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Look at all these folks who haven't seen the documentary Stealth. E: What a lovely snipe.
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hobbesmaster posted:I can’t stop thinking of a metal gear solid death cutscene. I don’t even mean that far, though it would be pretty good, I mean take the existing screen you see there when it loses signal for a second, flip it, and add a bar or two for some extra strips.
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This sounds legit (CBC source) https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/poland-ukraine-fighter-jets-1.6780984 quote:Poland's president said Thursday that his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfil the Ukrainian government's increasingly urgent requests for warplanes.
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PhotoKirk posted:Maybe an attempt to coat the lens? I'm betting this.
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Midjack posted:I'm betting this.
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And Slovakia is getting in on sending Mig29s to Poland now too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/slovakia-jets-ukraine-russia-1.6781898
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PhotoKirk posted:Maybe an attempt to coat the lens? At speed, with aviation fuel? No sane person could believe this would work.
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Potato Salad posted:At speed, with aviation fuel? No sane person could believe this would work. It says "aeronautical insanity" right on the tin
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Is there a seperate thread on SA for pilots and piloting? I have a question about the process of becoming one.
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madeintaipei posted:Is there a seperate thread on SA for pilots and piloting? I have a question about the process of becoming one. Yes in ask/tell
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madeintaipei posted:Is there a seperate thread on SA for pilots and piloting? I have a question about the process of becoming one. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3821398 If you don't want to search A/T for it.
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes in ask/tell babyeatingpsychopath posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3821398 Thank you!
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So I didn't know the company that is using drones in Africa for medical deliveries is called Zipline Anyway, it sounds like they are taking a crack at the thread favorite, delivery drones. The video below you can skip around in to get the most interesting deets. Real AI nerds will be interested in their drone rotors designed for quietness. Also the blood delivery drones are pretty cool! I'm not sure how they got their GPS that accurate, but they are basically doing drone naval aviation: fling it into the sky via catapult, recovery via GPS-timed arresting cable. Maybe this is just smart marketing, but I do like how the company seems to have "humbleness and good engineering practices" as core values. Oh yeah, their delivery drone: imagine a normal delivery drone with a cable-deployed delivery pod with an engine and thrusters for precise delivery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU
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Late but lmao the raptor guy wants to make the Raptor 2 a VTOL
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He's an idiot and he's not even very good at SolidWorks. My students can build better models than the crap renderings he keeps posting.Nebakenezzer posted:So I didn't know the company that is using drones in Africa for medical deliveries is called Zipline This is lovely and the whole video made me smile. (except for the quick clips of Amazon drones, those made me  )
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Nebakenezzer posted:So I didn't know the company that is using drones in Africa for medical deliveries is called Zipline I've been sub'd to their almost-never-updated YouTube for about 5 years because they seem fantastic. They've been actually posting recently so Rober's timing seems like theyre setting up for a big funding round and if so, I wish them the best. Whats particularly smart beyond their technology is they seem good at getting local buy-in before operating. Here's an example of them operating in the USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blhj-ksPstQ
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Huh, just had Zipline in my LinkedIn DMs and wrote the pitch off as being a pipe dream. Didn’t realize they had something tangible.
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I read about them years ago when they were started. Didn't take it seriously. If (a sufficient proportion of) the statements in that video are true, that's simply amazing.
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Zipline is IIRC the only drone delivery company to actually have a sensible approach to business: they identified a situation (delivering medical supplies in undeveloped regions of Africa) where drone delivery was actually a solution to a problem, not just a solution that needed a problem. Dunno if they can expand that success to last mile delivery in metro areas but they probably have the best chance yet out of those who've tried. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-M98KLgaUU
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I guess they are the result of a kind of leapfrogging innovation - existing infrastructure does not support traditional means of accomplishing their goal, so they just skip ahead to whatever comes next. Similar to how many countries skipped the personal computer and credit/debit cards and simply started doing all their administration and personal finance through phones (including dumb phones).
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Lord Stimperor posted:I guess they are the result of a kind of leapfrogging innovation - existing infrastructure does not support traditional means of accomplishing their goal, so they just skip ahead to whatever comes next. Similar to how many countries skipped the personal computer and credit/debit cards and simply started doing all their administration and personal finance through phones (including dumb phones). You basically don't need it because you can use one of the gazilion vendors or send your own courier in a car if you need something delivered right now. Last-mile type of delivery that Amazon et al are trying to solve is pretty different since we want the drone to drop off the package on our doorstep.
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They get about 50 miles out of their conventional drones. I could see some use in say the smaller islands in puget sound and coastal areas like in Louisiana, the Carolina’s and so forth.
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Drones in rawanda is probably pretty easy because number of structures taller than the tree line is approaching 0, lawsuits from accidents is approaching zero, and regulation is approaching 0. If anything, amazon should have started in Rawanda and then moved to the US, not the other way around.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Zipline That's pretty drat impressive and I had no idea there was such a system already in active use. Still, I spent big parts of the video thinking that it'd be a much better solution to have the Rwandan hospital be better-supplied in the first place, so that it doesn't need all these tiny bespoke lifesaving blood deliveries.
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They have a launch/catch facility north of Charlotte and I keep meaning to drive by and set up shop to watch some of their ops. One of these days… Anyway, we flew into CUN the other day and I was mildly surprised to see a flying boat apparently decaying on the tarmac. I don’t suppose anyone could eyeball the model from the gmaps photo of it? (21.0334600, -86.8660919)
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Warbird posted:Anyway, we flew into CUN the other day and I was mildly surprised to see a flying boat apparently decaying on the tarmac. I don’t suppose anyone could eyeball the model from the gmaps photo of it? (21.0334600, -86.8660919) Looks like a Grumman Albatross to me.
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You can use the measure tool to get dimensions and I think it's a little too small to be that... Length c. 18m Wingspan c. 25m vs the Albatross Length 19.15m Wingspan 29.46m
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Cable Guy posted:You can use the measure tool to get dimensions and I think it's a little too small to be that... Eh, there's not many twin-engined radial engine amphibians it could be, and Mexico was a purchaser of the Albatross. I'm going to stick with my ID until someone comes up with better evidence than this.
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I think Albatross is correct, it even had a similar paint scheme as the Wikipedia picture does with the yellow pontoons and so on.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm sorry, all of these are hideous Yes
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Zipline is IIRC the only drone delivery company to actually have a sensible approach to business: they identified a situation (delivering medical supplies in undeveloped regions of Africa) where drone delivery was actually a solution to a problem, not just a solution that needed a problem. Also they sensibly used fixed-wing aircraft, which are vastly cooler and smarter than helicopter drones.
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Hadlock posted:Drones in rawanda is probably pretty easy because number of structures taller than the tree line is approaching 0, lawsuits from accidents is approaching zero, and regulation is approaching 0. If anything, amazon should have started in Rawanda and then moved to the US, not the other way around. To be fair they avoided lawsuits by actually giving a poo poo about safety and thinking about failure modes, rather than trying to make a perfect system. Powered Descent posted:Still, I spent big parts of the video thinking that it'd be a much better solution to have the Rwandan hospital be better-supplied in the first place, so that it doesn't need all these tiny bespoke lifesaving blood deliveries. IIRC one major part of the drone's utility is that Rwanda lacks good roads and reliable electricity so rural hospitals can have refrigeration units. I mean obviously both those things would be be good, but implementing them would be a couple orders of magnitude more expensive than drone delivery.
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Powered Descent posted:Still, I spent big parts of the video thinking that it'd be a much better solution to have the Rwandan hospital be better-supplied in the first place, so that it doesn't need all these tiny bespoke lifesaving blood deliveries. Sagebrush posted:Also they sensibly used fixed-wing aircraft, which are vastly cooler and smarter than helicopter drones.
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I would simply make the people immortal, so that they didn’t need hospitals.
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evil_bunnY posted:their new design is a multicopter (with asymetric props to abate noise). Still I'm not sure how viable this is going to be for regular urban deliveries in developed countries. The cost of one delivery might be relatively low but one drone can deliver one item to one location. You can stuff a hundred deliveries into a small van and have one guy deliver them.
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I can't imagine this would be used in an urban setting. I think more likely you'd see it too outer lying communities in Alaska, etc., where simply getting a truck through might be problematic or where it absolutely need an antibiotic or a specific drug given as soon as possible. It's a pretty narrow use case range for the tech, but it sounds like it would handle those cases quite well
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I think more likely you'd see it too outer lying communities in Alaska, etc., where simply getting a truck through might be problematic or where it absolutely need an antibiotic or a specific drug given as soon as possible. Drone-ditarod
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Full Collapse posted:Drone-ditarod 
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mobby_6kl posted:Just watched the video and the props are really the most interesting aspect. VTOL drones have been a thing before. Well the video says that they are trying to compete with delivery using those 100 ton tanks they use for delivering a single pizza in US suburbia. Which might become economical fairly quickly as gas prices rise. I don't think they can become efficient within cities where you get deliveries by bike, micro-truck, or even ground based drones. Actually my father currently has an unusual medication need, for medicine that the apothecary can't store. So he drops of the prescription and later that day a bicycle courier drops the meds of at his apartment. He doesn't have a garden where he could accept airdrop deliveries, and waiting even 15 minutes at the apothecary really isn't worth it compared to his current setup.
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