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Man I'd have thought Red Bull would be content to quit littering after tossing a whole 182 onto the ground, but they're still at it.
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Lynx air was a generally positive experience. Brand new max8, albeit spartan without chargers or even reclining seats, but comfortable for a 75 min flight and on time. Flair coming up in an hour. Not giving me the good vibes with texting of "SLIDEBITE DONT FORGET TO CHECK IN" even though I already did, have a boarding pass and presently behind security in yvr.
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slidebite posted:Lynx air was a generally positive experience. Brand new max8, albeit spartan without chargers or even reclining seats, but comfortable for a 75 min flight and on time. That's just weird apps being weird. It's nice getting "we're now boarding your plane" alerts from AA as you're on the taxiway.
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Yeah must be. Out of Canada's discount carriers, I prefer Lynx to Flair but to be totally honest a lot of that could be because lynx was at about 75% capacity and flair was a full bus. Interestingly, both were MAX aircraft but Flair called it a 737-800 in the seatback emergency sheet. It was definitely a MAX though. Not sure if anyone saw this, but it looks like Mayday has a Youtube channel now and are regularly posting full episodes. https://www.youtube.com/c/MaydayAirDisaster
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Fits thread title. https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1540994831555727363
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Phanatic posted:Fits thread title. Literal lol, hardest I've laughed in awhile. And the comments... quote:"Thanks to nuclear energy, the hotel never runs out of fuel and can remain suspended in the air for several years without ever touching the ground." The passengers and crew on the other hand must fight to survive in the evolving aero-thunderdome. quote:I bet I still end up next to someone else's screaming three year old for the entire trip
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Why did I read the replies quote:Covid above the clouds. Neat.
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Not only Nuclear powered, fusion nuclear powered. With a glass dome.. which I'm sure is great as a pressure vessel.
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slidebite posted:Not sure if anyone saw this, but it looks like Mayday has a Youtube channel now and are regularly posting full episodes. Noice! IMO their episode on the Arrow Air disaster is too credulous to the official story Two things to share, both wrecks: So for reasons y'all might understand but I do not, Newfoundland has several new goldmining operations starting up. As part of this, the Marine Institute finally did a bathymetric survey of at least some parts of Gander lake. And they found this:  Which appears to be that crashed B-24 people have looked for with more primitive sonar before. Assuming the ID is correct, it's gone nose-first into the mud, and the fuselage at some later point fell off behind the wing, with the rectangular things you see being the horizontal part of the tail. Apparently the Shipwreck socitey of NL is getting the legal cruff together so they can explore it. This was posted on facebook and sorting comments by "most relevant" is dogshit; first comment is GOVERNMENT HAS ALL OUR MONEY, the second is "what a horrible example of environmental crimes Americans committed" (The B-24 was RCAF.) Second wreck: let's build a flying hotel argh beaten like aeronautical engineers explaining you can't make lightweight nuclear shielding
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Jun 27, 2022 19:19
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Why is it flying above the clouds with the landing gear already extended?!
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slidebite posted:Not only Nuclear powered, fusion nuclear powered. I feel like I want to say "oh fusion, that's perfectly reasonable then" just to read Phanatic's withering takedown of myself
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Nebakenezzer posted:Noice! Any idea how deep the wreck is? That’s a pretty deep lake for its size. Which also has sent me down a rabbit hole of looking at underwater ROVs. Even consumer models are frigging expensive, geeze.
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Dahir Insaat's got competition!
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LimaBiker posted:Why is it flying above the clouds with the landing gear already extended?! It’s so they don’t have to do another render. slidebite posted:Not only Nuclear powered, fusion nuclear powered. If it wasn’t commissioned for someone’s Cyberpunk 2020/Red or Shadowrun campaign someone needs to get on writing one that takes place on this thing.
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What would big electric aircraft engines actually look like? For their render they just used standard turbofans. I assume there would still be nacelles for sound isolation, but would they just house a single big fan inside?
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LimaBiker posted:Why is it flying above the clouds with the landing gear already extended?!
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LimaBiker posted:Why is it flying above the clouds with the landing gear already extended?! 
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david_a posted:What would big electric aircraft engines actually look like? For their render they just used standard turbofans. I assume there would still be nacelles for sound isolation, but would they just house a single big fan inside? The Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment basically used a jet engine with the combustion chamber replaced by routing the air through a reactor core. 
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NightGyr posted:The Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment basically used a jet engine with the combustion chamber replaced by routing the air through a reactor core. That looks like a robot doing yoga
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Kesper North posted:That looks like a robot doing yoga camera lookin' down: robot double fisting some rocket fuel. camera lookin' up: hungover robot pukin' with his hands on his knees
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NightGyr posted:The Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment basically used a jet engine with the combustion chamber replaced by routing the air through a reactor core. Now that's pod racing!
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david_a posted:What would big electric aircraft engines actually look like? For their render they just used standard turbofans. I assume there would still be nacelles for sound isolation, but would they just house a single big fan inside? The designs I've seen are mostly just a big ducted fan with the motor suspended right in the middle and covered with heatsink fins. Then there's the comedy options like replacing the combustors in a traditional turbine with electric arcs or microwave plasma generators. A turbine can run off pretty much any heat source after all.
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This talks about some basic design overview for fission reactor aircraft https://youtu.be/9Jt924xjaJo
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Okay here it is: turbine taking energy from a big laser on the ground Airships following a path of ground lasers, each of which keeps pushing it for a few miles until the ship is in range of the next one It's an air tram Lord Stimperor fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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St_Ides posted:Any idea how deep the wreck is? That’s a pretty deep lake for its size. Yeah, making stuff that works deep is not cheap.There was a Canadian company that made an ROV smol enough that you could run it off of a commerical generator while having some multitool functionality, and it was still tens of thousands of dollars. The deep part of the lake runs most of its length, and is about 250-300m, or at least 900 ft. Apparently visibility can get piss-poor, too. The really fine silt that covers the lake bottom, if it gets stirred up reduces visibility to zero.
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Head in the Clouds is still a brilliant name for a blimp/future air tech whorehouse.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Head in the Clouds is still a brilliant name for a blimp/future air tech whorehouse. Post/Username/Avatar trifecta.
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I found a good video of that Bristol Freighter that’s in that lake in the Yukon. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoMV9jRxe3I
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Head in the Clouds is still a brilliant name for a blimp/future air tech whorehouse.
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Sorry... double post...Phanatic posted:Fits thread title.  
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Head in the Clouds is still a brilliant name for a blimp/future air tech whorehouse. It's from Altered Carbon.
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Cable Guy posted:Sorry... double post... I know militarization of police shouldn't surprise anyone, but giving cops old YAL-1? Come on.
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Phanatic posted:Fits thread title. This is the sort of stuff I doodle when I'm supposed to be listening to my boss.
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Gervasius posted:I know militarization of police shouldn't surprise anyone, but giving cops old YAL-1? Come on. It actually looks more like the SOFIA platform.
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A week ago I got to fly on 'G Force One' a 727 which provides parabolic flights to simulate zero G, NASA puts experiments on it, but more often people pay $8000 for a giant rollercoaster in the sky. Unlike all the usual puff pieces about floating around and doing backflips in zero g, I arranged to go and talk to the pilots in the cockpit afterwards and that for me is the coolest part of this video, the 727 they fly was built in 1976, it still has steam gauges for most of its primary instruments and an engineers station to boot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67YP-f-LyI
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Not to steal Scott's thunder but here is a different cool youtube video that is ostensibly about football but is really about an absolute nutjob of a pilot who makes the infamous Jerry look like Sully Sullenberger by comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcVZZuj_WE
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Haven’t had the old “Why did they post a Scott Manley vide- oh right.” mixup in a minute.
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illectro posted:A week ago I got to fly on 'G Force One' a 727 which provides parabolic flights to simulate zero G, NASA puts experiments on it, but more often people pay $8000 for a giant rollercoaster in the sky. Unlike all the usual puff pieces about floating around and doing backflips in zero g, I arranged to go and talk to the pilots in the cockpit afterwards and that for me is the coolest part of this video, the 727 they fly was built in 1976, it still has steam gauges for most of its primary instruments and an engineers station to boot. I really like the part about how they joked the flight engineer came with the plane from Boeing. Good video; the whole thing was interesting.
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