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 The wing is four feet thick and luggage can be stored in it.
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PT6A posted:Seems likely. I feel like Oshkosh is less about safety-first, and more about "let's do this gigantic clusterfuck as safely as reasonably possible, because there's not really any way to do it 'safely'," and occasionally that's going to lead to some bad situations. Welcome to ATC as a whole!
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Cross postingSynthbuttrange posted:
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Carth Dookie posted:Cross posting Dammit the link is dead  EDIT: Working one: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/footage-of-man-fishing-from-drone-being-investigated-by-casa/11460604 Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Humphreys posted:Dammit the link is dead Cable Guy posted:Your link broke, here's a new one
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Platystemon posted:
Lovely airplane.    (this one is at the Henry Ford Museum, which is well worth a visit if you're anywhere near Detroit.)
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More airplanes need their control links out in the air
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dupersaurus posted:More airplanes need their control links out in the air Makes dodging birds even more fun!
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Sagebrush posted:The wingtip vortices are actually stronger for a plane (of a given weight) flying slowly than one flying faster An-2s can produce fatal wake turbulence even though they are technically 'light' aircraft and can be flown on a PPL(A), just because they climb at 60knts, weigh five tons and are pushing air off four wing tips, plus the wash of a 1000hp paddle-blade prop. Can't rustle up a link right now, but on YouTube there's a nasty video of a Robin crashing on climb-out after getting into an An-2's wake, and then an in-cockpit view of a test pilot doing the same thing deliberately at high altitude. The Robin almost instantly rolls wings-vertical even with full opposite aileron and the pilot anticipating 
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BalloonFish posted:An-2s can produce fatal wake turbulence even though they are technically 'light' aircraft and can be flown on a PPL(A), just because they climb at 60knts, weigh five tons and are pushing air off four wing tips, plus the wash of a 1000hp paddle-blade prop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlv16ETueU
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BalloonFish posted:An-2s can produce fatal wake turbulence even though they are technically 'light' aircraft and can be flown on a PPL(A), just because they climb at 60knts, weigh five tons and are pushing air off four wing tips, plus the wash of a 1000hp paddle-blade prop. Another fact to add to the "An-2 is an insane machine" list.
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The AN-2 is one of nature's most perfect airplanes.
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 Dropping by to remind yall that the A380 does, in fact, look great and if you disagree you're a heli lover. Look at those airbrakes 
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Inacio posted:
I get a “come at me bro” vibe from this picture.
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Corn Burst posted:I get a “come at me bro” vibe from this picture.   (holy gently caress the tail sizes  )
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Inacio posted:
Quick, someone get the epi-pen! Benoit ate some shellfish again.
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It’s works, though
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Zorak of Michigan posted:The wing is amazingly pretty but I will never be OK with the fivehead. Not emptyquoting.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:The wing is amazingly pretty but I will never be OK with the fivehead. A killer body with a butter face. I'd still hit it!
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Charles posted:The Reddit link says they got wake turbulence from the Trimotor If i read his description right he was also 10-15 mph too fast for that phase of the approach.
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Somehow I hadn't read the whole A380 page on Wikipedia, and I can recommend it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380 It's such a shame. A plane both ahead and behind of its time. 
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Oh cool. Alaska air loads up EVERYONE on the plane, closes the doors, the captain hops on the intercom: "oh yeah btw the ac is broken on this plane and we can't hook up to ground air at this pad WELP enjoy the flight." Man this one janky rear end old q400
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Inacio posted:A killer body with a butter face. I'd still hit it! Body off of Baywatch, Face off of Crimewatch
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Airbus has pulled the Eurofighter out of Canada's fighter competition. I'm surprised any country gets into Canadian competitions anymore as they are literally disastrous clusterfucks each and every time. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/airbus-canada-fighters-1.5265665 It's going to be the F35. Again.
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Duke Chin posted:Oh cool. Where was this? If it was PDX or SEA, there's a lot of spots where the ground AC cart can't hook up to the plane (due to clearance issues with a taxiway or service road), but someone still should have known better than to park a no-APU airplane on one of those spots. There's actually a procedure where we can idle the right engine to use it to cool the cabin while boarding, but since Alaska refuses to properly staff the ramp (the process requires a ramper to stand at the nose of the airplane to make sure no one walks into the prop) and a lot of our parking spots have passengers boarding another airplane on the right, it almost never gets used.
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slidebite posted:Airbus has pulled the Eurofighter out of Canada's fighter competition. I'm surprised any country gets into Canadian competitions anymore as they are literally disastrous clusterfucks each and every time. i still maintain that the rafale is what canada has always needed not particularly expensive, modern enough but has all the teething problems worked out, twin engine for ~arctic sovereignty~, rugged because it's a naval aircraft, makes the francophones feel special, is a large delta so you could paint it white and pretend it's an arrow assuming bombardier and boeing quit their little pissing contest, i think it's just going to be the super hornets because the canadian government will be fooled in the same way as the us navy
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Inacio posted:
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Sagebrush posted:reminder 
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slidebite posted:Airbus has pulled the Eurofighter out of Canada's fighter competition. I'm surprised any country gets into Canadian competitions anymore as they are literally disastrous clusterfucks each and every time. I don't usually give credit to prophecies
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Sagebrush posted:reminder Jesus that really does fix it
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It's not a prophecy, it's an evidence. vv F-22 was never offered for export, not even to Five Eyes countries.
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Sagebrush posted:i still maintain that the rafale is what canada has always needed That’s a weird way to pronounce F-22. (Rafale would be my second choice as well, but EVERYONE would win with a hypothetical CF-22 buy.)  What they’ll probably actually end up with: 
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Finger Prince posted:***IMPORTANT UPDATE:*** From the op
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