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MrYenko posted:You never want to be the smallest guy on the shift. My dad did it off and on for years. Always had to shave his beard for the respirator fitment.
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and now for your regularly scheduled aeronautical insanity: who needs one tail rotor when you can have four? quote:Bell has revealed a groundbreaking new electric anti-torque system in development for its commercial helicopter line, one that promises enhancements to safety and operating cost, as well as a reduction in noise compared to an aircraft with a conventional tail rotor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBEhFhyM1c https://www.verticalmag.com/news/bell-electrically-distributed-anti-torque-edat/
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stuck post? e: stuck post e2: that quad tail rotor thing is ugly as hell but maybe if they do a real one it'll be better integrated.
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I always thought NOTAR was pretty cool. I was overflown by a MD500 with that and was shocked how quiet it seemed.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Really? It's the exact same bad rationale applied to Boeing. I was wondering earlier what the barriers are for the same stuff having happened at Airbus and if there are none when the shoe might drop.
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As bad as the Lockmart snafus have been, I'm trying to imagine the horror show of the current Boeing trying to build the F-32.
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brains posted:and now for your regularly scheduled aeronautical insanity: who needs one tail rotor when you can have four? drat that is sick. I've always wanted to be a helicopter pilot but I'm not a millionaire. Helicopters are so much cooler than planes. 
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When something that looks so oddly clumped together, you instantly know for sure there will never be a fully mature version of it. It might be a dead end or it might trigger a revolution in helicopters, but that particular config will not be long for this world.
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It looks almost like drone-derived technology so maybe it will.
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The Real Amethyst posted:It looks almost like drone-derived technology so maybe it will. Oh it definitely does, but a mature version of drone tech looks like a drone, not a helicopter with a little bit of drone clumped on.
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brains posted:and now for your regularly scheduled aeronautical insanity: who needs one tail rotor when you can have four? So who flew their drone into the tail of a prototype heli and had a lightbulb go off
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Beccara posted:So who flew their drone into the tail of a prototype heli and had a lightbulb go off So, here is the thing. If we do one big one, we gotta find someone to make the motor. Then getting it certified is going to be a pain in the rear end because we'll have to figure out failure mode. But we do have these smaller off the shelf motors we can use today. We just need like 3 of them. Ok, gently caress it, put 4 back there and lets see if we can make it work.
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Bell will sell it to the Marines Corps and no one else, like all the rest of their crappy helicopters
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Munin posted:I was wondering earlier what the barriers are for the same stuff having happened at Airbus and if there are none when the shoe might drop. Well, the main thing in Boeing was that at some point they had a excellent understanding of manufacturing and engineering aircraft - and they understood that all the practices, and workers, and methods that went along with that were necessary. The way to keep making money was via quality and innovation: both because modern airliners demand the quality for both marketing and prudential reasons, and because thanks to those prudential concerns made safetly and its attendant regulations very important. At some point the finance bros came in with their one-size-fits-all wrecking ball and choose short term profits by producing products faster and cheaper. They got cheaper, less skilled workers, they kept insisting automated processes were fine when by the old standards they weren't and were costing extra compared to the older processes, they hollowed out the RnD-engineering base, they stopped giving a poo poo about programming practices, they played the federal regulator for a fool, they got employees to lie, etc etc. In a consumer company, like cars or something, people would figure out that the cars were lovely and for the most part stop buying them. But in airliners, you can't do that for very long until something dramatic happens, and so here we are, with a type of Boeing grounded permanently after killing two planeloads of people. The thing that keeps this from happening at airbus is the same thing that once worked at Boeing: valuing those practices I outlined above. Because this is a god-cursed election year, I'm sure lots of people will want to valorize/villainize Boeing being privately owned, but I think most people ITT know really big aerospace is so closely linked with government that it is the tyranny of small differences between Boeing and Airbus's structure. So yeah, this is not happening at Airbus as far as I know, but it could.
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Bob A Feet posted:Bell will sell it to the Marines Corps and no one else, like all the rest of their crappy helicopters My layman understanding is that every air ambulance, ferry flight, and joyride outfit would prefer to have NOTAR.
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~Coxy posted:My layman understanding is that every air ambulance, ferry flight, and joyride outfit would prefer to have NOTAR.
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evil_bunnY posted:My mom served on a medevac helo crew for a spell and the amount of training spent on making sure you fully respected the tail rotor was significant. The full rear quadrant of the helo was streng verboten. On Heli safety, my last foray into them was in highlands of PNG through fog and not a lot of visibility,. The area had a few recent tribal murders and the mountains were alive with itchy bush-knives. And here I was more annoyed at how long it took for the pilot to take the doors off so I could hang out the side when flying in some dangerous air over dangerous ground.
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I like the understated comparison in the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator update regarding airports. "FSX simulated over 24,000 airports. The new flight simulator features all the airports in the world." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10P21oFOxAU
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Beccara posted:So who flew their drone into the tail of a prototype heli and had a lightbulb go off "You got your drone in my helicopter!" "You got your helicopter in my drone!"
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Update from Harbour Air, The World’s Largest Seaplane Airline™️: https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/02/21/man-reportedly-takes-off-in-stolen-float-plane-crashes-into-another-in-vancouver/ The wing looks 😞. They’ve cordoned off the terminal, bringing in the fingerprint unit and are rerouting people their Fraser River Terminal.
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Between the Horizon Q400 being stolen in 2018 and this, I'm beginning to think DHC products need The Club installed when they're parked.
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Planes don't have keys generally, right? They mostly rely on people not having access to them or not knowing what buttons to push?
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NightGyr posted:Planes don't have keys generally, right? They mostly rely on people not having access to them or not knowing what buttons to push? Yes
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If they had keys you know they’d be stored on the glare shield
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And the keys they have are so pathetic your high school locker is better protected.
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Scruff McGruff posted:I like the understated comparison in the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator update regarding airports. I still can't get over how good this looks and how ambitious the overall scale of it is.
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Flight gets delayed because pilot can't find his keys.
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Airbus A320, learning that a crane isn’t meant to keep a plane in the air: https://www.instagram.com/p/B82FYZBlpYz/?igshid=hbqni5msfe3h
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Flight gets delayed because pilot can't find his keys. Check the bar.
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The Real Amethyst posted:Helicopters are so much cooler than planes.
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After the last few years of Boeing software quality, it’s somewhat reassuring that the SLS software is being built by NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/FlightSoftware.pdf Apparently there were parts of Boeing who felt that the “Green Run” tests (instrumented rocket core in test stand flies the entire launch sequence) amounted to “workmanship testing” and we’re hoping they could convince NASA to abbreviate them somewhat. Flight software is still titled Flight Computer Application Software (FCAS) though. With its testing counterpart Green Run Application Software (GRAS). Hopefully it won’t have to save the day.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Airbus A320, learning that a crane isn’t meant to keep a plane in the air: That'll buff out
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This is not a Super Dave bit. Unfortunately. https://www.sbsun.com/2020/02/22/da...KsLeMNyJT-qhroY
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Gotta love how "The Science Channel" was directly contributing to the death of a flat-earther.
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For a return to true aeronautical insanity, 'Mad Mike' Hughes died today. If you guessed his steam powered rocket's parachute came off during launch and he hit the ground at a speed incompatible with survival, you win the jackpot. E: god drat. Everything showed up as 'read', figured I was first to post EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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That'll happen if you don't double check your staging groupings before leaving the VAB
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Captain Postal posted:That'll happen if you don't double check your staging groupings before leaving the VAB I prefer to check my staging by pressing the spacebar and seeing what happens. Apparently so did Mike.
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KodiakRS posted:I prefer to check my staging by pressing the spacebar and seeing what happens. Apparently so did Mike. One hell of a post/avatar combo, chief!
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If I affected a foreign accent, would people indulge me and tell me who this Mike was and why he killed himself with a "steam" powered rocket? e: I'm reading the posted article and my confusing is if anything growing: quote:Hughes’ attempt to launch the rocket was scuttled when the water heater he bought off Craigslist for $325 failed to heat the water enough to create steam. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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