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Apparantly a couple OV-10's were dusted off, refurbished, and have been flying sorties against ISIS: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/ov-10-broncos-were-sent-to-fight-isis-and-they-kicked-a-1764407068
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Do Astronauts have to have pilot licenses? Nowadays that depends on the kind of astronaut you are. The pilot types require so many flying hours a year, so they do. The scientist types do not.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Nowadays that depends on the kind of astronaut you are. The pilot types require so many flying hours a year, so they do. The scientist types do not. 
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Alereon posted:It really bummed me out for some reason to learn that the Space Shuttle Pilot didn't actually do any piloting Oh so they came from flying Airbus? 
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Alereon posted:It really bummed me out for some reason to learn that the Space Shuttle Pilot didn't actually do any piloting Next thing you know they'll be saying the Space Shuttle Door Gunner doesn't ever actually use the Space Shuttle's door guns.
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A fair number of scientists learn to fly since they get to go everywhere by T-38.
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The Army's Airforce using the Navy's Army's Airforce's Navy to be the Army's Airforce's Navy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxCtDpLyk0 e: (The ending picture reminds me of the old graphic/painting someone did for the KFS servers a billion years ago that is basically my avatar.) Duke Chin fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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Went to an interview at Pratt and Whitney at their engine manufacturing plant. Saw some super cool engines. I couldn't take photos, but the whole plant was very old. They told me they were using the same buildings that predate WWII. The manufacturing floor had a brick surface, which I was told was used because dropping an engine on it would damage the floor less than a regular concrete one. Saw the F-100, F-119, F135, and V2500 engines. Not sure what was opsec, but the lab they showed me had F-135 parts all over it in various states of disassembly. Very cool stuff.
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Couple of black market hellfires found on a US bound Serbian flight. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sniffer-dog-portland-bound-combat-missiles-serbia/?linkId=22255052
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If someone was trying to smuggle weapons into Portland, they should have hidden them in a crate of fixed gear bicycles or wrapped them in skinny jeans, since that wouldn't have drawn any attention.
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Mar 15, 2016 02:21
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Alereon posted:It really bummed me out for some reason to learn that the Space Shuttle Pilot didn't actually do any piloting Actually, almost no astronaut who's title was "pilot" flew their spacecraft. That job was almost exclusively done by the Commander, or Command Pilot in Gemini.
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Mar 15, 2016 02:36
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Yeah but the Orbiter actually looks like a plane so the pilot should fly it
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Mar 15, 2016 02:38
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So umm, who 'flew' the space shuttle back down from space?
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The space shuttle computers were in charge of almost the entire process. There's one step, and for the life of me I can't remember which, that NASA made manual on the insistence of people who didn't want a computer flying the orbiter.
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Safety Dance posted:The space shuttle computers were in charge of almost the entire process. There's one step, and for the life of me I can't remember which, that NASA made manual on the insistence of people who didn't want a computer flying the orbiter. Gear deploy. The doors couldn't be closed in orbit and if an errant computer command opened them, it would be a death sentence. Usually the Commander flew the shuttle, though STS-2 did preform a manual reentry for flight-test purposes.
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The computer Well except for STS-2 where they flew the entire goddamn re-entry by hand so they could push the envelope a bit to better dial in the autopilot. The pilot does have one important job, as he's the guy that hits the gear down switch, which must be done manually. After Columbia they eventually built a 15 foot cable that would go from the cockpit to the middeck that let the computer lower the gear if they wanted to try to recover a damaged and crewless orbiter.
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Sounds like some manual flying going on here, but I guess it could be a voice just constantly complimenting a computer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W4cfIyNvts&t=311s
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The Ferret King posted:Sounds like some manual flying going on here, but I guess it could be a voice just constantly complimenting a computer? They had some custom Gulfstream that could be configured to fall out of the sky in a similar manner to the orbiters to let them practice Step 1 was to deploy the thrust reversers in flight Epiphyte fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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Epiphyte posted:The commander usually takes the stick when they come out of the heading and alignment circle until touchdown, but that's like 2 minutes of flying Gear out, thrust reversers deployed. 16 degree glide slope. They called "touchdown" at something like 30ft, 'cause that's how much taller an orbiter was than that gulfstream. So flying flat with reversers out at 20 feet, they could just pull all that stuff in and fly away to do another practice approach. NASA was awesome. edit: actually an 18-20 degree glideslope, and "touchdown" at 20 feet. Ridiculous. babyeatingpsychopath fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:It's a fairly normal thing for a variety of professions. Pilots aren't special. It's a fairly normal thing for cases where a patient is a clear and *imminent* danger to himself or others. Like, if your patient is saying that he's going to kill his ex-wife and you can't talk him down and he leaves the office, then you have a duty to report in most states. "Might kill himself at some point in the future" isn't the standard for reporting in any profession.
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What the hell? Did they put the jetway back on the plane after a gear collapse to get the passangers off? Did the truck run into the plane?
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Ardeem posted:Did they put the jetway back on the plane after a gear collapse to get the passangers off? Did the truck run into the plane? No, because no one was aboard at the time. Yes.
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Epiphyte posted:The commander usually takes the stick when they come out of the heading and alignment circle until touchdown, but that's like 2 minutes of flying 4 minutes in this case, manual control comes in at around 2:00 and he flies the HAC and the approach. It's "only" 4 minutes, but considering the video starts at 78,000 feet and Mach 2...
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Ola posted:4 minutes in this case, manual control comes in at around 2:00 and he flies the HAC and the approach. It's "only" 4 minutes, but considering the video starts at 78,000 feet and Mach 2... Four minutes from 80,000' and 1000mph to 0' (it's florida..) and 250mph... I am pretty sure a cinder block flies better. There's a MIT course on youtube, about aircraft engineering that uses the space shuttle as it's test subject. The amount of computer control is remarkable. And "how on the edge" many of the systems are. IIRC, the CG needs to be in a 3' cube or else the shuttle won't be controllable on re-entry. The profile for which surfaces start working at which speeds and altitudes is something else too.
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Duke Chin posted:Oh so they came from flying Airbus? Oh, were the Air France 447 pilots trying to get into orbit?
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Nerobro posted:Four minutes from 80,000' and 1000mph to 0' (it's florida..) and 250mph... I am pretty sure a cinder block flies better.  https://youtu.be/7khTvpYeoVM
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slidebite posted:Pretty sure my time hi-fidelity Space shuttle sim shows re-entry is really not that difficult TIL that there is a space shuttle procedural sim more detailed than orbiter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abptKlRqXxM
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slidebite posted:Pretty sure my time hi-fidelity Space shuttle sim shows re-entry is really not that difficult hell yeah played the gently caress outta that on the atari
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I was once given the gift of "Virgin Interactive Space Shuttle Simulator" I could not figure out how to play it - it was generally a simulation of many, many obscure toggle switches
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Nebakenezzer posted:I was once given the gift of "Virgin Interactive Space Shuttle Simulator" Watched like 10 people in a row smash into the ground on a shuttle simulator NASA/USAF had at a fair for middle and high school science educators. I was one smug grade-schooler when I landed that beast first try. Thanks, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat and Jane's simulators!
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The shuttle landing sim at the McAuliffe-Shepard* Discovery Center has been broken every time I've gone. I did pretty well on the lunar lander, though. *Why does she get top billing? Shepard was first, and he actually made it in to space.
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mlmp08 posted:Watched like 10 people in a row smash into the ground on a shuttle simulator NASA/USAF had at a fair for middle and high school science educators. I was one smug grade-schooler when I landed that beast first try. Had something like that at the local gaming/robotics convention when I was a teenager. They always had flight sims, and one of them was Microsoft Flight Simulator X running the first helicopter tutorial (where you start in the air and fly through gates around an island), hooked up to a seat with realistic helicopter controls. I ended up flying through all the gates and going farther than everyone else that preceded me, all while trying to explain to the guy running it that I really didn't have any clue what I was doing. Which is true: I can't fly sim helicopters worth a drat. That same convention had a V-22 Osprey sim and I flew it perfectly professionally until I had to switch to helicopter mode for the landing, at which point I flipped over and crashed.
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Colonial Air Force posted:The shuttle landing sim at the McAuliffe-Shepard* Discovery Center has been broken every time I've gone. I did pretty well on the lunar lander, though. 
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Colonial Air Force posted:The shuttle landing sim at the McAuliffe-Shepard* Discovery Center has been broken every time I've gone. There's one at MSI Chicago. It's not hard to land if you know it flys like a brick. At least, in the simulator.
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Colonial Air Force posted:The shuttle landing sim at the McAuliffe-Shepard* Discovery Center has been broken every time I've gone. I did pretty well on the lunar lander, though. Alphabetical order prob- wait gently caress thats a Challenger disaster joke
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chitoryu12 posted:Which is true: I can't fly sim helicopters worth a drat. That same convention had a V-22 Osprey sim and I flew it perfectly professionally until I had to switch to helicopter mode for the landing, at which point I flipped over and crashed. In other words, you flew it as well as a lot of Osprey pilots.
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chitoryu12 posted:Which is true: I can't fly sim helicopters worth a drat. That same convention had a V-22 Osprey sim and I flew it perfectly professionally until I had to switch to helicopter mode for the landing, at which point I flipped over and crashed. Did it have an unbalanced load of Marines in back?
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Is there any other kind?
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slidebite posted:Is there any other kind? 
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