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Psion posted:Yeah it's kinda deceptive that way since the plane looks huge from the outside, and it has huge delta wings, and then the inside is a tiny little 2x2 arrangement with no room for anything. I walked around all under the thing and one of the docents approached me. "You've been under here a while. Can I help you with anything?" "This entire surface of the airplane is basically low-point-drains for fuel tanks. What does the fuel transfer panel look like?!" His face lit up. This was His Jam, totally. The thing has like 20 fuel tanks that auto-transfer and do all kinds of weirdness to keep CG in limits and transfer pumps and look at these relay panels and this whole breaker panel is just fuel control, but there's also another whole breaker panel just for the relay panel that controls the contactors for the fuel pumps and there's another complete section for the solenoid valves for the motive flow pumps and and and and..... It was 300% worth the hour and a half consumed in that rabbit hole, and I absolutely, positively did not take enough pictures. An unedited video would have been a magical resource.
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I noted some excellent callsigns at the Dayton Air Show this year. An MH-60R crew member who is known as "Hot Tub." On an E-2D, "Rick James" (inspired by the Chapelle's Show sketch, as it turns out). And, the one I might be most curious about, the Super Hornet pilot who got simply "Puppies."
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Sagebrush posted:This sounds like Switzerland's thing where every household has a military-issued rifle and as a result nobody gives a poo poo. your rifle is given to you as part of the state's monopoly on violence which is a very, very different context than personal gun ownership
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:His face lit up. This was His Jam, totally. this rules. probably made their day just like it made yours!
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Floatplane flipped earlier today after hitting a sandbar near Tofino. This is the very same company that had a crash over a decade ago where none survived. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/vancouver-island/2021/7/26/1_5523765.html
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mexecan posted:Floatplane flipped earlier today after hitting a sandbar near Tofino. This is the very same company that had a crash over a decade ago where none survived. Well, that’s improvement!
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mexecan posted:This is the very same company that had a crash over a decade ago where none survived. Float flying is inherently dangerous. Hitting a sandbar, possibly one that moves, is a risk that is taken on many flights. The ‘runways’ are not lit, marked, and are constantly moving. The landing ‘gear’ has no brakes, the surface elevation can change (by 7+ meters in some places going by tides). There are not usually wind socks and spray means you might not get a clear view out the window. The fact that we have as few fatal incidents as we do is, simply, amazing. One major incident in a float fleet every 10 years is a pretty good record and I would not hesitate to fly with them.
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Just don't get boomer brain and go full throttle while you're still tied to a buoy and screaming "you can't keep me here"
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Advent Horizon posted:Float flying is inherently dangerous. Hitting a sandbar, possibly one that moves, is a risk that is taken on many flights. The ‘runways’ are not lit, marked, and are constantly moving. The landing ‘gear’ has no brakes, the surface elevation can change (by 7+ meters in some places going by tides). There are not usually wind socks and spray means you might not get a clear view out the window. Agreed. And I have flown with them. I brought up the earlier crash as it was previously discussed in this thread, which I ought to have mentioned.
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Advent Horizon posted:Float flying is inherently dangerous. Hitting a sandbar, possibly one that moves, is a risk that is taken on many flights. The ‘runways’ are not lit, marked, and are constantly moving. The landing ‘gear’ has no brakes, the surface elevation can change (by 7+ meters in some places going by tides). There are not usually wind socks and spray means you might not get a clear view out the window. Got to post the Dornier 24 spinning out: https://i.imgur.com/E4FqJ6g.mp4
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FuturePastNow posted:Got to post the Dornier 24 spinning out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G16dW_PEAZY Is he...?
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Dumb question. I was finishing up a young-adult novel series I took a break from in middle school, and they had a scene where a helicopter pilot was shooting at our heroes and it got me wondering if you can let go of the stick or collective in a small helicopter long enough to take a couple shots before the helicopter gets bored and wanders off.
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Advanced helicopters have autopilots including autohover functions. That’s not going to exist on an R-22 but for the purposes of a novel sure.
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Cat Hatter posted:Dumb question. I was finishing up a young-adult novel series I took a break from in middle school, and they had a scene where a helicopter pilot was shooting at our heroes and it got me wondering if you can let go of the stick or collective in a small helicopter long enough to take a couple shots before the helicopter gets bored and wanders off. Depends on the helicopter. Something with an automatically-coordinated throttle usually has some kind of collective and cyclic trim on it to hold the sticks roughly neutral, much like the trim does on an airplane. I agree. For the purposes of the novel, sure.
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Cable Guy posted:Uh... full left rudder on landing.... He's not doing that deliberately is he....? No, from what I've read he spotted a piece of debris of some sort right in his path and attempted to swerve to miss it. The plane sustained minor damage so whether that was the right choice or not I guess depends on what the debris was.
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Jul 27, 2021 18:38
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I walked around all under the thing and one of the docents approached me. "You've been under here a while. Can I help you with anything?" The PPrune thread with crusty Concorde maintenance people, pilots, FAs et c covers a loooot of this. It's a wonderful rabbithole.
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Cat Hatter posted:Dumb question. I was finishing up a young-adult novel series I took a break from in middle school, and they had a scene where a helicopter pilot was shooting at our heroes and it got me wondering if you can let go of the stick or collective in a small helicopter long enough to take a couple shots before the helicopter gets bored and wanders off. You have adjustable friction for the collective. Normally it's set really light, as you want the collective to move smoothly. It also depends on how the rotorhead is balanced (on semi-rigid heads anyway)..but in general, you can, even if it's sinking, take your hand off the collective briefly. Cyclic, depends on the helicopter. As general rule, you never let go of the cyclic.
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Cat Hatter posted:Dumb question. I was finishing up a young-adult novel series I took a break from in middle school, and they had a scene where a helicopter pilot was shooting at our heroes and it got me wondering if you can let go of the stick or collective in a small helicopter long enough to take a couple shots before the helicopter gets bored and wanders off. Many small (or VFR only) helicopters have manual friction holding only, so you can turn a knob on the floor to make the cyclic or collective stay put but under normal conditions letting go of the cyclic will cause it to immediately flop in one direction and produce the corresponding control input. More complex aircraft have force trim systems with magnetic brake/spring systems for cyclic and pedals, allowing you to reset the center point and fly hands off. Sometimes collectives are equipped with a balance spring which makes them stay put at 1G. The smallest helicopter I’ve flown is a Bell 206 and I have seen them equipped with and without force trim.. I don’t think smaller R22 style aircraft have force trim systems but haven’t flown one before. If it helps the book, you can pretty easily hold the cyclic between your knees for enough time to get a shot off in straight and level flight.
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Talk about a garage project: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/b-17-flying-fortress-has-been-hiding-in-a-barn-for-years-waiting-to-be-restored-166087.html
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So it sounds like as long as the book specified that the helicopter pilot is left-handed, and he's shooting a pistol out the left side, everything checks out.
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Irresponsible to operate a helicopter drive-by as single crew IMO, should be done with a qualified henchman in the door or the other seat.
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For all the license the Grand Theft Auto series takes with reality, one thing the protagonist has never been able to do is fire personal weapons while flying an aircraft.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Talk about a garage project: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/b-17-flying-fortress-has-been-hiding-in-a-barn-for-years-waiting-to-be-restored-166087.html Kind of a misnomer, as Desert Rat has been fairly well known in the warbird community for many years now. She was also an XC-108 transport conversion during the war.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Kind of a misnomer, as Desert Rat has been fairly well known in the warbird community for many years now. She was also an XC-108 transport conversion during the war. I love journalism Headline: IT'S IN A BARN!!!! Boldface first para: let's talk about barn finds First normal para: well this isn't really a barn find but
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Some spicy weather in the forecast for Oshkosh tonight. https://twitter.com/MatthewCappucci/status/1420390527594291207?s=20 https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1420520019839049728?s=20
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Many small (or VFR only) helicopters have manual friction holding only, so you can turn a knob on the floor to make the cyclic or collective stay put but under normal conditions letting go of the cyclic will cause it to immediately flop in one direction and produce the corresponding control input. More complex aircraft have force trim systems with magnetic brake/spring systems for cyclic and pedals, allowing you to reset the center point and fly hands off. Sometimes collectives are equipped with a balance spring which makes them stay put at 1G. The smallest helicopter I’ve flown is a Bell 206 and I have seen them equipped with and without force trim.. I don’t think smaller R22 style aircraft have force trim systems but haven’t flown one before. Larger helicopters have everything. Big military and civilian stuff has full-rate full-authority autopilots with all kinds of hold modes. The Sikorsky SAR aircraft have speed and altitude hold modes that will couple with: GPS, Doppler, barometric (baro alt and pitot airspeed) and radalt. Plus INS coupling and turn-rate, climb-rate, and yaw-rate hold modes, along with auto-trim stuff to remove control stick forces on both the cyclic and collective. Those speed/altitude modes can even have your speeds set to zero so they're auto hover, and the trim adjust sticks or knobs can set your drift rate; so you could theoretically punch radalt hold and doppler hold, then climb out of the cockpit and drive the helicopter around single-person from the hoist station. Or just set a constant-radius turn at a constant airspeed and altitude (or a GPS-based orbit around a point), then climb out and man one of the door guns.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Or just set a constant-radius turn at a constant airspeed and altitude (or a GPS-based orbit around a point), then climb out and man one of the door guns. This would be one hell of an airshow act
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Just like when people set up cars to do donuts on their own, but I guess it would also include them shooting into the stadium crowd.
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Cojawfee posted:Just like when people set up cars to do donuts on their own, but I guess it would also include them shooting into the stadium crowd. Ghost riding as you CFIT? hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:This would be one hell of an airshow act Like the drunken-bob-steals-an-airplane routine. Cojawfee posted:Just like when people set up cars to do donuts on their own, but I guess it would also include them shooting into the stadium crowd. With, apparently, more casualties in the crowd. hobbesmaster posted:Ghost riding as you CFIT? Or maybe less?!
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Aeronautical Insanity: Ghost riding as you CFIT
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They used to do that training in west Germany, I guess they need to train the capability every once in a while?
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hobbesmaster posted:They used to do that training in west Germany, I guess they need to train the capability every once in a while? West Germany stopped returning our calls.
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