Aeronautical Insanity: switching to secondary tolerances

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Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

Wait, the radial is already spinning... I've got an idea...

(I think it sold for something like $200k at auction recently)

# ? Aug 5, 2011 07:05

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# ? May 25, 2024 20:40

GnarlyCharlie4u: Sep 23, 2007; I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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Cygni posted:

Wait, the radial is already spinning... I've got an idea...

(I think it sold for something like $200k at auction recently)

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!

coolest scooter ever.

# ? Aug 5, 2011 19:58

Slo-Tek: Jun 8, 2001; WINDOWS 98 BEAT HIS FRIEND WITH A SHOVEL

Saw this the other day, made me chuckle.

30 years of progress at Bagram Airfield.

# ? Aug 5, 2011 21:59

Seizure Meat: Jul 23, 2008; by Smythe

Slo-Tek posted:

Saw this the other day, made me chuckle.

30 years of progress at Bagram Airfield.

it has to be easier to start missions without deciphering a code word in Cyrillic, at least

but not as fun

# ? Aug 5, 2011 22:02

Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

Slo-Tek posted:

30 years of progress at Bagram Airfield.

That's pretty great. The Su-25 is a cool bird.

Comically large russian missiles spotted.

# ? Aug 5, 2011 22:15

Seizure Meat: Jul 23, 2008; by Smythe

The A-10 and Su-25 may be the coolest modern aircraft of all, because most of them are painted like it's 1943.

Everything else is gray, unless they are at an airshow.

# ? Aug 5, 2011 22:48

Kerrow: Mar 18, 2011; ZERO-G HERO

Not sure it belongs here, but I'm pretty sure I now know what I want my roof to be made of.

http://www.fubiz.net/2011/06/27/747-wing-house/

Not that I will ever be able to afford one.

# ? Aug 6, 2011 03:08

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

I'm not convinced that having your roof be an actual airfoil is a good thing.

# ? Aug 6, 2011 05:17

ApathyGifted: Aug 30, 2004; Tomorrow?

Phy posted:

I'm not convinced that having your roof be an actual airfoil is a good thing.

Flip it upside down, that poo poo ain't goin' nowhere.

# ? Aug 6, 2011 19:15

Ballcock: Jul 1, 2005; Safety Control Rod Axe Man

Should be okay as long as there's no angle of attack.

# ? Aug 6, 2011 20:30

PhotoKirk: Jul 2, 2007; insert witty text here

InitialDave posted:

The Right Stuff for, well, everybody. It's still awesome.

Toward The Unknown for us fans of the XB-51.

# ? Aug 7, 2011 05:06

Ola: Jul 19, 2004

quote:

CMP - Command Module Pilot
CDR - Commander
LMP - Lunar Module Pilot

CMP - Yes, that's what I was talking about just a minute ago. It's kind of hard to believe that that's volcanic and formed by some faulting, isn't it? I don't believe that - but it's such a perfect straight line.

CMP - Hope none of those meteors come by right now.

CMP - Let me look through the sextant, Neil.

CMP - Well, where's the freaking earth going to be now? I'm confused.

LMP - In plane, I hope.

CDR - How are you doing on your roll there?

LMP - Well, we got about another 60 degree to go. When's AOS?

CDR - 15 - we're 7 minutes away.

CMP - God, look at that moon!

CMP - Fantastic. Look back there behind us, sure looks like a gigantic crater; look at the mountains going around it. My gosh, they're monsters.

CDR - See that real big - -

CMP - Yes, there's a moose down here you just wouldn't believe. There's the biggest one yet. God it's huge! It is enormous! It's so big I can't even get it in the window. You want to look at that? That's the biggest one you ever seen in your life. Neil? God, look at this central mountain peak.

CDR - Look at the ... Did you get some pictures of that?

CMP - Yes, I just took one. Can take another one here when he gets around a little better. It's fantastic!

CDR - That's kind of a foggy window.

CMP - That's a horrible window. It's too bad we have to shoot through this one, but - Oh, boy, you could spend a lifetime just geologizing that one crater alone, you know that?

CDR - You could.

CMP - That's not how I'd like to spend my lifetime, but - picture that. Beautiful!

LMP - Yes, there's a big mother over here, too

CMP - Come one now, Buzz, don't refer to them as big mothers; give them some scientific name.

LMP - It sure looks like a lot of them have slumped down.

CMP - A slumping big mother. Well, you see those every once in a while.

LMP - Most of them are slumping. The bigger they are, the more they slump - that's a trusim, isn't it?

LMP - That is, the older they get.

The Apollo 11 transcript and audio archive is hilarious, amazing and is going to ruin the productivity of this week.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apollo11_audio.html

edit: it's from the middle of this clip: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/audio/11_highlight_3.mp3

Ola fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 8, 2011

# ? Aug 8, 2011 22:26

Revolvyerom: Nov 12, 2005; Hell yes, tell him we're plenty front right now.

It's not apparent at first read that by "moose" he means "great hulking thing", specifically the mountain. I thought the CMP was leading on the LMP as a gag, with the CDR in on it.

That made it even more amazing.

# ? Aug 8, 2011 23:41

Fayez Butts: Aug 24, 2006

Revolvyerom posted:

It's not apparent at first read that by "moose" he means "great hulking thing", specifically the mountain. I thought the CMP was leading on the LMP as a gag, with the CDR in on it.

That made it even more amazing.

gotta conserve syllables in space!

# ? Aug 9, 2011 02:33

GnarlyCharlie4u: Sep 23, 2007; I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

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# ? Aug 11, 2011 22:56

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

# ? Aug 11, 2011 23:15

PatrickBateman: Jul 26, 2007

BonzoESC posted:

Delta a330 or 747-400 (former NWA business class seats). Soon to go way of the dodo

# ? Aug 12, 2011 02:38

Full Collapse: Dec 4, 2002

Delta's all about the cattle class?

# ? Aug 12, 2011 03:00

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

PatrickBateman posted:

Delta a330 or 747-400 (former NWA business class seats). Soon to go way of the dodo

The former; snagged an A330 repositioning flight for SLC-ATL on Monday.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 03:04

PatrickBateman: Jul 26, 2007

DL is moving everything to the lie flat beds like on the 777. Kinda glad, I always slid down the seat on the whale. wasn't fully lie flat, but still nice.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 03:28

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

PatrickBateman posted:

DL is moving everything to the lie flat beds like on the 777. Kinda glad, I always slid down the seat on the whale. wasn't fully lie flat, but still nice.

I haven't been on any of Delta's other BusinessElite aircraft; I liked that the A330 had adjustable thigh support, missing from KLM WBC and the AA 767 that had an International Business Class seat.

Unfortunately, the power port only provided enough power to operate my MacBook, not charge it, so I had some awkwardness running it without the battery, and they don't put wifi on international planes since it only works CONUS for now.

Revel in my first world problems.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 03:52

Nam Taf: Jun 25, 2005; I am Fat Man, hear me roar!

BonzoESC posted:

Economy class. Alliance Airlines (a small regional airline that charters to Qantaslink) Fokker F100, exit row. That's my legs stretched out as far as I can to touch the rear strut of the seat in front. I'm 6 foot tall.

Normal rows are also very good for leg-room too, but the exit row is insane. I had to lean forwards even to reach my tray table properly.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 11:19

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

PatrickBateman posted:

NWA business class seats

They certainly seem to have enough room for you to express yourself.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 13:29

PatrickBateman: Jul 26, 2007

InitialDave posted:

They certainly seem to have enough room for you to express yourself.

Being a suburban teenage white boy in the 90's, it was fun to meet up with former friends at reunions and say I worked for NWA. They were all "really? Thinking the rap group" yea the airline. Oh. Still got some NWA business cards here somewhere.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 15:20

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

Nam Taf posted:

Economy class. Alliance Airlines (a small regional airline that charters to Qantaslink) Fokker F100, exit row. That's my legs stretched out as far as I can to touch the rear strut of the seat in front. I'm 6 foot tall.

Normal rows are also very good for leg-room too, but the exit row is insane. I had to lean forwards even to reach my tray table properly.

I'm a big fan of the exit row seat on Southwest that has nothing in front of it:

Delta has these too; the only non-upgraded flight during my July-August vacation had me in the legroom seat MSP-MCO.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 16:19

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

BonzoESC posted:

I'm a big fan of the exit row seat on Southwest that has nothing in front of it:

Delta has these too; the only non-upgraded flight during my July-August vacation had me in the legroom seat MSP-MCO.

I love that seat; I beeline to it every chance I get. Once, I had that seat with nobody else in my row and nobody in the rows immediate in front or behind me.

Still doesn't make up for all the times flying cattle coach on massive-long 12 or 14 hour flights with my knees pressed painfully by the seat in front of me, and elbows over the armrest and into mine. There really need to be laws passed on minimum seat sizes; business class should be standard. And 8 flights with no meal service because they're a "domestic" flight? Inhuman. At least I've got enough FF miles on American and Delta to get their economy plus/premium/whatever seats that have slightly more legroom. gently caress united, btw; I flew 50,000 miles with them in 14 months and they refused to give me their 25,000 mile tier because the flights spanned 3 calender years. Actually, gently caress American and Delta, too, they all suck in their own special ways. USAir can kiss my rear end, too; at least the other airlines will honor seat reservations and not surprise you when you arrive at the airport with a middle seat at the back of the plane when you had reservations for a window/aisle up near the front made a month prior.

I do like that several of the airlines flying A380s have installed bars and lounges that conjure up visions of the promise of flight everyone dreamed about when the 747 was new...

grover fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Aug 12, 2011

# ? Aug 12, 2011 16:34

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

UNCOMFORTABLE AIRPLANES WITH poo poo SERVICE

Was supposed to have two flights in one of these, but US Failways needed to maintain their 50% failure rate and cancelled the flight; my coworker and I (both from Florida, never having driven in freezing conditions) had to drive two hours in freezing rain in an awful rented 2007 Hyundai Sonata.

grover posted:

I love that seat; I beeline to it every chance I get. Once, I had that seat with nobody else in my row and nobody in the rows immediate in front or behind me.

Still doesn't make up for all the times flying cattle coach on massive-long 12 or 14 hour flights with my knees pressed painfully by the seat in front of me, and elbows over the armrest and into mine. There really need to be laws passed on minimum seat sizes; business class should be standard. And 8 flights with no meal service because they're a "domestic" flight? Inhuman.

Air travel is a real life example of Rule 36. Every airline sucks in some ways until you start spending ridiculous amounts of money either by flying a lot or paying for better treatment.

My LAS-SLC flight on Monday got switched from a CRJ-700 (with first class cabin) to a CRJ-200 (no first class cabin), but the gate agent moved all the paid first class people to a MD-90 flight that had been delayed three hours and was going to end up leaving at the same time and had wifi, so that was a win.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 16:58

slidebite: Nov 6, 2005; Good egg

My outlaws flew to Auckland this past spring via Air New Zealand 747 first class. They took a couple photos (I don't have any on my PC unfortunately) but their first class "pods" looked absolutely awesome and were incredibly comfortable, so they say.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 18:01

Argentic: Apr 21, 2007

Anybody going to the Boston-Portsmouth Air Show this weekend? It kind of doesn't seem like a big deal, but it has a bunch of flight displays (including a MiG-17). Not a lot of static displays, but there are a couple A-10s and some F-16s and stuff.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 18:15

KYOON GRIFFEY JR: Apr 12, 2010; Runner-up, TRP Sack Race 2021/22

See, I fly a lot (YTD I've done about 150 segments) and even on airlines where I don't have status, I really don't have too many issues. They key is to just Not Give A gently caress At All - it's gonna happen, you can't do anything about it, getting mad does nobody any good, so just get out the laptop and do a little work or go to the bar or whatever. gently caress it. Zen flying.

It helps that I'm 5'10 165 though. If I was a lot bigger I might have more issues.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 18:33

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

BonzoESC posted:

Air travel is a real life example of Rule 36. Every airline sucks in some ways until you start spending ridiculous amounts of money either by flying a lot or paying for better treatment.

Yep. It's too damned expensive for us poors to fly anything but cattle coach. Actually, most of my flying is for business, but the US Government has a strict policy against humane service, and requires us to only fly economy. I've gotten a handful of complementary upgrades for 1st and business, but only ever on really short domestic flights when I really don't care, and never on the really long flights I actually need it, probably because everyone on those really long international flights has hundreds of thousands of miles and I don't even rate mention on the monitor, letalone an upgrade.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 18:34

n8r: Jul 3, 2003; I helped Lowtax become a cyborg and all I got was this lousy avatar

Nam Taf posted:

Economy class. Alliance Airlines (a small regional airline that charters to Qantaslink) Fokker F100, exit row. That's my legs stretched out as far as I can to touch the rear strut of the seat in front. I'm 6 foot tall.

Normal rows are also very good for leg-room too, but the exit row is insane. I had to lean forwards even to reach my tray table properly.

Can't you at least wear shoes when you fly?

# ? Aug 12, 2011 18:49

Ola: Jul 19, 2004

n8r posted:

Can't you at least wear shoes when you fly?

Not since Richard Reid.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 19:11

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

n8r posted:

Can't you at least wear shoes when you fly?

I used to wear sandals and shorts to fly, and then I discovered boat shoes.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 19:14

Seizure Meat: Jul 23, 2008; by Smythe

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

go to the bar or whatever. gently caress it. Zen flying.

This is how I fly.

Drunk.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:19

revmoo: May 25, 2006; #basta

VikingSkull posted:

This is how I fly.

Drunk.

Yeah same here. If a flight is really delayed then I am going to be boarding really drunk.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:47

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Protip: you can't bring bottled water through security, but you can bring empty bottles, and fill them at the water fountain. And any dry food or drink mixes you want, like those little kool-aid things you mix into bottled water. Incidentally, you can also bring liquor shots, as many as will fit in a 1qt bag, or buy a bottle at the duty free store.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:50

Bondematt: Jan 26, 2007; Not too stupid

grover posted:

as many as will fit in a 1qt bag

Next time I fly international this will be my challenge. To finish a qts worth of shots.

AKA: Why Matt is in a German jail.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:54

Seizure Meat: Jul 23, 2008; by Smythe

revmoo posted:

Yeah same here. If a flight is really delayed then I am going to be boarding really drunk.

"Attention passengers, we are going to be switching planes because of a serious mechanical malfunction, your luggage will be swapped but this will take some time. Boarding is estimated to begin an hour from now, thank you and thank you for flying Delta."

Where's the bar? I hate flying under the best circumstances, when I heard that I was already walking towards the bar we had just left while my boss was trying to process what just happened.

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Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

VikingSkull posted:

Where's the bar? I hate flying under the best circumstances, when I heard that I was already walking towards the bar we had just left while my boss was trying to process what just happened.

I've had the opportunity to fly BA business class twice now, and while it's still flying and it's not exactly something pleasant that you'd jump at the chance to do, this sort of exchange makes an 18-hour flight go by a lot faster:

"Would you like some wine?"
"Yes, I'll have the malbec."
"Would you like more wine?"
"Yes please."
"Would you like more wine?"
"Yes please.
"Would you like more wine?"
"Yes please."
"Would you like more wine?"
"Yes please.
"Would you like more wine?"
"Yes please."
(repeat as necessary)

# ? Aug 12, 2011 22:00

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