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Hadlock posted:Sea State 4 is defined as 1.25 to 2.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 8 ft 2 in) and state 5 is 2.5 to 4 metres (8 ft 2 in to 13 ft 1 in) While basic seakeeping would of course be very possible - just build a boat - the speeds necessary for take offs and landings at that sea states would probably be very problematic for a conventional aircraft. The obvious solution here then would be a STOL or VTOL configuration. Thrust would probably have to pivot quickly at takeoff power to keep a larger craft's thrust vector from going crazy when there is a potential 8ft+ (safety margin after all) difference between wings. These should be solvable issues given sufficiently absurd resources.
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Hadlock posted:It says "Goals include" so I'm not sure if that's strict criteria So like a bigger US-2?
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bennyfactor posted:So like a bigger US-2? Yeah pretty much exactly like that, with a 747 vertical hinge nosecone
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The solution is and always will be “strap some JATOs on the bitch”.
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How about a collapsible hydrofoil for taking off?
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Clearly the solution is bringing back Sea Dragon. It doesn't even have to make orbit, just turn it into a ballistic delivery vehicle. 
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Syncopated posted:How about a collapsible hydrofoil for taking off? Don't worry, things will be collapsing.
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They might be able to airlift an M1A2 to the beach if the aircraft is somehow able to do a PTO (power take off) from the tanks turbine engine. Some kind of stupid movie synergy like Pacific Rim Weird beach lander quadcopters sound like a much better, weirdly, less stupid, solution than building an old fashioned airplane. Replace the rotors with old 747 engines or something
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Hadlock posted:They might be able to airlift an M1A2 to the beach if the aircraft is somehow able to do a PTO (power take off) from the tanks turbine engine. Some kind of stupid movie synergy like Pacific Rim I can't help but think the use of propellers signifies a nuclear powerplant, which is going to be a non-starter for all kinds of reasons.
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Animal posted:are you guys tracking the delivery flight for the last 747? Little easter egg in the route an image for the lazy 
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Salami Surgeon posted:I've been fiddling with it for over an hour now. Probably 30 minutes to unbox, write the image, boot, and set the WiFi. Then I cannot connect to it when it's on my WiFi. ADSBexchange says it's getting my data, I can see the MAC in my DHCP leases, but I can't connect to my pi locally now. I'll fiddle with it some more later. I got it to work. Installation is pretty painless. Just put the image on the SD card then boot. Wait for the ADSBx-config network to show up and connect. Go to http://adsbexchange.local/ and set it up to connect to your WiFi. The pi will start spitting out data to adsbexchange. All same as the instructions. This is where it broke down for me. http://adsbexchange.local/ no longer worked even though I knew it was on my network and running. If this happens to you, you need to use the IP, not the URL. Feeding flightaware and flightradar24 is easy. Go to http://adsbexchange.local/otherfeeds or IP/otherfeeds and enter the information. No link on the main page, gotta enter the address manually. With flightaware, you'll need to log on using the same IP as your feeder. I haven't looked at feeding other sites or turning off adsbexchange feed yet.
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/special-operations-c-130-seaplane-program-put-on-back-burner Apparently the old seaplane was getting too close to commercial viability, so they moved the goal posts and restarted the program
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Be gay and do barrel rolls.
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Is this the thread to talk about the chinese spy balloon? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/us/politics/china-spy-balloon-pentagon.html
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go play outside Skyler posted:Is this the thread to talk about the chinese spy balloon? Cold War thread has a good discussion about it
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Platystemon posted:Be gay and do barrel rolls. *Marked 'safe' from fundamentalist torpedoes*
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go play outside Skyler posted:Is this the thread to talk about the chinese spy balloon? The balloon made my day fun fknlo fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Hadlock posted:They might be able to airlift an M1A2 to the beach if the aircraft is somehow able to do a PTO (power take off) from the tanks turbine engine. Some kind of stupid movie synergy like Pacific Rim
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slidebite posted:Just turn the M1 into a quadcopter Hovertanks! At last!
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slidebite posted:Just turn the M1 into a quadcopter Dahir Insaat ears are ringing right now.
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My Airship Flights by Capt. George Meager Excerpts from a book in a series of short, low effort posts Sorry this is late, the death of a friend made posting no fun. One of the last things he said to me that while he hated air travel and domestically always drove or used trains, he'd be down for airship flying. Just FYI, I've no idea if this origin story is true or not. Er, where the word blimp comes from, not if Meager saw porpoises  One pilot nicknamed the Count, mwa ha ha ha! Amazing name: Flt. Lt. Roach-Smith. Also, Meager, Rope, your fuel filter is getting clogged with mud? That's not normal for gas engines.   Meager gets advanced to being a Coastal class pilot. Pilots, check out this control system  Classic British understatement; yeet the jacket  Airships: like sailing ships with more turnbuckles  "There's your problem: engine isn't screwed into its mount."  Flying in thick fog with one or no engines  Now I'd be worried about machine-gunning a naval mine for fear it would explode  Don't ask me what the funeral procession took a break to do  There were two industrial methods for refining hydrogen during the First World War: one that sprayed superheated steam at iron to create rust and hydrogen, and the "ferrosilicol" process: quote:Thanks to some help from the Airship Trust who lent me some Hydrogen Manuals I can describe the silicol process as follows. Powdered ferrosilicon is fed in a controlled manner into a closed stirred tank containing a very hot, strong solution of caustic soda. The ferrosilicon reacts rapidly with the caustic soda, producing a mixture of steam and 99% pure hydrogen. Usually the gas is passed through cold water in a "scrubber" to condense the steam, collect the hydrogen and remove some of the (poisonous) impurities. The chemical reaction produces a lot of heat, which is used to keep the temperature of the tank at around 115 C. A residue consisting mainly of sodium silicate ("water glass") is left in the liquid in the tank. When the batch of caustic soda has become exhausted, the tank must be drained as soon as possible, otherwise the residue will solidify in the tank. 'Caustic soda' being Lye. So this process is reacting the slag left over in blast furnaces (mix of sand, IE silicon and iron) slowly, because the reaction is very energetic with the...high test Lye? and the product is steam and hydrogen, so all of this has to be pressurized, too. So I came across this in a book I read, and I was confused until I read what 'caustic soda' was  Speaking of accidents, Ft. Lt. Hogg-Turnover had a wild ride  7 hours on top of a blimp with a machine gun  Commodore Tyrrwitt   Emergency landing in an airship:   Next time: the Italian Job  The Author: 
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Powered Descent posted:Hovertanks! At last! New thread title?
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Powered Descent posted:Hovertanks! At last! 
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Nebakenezzer posted:
Thanks as always. Excellent posts that are fascinating.
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Nebakenezzer posted:My Airship Flights by Capt. George Meager As far as career ending decisions go, this is probably the smartest I've ever heard of.
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slidebite posted:Just turn the M1 into a quadcopter https://youtu.be/lnbl9CZ9tOI
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The balloon is down!The Last Call posted:https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1621960119578673152 Imagine this being the high point of some F-22 pilot's career.
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mobby_6kl posted:The balloon is down! Probably the only air to air kill a piloted US aircraft will score this century.
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Midjack posted:Probably the only air to air kill a piloted US aircraft will score this century. This century piloted US aircraft have already shot down a manned Syrian SU-22 (downed by a USN F/A-8E) and several drones (F-15Es, IIRC), all in the middle east. quote:“The whole incident lasted about eight minutes… I did not directly communicate with the Syrian Jet but he was given several warnings by our supporting AWACS aircraft… So yes, we released ordnance and yes it hit a target that was in the air, but it really just came back to defending those guys that were doing the hard job on the ground and taking that ground back from ISIS.” He continued “I didn’t see the pilot eject but my wingman observed his parachute. When you think about the shoot-down, in the grand scheme of things… we [our squadron] flew over 400 missions in support of friendly forces on the ground” he said. On encounters with Russian aircraft, he said: “They behaved with great professionalism at all times.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2azWZ4QcrPA
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mobby_6kl posted:The balloon is down!
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mlmp08 posted:This century piloted US aircraft have already shot down a manned Syrian SU-22 (downed by a USN F/A-8E) Google search result for fa-8e https://shop.snapon.com/product/Hex-Standard%2C-inches%2C-Chrome-(3%2F8%22)/3-8%22-Drive-SAE-1%2F4%22-Standard-Hex-Bit-Socket-Driver/FA8E
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You got me, I typod F/A-18E Would be cooler if an F-8E had gotten a kill in 2018, though
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Were there no air to air shoot downs in Second Iraq?
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Bob A Feet posted:Unless this cat becomes an astronaut, I guarantee you it’ll be the high point. In 30 years, he’ll be torturing some young airline FO with the balloon story twelve times over a three day trip. What kind of cool call sign does that earn you?
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Pablo Bluth posted:When was the last time there was an air-kill over US territory, and when was the last time one was over continental US? I don't think there's ever been an intentional one over conus
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mobby_6kl posted:What kind of cool call sign does that earn you? "Pin" or "Tack", since you popped a fuckin balloon.
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mobby_6kl posted:What kind of cool call sign does that earn you? Rosie
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