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https://twitter.com/SeaTacAirport/status/1220812126404526080 Nothing can possibly go wrong with this lift.
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Is that a passenger walkway that planes go under? That’s pretty neat. They better have a glass floor!
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The Real Amethyst posted:Youtube live stream here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKXu06VaxLI It's not a new idea, they played with the idea of folding wingtips back in the 1990s when they were drawing up the original 777-200 for the same reasons - gate space. Supposedly it helped bring American Airlines onboard, but in the event they didn't actually implement it.
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Carrier planes have folding wingtips  .
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Yeah, folding wings as a concept aren't remotely new, but this is the first time they've been used on an airliner to my knowledge. IMO they should have gone whole-hog and made the wings fold at mid-span so you could fit the plane into a gate sized for an RJ. Imagine the convenience!
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Have them fold at the fuselage, that'll turn some heads.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, folding wings as a concept aren't remotely new, but this is the first time they've been used on an airliner to my knowledge. I feel challenged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQ07D6ICmc
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, folding wings as a concept aren't remotely new, but this is the first time they've been used on an airliner to my knowledge. You lose massive fueling capacity that way.
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:Carrier planes have folding wingtips Carrier planes can be down for maintenance for a lot longer than a passenger airliner is expected to be. The 1 engine out and wings folded approaches they'll inevitably have to do during certification will probably be interesting.
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Solkanar512 posted:You lose massive fueling capacity that way. Boeing brain: put fuel in the folding parts
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Sagebrush posted:this is currently just 47,000 people typing F to pay respects If it’s a Boeing, it ain’t going!
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Platystemon posted:Boeing brain: put fuel in the folding parts I want to see the actuator that would be able to lift half the wing while fueled up, that would be nuts.
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Solkanar512 posted:I want to see the actuator that would be able to lift half the wing while fueled up, that would be nuts. * Folding not available at maximum fuel load.
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folding wingtips on a 777 sounds dumb as gently caress
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loving around browsing the ADSB exchange. Apparently someone decided to take a self launching sailplane crosscountry
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How many sailplanes can fly 400 knots?
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Sagebrush posted:How many sailplanes can fly 400 knots? Against the jetstream? Not many. --or-- After the wings fall off? All of them, once.
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Sagebrush posted:How many sailplanes can fly 400 knots? For sailplanes that are actually a Bombardier Global Express, probably all of them.
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Craptacular posted:For sailplanes that are actually a Bombardier Global Express, probably all of them. Look at mr fun ruiner here
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Elviscat posted:Have them fold at the fuselage, that'll turn some heads. Put swing wings on them 
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Platystemon posted:* Folding not available at maximum fuel load. Easy, just dump fuel before you land.
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But finding the nearest schoolyard in time
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Sagebrush posted:IMO they should have gone whole-hog and made the wings fold at mid-span so you could fit the plane into a gate sized for an RJ. Imagine the convenience! Love too be in seat 93Q while the entire airplane un-asses via a 12" wide airstair.
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So first flight of the 777X is being given another go. Conditions look a whole lot better. Livestream: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777x/first-flight#/webcast ATC: https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=KPAE
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MikeCrotch posted:Put swing wings on them Has a swing wing commercial airliner ever made it out of the napkin drawing phase?
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Platystemon posted:Boeing brain: put fuel in the folding parts There are military planes with folding wings that have fuel in the part that folds back.
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777X finally on the runway. http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777x/first-flight#/webcast Way less KC-46s littering Paine Field than there were last year around this time. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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bloops posted:Has a swing wing commercial airliner ever made it out of the napkin drawing phase? The Boeing supersonic transport originally had swing wings but this was taken out of the design eventually So, no.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:777X finally on the runway. Guess it's in the air now  God help them if something goes horribly awry with this.
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slidebite posted:
They left the gear and flaps down so whatever lovely code they’ve got in the FCCs couldn’t kill them yet
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Aw it's only the tips that fold so it just looks like an overgrown 73 with scimitar tips Go full carrier fold you cowards 
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Just make the tips auto-fold when a sensor detects it has landed and is taxiing, no need to complicate pilot training with any additional lights or checklists or buttons.
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For redundancy you'd better have two sensors though! Hook one up to the right and the other to the left. Then they can't interfere with each other
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Ola posted:Just make the tips auto-fold when a sensor detects it has landed and is taxiing, no need to complicate pilot training with any additional lights or checklists or buttons. truly this could be managed with GPS and an airport database, WoW and out of the gate area? wings down
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e.pilot posted:truly this could be managed with GPS and an airport database, WoW and out of the gate area? wings down 
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Have them go up and down real fast for VTOL
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Keith Atherton posted:Have them go up and down real fast for VTOL Boeing ornithopter 
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Keith Atherton posted:Have them go up and down real fast for VTOL Best response.
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You guys are really over complicating this. Just attach the mechanism to a lidar based system that determines if an object is going to collide with them, map it in space and have it move them based on the required calculated angle to avoid it. It can then move back once it is cleared. This system will be running 24/7.
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Midjack posted:Boeing ornithopter Dune movie tie in!!
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