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Here's a question: was the design of the A-4 Skyhawk taken out of design studies to create a submarine launched jet fighter?
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 01:56 |
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azflyboy posted:April was absolutely dead. Most of my flights were cancelled due to lack of passengers, and it wasn't uncommon for me to work 2-3 legs and still have a single digit total number of passengers. Thanks, guys. We may be flying to Florida in November, but I'm not sure what'll be going on in October... azflyboy posted:I did get a family wearing matching tyvek suits on the plane a few days ago, which the entire crew thought was pretty entertaining. Holy my son's SO works at Trader Joe's, and they've had a couple customers show up in the full PPE suit!
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 03:06 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:Here's a question: was the design of the A-4 Skyhawk taken out of design studies to create a submarine launched jet fighter? I don't think so. My understanding was that the dimensions on the A-4 were driven by not wanting to have folding wingtips to save weight.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 03:07 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:Here's a question: was the design of the A-4 Skyhawk taken out of design studies to create a submarine launched jet fighter? No, "Heinemann's Hot Rod" was a carrier aircraft from the start. In 1952 the Navy asked Douglas to design a jet replacement for the piston engined A-1 Skyraider. Heinemann and co. met or exceeded the required specs, in part by deliberately choosing to make it very compact and focusing on light weight and efficiency rather than building a big lumbering monster. https://www.historynet.com/heinemanns-hot-rod.htm (Note that they saved weight by using a small delta wing that could fit on a carrier elevator without needing a folding mechanism. Not a design you'd choose for a submarine! A sub launched aircraft would probably want to have a long skinny detachable wing, not a stubby fixed delta.)
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 03:25 |
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I lolled seeing the pic of Heinemann in a suit with horn rims and a locked down hairdo and reading him described as a “maverick designer”. Absolute maniac
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 04:30 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:I found some pictures of an obscure but cool lookin' French flying boat: I'd like to see the interior of that
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 04:37 |
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slidebite posted:I'd like to see the interior of that https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sncase-se-200-development-variants-projects.9620/ Unfortunately the larger images are reg-locked, but they're big enough to get an idea.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 04:41 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sncase-se-200-development-variants-projects.9620/ A PBY is the classic, but imagine having one of these as an air yacht.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 05:09 |
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Thanks guys, it's been a wild ride, I'm going to miss you all. If you take cool crazy plane chat elsewhere, please post a link where you move to on the way out
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 12:10 |
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Yeah, anybody got a discord link? Love plane chat. Would love to do it in the post SA days.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 12:53 |
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gently caress the mods
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 13:11 |
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I want you all to know that my source of weird planes was the WeirdWings subreddit.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 14:34 |
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Discord from the other Aviation threadunpurposed posted:I didn't find one in the thread so I created an Aviation Goons Discord server here: https://discord.gg/dgs64Bg .
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 15:06 |
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What drama did I miss now
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 15:29 |
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rscott posted:What drama did I miss now Lowtax beats women e: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980&perpage=40
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 15:38 |
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I see that now, welp. RIP to the only car forum not full of racists
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 16:06 |
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People in the June Chat Thread are handing out Slack* invites as a stopgap in case Slidebite or someone wants to start their own phpbb forum. * It's like Discord** for business ** It's like IRC*** for Zoomers**** *** It's like an email list for people who understand what Unix is **** They're like regular people, but they've worn Heelys Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Safety Dance posted:People in the June Chat Thread are handing out Slack* invites as a stopgap in case Slidebite or someone wants to start their own phpbb forum. Thank you, I understand.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 17:31 |
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The Ferret King posted:Thank you, I understand. I understand your understandment. (love you)
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 18:07 |
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Captain Apollo posted:I understand your understandment. Go to hell friend
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 23:15 |
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Yesterday evening an AH-64 flew over really low and did a few circles nearby then came right over head and back West towards JBLM. I live an hour SE of Seattle and never have seen one out in these parts before. Chinooks and C-17s often fly around, though. It was pretty cool to see and surprised me with how quiet it was compared to the helis I usually see around here.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 00:33 |
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AzureSkys posted:Yesterday evening an AH-64 flew over really low and did a few circles nearby then came right over head and back West towards JBLM. I live an hour SE of Seattle and never have seen one out in these parts before. Chinooks and C-17s often fly around, though. It was pretty cool to see and surprised me with how quiet it was compared to the helis I usually see around here. Apparently the “squashed x” of the tailrotor makes it quieter. Tail rotors being a major source of noise in helicopters and all. NOTAR helos are even weirder, they are spooky quiet.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 00:36 |
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simplefish posted:Thanks guys, it's been a wild ride, I'm going to miss you all. Please join the AI slack while we work out what to do next. meltie fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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So, the Pakistanis are saying the crash happened because of the rona https://ca.yahoo.com/news/probe-finds-procedure-violations-pakistan-080022866.html quote:The pilots of a Pakistan airliner that crashed last month, killing 97, were distracted and preoccupied as they talked about the coronavirus pandemic while preparing for an initial failed attempt to land, the country's aviation minister said on Wednesday.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 01:29 |
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This thread can and should live on at breadnroses.net
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 01:31 |
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yellowD posted:This thread can and should live on at breadnroses.net
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 01:33 |
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I didn’t realize there were 2 survivors in that crash, it’s wild to me when there are just a couple of people who live through an airliner crash.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 01:34 |
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yellowD posted:This thread can and should live on at breadnroses.net i registered my username to reserve it but i'm not paying 10 bucks until SA actually shuts down
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 01:49 |
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Sagebrush posted:i registered my username to reserve it but i'm not paying 10 bucks until SA actually shuts down they're processing everyone in the queue for free manually, so the 10bux is optional
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 01:52 |
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Just wanted to say this has been my most enjoyed thread over the years, thank all of you for the posts.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 02:16 |
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evil_bunnY posted:
Gladly, as soon as it stops being true. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-24/pilots-in-pakistan-air-crash-distracted-by-coronavirus-worry/12390122 quote:The aircraft was "100 percent fit to fly" and there was no technical fault
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 02:16 |
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Should’ve been “or” because in this case it was pilots.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 02:57 |
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yellowD posted:This thread can and should live on at breadnroses.net I’m not going anywhere near a forum set up and run by c-spam posters and seeing this advertisement in every loving thread here is getting tiresome.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 03:05 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Should’ve been “or” because in this case it was pilots. Fair
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 03:06 |
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There are literally thousands dead from incompetent American pilots and poor American aircraft maintenance so let's not throw rocks in our glass house just yet.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 03:09 |
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Arson Daily posted:There are literally thousands dead from incompetent American pilots and poor American aircraft maintenance so let's not throw rocks in our glass house just yet. For sure. The frustrating thing is these are lessons already learned (sterile cockpit, etc). Is this cockpit discussion how they got into a high approach?
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 03:20 |
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It's probably a factor, but there are times where myself and the person I'm flying with have been totally focused on the task at hand and have still ended up hot and high on final. It happens, you just need to be ready and willing to go around and not push a bad situation. It's easy to say but hard to do in the real world as a majority of pilots regardless of nationality will try to save a bad situation rather than try again.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 03:45 |
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Arson Daily posted:It's probably a factor, but there are times where myself and the person I'm flying with have been totally focused on the task at hand and have still ended up hot and high on final. It happens, you just need to be ready and willing to go around and not push a bad situation. It's easy to say but hard to do in the real world as a majority of pilots regardless of nationality will try to save a bad situation rather than try again. I lack the gumption right now to actually look up statistics, but I'd be willing to bet that one of the top three causal factors in landing accidents is unstable approaches. Every single one of the 10 operators I've worked for in the past 25 years (when stable approaches really entered the SOP realm) has had a no-poo poo, get-fired-if-you-violate-this policy on continuing unstable approaches. Never enforced. I have called unstable go-arounds and had them ignored (including with a Chief Pilot flying). FOQA data supports the reality that only about 3-5% of unstable approaches result in a go-around. It's the second most ignored rule after O2 masks at altitude.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 15:23 |
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/business/pakistan-fake-pilot-intl-hnk/index.html 30% of their pilots don’t have actual pilots licenses. Big yikes.
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`Nemesis posted:https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/business/pakistan-fake-pilot-intl-hnk/index.html Holy moly
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