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azflyboy posted:I heard that Doc was grounded for crossing the "foul line" on Saturday, but RARA agreed to let Miss America fly Sunday, if someone else was the pilot. I heard a few different things that all looked plausible from my viewpoint. Crossing the show line was one, another was that he may have cut, IIRC, Pylon 6 so badly he actually cut the sport class pylon. The turn he did around pylon 7 lends credence to the latter story because it seemed like a lot more of a turn than anyone else on the course made and would have also set him up to cross the show line at the speed he was flying. It was a real shame, too, because I was hoping somebody would give Bardahl a real challenge.
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Advent Horizon posted:I heard a few different things that all looked plausible from my viewpoint. Crossing the show line was one, another was that he may have cut, IIRC, Pylon 6 so badly he actually cut the sport class pylon. He definitely cut two pylons, so that would have been in addition to crossing the show line and the high flying, since there was a lap where he was *way* closer to the crowd than I've seen in all the times I've been there.
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Been to the Malta Aviation Museum, which had a lot of good stuff (a small but well-formed museum). Happy to post more pics when I'm on a better Internet connection, but here's something that's both aviation and automotive:  A Pou de Ciel with a Citroen 2CV engine for power.
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looks at the bungee cords the front wings an stabilator canard, isn’t it?
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Ardeem posted:looks at the bungee cords the front wings an stabilator canard, isn’t it? Yeah, the Flying Fleas have exactly two control surfaces, both of which are all-moving: the entire front wing (pitch, sort of) and the rudder (yaw). The only way to influence roll is through yaw-roll coupling. Early Flea designs made without the benefit of wind tunnel testing had a nasty aerodynamic coffin corner: under some circumstances (including just setting up to land), attempting to pitch down would cause a runaway behavior where interactions between the front and rear wings kept pushing the nose further and further down. The pilot didn't have enough pitch authority to counter this, so that's it, you're gonna die, sorry.
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anyone remember this?
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This looks like a perpetual motion machine scam.
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I bet the F-35 in that configuration is burning fuel faster than it can take it on.
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Prediction: in the next 10 years there will be at least one crash caused by the refueling drogue getting sucked into the lift fan
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FuturePastNow posted:Prediction: in the next 10 years there will be at least one crash caused by the refueling drogue getting sucked into the lift fan I dunno, seems like a stunt. Ospreys have refuelled hornets, don't know why you would do it in a hover other than to show that you can. 
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Xakura posted:I dunno, seems like a stunt. Ospreys have refuelled hornets, don't know why you would do it in a hover other than to show that you can. When all you have is an Osprey, everything looks like a S/VTOL tasking
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This is just the Marines doing Marine things. VTOL EVERYTHING!
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The Osprey is really cool. It’s a real shame about literally every aspect of it.
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Sagebrush posted:I bet the F-35 in that configuration is burning fuel faster than it can take it on. At afterburner? You betcha. it's not a real pic
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Godholio posted:
Clearly it’s an RFP 
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Ospreys CAN refuel other aircraft, it's just not doing it in that photo. That's not where the drogue comes from, and obviously an F-35 isn't rocking afterburner in a semi-hover(?) mode at a couple thousand feet.
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full afterburner vtol would rule
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Cactus Ghost posted:full afterburner vtol would rule Just point it straight down, that'll get you off the ground real quick.
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EasilyConfused posted:Just point it straight down, that'll get you off the ground real quick. We call this maneuver the pugachev backflip
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A takeoff worthy of entry to STOVL’kor. Today is a good day to fly. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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wouldn't it be a front flip
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https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/canadian-air-force-investigating-inappropriate-and-unapproved-call-sign-broadcast-on-u-k-flight-1.6576905quote:The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is investigating an ‘inappropriate and unapproved’ call sign that was transmitted electronically from one of its aircraft on Monday.  What a lost opportunity for graphic flight path.
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that ought to make for some hilarious memos dick, often used as vulgar slang for the male genetalia, and the number 69, itself slang for a sex act in which two partners simultaneously perform oral sex on one another. this review board considers use of such vulgar slang in official correspondence detrimental to the image of the Royal Canadian Air Force
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Cactus Ghost posted:that ought to make for some hilarious memos This, but also in French.
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PhotoKirk posted:This, but also in French. Don't you mean the problem is that they failed to provide a French version?
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OddObserver posted:Don't you mean the problem is that they failed to provide a French version? Oui.
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bite soixante-neuf
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Cactus Ghost posted:bite soixante-neuf bon
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can't have a funny nickname lest the flight officer laugh while on radio and we accidentally bomb the wrong wedding.
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there's an addendum only in the french version noting that sixty-nine as slang for the aforementioned sex act entered the english language as a direct translation from french, who originated the term. (because they have more sex than anglophones)
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"We train young men to drop fire on people... but their commanders won't allow them to squawk 69 on their transponders because it's obscene!"
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Advent Horizon posted:A takeoff worthy of entry to STOVL’kor. This deserves recognizing.
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Advent Horizon posted:A takeoff worthy of entry to STOVL’kor. 
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Cactus Ghost posted:bite soixante-neuf Tres bien
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Don’t forget the literal nazi they had show up and applaud the other day.
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Warbird posted:Don’t forget the literal nazi they had show up and applaud the other day. Don't worry, I still remember the first part of a two picture meme by the time I get to the end.
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Oh gently caress me, I registered that as “Canadian gov ignores veteran needs” for whatever reason. Probs because the US gov happily does that all the time.
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