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Sagebrush posted:Also you know what the first sign of hypoxia is? That they teach you about in all the aviation textbooks? "In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony long covid symptom. But because, I am enlightened by my altitude."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It can't be overstated how nice the Military Aviation Museum is down in VA Beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Kuj6mXOgk Are those trees farther away than they look? Because they look like they're right alongside the runway.
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Sagebrush posted:According to Google Maps they're about 100 feet from the centerline, which is a nice wide runway for something the size of a Bf-109. 200 feet edge to edge is about the wingspan of a 787. So just a trick of the video's perspective then; it's not about to actually drag a wingtip through the branches. Thank you! 
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Presented without comment, fresh from the comic strip megathread, a Sunday newspaper strip from 1941.catlord posted:Dinky and Jenny Sunday Jan. 19, 1941 I put my own reaction in the other thread, but I'm curious what you actual pilots have to say about this.
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Sagebrush posted:It's correct about the effects. If you overload the plane you're gonna have a longer takeoff roll and much slower climb. Overload it too much, and you simply won't be able to produce enough lift to take off (or fly level, if you somehow added the weight in midair). Very cool, thank you for the technical details! My own response was more along the lines of: she was negligent for even attempting the overloaded flight, and she doesn't get to foist responsibility for that onto a passenger. This wasn't a mistaken estimate of the weight, she straight-up said it was so heavy the plane might not even be able to take off, but then she did it anyway. If they all die, it's her fault.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:but his excuse was that he couldn't read his compass because he was blinded by the setting sun, which he was flying directly into. As an amateur astronomer, I'm of the opinion that everyone, whether pilots or not, should be at least introduced to the habits of the Sun and the Moon. Maybe even the pole star, if there happens to be one in your usual hemisphere.
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Cojawfee posted:Somewhere a contractor is making GBS threads their pants after signing off on earthquake proof walls. hobbesmaster posted:Yeah but there’s a PE that put a stamp on that that is about to be thrown under a bus. I admit I'm no structural engineer, but it seems to me that a pressure wave from the sky and a seismic wave from the ground are completely different scenarios, and something built to withstand one wouldn't necessarily withstand the other.
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Salami Surgeon posted:I got one Flown by the Boeing® B-29 Superfortress®
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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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There's a Kitty Hawk pun somewhere in here just waiting to be made.
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slidebite posted:Just turn the M1 into a quadcopter Hovertanks! At last!
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mobby_6kl posted:What kind of cool call sign does that earn you? Weasel.
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Potato Salad posted:a non-TSO compliant ADS-B transponder costs $30 And how big and heavy is that transponder (and its power source)? Payloads for pico-balloons are measured in grams.  Image stolen from: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/
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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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Terrifying Effigies posted:They got a little more than a few inches Oh, a once-in-5000-year event, is it? Let's set the over-under at 10 years for another one of these, then. Who's betting which side of that?
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but if you tried to fly like this, the lift force would flex the wing ever so slightly upward, yes? Which would tend to "unbend" the bent strut just a little. Which would give more slack to all those straps and cords. Which would possibly loosen them just enough for the wood piece to slide right out.
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It might not be quite the loudest aircraft I've heard from home, but several summers ago I heard the deep throaty rumble of BIG piston engines approaching. I ran outside and looked up just in time to see a B-25 Mitchell fly right over me. (It was presumably flying home from Oshkosh but it seemed pretty low. Perhaps it was coming from a stop at the GA airport a few towns away, it was going about the right direction.) I love the sound of those old warbirds. 
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Crossposting this from the meme thread, of all places.Comstar posted:So the guy who designed the sounds you are about to hear, and probably prevented 20,000 people from getting killed, died this week.
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if you are watching this on an airplane. 
if you don't want to see something crashing into the ground.
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Freaquency posted:Is this better or worse than the bike seat concept from a couple of years ago? This one?  CNN posted:The catch? The seats are so far upright that they'll be pretty much standing up. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/standing-up-airplane-seat/index.html
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I can definitely see the appeal of a near-future road trip in a self-driving car instead of flying. You get to bring lots more stuff, you have your car with you at your destination, and nicest of all, you aren't crammed in sardine-style with a bunch of strangers at any point. Sure, a long trip would take a few days, but computer drivers don't get fatigued and you could keep moving almost 24 hours a day. And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a spaceship too. I have yet to hear of a self-driving system that I'd trust to take me across the street, let alone across a continent.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Yes? It’s a company called falcon environmental that employs falconers and falcons among other measures to mitigate birds around the airport, as most major airports do. The falcon wouldn’t be too helpful looking for a cat but falconers spend more time out in the airport landscaping than most others. Serious question: do the falconers have to get clearance from the tower for their birds to take off? It wouldn't do for the falcon to be sharing airspace too closely with an A320, after all, so there's got to be some coordination involved.
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mexecan posted:From a local YKA Facebook Group: Cool, this plane was in the movie Memphis Belle, portraying at least two different B-17s. https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/boeing-b-17f-flying-fortress
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Dr.Smasher posted:Frame that B-25 pic. Incredible. This. Also consider sending it along to the guys at CAF who fly Devil Dog. It might easily become one of their favorite photos ever of their bird.
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BalloonFish posted:
Now that's just begging for a tandem wing.
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gently caress. The closest I've ever been to an airshow accident was a bunch of years ago at Oshkosh when my Dad and I admired a beautiful P-51A with mint-green wings, and the next day (when we weren't there) it crashed while attempting a formation landing with another Mustang, killing the pilot. I'm not inlining any photos or video of the incident but they're easily google-able. (And horrible.)
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Vahakyla posted:Bear with me, I'll try to hit up the high points and maybe catch one or two people from here. And there are a few of us who have no idea about the various sims but are happily spectating the cool little alternate-history story. 
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Let me in the hangar. Now let me back out. Now let me back in.
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Straddling the line between "party decoration" and "airship", one of the best Halloween decorations I ever did was a bunch of dark gray helium balloons on a fishing line, at several times treetop height. At night, the balloons themselves were impossible to see, but about three-fourths of the way up the line was a glowstick with some strips of gauzy fabric around it. So there was a fuzzy, ghostly light hovering in the sky, gently bobbing and weaving. It was subtle, but strangely disconcerting, since it didn't look or move like anything else in the sky. Had a few people come by who'd seen it from over a mile away and were trying to figure out what the hell it was. And I'm even pretty sure it wasn't high enough to run afoul of any FAA regs. 
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Alaska Air has announced it's buying Hawaiian Airlines. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/03/business/alaska-airlines-to-acquire-tk/index.html I was going to make a joke about being in the same time zone but it turns out Alaska is an hour ahead. So... something something that freak snowstorm in Hawaii a few days ago?
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All things being equal, for an airplane to take off in the shortest distance, is it better for the runway to slope uphill (like a "ski jump" aircraft carrier) to give the plane an altitude boost, or to slope downhill (like the carrier Hōshō, or the runway at Narsarsuaq) to give the plane a speed boost?
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Everybody wants to pretend they're a Southwest pilot landing at Midway in a blizzard.
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I mean, it DID arrive at the destination airport, it just experienced a slight delay to the passengers reaching the gate.
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Speaking of doors, last night Saturday Night Live did what they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZf0bNDWH4s Someone who works at Alaska tells me that everyone there is torn between laughing their heads off at this, and worrying that SNL just did to them what they did to USAir 30 years ago.
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Cojawfee posted:What's really interesting is that they were still called U-boats. They were Unterseebooten and then became Überseebooten. Though I guess technically they were Ü-boats. Allied reporting name: Umlaut
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Stupid Mount Erebus, ruining aerovolcanism for everyone.
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Why are they on parallel courses with only a thousand foot altitude difference? I've heard of odd numbers (of thousands of feet) being for eastbound, and even numbers for west, or possibly vice-versa.
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EasilyConfused posted:GUMBY That one can fly into any book with his C-130 pal POKEY too.
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Safety Dance posted:If it's a biplane, you've got a spare. There was at least one piece of aeronautical lunacy that would do exactly that, by design: it was a biplane on takeoff, then once at altitude it would jettison the top wing, to reduce drag. (Apparently they tested it and it actually kind of worked, or at least it didn't kill them.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillson_Bi-mono Wikipedia posted:Test flights were made both as a monoplane and as a biplane, with the shorter upper wing being chosen.[4] In order to avoid the potential hazards to people on the ground of dropping the wing, wing jettisoning tests were carried out from Squires Gate Airport, Blackpool, with the upper wing being successfully dropped over the Irish Sea on 16 July 1941.[5] The test proved successful, with no great change in trim and a few hundred feet in altitude being lost when the upper wing was jettisoned.[9] 
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