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FrozenVent posted:Those taxes already exist. When airships work out cheaper than planes, trust me, the switch will happen. 
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Lamentablemente algunos de nosotros vivimos en el mundo real.
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NOAA is hiring Hurricane Hunters, which I feel is a suitably insane aeronautical job. Was there a goon who used to do this? https://twitter.com/theastronick/status/1537515726646530050?s=21&t=hfKv5vYEMq24rSfaSjYHSQ
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What if I've forgotten all the math, can I still go?
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mobby_6kl posted:What if I've forgotten all the math, can I still go? That’s what Matlab is for.
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FrozenVent posted:Lamentablemente algunos de nosotros vivimos en el mundo real. Y además, socialísmo no significa "construimos todas las cosa interesantes, porque la moneda no importa." I'm sure there's a bunch of Soviets who fetishized airships too, and yet instead we have the An-2 because people still wanted to actually get poo poo done.
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So someone watched Top Gun Maverick and thought, "hmm, I'll bet I could scam some venture capitalists about hypersonic travel now." https://gizmodo.com/venus-aerospace-hypersonic-plane-1849039397 
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FrozenVent posted:Call me when they start putting actual money down. Don't worry, Spain literally has no money.
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A Texas Parks and Wildlife Cessna 206 had to make an emergency landing in the lake that snakes through downtown Austin.. The game warden pilot was rescued by some folks who were paddle boarding on the lake. According to the news the plane had just completed scheduled maintenance. Wonder what they hosed up.   
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So someone watched Top Gun Maverick and thought, "hmm, I'll bet I could scam some venture capitalists about hypersonic travel now." The 21 century brit graf zepplin has a better chance with Spain.
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About airships, my ground school materials contain some shots of tiny one person airships. But I can't find anything reliable about them. Do they actually exist outside of weird hobbyists who build their own as a stunt? Are they any good?
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Hope the tethered paraglider was wearing his brown pants https://i.imgur.com/Hrbui39.mp4
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 I live in a small, dense, country. Somewhere there being a winch cable that I missed in the NOTAMs is like my #1 nightmare when flying.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So someone watched Top Gun Maverick and thought, "hmm, I'll bet I could scam some venture capitalists about hypersonic travel now." To be fair, a significant portion of the population, including billionaires, have billiard ball smooth brains and think movies are documentaries soooo....
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Lord Stimperor posted:About airships, my ground school materials contain some shots of tiny one person airships. But I can't find anything reliable about them. Do they actually exist outside of weird hobbyists who build their own as a stunt? Are they any good? Calling Lawnchair Larry!
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Lord Stimperor posted:About airships, my ground school materials contain some shots of tiny one person airships. But I can't find anything reliable about them. Do they actually exist outside of weird hobbyists who build their own as a stunt? Are they any good? I've only seen hot airships. I don't think any major company does significant production of them. They're pretty much just an oblong hot air balloon Jerry rigged with an engine and control surfaces. I do see one that has some rigid internal structure but it doesn't look like it is in production as the latest info is from 12 years ago. They're impractical to virtually useless. Even the one I linked above's "cruise speed" is 10mph. About 8 and half knots. When I fly a balloon I like my speed above ~250' to be 10-15kt, so it couldn't even remain stationary in good weather let alone make any significant progress upwind. Hot air balloons only fly at sunrise and sunset, the winds during the day are usually significantly higher and thermal activity is dangerous for balloons. It definitely cannot fly in weather much better than a standard balloon. And we can't/shouldn't fly in anything less than perfect conditions. You might be able to get some money for advertising but I would highly doubt that would cover much of the costs. I've never seen a solo sized gas airship. Helium is expensive - a quick google says bulk price is about $7.57 per cubic meter - so filling something I'd expect a gas airship size would be would be $4000+ and no matter how good the bladders are they are constantly leaking. Hydrogen might be a possibility to use, as modern gas balloons do use it, but they also designed specifically for hydrogen, and it's harder to design a propelled aircraft to have nothing that could ignite the gas. Beside lifting gas it'd be prohibitively expensive for any hobby use due to the cost/difficulty of a ground crew, as well as parking/protection for an airship. Unless you're a mega multi millionaire/billionaire it's not going to be possible.
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Where is Jerry anyway? Did the sky cops finally get him?
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They might’ve read him the riot act. There were no public actions against his license but he’s stopped pretending to be an instructor and bragging about reckless flying.
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St_Ides posted:They're pretty much just an oblong hot air balloon Jerry rigged with an engine and control surfaces. Can't tell if you're doing a Jerry joke - it's 'jury-rigged'.
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Xakura posted:Can't tell if you're doing a Jerry joke - it's 'jury-rigged'. Well, if we’re being technical… quote:The compound word 'jerry-built', a similar but distinct term, referring to things 'built unsubstantially of bad materials', has a separate origin from jury-rigged. The exact etymology is unknown, but it is probably linked to earlier pejorative uses of the word 'jerry', attested as early as 1721, and may have been influenced by 'jury-rigged'. A jury rig is a 17th century term for a temporary or improvised repair to a sailing ship’s rig. Though quickly become applied to anything on a ship.
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BalloonFish posted:It's happening:  FrozenVent posted:Those taxes already exist. When airships work out cheaper than planes, trust me, the switch will happen. I do think you are right in this very specific case, though I think it misses the broader point that airplanes and helicopters exist because they are good at different things, and airships are going to be good at a certain subset of flying things. On the other hand, there's a part of me that thinks you could replace a lot of helicopters with STOL airplanes, and an amphibious assault ship launching Buffaloes, modern An-2s, and turboprop Arado 232s that exist in my head would be pretty neat. PS Did Lockmart give up on its airship? e: quite a name quote:The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng said: "Hybrid aircraft could play an important role as we transition to cleaner forms of aviation, and it is wonderful to see the UK right at the forefront of the technology's development." Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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Full Collapse posted:That’s what Matlab is for. As long as stackoverflow is accessible from up there
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hobbesmaster posted:They might’ve read him the riot act. There were no public actions against his license but he’s stopped pretending to be an instructor and bragging about reckless flying. His flying has become very mundane and boring as well, he definitely got some extra training at some point.
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drunkill posted:Hope the tethered paraglider was wearing his brown pants Speaking of tethered flight / stolen from DnD techbro thread. techbros re-invent trains but worse level 2. teathered train planes. also vtrol prop trainplanes. Rebel Blob posted:Indeed, enjoy 20 minutes of stilt buses: e: oh that was meant for gbs osha, didnt know the tethered paraglider posts was from here. hello auto subforum, sorry if i violated posting norms or culture. PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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hobbesmaster posted:They might’ve read him the riot act. There were no public actions against his license but he’s stopped pretending to be an instructor and bragging about reckless flying. There's no way he didn't get threatened. Entitled old white men like him aren't introspective enough to change their behavior unless forced to by an outside authority that they don't think they can blow off.
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PhazonLink posted:Speaking of tethered flight / stolen from DnD techbro thread. Can I just comment Dahir Insaat is a fine channel, but it is no techbro, english
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My aviation-slanted YouTube queue hit another pro-click video that also isn't that long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBdw1Ty38g
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 Everyone lived The pilot has retrograde amnesia.
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I totally thought P-36 too and agreed it didn’t look right so I looked up the registration. P-64. Never heard of her but cool nonetheless.
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It's a P-64, only 13 of them were built apparently; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-64ThisIsJohnWayne posted:The trailing wing roots are wrong for a 36 and that's a twin wasp? engine or something else very pre-1940 US Navy looking From the wiki article it shares an ancestor with the T-6/SNJ (which are incredibly common), and uses an R-1820, which is also a fairly common engine. Flikken posted:P-36? That was one of my original guesses. It was giving me fits when I first saw it, it very much looks like 'generic late 1930s military aircraft'.
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I was going to say Brewster, but the airscoop on top throws me off.
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Once you know it's a P-64 you start spotting all the T-6/Texan/Harvard bits - undercarriage, wing section, tail surfaces, front canopy etc.
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If you want a chunk of a downed Su34 or Ka52 and support a righteous cause https://www.dronesforukraine.fund/
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