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He was a wacko daredevil in the middle of the desert who wanted to build rockets. That's about it. The flat-earth thing entered into it because he ran out of money and flat-earthers offered him funding to go up and prove their theory.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted: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. Quelle surprise that cospiracies from the already conspiracy loving nutjobs are starting, but this comment sums it up
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The Deep State Lizard People killed him. 
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They'll say Big Round Earth killed him, and in a way they're right. He was killed by impact with a big, round earth.
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Feb 23, 2020 21:25
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How high was he planning on getting anyway, seeing how previous attempts hadn’t cleared 2k feet or so I read. High enough for terminal velocity I suppose.
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priznat posted:How high was he planning on getting anyway, seeing how previous attempts hadn’t cleared 2k feet or so I read. I don't think planning entered into it. At least with that trajectory he probably wasn't aware enough from the initial acceleration to know when he face planted. Bit pissed off some emergency responder is going to have to dig all that poo poo out.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted: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. “Category: Entertainment”, real classy YouTube.
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Feb 23, 2020 22:45
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I am half convinced that parachutes are more complicated than rockets.
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OddObserver posted:I am half convinced that parachutes are more complicated than rockets. All my tiny little model rockets taught me that is truth.
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priznat posted:How high was he planning on getting anyway, seeing how previous attempts hadn’t cleared 2k feet or so I read. 5000 feet. Yup. Coulda caught any old plane. But as mentioned, he was seeking flat earther funding to help his hobby, so you can't just take any old flight as the windows in planes make the horizon curved. Even a skydiving plane with an open door can go much higher and let you see. Anyway, the Darwin award has been wrapped up early this year.
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OddObserver posted:I am half convinced that parachutes are more complicated than rockets. rockets predate parachutes by 500 years
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The Deep State Lizard People killed him. God-drat NASA Ice-Wall guards strike again.
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It feels like foul play conspiracy theories are kinda putting a hat on a hat at this point.
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Dude, it‘s loving scary to watch that parachute come off during launch. I don’t know how to describe what I’m feeling: knowing the dude will die but he doesn’t know it yet.
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In the end, he got the attention he wanted. Mission Accomplished.
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Bob A Feet posted:Dude, it‘s loving scary to watch that parachute come off during launch. I don’t know how to describe what I’m feeling: knowing the dude will die but he doesn’t know it yet. Bemused horror? The chute deploying at the absolute wrong time is almost comical, like watching a KSP video. But then the rocket just keeps going on its merry way with a man inside and you know he’s going to die. What really hit me was watching the camera guy in frame slowly panic, know he could do nothing, and then collapse to the ground after the rocket falls. Dude died doing a stupid thing for stupid people but once the dark comedy wears off its loving brutal. I can’t imagine watching a friend tumble to their death from a distance.
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/dex_eve/status/1230985738168094720 battlestar galactica fanart looking p deece
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Landing that loving thing would've been interesting. I'd imagine if you'd expended all the rounds for the GAU-8, your CG would be hosed.
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/dex_eve/status/1230985738168094720 holy poo poo that looks awesome
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/dex_eve/status/1230985738168094720 we were robbed of this
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/dex_eve/status/1230985738168094720 But Wait! There's More! It's Also a Parasite Fighter! 
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The B-N Trislander is already fairly insane; "We need to make the Islander carry more stuff. What if we made a DC-10 but with piston engines?" But then they decided to try the same concept with a bigger version of the BN-3 Nymph (which was their idea for a sorta C172 but optimised for rough-country flying in the Third World - it didn't happen and neither did the Twin Nymph)  Centre-line twin with both the engines facing forward! Apparently at the same time they were working on an Islander variant that was even bigger than the Trislander, called the BN-4 Mainlander which was one with four wing-mounted Lycoming O-540s:  That didn't happen. AND they were working on a turboprop powered Islander with retractable undercarriage for sale as a COIN aircraft:  This didn't happen either. AND they were designing commercial hovercraft for cargo and passenger work in bits of the developing world where the terrain was too boggy/inhospitable even for an Islander. Which didn't happen. Unsurprisingly with all these projects kicking around that never came to anything B-N went bust! Should probably say that the paintings are by Ivan Berryman (http://www.ivanberrymandirect.com/blog_archive.htm) whose father was B-N's chief engineer for all these never-were projects.
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Kobe Bryant’s widow sues helicopter operator for deaths: https://apnews.com/574018915e32e3e7e7be208c409596fd
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the trislander is fuckin ace I really want to ride in one
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They did put a GAU-8 on the F-16.
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The previous concept is more like trying to put an F-16 onto a GAU-8.
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The Marine idea of mounting them on LCACs is utterly wild.
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Godholio posted:They did put a GAU-8 on the F-16. I swear a read an article a few years ago probably linked from here that went over how complicated a self contained GAU-8 was and not building a plane around it... Maybe it was youtube e: Apparently the video is gone but I'm going to guess it was from this: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18569/ge-really-wants-to-sell-you-a-30mm-cannon-pod-in-this-classic-marketing-reel Plinkey fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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mlmp08 posted:The Marine idea of mounting them on LCACs is utterly wild. They wouldn't have been full-barreled GAU-8s, they'd have been a shorter-barreled version along the lines of the Goalkeeper CIWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper_CIWS  Sounds the same, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-TWxnIN_I BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Anybody want to report a Twitter profile to try and get them banned? https://twitter.com/ScottsdaleNoise
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e.pilot posted:Anybody want to report a Twitter profile to try and get them banned? This one seems kind of like a threat: https://twitter.com/ScottsdaleNoise/status/1228806477940289536
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Midjack posted:This one seems kind of like a threat: Yeah so does telling someone to drink bleach in earnest.
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Midjack posted:This one seems kind of like a threat: The "drink bleach" one too. His Facebook page has already been closed.
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The way twitter goes I’m surprised he doesn’t have a blue check mark.
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BalloonFish posted:The B-N Trislander is already fairly insane; "We need to make the Islander carry more stuff. What if we made a DC-10 but with piston engines?" Saw one of these for the first time in a video about one of those wacky short island runways (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7uBjRKkdnk Los Roques, off Venezuela); I knew about the Islanders, seems the B-Ns are slowly being phased out in favour of newer planes with less expensive maintenance.
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e.pilot posted:Anybody want to report a Twitter profile to try and get them banned? Lol they took the profile private
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