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Inaugural Virgin flight from Manchester to Atlanta was supposed to include a ceremony involving a water spray-down from a firetruck. Instead someone hit the 'FOAM' button instead and got the flight canceled: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/inaugural-manchester-atlanta-flight-grounded-8950095
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Linedance posted:Ah well, too bad, pilot error. Please don't point the crumbling and sub par infrastructure, it's not the airport authority's fault. This, but without the sarcasm (assuming it is actually pilot error). Whether the airport is a bush strip without the money, or did have the money but spent it on frivolities instead of an ILS, has no bearing on the pilot's actions leading up to the crash. If they [descended too early/set their altimeters wrong/busted minimums at the bottom/started without minimums at the top/failed to hand-fly the airplane/etc.] then it is indeed not the airport authority's fault, or that of the infrastructure.
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Phanatic posted:Inaugural Virgin flight from Manchester to Atlanta was supposed to include a ceremony involving a water spray-down from a firetruck. quote:Another passenger added: “I’m an aerospace engineer and I realised straight away the flight wouldn’t happen. Someone should be in trouble for this.”  Which one of you was it?
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vessbot posted:This, but without the sarcasm (assuming it is actually pilot error). Whether the airport is a bush strip without the money, or did have the money but spent it on frivolities instead of an ILS, has no bearing on the pilot's actions leading up to the crash. If they [descended too early/set their altimeters wrong/busted minimums at the bottom/started without minimums at the top/failed to hand-fly the airplane/etc.] then it is indeed not the airport authority's fault, or that of the infrastructure. Exactly, it's going to be pilot error, and Halifax still won't have a glideslope on runway 04 20 years from now. And there going to be a lot more diverts to YUL (or YYT though it's unlikely to be better up there) when they're using 04 and the weather is poo poo. None of this is the airport's problem. Heck they're probably chuffed at the idea of all these passengers stranded in their shiny new terminal waiting for their plane to show up, spending money on $8 bottles of water and maple syrup.
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Mar 30, 2015 22:00
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Mr. Showtime posted:NASA does Good Things When it comes to aerodynamic witchcraft, I have a soft spot for the QSRA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6tOrlNtZC0 Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1W3AK7hRY TNO fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 30, 2015 23:11
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Phanatic posted:Inaugural Virgin flight from Manchester to Atlanta was supposed to include a ceremony involving a water spray-down from a firetruck. Now that's what I call a sticky situation!
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Mar 30, 2015 23:13
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Phanatic posted:Inaugural Virgin flight from Manchester to Atlanta was supposed to include a ceremony involving a water spray-down from a firetruck. They bukkaked the Virgin Beauty Queen on its maiden flight. Have you no decency, Manchester?
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Cat Mattress posted:By the way, NASA is weird. But that's kinda cool...
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Phanatic posted:Inaugural Virgin flight from Manchester to Atlanta was supposed to include a ceremony involving a water spray-down from a firetruck. At least they didn’t run over anyone this time.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD3G86dfj6Y Are they simulating the V-22 in the 1970s? 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Are they simulating the V-22 in the 1970s? Kind of but not quite... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XV-15 The V-22 only became a thing after the Iran hostage thing & credible sport, but the research with the XV-15 made the V-22 a viable option.
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SybilVimes posted:Kind of but not quite... The Bell XV-3 flew in 1955.  Of course the Germans tried it, too. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 never made it to a flying form, though. 
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ehnus posted:I was super stoked about Flight Simulator X falling from $25 to $5 until I started playing it with a keyboard and now I'm looking at $150 yokes... Camp eBay for a CH Products Yoke. I managed to grab a used one around $50 after a month of looking. CH makes good poo poo that lasts a long time, so buying used isn't a problem as long as it's in decent shape.
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Mr. Showtime posted:NASA does Good Things with F-16s: Pretend I posted some pictures and/or video here of the NF-15 STOL/MTD/ACTIVE (I'm too lazy to go look anything up). Basically it's a F-15 except in the '80s it could do this: - demonstrated vectored takeoffs with rotation at speeds as low as 42 mph (68 km/h) - a 25-percent reduction in takeoff roll - landing on just 1,650 ft (500 m) of runway compared to 7,500 ft (2,300 m) for the standard F-15 - thrust reversal in flight to produce rapid decelerations - controlled flight at angles of attack up to about 85 degrees Then they put some other poo poo on it (ACTIVE) in the '90s and it could do all the crazy Raptor/Su-35/etc maneuverability poo poo. fake edit: Okay I lied here's one picture:  (it usually wore a pretty fruity red white and blue paint scheme but it had a more military paint scheme early in its life)
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Mar 31, 2015 05:26
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Does a standard F15 really need a 7500' runway? I know it's a big plane, but I've seen F18's easily do it on a fraction of that.
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Well, Hornets are designed to land on postage stamps in oceans. I figure it stands to reason they can stop faster on a runway, too. I'm wondering if that number is "worst case/longest needed" like if the F-15 is landing with a full load and full tanks or something. I dunno.
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Mar 31, 2015 06:09
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Tiny wheels, tiny brakes that overheat easily.
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iyaayas01 posted:
The ACTIVE livery was the best livery!  Though I hadn't seen that camo job before, it is pretty, too.
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Mar 31, 2015 06:20
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iyaayas01 posted:(it usually wore a pretty fruity red white and blue paint scheme but it had a more military paint scheme early in its life)  
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So when you make a prototype with so many movable surfaces how exactly do you hook them up to the controls? Do they just serve to enhance existing inputs or do they get a separate joystick or something that lets you manually control them? I guess the same question applies to thrust vectoring.
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Mar 31, 2015 08:39
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Stick -> computaaaah (this is the tricky part) -> control surfaces
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Does anyone have contact details for NASA legal / intellectual property? I don't know how they even got my year 8 maths book but they're going to loving pay.
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Eej posted:So when you make a prototype with so many movable surfaces how exactly do you hook them up to the controls? Do they just serve to enhance existing inputs or do they get a separate joystick or something that lets you manually control them? I guess the same question applies to thrust vectoring. This is why aircraft development is expensive, basically. Integration is hard.
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poo poo, I can't believe I forgot this. The ACTIVE livery was the best, though, and don't you dare claim otherwise 
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Mar 31, 2015 12:51
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NASA airplanes are the best airplanes.
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Linedance posted:NASA airplanes are the best airplanes. This. I refuse anyone saying the X-3 was not an unattractive airplane. Granted it couldn't fly for poo poo, but it looked good while almost crashing
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I just look at all the cool stuff NASA does and scream "Why are we cutting funding to them again?!"
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I want to live in a world where NASA and the DoD swapped budgets for about 20 years.
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holocaust bloopers posted:I want to live in a world where NASA and the DoD swapped budgets for about 20 years. Seriously "What? Mars? We've been there for ten years now"
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Mar 31, 2015 17:47
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To think that instead of going into Iraq and Afghanistan we could have built one completely new space shuttle every month for the last 13 years.
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Mar 31, 2015 19:39
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Tsuru posted:To think that instead of going into Iraq and Afghanistan we could have built one completely new space shuttle every month for the last 13 years. Without the military industrial complex we could have had a real space launch system
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I'm just saying there are options
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what if we pay a Russian oligarch to defect and claim that there's a secret Russian base on Mars the military loves listening to defectors
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How many AMTs, or students to become one, are there itt? Only asking because I'm in school, right now-ignoring part of a lecture on cabin pressurization, and it crossed my mind.
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SybilVimes posted:Without the military industrial complex we could have had a real space launch system Meh, initially it took some military appeal to get NASA in gear, most of our initial launch systems were nothing more than ICBMs with a command module attached.
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Tsuru posted:To think that instead of going into Iraq and Afghanistan we could have built one completely new space shuttle every month for the last 13 years. Going into Iraq and Afghanistan killed less people than that would have.
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VikingSkull posted:what if we pay a Russian oligarch to defect and claim that there's a secret Russian base on Mars That's more or less the motivating factor to launch an observation Apollo mission in Lucifer's Hammer.
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freshmeat.popsicle posted:How many AMTs, or students to become one, are there itt? AMT? If you mean mechanic/maintenance tech/engineer/schlub with a wrench, I was one in a former life, and I think there's a few others about.
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Yes, a grease monkey for airplanes.... an A&P certified mechanic. I was told that when you get to work you're essentially in "beg, borrow, or steal" when it comes to maintenance manuals, so I thought about setting up an online library (through google drive or whatever) from whatever other goons want to donate/contribute. Not sure of the legality for this, but don't think it'd be anything other than 'frowned upon' by whichever manufacturer. good/bad idea?
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When the FAA comes by and asks to see the manual you used to sign off that last maintenance task, you'll probably end up thinking that it's a really bad idea.
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