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Boomer The Cannon posted:There's one theory I haven't seen yet: I almost made a joke about Mugatu finally taking out the Prime Rib-Roast of Propecia but it was 5 minutes after the news dropped and I felt it might be too soon. This is an awful way to start a page, have some pika-plane.  Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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Powercube posted:Well, they're technically raked wingtips I mean they definitely get low
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Mar 20, 2014 01:57
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Good lord, if ever a case could be made for "take my plane... please!" this could be it right here. 
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Mar 20, 2014 02:50
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Does the P-8A pictured earlier look to anyone else like it has a magnetic anomaly detector? I thought the USN dropped them from the build requirements? Additionally, why would they do such a thing? What do they have now that fills that gap?
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P-8s for other customers (Australia?) are getting MAD. E: I can't really tell but that plane doesn't look to have a MAD boom. Snowdens Secret fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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Duke Chin posted:Good lord, if ever a case could be made for "take my plane... please!" this could be it right here. Oh come on, that's a cute plane  And I'm sad they're all retired. I wanted to fly one! 
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Snowdens Secret posted:P-8s for other customers (Australia?) are getting MAD. India's have MAD. Not sure if the RAAF's will. America's have something else. I think the official reasoning was that modern subs are so non ferrous a MAD is just a waste of time - which makes me think they either have some super secret sensor suite, or there's some sort of massive bullshit that will leave us with a huge capability gap. Given our current DOD thinking, it has to be the latter. It does get low, but Boeing is right in saying that the raked wing tip is better for endurance. Especially when one factors in the transit time to an AO.
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Davin Valkri posted:And I'm sad they're all retired. I wanted to fly one! There's a Japanese domestic market 777-300 that has a new Pokemon scheme, I believe. Presumably that will be in service for some time to come. Unless you're talking about a 747-400D.
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StandardVC10 posted:There's a Japanese domestic market 777-300 that has a new Pokemon scheme, I believe. Presumably that will be in service for some time to come. All the pokeplane 74Ds are done. The last 74D ever is March 31.
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ed: ^^^ oh hey double-beatenDavin Valkri posted:Oh come on, that's a cute plane Hah, I hadn't even noticed that was a -400D. That livery is still obnoxious as all get out and I don't think I could see the plane from the pain there.  I like how it almost looks wallpaper'ed on, rather than actually painted. Like it could start delaminating and peeling off in flight.
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Duke Chin posted:ed: ^^^ oh hey double-beaten In that picture how can you tell its a 400D? I can't see any extra upper deck windows and you can't see the wingtips.
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hobbesmaster posted:In that picture how can you tell its a 400D? I can't see any extra upper deck windows and you can't see the wingtips. While it may not be a directly built 400D, all the NH 744s have been used as domestic shuttles for quite some time now. It's a defacto D.
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Sounds like Australia might have a hit on debris. The story isn't exactly clear, but if it's the yellow area that's waaaay the hell south. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-australia-checking-objects-possibly-related-to-plane-1.2579606 Of course, the way this story is going it's quite possibly nothing and just as likely debris from the Japanese tsunami.
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slidebite posted:Sounds like Australia might have a hit on debris. Probably won't be it. If it is, that puts a lot of credence on the "fire, turned to nearby airport, smoke got them" theory the one dude was throwing out.
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fknlo posted:Probably won't be it. If it is, that puts a lot of credence on the "fire, turned to nearby airport, smoke got them" theory the one dude was throwing out. If that is the story, then the CVR may not be of much help since it only records the last 2 hours of audio.
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Are autopilots really so good as to be able to fly a plane with a dead crew that far? Assuming they actually found wreckage from 370, that is.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Are autopilots really so good as to be able to fly a plane with a dead crew that far? Assuming they actually found wreckage from 370, that is. Uh sure, heading hold and altitude hold was invented in 1912.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Are autopilots really so good as to be able to fly a plane with a dead crew that far? Assuming they actually found wreckage from 370, that is. Yeah. If they put it on a heading towards the emergency airport and died before doing anything else it would fly that heading/altitude until it ran out of gas. Still always the possibility of pilot suicide or hijacking as well. Just fly to the middle of nowhere until it runs out of gas. The odds of ever finding it in a case like that is really slim.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Are autopilots really so good as to be able to fly a plane with a dead crew that far? Assuming they actually found wreckage from 370, that is. It's something that has literally happened before too. Well, not the dead crew bit, but the plane continuing on with no pilot. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/05/world/pilotless-soviet-jet-crosses-europe-before-crashing.html
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Two objects spotted from satellite imagery, one blob is roughly 24 meters wide which points to it not just being a random shipping container floating around in the Indian Ocean. Three more Orions are en route and a C-130 will be dropping data buoys in the area. US Navy said they have a predator/reaper in the area too, although visibility in the search zone is currently poor.
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It also depends if the crew plugged the info into the FMC. LNAV AND VNAV mode will just fly the route, but will ask for pilot input at the Top Of Descent point. Not sure if the jet will actually start descending without the pilots consent.
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If it is debris from the plane, I wonder how close they'll be able to get to where it crashed based off of known currents and stuff like that?
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Mr. Despair posted:It's something that has literally happened before too. Well, not the dead crew bit, but the plane continuing on with no pilot. Also happened with Payne Stewart's plane  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_crash
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That's the first thing I thought of after reading ALL-PRO's post/question, too. edit: upon re-reading that flight, I had never heard about Helios 522 Duke Chin fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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polpotpotpotpotpot posted:
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I believe they're back on. It's being weighed and I think they get removed to move it from across the street to this side. (edit: Wait, that's not the one sitting in front of CDC so I'm not totally sure yet). What are you in for these pictures? It's a nice angle. Edit again: Speaking of CDC, it was officially announced about the new building construction. It'll come complete with jetways and fancy windows. http://www.boeing.com/boeing/Features/2014/03/bca_delivery_center_03_18_14.page AzureSkys fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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AzureSkys posted:What are you in for these pictures? It's a nice angle. (Blue?) R22 if memory serves.
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Silly RDAF.
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Sir Cornelius posted:Silly RDAF. Could they actually refuel from a petrol station?
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Barnsy posted:Could they actually refuel from a petrol station? Yes. No, silly. It's for a recruitment video 
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SeaborneClink posted:(Blue?) R22 if memory serves. Whoa, what's up fellow Seattleite - I see that and the yellow R44 flying around all the time. Sir Cornelius posted:Yes. But you can totally top off the hydrazine APU no probs. 
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Can can go the other way around though? Burn jet fuel in a diesel? e: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-planes-ship-try-to-confirm-satellite-images-1.2579606 CBC now reporting those images of debris are 4 days old so they need to be tracked down again, but it's looking like the best lead yet for debris. slidebite fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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Hey guys, big fan of the thread. Saw this on imgur titled "787 wing stress test". I'm I looking at this right? Are those the wings themselves being bent up there?
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slidebite posted:Can can go the other way around though? Burn jet fuel in a diesel? Yep, Jet-A will burn just fine in any regular diesel engine.
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zoux posted:Hey guys, big fan of the thread. Saw this on imgur titled "787 wing stress test". Yeah, wing stress tests are pretty cool.
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Plinkey posted:Yeah, wing stress tests are pretty cool. Where on the wing would you expect to see failure under those conditions?
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zoux posted:Where on the wing would you expect to see failure under those conditions? See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8N7gOe4bCI
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slidebite posted:Can can go the other way around though? Burn jet fuel in a diesel? The USAF uses JP8 in everything diesel. So yeah, Jet Fuel is largely Kerosene with additives anyways.
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CommieGIR posted:The USAF uses JP8 in everything diesel. So yeah, Jet Fuel is largely Kerosene with additives anyways. Isn't that....expensive?
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Shampoo posted:Isn't that....expensive? Its the DoD, they spent outrageous amounts of money on things that have overinflated prices.
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onezero posted:See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8N7gOe4bCI That's crazy. Are there any natural conditions under which that kind of stress is even possible? Also, what does "154" mean in that context?
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