit: I'm an idiot, he had to actually pull himself out of the cockpit, didn't he? Even more then, jesus.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 06:07 |
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Revolvyerom posted:
He pops the canopy almost immediately, you can see it fluttering behind the Mustang - and then yeah, old cat had to physically stand up and jump out of a rapidly falling airplane, only a few hundred feet off the ground. The more I really try to put myself into that position, the more it gets.
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Styles Bitchley posted:Issue is the system that generates oxygen for the pilot. This is a pretty good article that peels back a bit of the onion on the OBOGS issues. And yeah, getting everyone back up and qualified is going to be a pain in the rear end.
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Lowclock posted:I am not sure if you're being sarcastic, because that actually looks a lot simpler than I would have expected. That it's a compressed-air powered air conditioning system seems a bit nutty. For a fun game, count the turbines.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 11:05 |
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Trip report: MD-90s are quite quiet up front.
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iyaayas01 posted:This is a pretty good article that peels back a bit of the onion on the OBOGS issues. Thanks for the links. Is the oxygen flow not metered on these? As in an alarm goes off when under limits, and is logged into the flight data recorder.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 14:35 |
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ursa_minor posted:He pops the canopy almost immediately, you can see it fluttering behind the Mustang - and then yeah, old cat had to physically stand up and jump out of a rapidly falling airplane, only a few hundred feet off the ground. The more I really try to put myself into that position, the more it gets. In one of the interviews with him after the crash, he also states that most of his injuries came when he hit the tail after leaving the cockpit. Looking at it again, given how quick he had the canopy off, if he had stayed in the plane to see if it was flyable for even a couple of seconds, he wouldn't have made it out if it wasn't flyable. Glad he got out.
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BonzoESC posted:Trip report: MD-90s are quite quiet up front. The only time I ever got airsick was a 2+ hour flight last row, middle seat in the Spring going to KLAS. Them are torture seats I tell ya!
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ack! posted:While you're enjoying your soft speaking chat up there think about the poor souls in the last few rows next to those spinning noise makers and the few inches of materials separating them. I sat next to a turboprop rotor before, now that's an awful seat. This A319 isn't too bad except for the awful buzzing (rotor tips going supersonic?) during takeoff and climb.
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dissss posted:How much of that is because Airbuses are relatively uncommon in the US market? Airbuses aren't rare at all in the US. United, Delta, US Airways, jetBlue and Virgin America all operate variants of the A320 (to say nothing of Delta and US Airways A330 fleets). By my best guess, there are something like 600 FBW Airbuses operating in US airline service. BonzoESC posted:That it's a compressed-air powered air conditioning system seems a bit nutty. For a fun game, count the turbines. Unusual maybe, but the air cycle machine is an incredibly elegant and lightweight means of providing environmental control.
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MrChips posted:Airbuses aren't rare at all in the US. United, Delta, US Airways, jetBlue and Virgin America all operate variants of the A320 (to say nothing of Delta and US Airways A330 fleets). By my best guess, there are something like 600 FBW Airbuses operating in US airline service. quote:Unusual maybe, but the air cycle machine is an incredibly elegant and lightweight means of providing environmental control.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 20:42 |
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I remember seeing some video or page about the 777 and it's engines and development and how they strapped one on the wing of a 747 and it made more power than the two on the other side combined and that said it could handle such and such amounts of water before it shut down. Does anyone have the slightest clue on what I'm talking about?
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OptimusMatrix posted:I remember seeing some video or page about the 777 and it's engines and development and how they strapped one on the wing of a 747 and it made more power than the two on the other side combined and that said it could handle such and such amounts of water before it shut down. Does anyone have the slightest clue on what I'm talking about? I remember a 1-hour special on the Discovery Channel back in the 90's that said all this. The water was equivalent to a storm dropping something like 20 inches of rain an hour.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 20:56 |
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Well, the first C-17 landed at Stewart yesterday to start replacing the C-5s. I got to watch it come in which is historic or something, but don't take my C-5s away Seeing a C-5 and a C-17 in the air together was pretty cool, shame they didn't fly in formation, though.
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# ? Jul 19, 2011 21:17 |
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I wonder if they have been doing this at Wright Patterson. I keep seeing more and more C-17s. They don't sound as cool as the C-5s.
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VikingSkull posted:Well, the first C-17 landed at Stewart yesterday to start replacing the C-5s. I got to watch it come in which is historic or something, but don't take my C-5s away The bow wake on a C-5 is so strong and so far out that refueling tankers have to fly slightly nose down because it's lifting their rear end-ends out of the way. If you put them in formation with a C-17 you might just end up with the world's first man-made typhoon or something.
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^^^ That's what I was hoping for.SwimNurd posted:I wonder if they have been doing this at Wright Patterson. I keep seeing more and more C-17s. They don't sound as cool as the C-5s. It's my understanding that the whole C-5 fleet is being phased out. The C-5s here are between 41 and 43 years old, the C-17 that got here is 14.
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