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NASA has posted ads looking for a 747 flight engineer for SOFIA, and I can't imagine they got terribly many responses. They're scrapping SOFIA this year anyway (the program has never been well run, so this wasn't a surprise), so that'll solve that particular issue.
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azflyboy posted:NASA has posted ads looking for a 747 flight engineer for SOFIA, and I can't imagine they got terribly many responses. Doesn’t the E-4 have a flight engineer? The ad might be some sort of formality for a temporary assignment/job. edit: yes, 2 pilots, flight engineer, navigator hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That'll rattle some fillings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxWp7HTcWs  Not great, but it doesn't seem terrible to me.
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PhotoKirk posted:This is the sort of stuff I doodle when I'm supposed to be listening to my boss. I like the frankly Cobra-esque buildings under the glass dome So if you wanted to build a stonking-ly gigantic aero engine, would turbines even work? I'm guessing it is really, like, super important the turbine doesn't turn faster than the speed of sound.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I like the frankly Cobra-esque buildings under the glass dome Nah plenty of jet engine turbine blade tips exceed the speed of sound, subsonic blade tips are more efficient, but it’s worth paying the penalty for overall engine performance. Also lots of the consequences of supersonic blade tips don’t happen because the shroud stops things like blade tip vortices stealing energy and making lots of noise.
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illectro posted:the shroud stops things like blade tip vortices stealing energy and making lots of noise. well that part depends on your definition of "lots" of noise  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ej_ITwTIrQ&t=111s
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That'll rattle some fillings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxWp7HTcWs
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That’s the tailcone on the DC-9 that pops off when you open the rear hatch/slide. I’m not sure if there’s any equipment in that area too. edit: Douglas FA training video circa… 1980ish? Tail cone at 30s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAndXzhgurI As for how… I mean it’s supposed to pop off so you have a variety of options both interior and exterior. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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Warbird posted:The That’s not very common, I’d just like to make that point.
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PT6A posted:That’s not very common, I’d just like to make that point. Not to undermine the joke but I was glancing through the youtube comments on that one I posted and then an airliners.net or some other plane forum thread that came up and some mechanics were saying that they occasionally just fell off the first flight after depot work. Airflow would keep it attached in flight but on touchdown it wasn't unheard of for them to just fall off on the runway and nobody inside the plane would notice a thing. Apparently its a very light piece, I guess because in case of a belly landing a single passenger could shove it out of the way if needed. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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Ok here’s some proper insanity/hosed up poo poo: Most of you at some point have probably seen a photo from Vladimir Komarov’s open casket funeral at some point if you’ve been on the internet a while. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the poor bastard that went up on the Soyuz 1 knowing full well that it was a shoddily made death trap and allegedly requested an open casket funeral as a gently caress you to the engineers that killed him. On reentry his parachutes failed to deploy and he slammed into the ground at speed with predictable results. The US had listening stations in Turkey at the time and were able to listen in and record him cursing and screaming at his superiors as he “plunged to his doom”. Here’s the hosed up part: if you want to hear a soon to be dead man air his grievances, you can purchase it for less than a dollar on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Sojuz-Death-Komarov-During-Re-Entry/dp/B002SHRCYU/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=08cddb8c-0e2e-48b8-9b83-d2d1e97f1245 The track list on that album is a fukkin trip.
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"You know, Comrade, you're being very anti-Soviet right now. Think of the useful data we'll get from the investigation and your autopsy! You should really focus on your imminent positive contributions to the State."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3MlwW5UWc Neat. For a second there I didn't realize those were dummy munitions being loaded onto an a-10 thunderbolt in the middle of the highway. It was a very  moment.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3MlwW5UWc My buddy lives down the road from that strip of M-28 and, as a fellow avgeek, he reported many scintillating things.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3MlwW5UWc The Airpower thread has had the discussion before about, 'why doesn't the US do like some European countries and have highways that can double a runways?" My hypothesis was that it was likely that the construction standards were good enough and there was no reason to be explicit. Nice to see that corroborated. Also there are hundreds of thousands of airfields in the US so, yeah already hit target saturation limits.
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I have no idea if it's true or not, but when I was a child there was a SAC bomber base about an hour away and I was told the Interstate highway near it had a section that was perfectly straight for a few miles and poured twice as thick as a normal highway. Sure, why not?
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The US is gigantic, mostly empty, and separated from anything that could be a threat by literal oceans which are patrolled by a navy that is as big as the rest of the world's navies combined. You couldn't make up a more secure place or a place that needed less defensive civil infrastructure
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Lord Stimperor posted:The US is gigantic, mostly empty, and separated from anything that could be a threat by literal oceans which are patrolled by a navy that is as big as the rest of the world's navies combined. You couldn't make up a more secure place or a place that needed less defensive civil infrastructure But they want mah freedoms. We must defend them!
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The highway thing is cool but the last thing you need is a huge jet broken down in the middle of your main logistics pipeline.
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Varig Flight 254 analysis https://imgur.com/a/3EpWI35
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I mean that seems hosed up and the world is bullshit atm but where is the AI
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One of the officers at my MOS training got poo poo-canned because he made some privates come over and paint his house.
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`Nemesis posted:Varig Flight 254 analysis loving headings, how do they work? Reminds me of a story I heard in flight school of a frazzled nugget pilot off the coast of San Diego who couldn't find his way back to land after getting disoriented in one of the practice areas out over the ocean. He ended up flying in completely the wrong direction for a while before getting it sorted out and turning around, but his excuse was that he couldn't read his compass because he was blinded by the setting sun, which he was flying directly into.
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`Nemesis posted:Varig Flight 254 analysis quote:The response among the passengers was bipolar: some joined hands in a solemn prayer session, while others stormed the galley and wantonly distributed alcoholic beverages. mood
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`Nemesis posted:Varig Flight 254 analysis Good read
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`Nemesis posted:Varig Flight 254 analysis The Mayday episode made a much bigger deal of the soccer match, I wonder if it did play a role. Or fatigue. Because mixing up 027 and 270, when you’re familiar with the geography, seems… weird.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:... his excuse was that he couldn't read his compass because he was blinded by the setting sun, which he was flying directly into. 
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Wingnut Ninja posted:but his excuse was that he couldn't read his compass because he was blinded by the setting sun, which he was flying directly into. As an amateur astronomer, I'm of the opinion that everyone, whether pilots or not, should be at least introduced to the habits of the Sun and the Moon. Maybe even the pole star, if there happens to be one in your usual hemisphere.
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Powered Descent posted:As an amateur astronomer, I'm of the opinion that everyone, whether pilots or not, should be at least introduced to the habits of the Sun and the Moon. Maybe even the pole star, if there happens to be one in your usual hemisphere.  Kids apparently all know the mnemonic for the planets and their order from the Sun, but no one ever taught them how the sky works. It would kill the Flat Earth movement in its cradle, too.
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Powered Descent posted:As an amateur astronomer, I'm of the opinion that everyone, whether pilots or not, should be at least introduced to the habits of the Sun and the Moon. Maybe even the pole star, if there happens to be one in your usual hemisphere. Also Venus. Might save you a bunch of AA ammunition.
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slidebite posted:I booked that Halifax flight I talked about earlier (fares dropped about 30% today) and avoided Toronto like the loving plague. I'm literally taking a flight with a 2+ hour layover in Ottawa to avoid even a short layover in YYZ because of the disaster that seems to have no end in sight there. Sounds like it's *mostly* international, but no thanks. Jesus, almost a month later, Air Canada and Westjet cancelling 15% of flights, and it's still a poo poo-show https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/missing-luggage-has-become-flight-passengers-latest-headache-amid-flight-delays-1.5969794 https://twitter.com/happybug13/status/1541306171528822784?s=20&t=WKtQ5YXPGQqRUP5QnahGjg
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Well, this could've been interesting: https://onemileatatime.com/news/emirates-a380-hole-fuselage/ Especially since it sounds like it flew the majority of the way from Dubai to Brisbane with that loving hole in the fuselage.
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