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EvenWorseOpinions posted:So that's what they mean by 'wing walking' No, wing walking was literally walking on the wings of an airplane in flight. It was done mostly by stunt pilots
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Cthulu Carl posted:The chase car isn't to support the wings, on landing they just skid on the tips. The chase car is to let the pilot know their exact attitude because to land, the U-2 has to stall at like 2 feet off the ground exactly. With this in mind, the replies to the above video pointed me toward this vid of U2s taking off and landing on carriers during the 60s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HMPMYL19E
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:What on earth is that smoke? It looks heavier than liquid nitrogen plastic that has been partially depolymerized though pyrolysis
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RFC2324 posted:No, wing walking was literally walking on the wings of an airplane in flight. It was done mostly by stunt pilots Wing-walking the whip.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:With this in mind, the replies to the above video pointed me toward this vid of U2s taking off and landing on carriers during the 60s. The really impressive one is the C-130. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5AI3YSV3M
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Phanatic posted:The really impressive one is the C-130.  Geez, I've been in a C-130 a fair number of times for work, and I never would've guessed that could happen unassisted.
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Feb 14, 2022 19:36
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Imagine a 1950 fighter plane with a glider wing, that's the U2. It's not fast but it has all the lift.
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FuturePastNow posted:Imagine a 1950 fighter plane with a glider wing, that's the U2. It's not fast but it has all the lift. Bizzaro F-104. 'Cause it kinda is. Wild, wild West(ern airforces).
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Captain Hygiene posted:
Sometimes they need extra assistance, where you just strap a bunch of rockets to it; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiLxMSNZLA
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:What on earth is that smoke? It looks heavier than liquid nitrogen The billowy white smoke was the bearings dying, the heavy pooling smoke was burning epoxy from the motor windings.
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Lobsterboy posted:Sometimes they need extra assistance, where you just strap a bunch of rockets to it; I knew it was Fat Albert before I even clicked the link.
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How often are JATOs actually used operationally? Also, the U2 is pretty OSHA when at operating altitude; there’s only about 5-10 knots between going so slow you stall and going so fast you’re unstable due to transonic aerodynamics. This is colloquially known as the ”coffin corner”.
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Never, anymore. When they took them out of service they gave the whole stock to the blue angels, who burned through them on fat Albert until they were all gone in like the early 2000s. I wonder if Antarctic service aircraft still use them?
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Here's what that looks like when you're really serious about getting airborne as fast as possible, as opposed to doing a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFjhWw4DNo&t=68s Note that this was to allow the thing to take off full of troops and rescured hostages from a soccer stadium. The rest of the video is also good, but I've timestamped the takeoff because it's *very* short.
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haveblue posted:This Spy Hunter remake sucks First thought when I saw that.
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Could someone please dub the Spy Hunter theme played on kazoo over that?
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haveblue posted:This Spy Hunter remake sucks I was thinking Knight Rider
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"Knight Rider 2022", on a fan fiction budget was in hindsight, not a good idea...
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tactlessbastard posted:Monday is always a good day for forkliftfuckleling Nooooo. It's an electric raise, too. That ain't getting fixed for weeks.
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Be glad it failed open, mine went the other way with it.
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We have a few broken doors, every one is a different model from different manufacturers. Nobody can find parts and we can't even Frankenstein them since the parts don't match. We've gotten to the point of parking a pallet trailer on one and fitting foam board sealed with Great Stuff on another. We've got a couple of months before the new plant is built so we're opting for safe and secure instead of functional.
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Phanatic posted:Here's what that looks like when you're really serious about getting airborne as fast as possible, as opposed to doing a demonstration: The wing shearing in two is a parable for the hubris of man.
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Weembles posted:https://twitter.com/cyclingtips/status/1493289243317354499?s=20&t=ZbuhWd99jE6EjPMxK8_O9w Probably should have gone over that “thankfully” one more time before pressing post.
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Weembles posted:https://twitter.com/cyclingtips/status/1493289243317354499?s=20&t=ZbuhWd99jE6EjPMxK8_O9w "Multiple riders were charged" made me think this was going to be video from Philly or wherever those roving bands of ATV riders roam the streets.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/__Scipio__/status/1492600906398982152?t=s5a83pdhDZk4yhSkDCf19g&s=19 The Most Russian Thing Ever Filmed
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RatHat posted:Ok but why isn’t he wearing any pants? I see pants. Underpants are pants. I think the video would be more convincing if they edited out the command 'ogon' (fire) just before the explosion, but at least there are pants.
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RatHat posted:Ok but why isn’t he wearing any pants? It's a balmy -5 in Russia that day.
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Phanatic posted:Here's what that looks like when you're really serious about getting airborne as fast as possible, as opposed to doing a demonstration: Note also that the clip right after the one you timestamped shows the other half of the equation, where it used rockets to slow to a stop almost instantly to land in the soccer stadium in the first place. On one of the tests of that system, the rockets fired early and the plane fell out of the sky from 30 feet or something, destroying it and resulting in the cancellation of the program.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:So that's what they mean by 'wing walking' A career in professional helper wheeling you say?
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Sagebrush posted:On one of the tests of that system, the rockets fired early and the plane fell out of the sky from 30 feet or something, destroying it and resulting in the cancellation of the program. They didn't cancel the program! They were going to go ahead with the rescue mission using one of the other modded aircraft, but then Reagan got elected and the hostages got freed. They were gonna fly that thing into a soccer stadium and load people on it. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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tactlessbastard posted:Monday is always a good day for forkliftfuckleling I had a student in my lab do this once. I have no idea how they secured the building that week
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haveblue posted:It kinda is, being designed to eke out all the lift it can get at extremely high altitudes means it's almost hard to make it not fly in lower, denser air That is pretty danged cool.
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