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If you need a laugh, here's a found and explained video of the CL-1201, that late 1960s Lockheed project on the biggest airplane you could build with modern technology. It starts off bizarre, then actually gets even more so. Like "the engineers were just having a laugh" levels of WTF.
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I've been on a few MAXs lately that were built before they were grounded for Ural Airlines. They're going to different customers now, but still have the Ural interior which is kind of weird given the last month or so. There are some S7 and Globus (now acquired by S7) MAXs still sitting around, too, so I wonder where they'll end up.
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Apr 12, 2022 17:38
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Nebakenezzer posted:If you need a laugh, here's a found and explained video of the CL-1201, that late 1960s Lockheed project on the biggest airplane you could build with modern technology. It starts off bizarre, then actually gets even more so. Like "the engineers were just having a laugh" levels of WTF.
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Apr 13, 2022 00:33
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How did we get from this to Viper, I can't help but wonder.
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Apr 13, 2022 00:34
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Vighting Valcon
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:How did we get from this to Viper, I can't help but wonder. Literally this 
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Apr 13, 2022 00:36
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Is there a thread on SA where paragliders hang out?
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Apr 13, 2022 02:42
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I am contemplating installing a pirate weather station at a popular paragliding launch site. What wind quality measurements are useful, beyond avg speed, gust, and direction? Current weather stations in the area are not in great locations for measuring launch conditions. I will have quite precise data at 10 Hz from an ultrasonic anemometer. But I don't have the radio backhaul (really, power budget) to send the full data. But if there are other statistics I can calculate and send in a summary form, I can do that local processing on the weather sensor. Data will be sent to the network will be every 10 - 60 sec. What wind measurements best help you decide if it's good paragliding weather? e: I do not paraglide. I make weather sensors.
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Apr 13, 2022 04:02
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ryanrs posted:Is there a thread on SA where paragliders hang out? There was one in The Great Outdoors but I haven’t seen if it’s still around.
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Apr 13, 2022 04:04
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PCjr sidecar posted:There was one in The Great Outdoors but I haven’t seen if it’s still around. Thanks!
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Apr 13, 2022 04:08
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ryanrs posted:I am contemplating installing a pirate weather station at a popular paragliding launch site. What wind quality measurements are useful, beyond avg speed, gust, and direction? Current weather stations in the area are not in great locations for measuring launch conditions. Is there such a thing as a "pirate" weather station? Don't you just upload the data to the weather service and they are all "hell yeah, a weather station at this location"?
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Apr 13, 2022 04:09
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Presumably the issue is getting permission from the landowner.
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Apr 13, 2022 04:12
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I'm not going to be trespassing. It's more that the wind sensor needs to keep a low profile so random people don't mess with it, and also so it doesn't present an obstacle to paragliders. I think the standard for wind measurement is a 10 meter mast, which is not safe here.
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Nebakenezzer posted:If you need a laugh, here's a found and explained video of the CL-1201, that late 1960s Lockheed project on the biggest airplane you could build with modern technology. It starts off bizarre, then actually gets even more so. Like "the engineers were just having a laugh" levels of WTF. pretty sure Project Aces took this design and said 'hold my beer' and launched a franchise out of it
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ryanrs posted:Is there a thread on SA where paragliders hang out? Usually at powerlines I hear
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ryanrs posted:e: I do not paraglide. I make weather sensors. Oh hey there. Do you have any off the shelf solutions that you could recommend? I’ve been mulling over getting something I could tack onto my external garage so I can watch data go brrrr and send off to Weather underground or whoever. Needs to be wide/HOA approved though so I can get too crazy with it. I’ve been thinking about an Acurite Atlas, but I’d be down for alternate suggestions.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:09
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bull3964 posted:Honestly, security isn't even the main concern and that's something that's pretty solvable by streamlining the flow. bull3964 posted:Honestly, security isn't even the main concern and that's something that's pretty solvable by streamlining the flow. right? like, almost every method of loving with trains that endangers the train first requires you to not be on the train.
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Psion posted:pretty sure Project Aces took this design and said 'hold my beer' and launched a franchise out of it I've seen pictures from one Ace Combat game with a flying aircraft carrier, and I think that one actually had the edge in practicality I lost it when "oh yeah, BTW VTOL" was brought up, using 20-something JT9D turbines. Was this after they introduced having a fleet of six 707s that could act as tender aircraft? A whole wing of fully fueled and armed F-4s attached under the wing? Nuclear propulsion - especially as they could shield the reactor properly - actually seems sensible, but then they have four turbines who's giant fanblades turn with supersonic speed? So guys I know what fans y'all are of the Mitsubishi Mu-300        
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"a comprehensive refreshment centre to port" yeah...refreshment.
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Nebakenezzer posted:If you need a laugh, here's a found and explained video of the CL-1201, that late 1960s Lockheed project on the biggest airplane you could build with modern technology. It starts off bizarre, then actually gets even more so. Like "the engineers were just having a laugh" levels of WTF. I find it hard to believe anyone was still proposing nuclear powered aircraft after the NB-36H happened. But then this is the cold war we're talking about.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So guys I know what fans y'all are of the Mitsubishi Mu-300 Anyone know where to find more sweet sweet cutaway illustrations like the one here? Searches for AVI AGRAPHICA didn't seem to yield any results.
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Scam Likely posted:Anyone know where to find more sweet sweet cutaway illustrations like the one here? Searches for AVI AGRAPHICA didn't seem to yield any results. Aside from Air International? Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I find it hard to believe anyone was still proposing nuclear powered aircraft after the NB-36H happened. During the WOT there was somebody pitching atomic powered drones to the USAF. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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Warbird posted:Oh hey there. Do you have any off the shelf solutions that you could recommend? I’ve been mulling over getting something I could tack onto my external garage so I can watch data go brrrr and send off to Weather underground or whoever. Needs to be wide/HOA approved though so I can get too crazy with it. I’ve been thinking about an Acurite Atlas, but I’d be down for alternate suggestions. Davis Vantage Pro sensor suites are pretty easy.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So guys I know what fans y'all are of the Mitsubishi Mu-300 The Hawker 400 and the BitchJet can both burn in the deepest of fiery hells. The seriously deepest. Fieryest. Hellest. That. Aircraft.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:The Hawker 400 and the BitchJet can both burn in the deepest of fiery hells. The seriously deepest. Fieryest. Hellest. They aren't very fun from an engineering/manufacturing perspective either, same with the MU-300. As far as I can tell Textron has abandoned its efforts to unify all of the specifications for all the random companies they've bought over the decades so it's a mix of random MHI specs, Beechcraft specs and Textron specs depending on what's being made and what is being done to the part
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Scam Likely posted:Anyone know where to find more sweet sweet cutaway illustrations like the one here? Searches for AVI AGRAPHICA didn't seem to yield any results. A lot of the cutaways in this style were originally published by british magazines Flight and Aeroplane, search for 'aeroplane cutaway' brings up a lot of results. They have been reproduced in a ton of aircraft encyclopedias and posters, there used to be compilations sold at newstands called Aeroplane Collector's Archive that had the drawings along with period photos. There's a book called Classic World War II Aircraft Cutaways that reproduces a bunch of wartime ones and gives some history on the artists who made them.
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rscott posted:They aren't very fun from an engineering/manufacturing perspective either, same with the MU-300. As far as I can tell Textron has abandoned its efforts to unify all of the specifications for all the random companies they've bought over the decades so it's a mix of random MHI specs, Beechcraft specs and Textron specs depending on what's being made and what is being done to the part I was maintenance. Electric distribution system was a complete disaster, avionics was a nightmare, flight controls worse. Flaps worse than that, trim system worse than all of those. For any of these things, the designers left a hole big enough for the part to go through (after disassembly in place). This was large enough to either see through or fit a hand into. Not both at the same time. But the Air Conditioning: Specifically evil. Just assume it'd be easier to sawzall the tail off and reinstall it to do any maintenance on the compressor or condenser coil. Probably less labor, too.
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Here have a video from a guy who repos widebodies https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7081720437436206378
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Presented without comment, fresh from the comic strip megathread, a Sunday newspaper strip from 1941.catlord posted:Dinky and Jenny Sunday Jan. 19, 1941 I put my own reaction in the other thread, but I'm curious what you actual pilots have to say about this.
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Time to post this again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyvY2GK9B3M
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“Ramp one, you should ahhhhh, probably head over to check the approach lighting on three-three…”
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Easter Saturday so you might know Bombs over Bagdad? Live in Bagdad? Well, SAR over Saudi [Arabia]         
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Powered Descent posted:Presented without comment, fresh from the comic strip megathread, a Sunday newspaper strip from 1941. It's correct about the effects. If you overload the plane you're gonna have a longer takeoff roll and much slower climb. Overload it too much, and you simply won't be able to produce enough lift to take off (or fly level, if you somehow added the weight in midair). A related problem is that Pierre's overly heavy equipment seems to be stored in the back of the plane. That risks putting the center of gravity too far to the rear, which is a dangerously unstable situation. Even if the plane is not overloaded, a far rearward CG can overwhelm the elevator's ability to bring the plane's nose down, meaning that it will uncontrollably pitch up and enter an unrecoverable stall. Assuming the CG wasn't an issue, Jenny probably should have just taken on less fuel and told Pierre that they'd be making a bunch of stops along the way. Or taken Pierre and his equipment on two separate trips, or cancelled the flight. Saying "I'll do it, but blame yourself if we crash and die" is reckless as hell. Displays several of the FAA's hazardous attitudes. e: Here's an example of exactly this situation: an overloaded small plane with too much weight in the rear. The Piper Comanche was built as a four-seat plane, and was later extended to six with two more in the rear, but those two extra seats are really only suitable for children or baggage because of their far rearward location and resulting effect on the CG. In this flight, they had an adult in every seat, making it 135 pounds overweight and out of balance. The plane got off the ground, but went out of control after less than a minute and crashed into a golf course, killing everyone aboard. https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/ntsb-issued-final-report-on-fiery-north-scottsdale-plane-crash Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Apr 17, 2022 |
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Ardeem posted:Time to post this again? "The Vodka Burner is rolling..." "We have Smirnoff." Still cracks me up all these years later. 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Easter Saturday A-This is an awesome read. B-That nazi general's cap ad 
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Sagebrush posted:It's correct about the effects. If you overload the plane you're gonna have a longer takeoff roll and much slower climb. Overload it too much, and you simply won't be able to produce enough lift to take off (or fly level, if you somehow added the weight in midair). Very cool, thank you for the technical details!  My own response was more along the lines of: she was negligent for even attempting the overloaded flight, and she doesn't get to foist responsibility for that onto a passenger. This wasn't a mistaken estimate of the weight, she straight-up said it was so heavy the plane might not even be able to take off, but then she did it anyway. If they all die, it's her fault.
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Godholio posted:A-This is an awesome read. lmao $88, even back then they couldn't help themselves.
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The pilot-in-command is always responsible for the safety of the flight. Even if the passenger gave her a mistaken estimate of the baggage weight, it's her responsibility to check it and verify that the plane is in weight and balance limits.
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