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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Agreed. Can we also agree that it'd basically need to be half a wing of C-2s, since the point of the support bird is to have spare parts and equipment for the main jets, but the first two C-2s would just be packed full of C-2 parts so THOSE don't get stranded somewhere. Then you could have a couple more C-2s for the maintainers and F-35B parts. I'm guessing no one has thought to just build a C-2D yet because it isn't sexy enough to fund? Or because they need a 10 year process to award the contract to LockMart for $3 trillion
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I'm guessing no one has thought to just build a C-2D yet because it isn't sexy enough to fund? New-build C-2B's were indeed one of the proposals for the updated COD platform a while back, along side modifying S-3's from the boneyard and adapting V-22's. The awkwardly-designated CMV-22 won out and is in the process of replacing the C-2. It's... eh, fine I guess. It's got pluses and minuses compared to the other proposals just like any other aircraft choice, but I think it'll work out fine. It has the advantage of an existing production line and accompanying spare parts availability. The youngest C-2A's in the fleet were built like 30 years ago so restarting that production line would be a pretty major investment for what is ultimately not a very large fleet.
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A friend likes hanging around airports: How terribly british "Oh now it's going backwards" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BTBrJb3P9o Humphreys fucked around with this message at 11:23 on May 26, 2019 |
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Short video of a new australian royal flying doctor service plane landing on a dirt runway. Amazing chase plane footage. Proclick: https://youtu.be/z0aQtBTNxWg
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So yeah, the first video on this page is kinda "huh, neat," but then scroll down and see what it looks like when an A340-600 does one of the tightest turns I've ever seen a widebody make: https://onemileatatime.com/saa-formation-flying/ Footage from inside the cockpit of the trailing A340: https://twitter.com/AeroSkippah/status/1132341904220278785 BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 26, 2019 |
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May 26, 2019 19:41
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That probably looked tighter than it really was because they're big... but drat.
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C-17s have wide bodies. Kind of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg0yis5q0co
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slidebite posted:That probably looked tighter than it really was because they're big... but drat. Yeah. That triggered a dusty part of my memory that went "looks like the FSX scenery traffic is acting up again".
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mlmp08 posted:C-17s have wide bodies. Kind of. Jesus christ they still didn't learn anything from Fairchild or Elmendorf? E: Took a screenshot and measured the bank angle at 63° 
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shame on an IGA posted:Jesus christ they still didn't learn anything from Fairchild or Elmendorf? You can't really tell if that exceeding bank limits or not. Its not like they're doing any really dumb acrobatics.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So yeah, the first video on this page is kinda "huh, neat," but then scroll down and see what it looks like when an A340-600 does one of the tightest turns I've ever seen a widebody make: https://onemileatatime.com/saa-formation-flying/ I did the math on it before and a 777 with no passengers or cargo and 50% fuel has the same thrust-to-weight ratio as a combat-loaded F-14. Lots of extra lift for those turns.
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Interesting fact, the nose was originally designed with the full down position that the test pilots deemed was too low and unnecessary. And it was mechanically blocked off, and (I think) later planes were not even built with it. And I'm fairly sure the lowest position shown in this clip, is it.
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I had a teacher who won tickets for two on a Concorde somehow. Her general review was that they quoted impressive speeds to you, but it was hard to feel it, really, aside from a very atypical takeoff profile. She said the deep purple sky and visible curvature of the Earth was extremely cool. She said the worst part was that the tickets weren't transferable, so she couldn't just sell them for thousands of dollars.
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shame on an IGA posted:Jesus christ they still didn't learn anything from Fairchild or Elmendorf? This guy actually had airspeed, whereas the Sitka pilot did not. The C-17 has pretty liberal limits, provided you're not barely leaving the loving ground.
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C17 also has copious amounts of airspeed compared to the Fairchild incident. 60° is a lot but it isn’t that much, assuming you’re light and not going slow.
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e.pilot posted:C17 also has copious amounts of airspeed compared to the Fairchild incident.
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standard.deviant posted:Not a C-17 guy but I’ve seen 60°/2g as a common limit for transport aircraft. It just worries me when roll control comes from spoilers and you're low to the ground pulling high alpha.
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Hard to tell yet, but it looks like a large tornado in Dayton passed very close to the Air Force Museum. Edit: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28248/a-tornado-touched-down-on-or-very-near-wright-patterson-air-force-base-in-ohio-reports Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 06:11 on May 28, 2019 |
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When Finland took the Gold for first time in 1995, FAF Drakens intercepted them over the Baltic Sea on the way home from Sweden, and then in 2011 F-18s met them coming from Slovakia, and this year Hawk's were used due most F-18s being in the current NATO exercise up north. https://twitter.com/FinnishAirForce/status/1133021842816622597 https://twitter.com/FinnishAirForce/status/1133033552692568064
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They should've brushed near the airspace to the east to piss off Russia even more.
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Russian hockey fans were cheering for Finland, though.
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Vahakyla posted:Russian hockey fans were cheering for Finland, though. Ah ok, do a wing wave near the border then!
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I wonder how much the airliner had to slow down and/or work an intercept on the Hawks instead of vice versa.
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Stupid hockey nobody cares   
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mlmp08 posted:I wonder how much the airliner had to slow down and/or work an intercept on the Hawks instead of vice versa. What I can Google up has the Hawk cruising about .02 of a mach faster, whatever that's worth.
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The only bad go around is the one you don’t do.
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Better to be on someone's poo poo list than the obituaries page.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Better to be on someone's poo poo list than the obituaries page. It seems to me what gets people killed is not realizing when "neither" has stopped being an option. It's like how what kills people in wilderness survival situations is not realizing they're in one.
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Another aviation-related The History Guy video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-suOpy3rQU
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Hey that Air Canada flight that tried landing on the SFO taxiway was just trying to ease congestion and add another runway, after all.
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How common are go arounds on large commercial flights? I had one once in Dublin Air coming into O Hare on a snowy night. The captain said something like he didn’t like the look of the runway with the snow on it. At the time I figured that he wanted to get a better angle or make sure he came down on the numbers or something.
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Knockknees posted:How common are go arounds on large commercial flights? I had one once in Dublin Air coming into O Hare on a snowy night. The captain said something like he didn’t like the look of the runway with the snow on it. At the time I figured that he wanted to get a better angle or make sure he came down on the numbers or something. I probably get a go-around every say, 300-400 segments?
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As a passenger, I’ve been on a two flights where go arounds were called. One was briefed to us by the pilot prior to him shooting the approach and executing the maneuver before minimums.
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Knockknees posted:How common are go arounds on large commercial flights? I had one once in Dublin Air coming into O Hare on a snowy night. The captain said something like he didn’t like the look of the runway with the snow on it. At the time I figured that he wanted to get a better angle or make sure he came down on the numbers or something. I had it happen in Albuquerque when the winds shot up to over 60 knots during the approach. In monsoon season the storms there are super localized and unpredictable.
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I like when my students make a decision to execute a go-around without me having to say anything, it makes me trust their decision-making a lot more. It doesn't matter if the approach and landing is possible in the circumstances or not, I never second-guess them for it because I'd prefer they execute a go-around when they could've made a safe landing, rather than not doing it when they actually need to.
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