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Mortabis posted:F-106 was part of the century series and it was pretty decent at what it was supposed to do. The F-106 was a massively improved variant of the F-102, which went through a tortuous development cycle that included being totally re-engineered because it couldn't actually go supersonic very well, although in fairness that was entirely because nobody had figured out that area rule was a thing when the F-102 was first designed. The F-101 was a rework of an earlier escort fighter design that only failed to enter service because it was impossible to build a long-range jet fighter in those days because of how fuel-thirsty the early jet engines were. It was a good design that made up in reliability what it lacked in glamor. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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drunkill posted:https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/816695697902895108 I wonder if in full visibility you could see the one in front of you.
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Inacio posted:I wonder if in full visibility you could see the one in front of you. Almost certainly not.
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mlmp08 posted:A Provincetown of Bears. 
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Inacio posted:I wonder if in full visibility you could see the one in front of you. On a clear night, you might be able to make out strobes and position lights. During they day, it's often rough to spot another airplane more than five or six miles away, even if you know where to look.
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MrYenko posted:On a clear night, you might be able to make out strobes and position lights. During they day, it's often rough to spot another airplane more than five or six miles away, even if you know where to look. And also, to give a sense of the map's scale, Tasmania is around 250km from the Australian mainland. Those planes are quite far apart. It's possible you could see the lights on a clear night, but even then I think it would be pretty difficult.
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Lights can be quite easy to see from a distance at night. Of course, it's difficult to judge distance at that scale, so I can't say one way or the other. That's why you always check out your NVGs 
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1:2 scale Gripen made out of tissue paper and popsicle sticks has an aeronautical incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf_QTbDeWM
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ehnus posted:1:2 scale Gripen made out of tissue paper and popsicle sticks has an aeronautical incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf_QTbDeWM I'll give you 2 guesses as to what this related link is about :  Starts off with beautiful colour footage ...of a hurricane.
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Jaguars! posted:I'll give you 2 guesses as to what this related link is about : Someone must be paying a lot to promote that video, I saw it recommended to me too.
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Jan 11, 2017 04:54
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Is that the one about the flooding and the fuel restrictor solution?
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ehnus posted:1:2 scale Gripen made out of tissue paper and popsicle sticks has an aeronautical incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf_QTbDeWM Are giant RC planes particularly popular in Germany? Most of the videos seem to be from shows with a German announcer audible in the background.
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david_a posted:That seems to happen rather often with those giant models. If you don't know a ton about composites, mating a fiberglass tail assembly and body assembly in a way that doesn't have any lines which a crack can just propagate straight through is challenging.
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 "An Etihad Airways Airbus A380 comes in through thick fog to land at Heathrow Airport in west London on December 30, 2016"
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Platystemon posted:Is that the one about the flooding and the fuel restrictor solution? Yup
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ehnus posted:1:2 scale Gripen made out of tissue paper and popsicle sticks has an aeronautical incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf_QTbDeWM This is beautiful because like 30s or so before the crash, the announcer talks about the extensive certification process and the stress tests this model has to withstand.
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david_a posted:Are giant RC planes particularly popular in Germany? Most of the videos seem to be from shows with a German announcer audible in the background. Thank god it isn't as huge in North America because I could totally see myself getting sucked into it. 
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ehnus posted:1:2 scale Gripen made out of tissue paper and popsicle sticks has an aeronautical incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf_QTbDeWM This has been posted here before, but it's still sad. Especially because it's a brazilian-made model. 
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StandardVC10 posted:Someone must be paying a lot to promote that video, I saw it recommended to me too. Nahh, I think they've just got youtube figured out and have a popular channel so they're getting the recommended snowball effect. Honestly as far as sensationalized clickbait goes it's a good explanation that isn't overly long.
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david_a posted:That seems to happen rather often with those giant models.
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evil_bunnY posted:Their natural affinity for mechanical autism predisposes them for that sort of thing. See also model trains etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwT7mdAmW8
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Didn't think the most cringeworthy thing I'd see today was a grown man playing make believe with models. Jesus.
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Arson Daily posted:Didn't think the most cringeworthy thing I'd see today was a grown man playing make believe with models. Jesus. ...So what I'm reading here is that someone didn't see the news today. 
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Babies Getting Rabies posted:This is beautiful because like 30s or so before the crash, the announcer talks about the extensive certification process and the stress tests this model has to withstand. Well I'm sure it withstood the normal flight envelope tests just fine. However, what it didn't account for (which I'm sure the real plane has sensors for) is slip angle and the forces involved when the limits are exceeded. The full size plane likely has the necessary flight envelope protections built into the software to prevent excessive slip angles at high speeds. I'm sure if you were cruising along at high speed in the full size one and stood on the rudder it would do the same thing if it didn't have the computers.
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I wish my local fisheries had the money to fund poo poo like that
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Barnsy posted:I wish my local fisheries had the money to fund poo poo like that That's awesome but uhh don't heaps of fish die if restocking is done like this?
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fickle poofterist posted:That's awesome but uhh don't heaps of fish die if restocking is done like this? I've seen everything from 1% to 30% mortality rate quoted.
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They're pretty small, I can't imagine they hit too hard.
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Platystemon posted:I've seen everything from 1% to 30% mortality rate quoted. Dud rate for the BLU-97 is 7% and 14% for DPICM, so I'd say they're doing pretty good.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Dud rate for the BLU-97 is 7% and 14% for DPICM, so I'd say they're doing pretty good. Only 1-30% of the fish explode on impact so arguably they have a 70-99% dud rate
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Totally saw a fish at the end that didn't even get close to water.
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um excuse me posted:Totally saw a fish at the end that didn't even get close to water. Yeah. It looked like they just kinda forgot to drop the fish until they were 3/4 of the way over the lake.
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I would pay to build a HUD-based CCIP system for them.
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Or just hire a fuckin navigator to determine the CARP for a carp
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Heh, thought that was for pitching out cremation ash.
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R-Type posted:Heh, thought that was for pitching out cremation ash. In the offseason.
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Boeing landed a 205 plane order from India's Spicejet; it builds on an earlier order of 50 planes and includes 100 firm orders of the 737 Max 8.
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How many spices are there? That's a lot of planes to name!
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AzureSkys posted:How many spices are there? That's a lot of planes to name! More than Wikipedia has.
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