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JingleBells posted:Someone flew from California to Hawaii in a Cessna 172, 18hrs non-stop My brother found a video of the arrival, and you can see the ferry tank in the back of the cabin. https://www.facebook.com/566027619/videos/5061899067251838/
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How do they put that tank in? It looks huge, wider than the door or does it just look that way? I assume filling up a tank like that must put it over max weight?
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ESOPS. That does not look like fun, I hope they paid him a lot of money.
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Murgos posted:Why couldn’t they just be shipped mostly assembled in boxes or wrapped in plastic and do final assembly at the destination? because paying some newb in flight time is cheaper than paying to have professionals take the airplane apart and then put it back together Arson Daily fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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PT6A posted:ESOPS. they didn't
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PT6A posted:ESOPS. Engine spins or pilot swims?
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Lord Stimperor posted:Can someone tell me what the Sky Warden is about? As far as I understand it, it's a converted industrial plane made to carry surveillance and light ground attack weapons. It seems to me a drone could fulfill the same role without exposing a pilot to risk. Is it meant for export to other countries or really that much cheaper than a drone? What's the deal here?
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evil_bunnY posted:It's a predator without the chain of command in the way. Stealing this.
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hobbesmaster posted:There was only one aircraft in the vicinity, Air New Zealand Flight 103, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 travelling from Fiji to Auckland. The flight had 88 passengers on board. The captain was Gordon Vette, the first officer was Arthur Dovey, and the flight engineer was Gordon Brooks. Man, this flight deck would have absolutely rippled with the sursurration of moustaches.
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Fun local news from a couple weeks ago.Airplane debris crashes down near Maine State Capitol building posted:AUGUSTA (WGME) – A member of the Capitol Police is lucky to be OK after he narrowly missed being hit by what's believed to be part of a plane.  Left a good dent in the granite:  Anyone have a guess at what it was?
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My dad used to do those transpacific delivery flights for Mooney. His favourite story was the time a customer ordered a M20 with the extended range tanks installed (helpful for delivering over the pacific too), the paperwork said it had the extended range tanks installed, the fueler filled it to the brim and reported that it must therefore have the extended range tanks worth of fuel... but oops, Mooney put the wrong wings on it (the ones *without* extended range tanks) and nobody realized the mistake until his engine started sputtering 30 minutes from land when he should have been good for another couple of hours including reserve. (He did an emergency landing at the first strip he found and was OK)
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Captain Postal posted:My dad used to do those transpacific delivery flights for Mooney. His favourite story was the time a customer ordered a M20 with the extended range tanks installed (helpful for delivering over the pacific too), the paperwork said it had the extended range tanks installed, the fueler filled it to the brim and reported that it must therefore have the extended range tanks worth of fuel... but oops, Mooney put the wrong wings on it (the ones *without* extended range tanks) and nobody realized the mistake until his engine started sputtering 30 minutes from land when he should have been good for another couple of hours including reserve. (He did an emergency landing at the first strip he found and was OK) This is why you always need someone counting the gas to make sure enough has been put in.
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Cojawfee posted:This is why you always need someone counting the gas to make sure enough has been put in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOJXRs_V5Cw
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Ferrari setting up a tow for a 1sec down lap for the driver taking a penalty in q2 lmao wild
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it's hard to use computers
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WHAT?!?   HOW DARE TH... oh it's the Konkordski. As you were, lads.
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Bold of them to choose the Goblin and not the F-104 for the cover
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That is a book designed for the purpose of destroying threads like this one.
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That looks a lot like a book called Lemons The World’s Worst Cars I have. Edit: On further investigation it is in fact the same publisher, and yes, that flying car is in both of them. Fornax Disaster fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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Dr.Smasher posted:Bold of them to choose the Goblin and not the F-104 for the cover Wingnut Ninja posted:That is a book designed for the purpose of destroying threads like this one. It’s already fuckin started.
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If there isn't a dumb bow and arrow joke in the inevitable entry about the Goodyear Inflatoplanes I'd be astonished.
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It’s a bad book because the Osprey isn’t on the cover
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Bob A Feet posted:It’s a bad book because the Constellation isn’t on the cover
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Bob A Feet posted:It’s a bad book because the F-35 isn’t on the cover
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the book got it right those planes you, reader of this post, dont like are good and not contained within the book much less on the cover im strongly of this opinion and only pretend to even read counterarguments posted in good faith
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That is a book designed for the purpose of destroying threads like this one. The Sea Dart is clearly the best plane on the cover.
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I owned that exact book as a child.
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The absence of any German ww2 plane from that cover is, I'm not sure how to say this, some type of bad engineering erasure
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What’s the worst plane that the Nazis They weren’t all great, but the depths of depravity they achieved on the drawing board is something else. I’ll nominate the Me 163 as being a bad concept executed ineptly.
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163 was good next the 349. And the 177 would've been
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I dont know that the Seadart was bad, its mission wound up not being one that needed to be filled, but its not a flaw with the plane. Its a good choice for a cover image though, so if they wanted to move books...
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RandomPauI posted:I dont know that the Seadart was bad, its mission wound up not being one that needed to be filled, but its not a flaw with the plane. Its a good choice for a cover image though, so if they wanted to move books... The book's definitely got some takes. It would probably be a good buy for dad's coffee table or to introduce a teenager to the wonderful world of weird airplanes. Nice big pictures and a jocular tone to the text. I think I paid $5 for it at Ollie's discount turkey jerky and carpet emporium.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:163 was good next the 349. And the 177 would've been Nazi aircraft, wunderwaffen or wundershiesse?
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Eric Brown flew the 163 and several other tailless aircraft and said the 163 was the best of the lot (terrifying fuel notwithstanding).
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Bob A Feet posted:It’s a bad book because the Osprey isn’t on the cover Why is the osprey the worlds worst airplane?
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If a Me-163 got 1. Big enough to fit permanent retractable gear 2. Enough fuel to not have to economise on powered flight 3. A jet engine from the 70s or better 4. AND maintained the same cg and aerodynamics Then it would have been as good as the books I read as a kid said it deserved to be. "Development time" is a magical land that could fix every problem if only you could get enough of it, apparently.
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vuk83 posted:Why is the osprey the worlds worst airplane? Oh I just made the joke because the Osprey is usually low hanging fruit in these debates. It is also good at rapidly attracting detractors too. I flew it for a while in my careers past and loved the thing. It’s a decent airplane that has the maintenance footprint of a helicopter. It’d attract a lot less hate provided the USMC could properly man and supply it.
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It seems to me that the big problems with the Osprey were a) people viewing it as a fixed-wing aircraft when it’s really a helicopter (and thus thirsts for the blood of it’s occupants), b) the USMC doing test events with passengers instead of instrumented dummies leading to bad headlines, and c) maintenance requirements lead to fighter-like CPFH.
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