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Godholio posted:We almost had a dog strike a few weeks ago. We rear-ended a goose once in a Cessna 210. At 12K.
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Nebakenezzer posted:On a similar note, I want to get this guy a forums account. That airplane is beautiful
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Suicide Watch posted:Obviously the solution to the 747 crash is RATO bottles. Fire those off and get enough airspeed to climb up and away. So you RATO up to a thousand feet and then bring bring the nose down to try and bring your loose cargo forward...at which point you get to see a 747 vomit MRAPs.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:India! http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/part-of-fuselage-of-air-india-dreamliner-falls-off-mid-air-29246.html The headline reads like the piece of fuselage landed safely.
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ursa_minor posted:Here's a little painting I did for my Dad and his buddies last night - He and his friends all own little Cessnas, Aroncas, Satabrias and whatnot, and they call themselves the Hundred Horse Air Force, so I thought it'd be funny to do a little series of their imagined exploits. I'm really just using it as something to learn on, I'm extremely new to digital painting. Very nice! It's Aeronca and Citabria (Airbatic backwards)
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The Ferret King posted:I never noticed that before. I've always wanted a Citabria and I soloed in a pre-war Chief so that post pushed all of my buttons!
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The Ferret King posted:Ever heard folks call them "Aeron-AH-Cas" out loud? Can't say that I ever did, no.
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hobbesmaster posted:I believe Su-34 flight crews have everyone beat on this one. tactlessbastard fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:They're already banned by most airlines. I come naturally equipped with two devices that keep the person in front of me from reclining, for that matter I can't even get the tray table horizontal. I don't see how the airline is going to ban my knees. Sounds stressful!
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Dead Reckoning posted:I want to see them try to get a swing-wing Hercules covered by the type certificate. Is a type certificate even a thing for military aircraft?
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slidebite posted:I know there was that rumor of buried Spitfires in Burma, but how cool would it be that in some forgotten corner of a depot somewhere there are crates of brand new Jugs (or whatever) next to crates of cosmoline slathered rifles. 
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quote:No one was injured, although the report found one passenger dropped his wheelie suitcase from the top of the emergency chute, What a horse's rear end.
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RandomPauI posted:Here are some of my unedited pics... Great stuff, thanks!
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warcake posted:I just flicked through some vids related to that crosswind one and came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P9OAng32F0 The IP who I soloed under operated off of a grass strip on the side of a hill next to a lake. You took off downhill and landed uphill. It was awesome.
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Why? In what way is that better than using a non modified vehicle? Why?
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MrYenko posted:Not enough. Economics are one of the main reasons they cite for going to paint with the new livery. Properly polishing aluminum is manpower-intensive, and a protective clearcoat to cut down on polishing just diminishes the weight advantage that you had from not painting it in the first place. Also, a lot of their new airplanes are or will have significantly more composites in them, which means they'd have to be painted anyway. Heh, manpower expensive didn't stop the Eight air force.
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Godholio posted:Pilot's remains located. My grandpa worked at Luke Field in Arizona during the war investigating student fighter pilot crashes. He said a lot of times the only thing left was the pelvis still buckled in. And sometimes they'd find the hands thrown clear at the edge of the debris field.
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drzrma posted:"Planes want to keep flying, helicopters desperately want to fall out of the air unless everything is going absolutely right." I just finished Red Eagles and it seems the MiG-23 must have had a little helicopter in him.
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Fredrick posted:Tetraptous, please never stop. That was great!
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Preoptopus posted:How would one go about checking a big rolling tool box full of tools onto an airplane and would it cost a fortune? Depends on whether or not the airplane says FedEx on the side.
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EvilJoven posted:You know how every time someone makes a car also be a boat it's a loving horrible idea because you end up with a kinda lovely car and a kinda lovely boat rolled up into one super expensive high maintenance turd? You get a kinda lovely airplane and a really lovely boat?
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ehnus posted:It's not like modifying aircraft for movies hasn't been done before, a number of T-6's/Harvards underwent a fair chunk of plastic surgery for Tora Tora Tora. I'd give up a testicle to fly a real Zero. What a beautiful plane. I think it, the FW 190, and the F-86 are the most beautiful machines ever built.
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J is for jackass!
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Piper Cub and an Aeronca Champ
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Jaguars! posted:more of an air to surface missile, generally
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vessbot posted:Water is 800 times denser than air, you have to move less of it to make an equivalent amount of thrust. I wonder how they keep from overspeeding their drivetrains on boats like that.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Yes! That was the main boom killer. 0552 felt like it had a claim to the throne. How were they breaking tankers?
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Ola posted:Unembeddable video of King Air landing with stuck nosegear, very nicely done. He couldn't move all of his pax and baggage to the back and try to save the engines and props? He never even tried much up elevator after landing. Maybe I'm biased since most of my hours are in taildraggers.
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two_beer_bishes posted:Turboprops don't just stop turning when you shut the engines down. There was no way to save the engines or the props. I'm not suggesting a dead stick landing. He's got a perfectly good airplane minus nose gear and he could easily approach with more power and the plane trimmed down on a long fast shallow approach and float it along a long runway of his choosing. If it's completely impossible to make a King Air want to stand on it tail by shifting internal weight, then so be it. As for pax safety what's the difference between plowing the nose in on rollout versus another method that might save the expensive parts of the plane at best and at worst winds up the same way? You could at least try.
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vessbot posted:You made a reference to "most of my hours." Are you a licensed pilot? Do you understand the adverse effects of an aft center of gravity (especially if it's outside the limit) on longitudinal stability and therefore safety? Yes. Yes. I land airplanes all the time either three on the ground all at once, or using the elevator to manipulate the craft and touch down on the mains and hold the tail off the ground until way below the speed that on takeoff that the tail would come up, for better visibility. If I can keep the tail off the ground below stall speed on rollout in an airplane that desperately wants to sit on its rear end, CG-wise, I don't think it's a particularly stupid hypothetical to wonder why a trike couldn't do the opposite. So far you've misread my original question and answered an irrelevant problem about turbines, and now you come back for another crack by acting like 'most of my hours' could mean anything other than as pilot. If it is flat impossible to make a King Air, which I freely admit to never flying, shift the CG behind the mains, then ok, what I wondered is irrelevant. Otherwise, i can't imagine what makes that curiosity so offensive that it can't be answered directly. Apologies, it wasn't you that brought up turbines. Sorry for the hostile tone. tactlessbastard fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Oct 20, 2016 |
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Nickelsack posted:who cares about saving the engines and props? That's what insurance is for. I mostly fly a personally restored from bare frame and crated engine 1939 Aeronca. You can't even realistically insure it enough to make up for all the time and love put in it. 
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vessbot posted:Here's some start cart insanity, not SR-71 related though. There was Project Constant Peg in the 70s, where the USAF tested (and did dissimilar air combat trainingwith) various Soviet fighters that they could get their hands on. In the beginning they used American start carts for them, which weren't powerful enough and they had to use 2 start carts on 1 plane at the same plane to start it. Well once they got their hands on some Russian start carts, things became a lot easier as they could start 2 planes with 1 start cart simultaneously. I don't remember if you were the one that recommended the book Red Eagles about Constant Peg but I checked it out and it was a very interesting read.
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Hexyflexy posted:I'm half thinking that the major thing they nicked was the flight control software, so they had to make it in a rough facsimile to allow that to be useful. It's the only reason I can think of to make it that shape, as you'd have to if you were using "borrowed" code, rather than going for something more like a Typhoon if you were doing it from scratch. quote:They added a dorsal hump to hold the computer... How far we've come since 1992!
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They better make sure the Air Force won't pull the same bullshit the Navy did and repossess them after they restore them.
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Can confirm the naval aviation museum is the tits. Even my wife liked it (it wasn't on our honeymoon, tho)
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As awesome as SSTs are, I feel like the internet and telepresence have made them obsolete more than airline economic forces.
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mlmp08 posted:The F-5 is just such a gorgeous little bastard. I read a fiction book written by a fighter pilot who had obviously been involved in testing for NG and they for reasons took a private squadron of F-20s over to the Arabian Peninsula and spanked all those big dumb F15s when war broke out between Saudia Arabia and Israel.
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