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CarForumPoster posted:Love this. I have heard a similar story about mylar balloons. One of the coolest things I've seen on radar was the debris cloud from SpaceX's CRS-7 launch. SO MANY TARGETS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-knyUBbpgI&t=106s so two things, I haven't seen Living the Dream Pt III posted yet and maybe I missed it. if not, here it is second, could someone explain this particular segment to me because I think I get it but I'm not sure 
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Midjack posted:Like anyone who would call that in watches the news. They might, but they'd just brush off any reports of the existence of French fighters.
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MrYenko posted:One of the coolest things I've seen on radar was the debris cloud from SpaceX's CRS-7 launch. Were you intentionally tracking the launch or was it just something that happened when you were in the area?
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Psion posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-knyUBbpgI&t=106s I have never seen this and it is excellent. It's good to know you idiots flying the heaps share the experiences as us idiots on the ground. I can relate to so many of these and I would love to add a maintenance segment. I'm pretty sure I've even seen that same look on an FO's face as on the Lego FO with captain dickhead in the left seat. Fuckin livin the dream, aye.
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quote:It quickly became apparent that the damage to Montagu was even worse than initially feared. Divers went over the side at daybreak and found that a rock had pushed the hull 10 feet (3.0 m) inward. Help arrived on the afternoon of 30 May 1906, but the ship settled in such a way that water rose and fell through the holes in her hull; within 24 hours her boiler rooms, steering compartment, starboard engine room, and forward capstan engine room, as well as other compartments, had flooded, and she began to list to starboard. All moveable objects were secured and the port engine room flooded to stop the list from increasing. At times only her upper deck was above water. quote:Her sister ship Duncan herself ran aground whilst trying to help the salvage effort quote:Allegedly, Wilson’s final idea was to fill the ship with cork
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How can the Royal Navy have not figured that ship stuff out by 1906
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At least the captain never ordered two lines of ships to crash into each other. That was an admiral sometime around that same time. Phone posting or I'd find and link.
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RandomPauI posted:At least the captain never ordered two lines of ships to crash into each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victoria_(1887)
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MrYenko posted:One of the coolest things I've seen on radar was the debris cloud from SpaceX's CRS-7 launch.  for this one
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Were you intentionally tracking the launch or was it just something that happened when you were in the area? I work the middle of the state, and if we're slow, we'll span out and try to catch the primary targets from the rocket. Sometimes you'll get as many as five or six hits before it climbs above the radars horizon. That time, we got a lot more.  slidebite posted:Maybe not so much cool but
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slidebite posted:Maybe not so much cool but Jesus. 
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Finger Prince posted:I have never seen this and it is excellent. It's good to know you idiots flying the heaps share the experiences as us idiots on the ground. I can relate to so many of these and I would love to add a maintenance segment. I'm pretty sure I've even seen that same look on an FO's face as on the Lego FO with captain dickhead in the left seat. if you didn't immediately watch them parts I and II are equally fantastic. They were all over this thread or the TFR cold war thread or something a while ago. yer on guaaaardddddd
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slidebite posted:Maybe not so much cool but I remember being in my Airline's break room at DFW waiting for an inbound flight and watching the Columbia's re-entry on TV. When it was 20 seconds late checking in after the ionization blackout I turned to somebody and said "I think we lost another shuttle". Most of the people around me thought they were just late, but I knew at orbital speeds if you're more than a couple of seconds off from plan something seriously bad has happened.
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ausgezeichnet posted:I remember being in my Airline's break room at DFW waiting for an inbound flight and watching the Columbia's re-entry on TV. When it was 20 seconds late checking in after the ionization blackout I turned to somebody and said "I think we lost another shuttle". Most of the people around me thought they were just late, but I knew at orbital speeds if you're more than a couple of seconds off from plan something seriously bad has happened. I thought there was no ionization blackout because of the TDRS? I could be wrong.
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Psion posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-knyUBbpgI&t=106s Arrival procedures require aircraft to descend and slow down at the same time, which can be tricky on modern airplanes that don't have a lot of drag. Since a lot of arrivals have waypoints where the altitudes aren't a hard value (the restriction will be to cross between two altitudes), pilots will come up with a technique of programming the FMS for a specific arrival that lets them hit the speed and altitude restrictions without having to extend spoilers to get the extra drag. Due to the fact that major in the US are handling a massive amount of traffic, it's pretty common for controllers to hold an arriving aircraft at higher altitudes (to cross other aircraft under them) before descending them, which results in a steeper descent angle that can make hitting the speed and altitude restrictions on the arrival essentially impossible without adding drag from spoilers to help bleed off energy.
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azflyboy posted:Arrival procedures require aircraft to descend and slow down at the same time, which can be tricky on modern airplanes that don't have a lot of drag. Since a lot of arrivals have waypoints where the altitudes aren't a hard value (the restriction will be to cross between two altitudes), pilots will come up with a technique of programming the FMS for a specific arrival that lets them hit the speed and altitude restrictions without having to extend spoilers to get the extra drag. As a passenger I'll take this over the all too common "descend to <10k feet somewhere over eastern Pennsylvania and practice slow flight for an hour before finally landing at LGA" that I get all the time.
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So here's an interesting plane with the engines (all 12 of them) in a location that is constantly trying to push the nose down I imagine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEZgKzRTTw&t=30s
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hogmartin posted:I thought there was no ionization blackout because of the TDRSS? I could be wrong. True, but Columbia's breakup happened at a time when there was a brief drop due to the TDRS Sat passing behind the tail. Also here's a fact I never get a chance to bring up, before TDRS the ionization blackout window for shuttle was thirty loving minutes Spaced God fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Yeah, the Seahawk's training facility is on Lake Washington, and he flies to work a couple of days a week.
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The Locator posted:So here's an interesting plane with the engines (all 12 of them) in a location that is constantly trying to push the nose down I imagine. Do people try to add weights on the RC planes to make them maneuver more realistically? That looked far too nimble as do almost all RC planes. I think the only one that looked correct was the large RC jet someone linked recently.
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Physics scale pretty nicely to an aircraft's advantage as they get smaller. However gravity doesn't scale along with it. The best way I've seen getting a model to look realistic is to watch it on video played back at a fraction of the speed in which it was recorded at a decent frame rate.
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The Locator posted:So here's an interesting plane with the engines (all 12 of them) in a location that is constantly trying to push the nose down I imagine. Tailstrike.
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meltie posted:Tail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxNDYxUjvg
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This just popped up on Facebook, so I stole it and cross posting it because holy poo poo. 
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That's probably the best handling Rockwell Commander of them all.
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The only way it would be better is if it used a radial engine instead of a v8.
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This popped up on my facebook. http://i.imgur.com/X4uWpTr.jpg
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Fun fact, there were official specs about what size, location, etc. bullet holes are acceptable for an airworthy prop blade. It wasn't scan just for continuing till the next opportunity to replace it, you could even build a prop out of blades with holes, of course recommended that you choose blades with similar holes for balance.
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Preoptopus posted:This popped up on my facebook. Typical_P47_Pilot.jpg
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Finger Prince posted:This just popped up on Facebook, so I stole it and cross posting it because holy poo poo. I want it.
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His only regret should be that the rudder isn't attached to the steering rack.
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Aeroflot facing fire for only employing slim stewardesses. Company argues that its only done for the sake of saving weight for fuel costs. I see their point. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39653381
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Preoptopus posted:Aeroflot facing fire for only employing slim stewardesses. Company argues that its only done for the sake of saving weight for fuel costs. I see their point. Hahah drat
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German company Lilium has produced an all-electric, battery powered VTOL personal flying transport, it's a multi-rotor but not in the way you were thinking... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohig71bwRUE They claim 300kph and 300km, would be amazing if true but we will see how realistic those numbers are. The interior of the testbed is completely bare, also.
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