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AeroNAUTICAL Insanity - Hydroplaning Is Flying For Boats
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Jan 29, 2014 02:48
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Im sorry to continue the derail but this is bothering me for no good reason. Plus the boat thread is so boring and dead. Caconym posted:This is his boat: Thats Andrey Melnichenko's yacht whos name is almost as ugly as it is. "The Moter Yacht A" A proper boat is the Maltese Falcon  
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Jan 29, 2014 02:56
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That's pretty swank. I assume it also has an engine?
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Jan 29, 2014 03:27
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wdarkk posted:That's pretty swank. I assume it also has an engine? Or three, along with bow and stern thrusters. Probably an oceangoing tug stashed somewhere too.
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Jan 29, 2014 03:34
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Bob A Feet posted:can we talk about airplanes again wdarkk posted:A boat is anything that can be hoisted aboard a ship.  I think you meant to say, Bob A Feet posted:can we talk about boats again
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Jan 29, 2014 03:36
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Shoulda gone with  there's a canadaarm joke in here I can loving feel it
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Jan 29, 2014 04:27
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blugu64 posted:Shoulda gone with Only thing I could get was the X-38 ISS Lifeboat (sadly cancelled) 
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Jan 29, 2014 05:21
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Jan 29, 2014 07:10
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Suddenly I want to play Jenga...
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Jan 29, 2014 07:56
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wdarkk posted:A boat is anything that can be hoisted aboard a ship. How do they get that onboard? I'm so confused.
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Jan 29, 2014 08:49
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It sinks. 
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Jan 29, 2014 08:52
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It has ballast tanks to sink itself below the waterline, then slip under the payload, and rise up again to lift the payload from the water. EFB The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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Jan 29, 2014 08:53
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Gibfender posted:How do they get that onboard? I'm so confused. The ship it's on partially submerges itself and maneuvers underneath, then surfaces again.
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Jan 29, 2014 08:55
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Preoptopus posted:Im sorry to continue the derail but this is bothering me for no good reason. Plus the boat thread is so boring and dead. Was talking about Yachts earlier today, found the greatest picture ever of the Maltese Falcon 
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Jan 29, 2014 09:04
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Preoptopus posted:It sinks. Ok that's pretty awesome, must be hard keeping it upright.
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Jan 29, 2014 09:16
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Gibfender posted:Ok that's pretty awesome, must be hard keeping it upright. Nah, you just go very slow and have at least two (if not four) ballast tanks abreast.
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Jan 29, 2014 13:03
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Pardon me if I interrupt boat chat to post the coolest airstrip I've ever seen: Mega huge version: 
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Jan 29, 2014 13:59
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Gorilla Salad posted:Mega huge version: 700 x 525 is Mega Huge?
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Jan 29, 2014 14:50
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I feel like the Pandora from Crimson Skies should be lazily swinging at a mooring somewhere in that picture.
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Jan 29, 2014 14:52
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YF19pilot posted:700 x 525 is Mega Huge? Try this one.
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Jan 29, 2014 15:14
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^^Thanks.YF19pilot posted:700 x 525 is Mega Huge? What the poo poo? It was 2900 when I posted it. Let's try this again: 
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Jan 29, 2014 15:34
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Okan170 posted:Only thing I could get was the X-38 ISS Lifeboat (sadly cancelled) Sadly cancelled after the first test pilot got shot through a wormhole....
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Jan 29, 2014 16:00
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My dad's ongoing project to scan his slides and negatives from 50 years of planespotting continues - 1970s airliners inbound when I have time to do the upload but in the meantime I'll leave you with this airliner recognition test. Spotted on the backlot at Farnborough in 1970: No, it's not an Avro Tudor. It's something much more interesting.
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Jan 29, 2014 18:46
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Avro Ashton Related aeronautical insanity: 
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Jan 29, 2014 19:40
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Looks like the cheaped out on the back half of the plane, must be an Airbus product.
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Jan 29, 2014 19:45
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FrozenVent posted:Looks like the cheaped out on the back half of the plane, must be an Airbus product. Yeah look how bad those interior finishings look.
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Jan 29, 2014 20:58
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Gorilla Salad posted:Pardon me if I interrupt boat chat to post the coolest airstrip I've ever seen: Ship chat 
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Jan 29, 2014 23:30
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joat mon posted:Avro Ashton Dammit you guys are too good.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:33
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D C posted:Was talking about Yachts earlier today, found the greatest picture ever of the Maltese Falcon Looks like a still from a Duran Duran video.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:45
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joat mon posted:Avro Ashton Similarly related insanity:  Vulcan XA894 carrying the Olympus Mk 320 prototype that would be the Olympus with reheat(*) for the TSR.2 * The russian site with the avro ashton (1955) photos with the olympus incorrectly states that they had reheat - the first olympus with reheat was 10 years after the ashton test bed in the Mk 320 here that was tested on the vulcan. There's another vulcan photoed that has the Mk 593 (Concorde) testbed engine, from a few years later, which of course also has reheat. e:  Vulcan XA903 with the Olympus Mk 593 testbed for Concorde. SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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Jan 29, 2014 23:53
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Gorilla Salad posted:^^Thanks. Any hints on where this is? GIS doesn't kick back anything.
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Jan 30, 2014 00:12
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Naturally Selected posted:Any hints on where this is? GIS doesn't kick back anything. Farrenberg airfield? Can't find many other pictures to confirm. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9091246
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Jan 30, 2014 00:22
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Xandu posted:Farrenberg airfield? Can't find many other pictures to confirm. That's kind of disappointing, it looked like some awesome Venezuelan tepui with a runway on it, but it's just a few metres and low-lying fog 
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Jan 30, 2014 00:25
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Here we are, LHR, 1970. The 747s here would have been less than a year old. Note the 747 in BOAC livery, one of only a handful delivered in that livery before British Airways was a thing. Also a good selection of early model 727s, DC-9s, and Caravelles. Also of note is that Alitalia have not changed their colour scheme in at least 44 years!          
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Jan 30, 2014 00:50
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Thwomp posted:Sadly cancelled after the first test pilot got shot through a wormhole.... What the frell are you going on about? (I just finished re-watching all four seasons a few days ago)
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Jan 30, 2014 01:34
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Something kinda special about 747s in Pan Am livery. Always thought thats how they looked the best.
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Jan 30, 2014 01:35
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Modern airship post: Popular mechanics has a write-up on the Aeroscraft airship. You should read the whole thing, but I can't resist highlighting two points. First, the production model they want to build is very much Aeronautical Insanity: the larger of the production models they want to build would be able to carry 250 tons of cargo (IE the capacity of the An-225) and land pretty much anywhere, at a third of the cost, using a third of the fuel. Second: the ballast system. If you`ve been around this thread awhile you know that ballast systems are a major challenge in LTA flight, let alone when you have to deal with large amounts of cargo. These Aeroscraft dudes have solved it rather brilliantly: by making a ballast system like a submarine.  (Almost definitely not to scale) It uses compressed helium tanks, and large air bladders. When more lift is needed, helium is sent to the bladders which displaces the air and creates more static lift. When you want less, compressors send the helium back to the storage tanks. This deflates the bladders and (duh) decreases lift.
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Jan 30, 2014 02:58
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I wonder if that's actually easier or simpler than just having a ballast tank of compressed air that you vent and refill from the atmosphere.
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Jan 30, 2014 03:05
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Nebakenezzer posted:Modern airship post: Similarly: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Ohio-Airships-Dynalifter/1091777/L/&sid=de943b021994a5afe93fcb8913a03dd7 This idea also seems to come up every few years, and it also never seems to pan out.
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Jan 30, 2014 03:16
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On the airship article:quote:could deliver immense wind turbines, hovering like a helicopter yet bearing loads normally associated with ocean freighters, and do it at faster-than-railroad speeds. quote:Lockheed's largest proposed version of the airship would be 800 to 900 feet long and haul about 100 tons. 100 tons is about forty 20' containers. That are empty. Modern container ships carry 10,000 20' containers that actually have freight in them. The biggest can go over 15,000 TEUs. I love airships, but this constant refrain of "hey, we can deliver all this cargo anywhere in the world (as long as the weather is OK)" tends to ignore the fact that the folks who are willing to pay for that kind of cargo tend to set up near existing supply chains, and the operations way out in the wilderness have no way of processing and storing massive amounts of cargo. "We have no roads or warehouses, but have loads of forklifts and pallet jacks to haul this crap around!"
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