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Are there enough former Warsaw Pact-now NATO members to get spare parts?
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Full Collapse posted:Are there enough former Warsaw Pact-now NATO members to get spare parts? Talk to your local F-4.
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Nov 23, 2022 09:34
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hobbesmaster posted:It feels like even the CRJ-200 is rare. Not as rare as it should be. Hateful loving thing.
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Nov 23, 2022 10:04
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Full Collapse posted:Are there enough former Warsaw Pact-now NATO members to get spare parts? Mr. Isaacman is apparently a billionaire so I'm sure paying for engines is a minor inconvenience This MiG-29 sat in Paul Allen's museum until he passed way, so getting to see it fly in person was the 2nd best part of AirVenture 2022 for me. My only disappointment was that it didn't get parked in Boeing Plaza where I could take close up pictures of that beautiful paint job. It was surplus'd out by Ukraine shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It actually took several years to get it from Ukraine to Paul Allen's museum, just due to miles and miles of red tape. Absolute best part of AirVenture 2022 was sitting in the bombardiers seat on B-29 Fifi for a full ride Dr.Smasher fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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Nov 23, 2022 10:31
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Trips me out to see the engines pumping heat with the flight intakes fully closed. 29s are neat, the bush planes of the fighter world. E: MiG-29s, though now I'm curious if a MiG-29 and a B-29 have ever flown in formation. 
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Nov 23, 2022 14:02
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hobbesmaster posted:It feels like even the CRJ-200 is rare. They are very much not. A million of them come out of DEN each day flying to all the middle of nowhere BFE places in Wyoming/Nebraska/Kansas/etc...
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Nov 23, 2022 16:06
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The prototype of Turkiye's TF-X fighter is taking shape. https://twitter.com/Acemal71/status/1595390482699403264
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Nov 23, 2022 16:14
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Does it have a better chance of being real compared to the 7/8 scale Iranian "stealth" fighter from years ago?
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Nov 23, 2022 17:03
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Well, the canopy doesn’t look like it was vacformed from a sheet of acrylic from the Home Depot, at least.
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Nov 23, 2022 17:43
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fknlo posted:They are very much not. A million of them come out of DEN each day flying to all the middle of nowhere BFE places in Wyoming/Nebraska/Kansas/etc... Compared to what delta was doing with them 20 years ago they are rare.
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Nov 23, 2022 17:49
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slidebite posted:Does it have a better chance of being real compared to the 7/8 scale Iranian "stealth" fighter from years ago?
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Nov 23, 2022 18:31
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Dr.Smasher posted:Absolute best part of AirVenture 2022 was sitting in the bombardiers seat on B-29 Fifi for a full ride I've only seen Fifi from the outside, but it was my second favorite airshow experience ever, second only to the first time I saw the Thunderbirds when I was like 7. As An Old Person, I like seeing warbirds fly, but it's become familiar. You see some fighters, you see a B-17, maybe you see a B-24, it's all cool. Then Fifi goes up and the noise is the same, but that thing just moves. It's one thing to read specs and say sure, faster than a B-17, higher ceiling, more bombs, whatever. It's another to see the speed difference when it's zipping around in front of you.
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Nov 23, 2022 20:03
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I took a ride in the waist of FIFI in 2013. Amazing. 
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Nov 23, 2022 21:57
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Can the average paying passenger in 2022 fit down that tunnel?
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Nov 23, 2022 22:09
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I, a large fatbody, was thinking that very thing as I set-up the shot. I figured I could be pulled through, but there was insufficient room for me to frog-crawl/propel myself. Pretty sure they'd frown on the attempt in any event.
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Nov 24, 2022 02:06
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Dr.Smasher posted:This MiG-29 sat in Paul Allen's museum until he passed way, so getting to see it fly in person was the 2nd best part of AirVenture 2022 for me. My only disappointment was that it didn't get parked in Boeing Plaza where I could take close up pictures of that beautiful paint job. It didn't just sit in the museum, thankfully. They put it up in the air at least a few times, one of those happened to be when I was visiting.  sure put out some thoroughly non-delicious smelling exhaust though, let me tell you.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:00
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Can the average paying passenger in 2022 fit down that tunnel? I seemed to recall WWII aircraft having surprisingly low height limits as well but quickly found that there was hurricane squadron commander that was 6’6” (?!) I did find that the total crew weight limit for a B-17 was 1200lb. I wonder if everyone under a certain height just got assigned as a tanker or bomber crew.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:15
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hobbesmaster posted:I seemed to recall WWII aircraft having surprisingly low height limits as well but quickly found that there was hurricane squadron commander that was 6’6” (?!) A lot of anthropometric restrictions in aircraft are based on more fine-grained measurements like seated height, arm reach, leg length and such. So every now and then you can get a freakishly tall person who has the right min/max stats to make it workable. I'd imagine in WWII there was also an element of "well just scrunch down and make it work", especially when your squadron is switching to a new model of aircraft every six months.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:26
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Wasn't that a whole thing in Catch-22? It's been a while since I read it.
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Nov 24, 2022 06:48
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6'8" Masochist flies across Canada exclusively on dash-8s. https://youtu.be/BUSzqFdbdsc
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Nov 24, 2022 07:14
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Air Canada: we will use every mile of range Bombardier gives us and you can’t stop us.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:45
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hobbesmaster posted:Air Canada: we will use every mile of range Bombardier gives us and you can’t stop us. 9 separate flights across Canada in a Dash isn’t really that bad, I flew YYC to IAH in a loving CRJ, and whoever is responsible for making that a thing that could happen, deserves suffering. I would never book such a flight, but the United A320 I was supposed to be on had a MX issue, so rebooked onto the long, thin torture chamber I go!
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Nov 24, 2022 14:11
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hobbesmaster posted:Air Canada: we will use every mile of range Bombardier gives us and you can’t stop us. There’s Dash-8 and Dash-8. Anybody who complains about the Q400 has never been in a 100 doing a milk run.
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Nov 24, 2022 14:12
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I have and I will  The 400 is much better though, no question. Does AC still fly them up here? I think they still have a couple?
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slidebite posted:I have and I will They do, MKE-YYZ being a notable local option for me (that I will never voluntarily take).
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Nov 24, 2022 16:22
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Wingnut Ninja posted:A lot of anthropometric restrictions in aircraft are based on more fine-grained measurements like seated height, arm reach, leg length and such. So every now and then you can get a freakishly tall person who has the right min/max stats to make it workable. Yup, I was all lined up in my head to be a fighter pilot when I was in school. But when I was doing some pre-entry tests I failed the 'sitdown' test as it was called. So career diversion to Avionics Tech and from Chair Force to Army.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:A lot of anthropometric restrictions in aircraft are based on more fine-grained measurements like seated height, arm reach, leg length and such. So every now and then you can get a freakishly tall person who has the right min/max stats to make it workable. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html quote:Using the size data he had gathered from 4,063 pilots, Daniels calculated the average of the 10 physical dimensions believed to be most relevant for design, including height, chest circumference and sleeve length. These formed the dimensions of the “average pilot,” which Daniels generously defined as someone whose measurements were within the middle 30 per cent of the range of values for each dimension. So, for example, even though the precise average height from the data was five foot nine, he defined the height of the “average pilot” as ranging from five-seven to five-11. Next, Daniels compared each individual pilot, one by one, to the average pilot.
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Nov 26, 2022 19:39
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John Deere started working with an industrial design firm in the mid 30s, before that they had not paid much attention to ergonomics. The industrial designers asked them how they had designed their tractor seats which were not comfortable for anyone. John Deere’s engineers replied that they found the fattest guy who worked in their factory and designed the seat to fit his rear end.
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Nov 26, 2022 20:04
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Fornax Disaster posted:John Deere started working with an industrial design firm in the mid 30s, before that they had not paid much attention to ergonomics. The industrial designers asked them how they had designed their tractor seats which were not comfortable for anyone. I've offered my 6'5" giant fatass to airlines as a seat tester multiple times, only to be rebuffed at every turn.
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Nov 26, 2022 23:17
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One of the fun things about flying Hawkeyes is that it tends to get people who were too short or too tall for fighter jets. One of my friends was an inch too short for the minimum seated height measurement when she showed up to flight school, so they had her focus on doing squats for a month and she was able to pass. Another very tall friend had to figure out how to order a custom tailored flight suit through the supply system (which can be done, it turns out) because none of the standard issue ones fitted his weird proportions.
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Nov 26, 2022 23:42
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Beef Of Ages posted:I've offered my 6'5" giant fatass to airlines as a seat tester multiple times, only to be rebuffed at every turn. hey there fellow 6'5" 300 pound goon
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Wingnut Ninja posted:One of the fun things about flying Hawkeyes is that it tends to get people who were too short or too tall for fighter jets. One of my friends was an inch too short for the minimum seated height measurement when she showed up to flight school, so they had her focus on doing squats for a month and she was able to pass. Another very tall friend had to figure out how to order a custom tailored flight suit through the supply system (which can be done, it turns out) because none of the standard issue ones fitted his weird proportions. Wait doing a bunch of squats makes you taller how?
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It wasn't to make her taller, it was to make her butt fatter so that her eyeline was an inch higher when she was sitting in the cockpit.
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Nov 27, 2022 01:15
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Ahhhh that makes sense.
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Also lol at the air force for having a booty requirement to fly.
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Nov 27, 2022 01:18
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Ballast requirement left over from the airship days.
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Nov 27, 2022 01:25
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Sagebrush posted:It wasn't to make her taller, it was to make her butt fatter so that her eyeline was an inch higher when she was sitting in the cockpit. Yup. Seated height. A little extra in the butt was enough to make the difference.
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Nov 27, 2022 01:31
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lmao didn't know Harrison Ford was in town: https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1597009982016585728 Pilot and passengers are supposedly okay.
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The plane looks remarkably intact -- you'd think it'd be in pieces after a tower impact. Even if it was crawling along at just above stall speed, that's still something like 65 or 70 knots. (My car wouldn't look that good if I rammed a tower at 70-80 mph.) Image stolen from https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/27/us/maryland-small-plane-crash-power-lines/index.html
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Are those steel beams?  e: oops I thought I was in GBS The Real Amethyst fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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