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And here I thought they were supposed to be good in a dogfight
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Sagebrush posted:otoh this XF-85 is real and actually flew Reading up on this, the point apparently was to fly a bunch of B-36s into a combat area, each B-36 drops one XF-85 which goes and does dog fights, and then it comes back and gets picked up by a B-36.
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Phy posted:And here I thought they were supposed to be good in a dogfight The only time an airplane has ever won a fight against a giant monster was King Kong.
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Oct 28, 2020 21:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLHah4XUwk&t=680s I wanted to watch a video of the approach to Paro in Bhutan and found this video and skipped ahead, and see he's talking to the pilots during approach, even while they're doing checklists. How is that allowed? Isn't it a big violation of sterile cockpit rules?
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Oct 28, 2020 23:43
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In the USA it would be, but other countries' airlines might have different policies. Or they just don't care
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Otherwise it's pretty cool though, lucky for sure to be there
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Sagebrush posted:otoh this XF-85 is real and actually flew 
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i assume the glide characteristics of the Goblin are well uh Goblinesque
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/trump-rally-fighter-jet-arizona/index.htmlquote:
quote:Trump, apparently caught off-guard by jet above, said that the plane was "about four days old" and touted his funding for the military. 
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Occam’s Razor suggest that it’s just his brain turning to mush, but if I didn’t know that, I’d think that was some pretty good improvisation.
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the one thing that trump is good at is what you can generously call "improvisation," yes
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Sagebrush posted:the one thing that trump is good at is what you can generously call "improvisation," yes He’s always done improv like that though. It’s part of what made him famous in the 80s
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Oct 29, 2020 04:12
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This is rad af https://sonexbuilders.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5498
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fknlo posted:The clinic he got tested at closed after they told him he was positive and he couldn't get paperwork from them. The powers that be decided this meant he wasn't necessarily being truthful so they didn't do the deep cleaning that they're required to do.
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evil_bunnY posted:Straight into my veins! It looked they pretty much just tunneled all the DEN guys in/out through the low airspace. They had to have had a really lovely day. They normally deal with all those flights but only transitionally between my airspace and approach and through smaller sectors that can be split off from most of their low shenanigans. fknlo fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Oct 29, 2020 16:08
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FS2020 was updated to allow canards on custom aircraft. Now someone can recreate the Raptor and try to fly it.
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fknlo posted:It looked they pretty much just tunneled all the DEN guys in/out through the low airspace. They had to have had a really lovely day. They normally deal with all those flights but only transitionally between my airspace and approach and through smaller sectors that can be split off from most of their low shenanigans.
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Oh hey I found the anti-Raptor in that kid who keeps building human-scale foam RC planes. Here's his latest attempt, from a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7JcmwKQcU The plane is built of styrofoam (well, the wings are; the rest is a conventional skinned spaceframe like a Cub or whatever) but it is done to a professional standard and he has actual aeronautical engineers verifying his work. He does static load testing on the ground before taking to the air. He notices a flutter in the stabilizer and a lack of power on his first test flight...and rather than saying "it's fine, everything is correct" he is immediately concerned and alters the design to fix it. The plane doesn't even have ailerons but it is vastly more stable in flight than the Raptor (yes, totally different design envelopes of course). He discusses his plan for the test flight and how he's chosen to mitigate risk. Both he and and the Raptor guy even share the first name Peter. This is another example of a plane I would be much more comfortable flying in than the Raptor. Also, go to 20:35 for a cheeky cameo Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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So now even aviation nerds have facebook clickbait stories:  (Boeing apparently spent a greater than zero amount of time mulling over a 747 trijet. That would have required a wing redesign, so then somebody said "why not make what later people would call the 747SP instead?")
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Sagebrush posted:Oh hey I found the anti-Raptor in that kid who keeps building human-scale foam RC planes. Here's his latest attempt, from a few days ago: Peter Sripol is smart as hell and a pro follow
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Sagebrush posted:Also, go to 20:35 for a cheeky cameo
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Nebakenezzer posted:So now even aviation nerds have facebook clickbait stories There are hundreds of them and as a researcher they make me tear my hair out, because they just repeat the old bullshit myths over and over at best.
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Oct 30, 2020 22:18
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For a second I thought it was an optical illusion photo where the tail of another plane was behind it.
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Charles posted:For a second I thought it was an optical illusion photo where the tail of another plane was behind it. V tail 747 please
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Oct 30, 2020 22:31
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simplefish posted:V tail 747 please Jumbonanza
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:There are hundreds of them and as a researcher they make me tear my hair out, because they just repeat the old bullshit myths over and over at best. I’m not in these circles, can you lay a couple on me?
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Can anybody tell me what the FAA uses this plane for? https://flightaware.com/live/flight/FLC88 Yesterday I was inside a hangar and heard a jet going very low and fast zoom over the airport, and pulled up FlightAware to see who it was. Those flight tracks made me insanely curious and I'm not smart enough to know what to google to find out. e: vvvv Awesome, thanks! After googling "FAA flight check" I found a pretty comprehensive if outdated article about a Flight Check ride-along https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2008-04-23/faa-flight-check-operations. FBS fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Oct 31, 2020 |
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FBS posted:Can anybody tell me what the FAA uses this plane for? https://flightaware.com/live/flight/FLC88 Their call sign is "Flight Check". They go around and actually fly instrument procedures/DME arcs/new VGSIs to determine that they're good to go in practice, not just in theory. The FAA owns the tail numbers N1 through N100, and all the flight check airplanes are in this tail number range (I believe). E: In this case, it looks like they were flight checking the localizer at De Kalb, I-GWB. They were flying DME arcs off the LOC/DME antenna, and repeatedly tracking the course inbound. They may also have been doing something with the LOM, but I can't tell if they were turning directly overhead it. a patagonian cavy fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Oct 31, 2020 |
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Warbird posted:I’m not in these circles, can you lay a couple on me? "the russians used a pencil"
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brains posted:"the russians used a pencil" I know you're posting this as an example of dumb memes that are false, but I am still honor bound to post that the Russians and Americans used grease pencils, and Fisher sold his space pen to both NASA and Russia's space program.
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Cojawfee posted:I know you're posting this as an example of dumb memes that are false, but I am still honor bound to post that the Russians and Americans used grease pencils, and Fisher sold his space pen to both NASA and Russia's space program. thank you for explaining the joke to me, the one who made the joke, o honorable one
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It’s funny because gov’t can’t do anything right. Now how about that airline food?
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Platystemon posted:It’s funny because gov’t can’t do anything right. I had bulgogi out of Korea last week, airline food isn’t too bad when you get away from white people. 
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Oct 31, 2020 05:22
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The food I had on Air India was pretty great all around, tbh. They also had like 20 different options for every combination of religion and dietary requirement.
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e.pilot posted:I had bulgogi out of Korea last week, airline food isn’t too bad when you get away from white people. What was the captain’s meal?
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Oct 31, 2020 05:27
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Platystemon posted:What was the captain’s meal? He had the lasagna.
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Platystemon posted:What was the captain’s meal? Nope, he had chicken bulgogi that looked equally as good.
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e.pilot posted:I had bulgogi out of Korea last week, airline food isn’t too bad when you get away from white people. the best airline food I've ever had was on SAS out of copenhagen and that was definitely white people food. Mortabis fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Oct 31, 2020 |
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Mortabis posted:the best airline food I've ever had was on SAS out of copenhagen and that was definitely white people food. *american white people
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Is it true that the captain and the co-pilot can't both pick the same thing from the menu?
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