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MrYenko posted:
No poo poo. Pretty neat little bird, if you want to spend your entire life explaining it’s not a 172. I’ve given up on getting annoyed at controllers calling my Stinson a Cessna. Some of them hear it properly, but most just assume Cessna.
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The Junkers Klf 255 seems dated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGKLygwEkI
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One of the guys in my neighborhood is rather insane. Here's his rocket powered gyrocoptor motorcycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdLsjjFa1aQ
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MisterOblivious posted:One of the guys in my neighborhood is rather insane. Here's his rocket powered gyrocoptor motorcycle Lol. These guys did a speedrun on Kriegsmarine helicopter development with a chair and a motorcycle. The cyclic is almost one-for-one taken from the first gyrocopter to have cyclic control. I'm glad he said that they aren't going to fly the bike, but it might work. Might not.
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Cable Guy posted:The Junkers Klf 255 seems dated... Oh that's good. I think Ryan from the BB New Jersey museum's tour of the museum ship USS Enterprise edges it out, but this is one of the best from this year's April Fools crop. The biggest giveaway was Ed doing a short video, he spent 5 hours on the Ki-84.
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Platystemon posted:Engine lost power, stopped, was restarted, stopped again multiple times. He had less than a hundred hours of experience. I read the article posted and  "The FAA later determined the cause of the engine failure was a fuel shortage, Fraser said. "
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https://i.imgur.com/TZxZmdC.mp4 No brrrr but otherwise good hogging
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God I love that impractical, ugly, and old as hell plane. The USAF should just go whole hog into weird COIN aircraft imo.
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Embrace the Air Tractor future, imo.
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Planes III - Dusty Gets Even
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MrYenko posted:Embrace the Combat Caravan future, imo.
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NASA is revealing the names of the four Artemis II astronauts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mua1Lysc_JQ They're taking their sweet time, too. 
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MrYenko posted:Embrace the Air Tractor future, imo. Air Tractors in air supremacy Revive the A-16 concept for contested airspace
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https://twitter.com/repbencline/status/1642928880959864842?s=46&t=TBi_iSImUmzjTxXAKsMEHw So what’s the EC-130 replacement going to look like?
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hobbesmaster posted:https://twitter.com/repbencline/status/1642928880959864842?s=46&t=TBi_iSImUmzjTxXAKsMEHw EAC-130, now with Schraege Musik.
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lordofthefishes posted:I read the article posted and Classic case of fuel contamination - there was too much air in his fuel.
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hobbesmaster posted:https://twitter.com/repbencline/status/1642928880959864842?s=46&t=TBi_iSImUmzjTxXAKsMEHw The EC-37 is a Gulfstream.
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karoshi posted:EAC-130, now with Schraege Musik. VLAAMRAM
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Oooh black betty:MrYenko posted:VLAAMRAM
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Godholio posted:The EC-37 is a Gulfstream. Oh, neat. Altitude alone means that platform makes way more sense than the EC-130. I’m guessing that was always an improvised Vietnam war decision like the AC-130? karoshi posted:EAC-130, now with Schraege Musik. Ah but you see the C-130 can only fly to about 26,000 ft which means that to hit a balloon at 70k feet you’d need something like a howitzer. Wait….
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hobbesmaster posted:Oh, neat. Altitude alone means that platform makes way more sense than the EC-130. I’m guessing that was always an improvised Vietnam war decision like the AC-130? I think it was informed by the Vietnam experience, but came afterwards. Most EW was in the form of self-protection jammers or dedicated tactical aircraft, like the Prowler. A C-130 gives you a lot more range and loiter, and power. Nowadays threats can reach a whole lot farther, so a C-130 is probably not the best platform anymore. The most surprising aspect of this is that the AF actually pursued a modern platform for a support capability, as the existing aircraft approached end of life. It almost seems like someone managed to plan this out AND get buy-in from leadership. It's rather stunning.
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So yesterday I found this: https://fearoflanding.com/history/arrow-air-flight-1285-icing-or-explosion/ Fear of Flying did a write-up on the Arrow Air crash, where they have the cause as "Overweight due to fuckery, and could have taken off safely with a long enough takeoff but that didn't happen." I mean, it fits the facts, sort of, until I noticed this: quote:But neither of them thought to mention this to the next flight crew, who took over the flight at Gander. In Cologne with a clean aircraft, a bit of extra weight may not have been a big deal and was easily dealt with by lifting off at a faster speed. But in Gander, with ice on the wing and not quite so much runway to play with, it could have caused the aircraft to lift off without being able to climb away safely. So, checking the original report which Fear of Flying helpfully posted: 1) the crew change happened at Cologne, there was no crew change at Gander. So the flight crew took off once, successfully, in the overweight condition. 2) The Cologne to Gander leg was ~4300 km, with the Gander-to-Lexington, KY leg being ~2700 km. Unless they loaded the same amount of fuel twice for some reason, the Gander takeoff would have had a significantly lighter fuel load? Also, assuming as everyone does that the load doesn't change post Cairo, they took off in warm weather with that load as well. I don't know if what a DC-8 can do in +20 C and sunny vs. -2 C in no winds is a unladen swallow debate, but the aircraft already made two takeoffs, one with the same fuel load and one with a heavily increased fuel load. 3) One of the few things the investigation did establish was that there was no ice on the wings; literally none. Precipitation was recorded as being trace freezing rain, which is defined as being less than 0.2mm. [Inches: less than a gnat's chuff] MrYenko posted:Anyone who needs a conspiracy theory to explain an Arrow Air crash has clearly never hung around Arrow’s ramp. Which is...really fair, actually
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Oh. Huh. I didn’t know that DJT got his 757 flying again last year.Nebakenezzer posted:Fear of Flying https://fearoflanding.com/misc/a-visit-to-blackpool-atc/ posted:Security is a priority at any large airfield these days and Blackpool was no exception. We ran our bags through the metal detector and were given badges to wear around our necks. I was rather amused to see that my badge identified me as representing Fear of Flying.
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Platystemon posted:Oh. Huh. I didn’t know that DJT got his 757 flying again last year. I'm sure there's some unpaid bill out there associated with getting it airworthy again.
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Nebakenezzer posted:3) One of the few things the investigation did establish was that there was no ice on the wings; literally none. Precipitation was recorded as being trace freezing rain, which is defined as being less than 0.2mm. [Inches: less than a gnat's chuff] Um... what? I don't agree at all that the investigation established there was no ice on the wings. There was little chance of direct evidence one way or the other, but as you said in the next sentence, precipitation during the time the plane was on the ground included "trace freezing rain". What does that kind of precip do? The following description of what that meant on the ground that day is included in the investigation's report: quote:The weather observer on duty at the time of the occurrence testified at the Board's public in- quiry that, in the several hours preceding the accident, he had made regular visits to both obser- vation sites to check on the icing indicators. He stated that, at his 0900 observation, he observed a small amount of freezing drizzle on the indicator at the roof observation site. He described it as small areas comprising 10 to 15 per cent of the surface area of the indicator. Also present, mixed in with the freezing drizzle, were snow grains which had adhered to the surface of the in- dicator. Together, the freezing drizzle and snow grains covered approximately 30 per cent of the indicator's surface. The result was a thin, rough layer resembling medium grit sandpaper which could be removed with a finger-nail. The indicator at the ground level observation site was sub- stantially the same. As a result of this observation, the precipitation on the 0900 surface obser- vation report was indicated as very light freezing drizzle and light snow grains. I bolded the really significant bit. Surface roughness can greatly influence the performance of a wing. Smooth surfaces help attach airflow to make lift, rough surfaces encourage detachment and less lift. Surface roughness in the wrong places plus a too-low rotation speed (because weight and balance calculations are off) is a recipe for inadequate climb performance; the majority opinion isn't ridiculous on its face.
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BobHoward posted:I bolded the really significant bit. Surface roughness can greatly influence the performance of a wing. Smooth surfaces help attach airflow to make lift, rough surfaces encourage detachment and less lift. Surface roughness in the wrong places plus a too-low rotation speed (because weight and balance calculations are off) is a recipe for inadequate climb performance; the majority opinion isn't ridiculous on its face. Uh, yeah, thanks, I understand what 'ice on the wings' means. Do you understand what less than 0.2 mm means?
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I don't think this was posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0U9llcuaXA Summary: 47 minutes dunking on McDonnell Douglas. (And Boeing).
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Does this count https://twitter.com/NASA_Landsat/status/1642954595377750027 Some more context here https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/check-out-these-images-of-a-satellite-in-orbit-taken-by-another-satellite
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Nebakenezzer posted:Do you understand what less than 0.2 mm means? It says right in the FAA textbooks that a film of ice on the wing the thickness and roughness of sandpaper can reduce available lift by like 30 percent.
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It’s a shame that the Mythbusters never tested “glue 80‑grit sandpaper to the wings of a plane”.
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Platystemon posted:It’s a shame that the Mythbusters never tested “glue 80‑grit sandpaper to the wings of a plane”. Early show could have done it but no way to work an explosion into that one so late MB would decline.
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Midjack posted:Early show could have done it but no way to work an explosion into that one so late MB would decline. Well, you could try it with an in-flight plane...
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