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Here, we see the C-5 in its natural habitat.
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Aug 12, 2017 02:33
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MrYenko posted:Here, we see the C-5 in its natural habitat. That doesn't look like a hanger at Andersen at all 
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SeaborneClink posted:That doesn't look like a hanger at Andersen at all Pretty sure the C-5's aren't breaking down in Guam right now. Rota, on the other hand...
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Aug 12, 2017 05:14
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Here's a neat little story about high altitude intercepts over Britain in WWII http://planehunters.com/63-2
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ehnus posted:Pretty sure the C-5's aren't breaking down in Guam right now. The phrase "huh, look at the time..." was suddenly heard uttered by multiple C-5 crews down for maintenance.
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"Sir but if you just reset this breaker it will clear that faul-" *sounds of a thousand hands slapping heard*
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When I was on a crew that loaded up 15 C-5s with equipment many years back, almost zero of them had mechanical issues in El Paso, TX. Then an active duty crew showed up, and 3 of the crew members either were from El Paso or had family there. That fucker was broken for a week. A whole lot of the others broke down in Rota. One unlucky bastard actually for real broke down for about a week in Bangor, Maine.
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I know this bit of audio has been posted before, perhaps this 2015 upload as well, but I hadn't come across this particular one before. It's the legendary Lancaster recording, but more clips! Essen, Stettin and Berlin the video says, I had only heard the Berlin one before with "try to be on this one Jimmy", "he's come down" etc. Fantastic! I wonder if there are more but perhaps these are all. I suppose a tape recorder plugged into the intercom wasn't exactly common back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5_hvE4WEA Ola fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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Aug 12, 2017 14:48
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Ohh-Kaayyyyyy
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slothrop posted:Here's a neat little story about high altitude intercepts over Britain in WWII e:nm killing 48 people with one bomb dropped from 40,000 ft is pretty impressive Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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Aug 12, 2017 16:18
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mlmp08 posted:One unlucky bastard actually for real broke down for about a week in Bangor, Maine. Bangor is nice in seasons that don't end in "er"
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How how large of a bird can helicopters hit and survive? Seems like it would've had to have been a pretty big drone? Or had an explosive or something?
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Aug 13, 2017 01:23
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No one says why a drone is suspected to have brought down the aircraft. They "confirm" it with an AP article that mentions the helicopter crash without mentioning the drone and then spend the remaining 80% of the article talking about the car crash. So basically it's a rumor that could be based on speculation. Alternatively, garbage can words.
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Aug 13, 2017 01:25
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hobbesmaster posted:How how large of a bird can helicopters hit and survive? Seems like it would've had to have been a pretty big drone? Or had an explosive or something? Depends on if it hits the meat in the seat or not. Taking a bird to the face at ~90kts will ruin your whole loving day.
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um excuse me posted:No one says why a drone is suspected to have brought down the aircraft. They "confirm" it with an AP article that mentions the helicopter crash without mentioning the drone and then spend the remaining 80% of the article talking about the car crash. So basically it's a rumor that could be based on speculation. Alternatively, garbage can words. Excuse me but I won't have you sullying garbage cans by implying both the Drone Chat and crash speculation this thread is renowned for are anywhere near that lofty level.
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I'd totally buy improper maneuvering to avoid the drone resulting in VRS though.
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Finger Prince posted:Excuse me but I won't have you sullying garbage cans by implying both the Drone Chat and crash speculation this thread is renowned for are anywhere near that lofty level. Bathroom sounds then.
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Aug 13, 2017 01:31
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Here's my hot take: it's a loving helicopter. It caught a power line and destroyed itself. Whether there was a drone or not is inconsequential. It's always the power lines that get them.
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Aug 13, 2017 01:32
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Helicopters are like horses. "Oh, poor ol' JetRanger, thought of ants and died"
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Aug 13, 2017 01:56
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MrChips posted:Helicopters are like horses. If there was a drone, it only crashed because it mistook it for a plastic bag in a nearby tree.
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Aug 13, 2017 02:04
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hobbesmaster posted:I'd totally buy improper maneuvering to avoid the drone resulting in VRS though. VRS typically results from a powered on, high ROD descent. Maneuvering won't really get you there...an evasive maneuver in a helicopter is a firm cyclic movement. If a drone/bird hit rotating controls on a helicopter, depending on the angle and speed, it could spell disaster. I've taken several birds before, large and small...nothing ever to rotating controls. Most of the birds I've hit I never even knew I did until post flight.
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Aug 13, 2017 02:58
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Bob A Feet posted:VRS typically results from a powered on, high ROD descent. Maneuvering won't really get you there...an evasive maneuver in a helicopter is a firm cyclic movement. I was thinking what would happen if he slammed the collective for whatever reason.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Cessna just put a cut-off pushbroom in the well and the wheel hits that and stops. I love opening up a product and discovering these ultra-simple solutions that some clever anonymous engineer came up with many years ago. I think my favorite was probably when I was a teenager and I pulled apart a broken discman. It had that nice smooth damped lid action, where you'd press the eject button and the lid would slowly rise over a few seconds. I was expecting to find some kind of little pneumatic gas spring, or maybe a gear and a flywheel, even a tiny motor? But it turned out to be completely passive -- a curved gear rack on the lid, and a small plastic pinion in the base connected to nothing. The lid was just pushed open with a spring, and the source of the lovely damping and slow rise turned out to be just a smear of heavy grease between the gear teeth, preventing them from spinning too fast.
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hobbesmaster posted:I was thinking what would happen if he slammed the collective for whatever reason. From a hover to slow forward flight...its possible. You're most susceptible to it at 40 knots or less, high rate of descent, sustained descent. Bonus points if you're heavy. Anything higher than that, in simple terms, you're just going to fly out of the wake.
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Sagebrush posted:I love opening up a product and discovering these ultra-simple solutions that some clever anonymous engineer came up with many years ago. You know you're an engineer when you get excited about finding a captive pin in a device that might need to be disassembled in the field for repair.
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So when it comes to my Amerika bomber posts....would it surprise you to learn that for large aircraft and the Nazis 1943 was 1) extremely chaotic and 2) super complected? I'm having to sit down now and make a flow chart just so I can understand were the He 177 family is going
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Aug 13, 2017 18:40
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Nebakenezzer posted:
Usually downwards, quickly, in flames.
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mlmp08 posted:One unlucky bastard actually for real broke down for about a week in Bangor, Maine. Kilonum posted:Bangor is nice in seasons that don't end in "er" -sent from my office at KBGR
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Can any enterprising aviation historians here tell me what this little tyke of a plane is? I found it in my workplace's archive, chilling next to (well, underneath really) the Douglas XB-19
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Pepperoneedy posted:Can any enterprising aviation historians here tell me what this little tyke of a plane is? I found it in my workplace's archive, chilling next to (well, underneath really) the Douglas XB-19 Not sure but I'm kind of getting a Culver Cadet vibe.
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Culver Cadet EFB
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StandardVC10 posted:Not sure but I'm kind of getting a Culver Cadet vibe. That's it! Thank's y'all
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PhotoKirk posted:Usually downwards, quickly, in flames. Future design revisions made sure the wings could take four or six engines as a standard feature [note: I read this in one place so if it is crazy/wrong please let me know.] I've also read that the SAS actually staged a commando raid to secure a working He 177 (early 1944 there was a 'baby blitz' against London - not against any D-Day staging area or port - as a 'vengeance raid' against the Allies for their bombing attacks, of which the He 177 flew some missions for.) So this is what the SAS did in November 1944: - Identified some He 177s sitting at an air field in Toulouse, France - Flew a Hudson transport with a prize crew, escorted by two Beaufighters, to Toulouse - Landed, stole a He 177, but not before some French mechanics warned the pilots that the He 177 had a reputation as a handful - Flew back to England without incident
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MrChips posted:Helicopters are like horses. As a self-diagnosed helicopter nerd ball & lover this poo poo made me laugh pretty hard. 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Future design revisions made sure the wings could take four or six engines as a standard feature I cannot wait to find out more about this
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Nebakenezzer posted:I've also read that the SAS actually staged a commando raid to secure a working He 177 (early 1944 there was a 'baby blitz' against London - not against any D-Day staging area or port - as a 'vengeance raid' against the Allies for their bombing attacks, of which the He 177 flew some missions for.) So this is what the SAS did in November 1944: You can't officially count the English as participating in a war if there wasn't at least one cutting out expedition.
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