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monkeytennis posted:*cough* If people like this, then http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/ is an absolute goldmine of British cold-war era aircraft. As is most of the RAF Museum at Cosford 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Whilst we're here, is there a name for the blue used to paint cockpits? "Cockpit Blue" as a search doesn't seem to turn up much of use. Is there a real name for it, and what are the reasons behind its use? I figure it's easy on the eyes and reduces fatigue? meltie fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 16, 2010 |
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ab0z posted:That looks like it was built exclusively from things available at hobby lobby. Christ, it's real I think. http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/swisscopter_dragonfly.html
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InitialDave posted:Anyone spending significant time around me will get to hear some fairly impressive rants on this and similar subjects. It feels like we've got a strange knack of taking seven years to do the impossible, then sitting with our collective thumbs up our arses for the next four decades. There's a pint with your name on it some time.
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Delivery McGee posted:He wasn't kidding about them getting old. I forget the ridiculous number of hours he said were on that particular airframe, but it's a lot more than McDonnell Douglas intended. It's strange; I still think of the F/A-18 as being new 
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ApathyGifted posted:Mach 5 is the "limit" because around there the area ratios between intake and choking point start to get impractical. On top of that, your stagnation (ram) pressure is getting high enough that the drat flow just re-accelerates after the choking point instead of slowing down further. That's where SCRamjets come in. The SC stands for supersonic combustion, as in being able to set the fuel-air mix on fire while the flow is still supersonic past the ignitors. Crikey, you seem to know something. How do you keep the mix alight in a supersonic breeze?
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InitialDave posted:I'll put in a vote for the Harrier Jump Jet. How does one 'archive' an aircraft when it goes to a museum or storage? Drain out the hydraulics, take out the batteries... do what to the fuel tanks? How about the oil? Pack stuff with grease? Spray some kind of stabiliser into the intakes on the last run?
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Moot1234 posted:A Jaguar? Really?
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blambert posted:Currently spending the weekend down at my parents house, went past the local pub this afternoon and saw this in the field next to it. Hopped out of the car to have a look and next thing I knew I was sat in the pilots seat having any and every question I've ever had answered by the Pilot and Medic. Oh God oh God oh God. I almost joined up to try and fly these. Almost. drat.
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Minto Took posted:Video ruined by song. It was the perfect song for the videos!
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Manny posted:I've read this book recently and it's a great insight into the Black Buck raids and how close it was to being a real mess. And how they had to scrounge parts from junkyards and bodge solutions together to get enough operational airframes. (One such idea was that because the Victors had no defences, they'd fill the airbrake panels up with foil strips so when they popped the brakes, it dumped a load out as a make-shift single use chaff dispenser) IIRC They did much the same with the Harriers at the start of the Falklands war
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BonzoESC posted:It's not in tineye, but I'm guessing it's a 737 Classic based on the presence of the gear downlock viewer. Well, that's three hours of my evening gone already 
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The Locator posted:The most amazing R/C demo flight I've ever seen. Even though it's R/C, I figured everyone here might enjoy it. That's really, really skilled... but is it flight? 
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Shai-Hulud posted:Its just...wrong to let a blackbird rot. Yes, it's bloody awesome. The Concorde prototype is great too. Try to go on a day when the radio hams have their shed open; they're old nerds but they were fun to chat to for a few minutes. Then bed down somewhere and go to Bletchley the next day
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Dr JonboyG posted:You should probably steer clear of the Air and Space Museum in San Diego then. They have an A-12 outside the front that is looking sadder and sadder each year. The one on the Intrepid was in crap condition too. The cockpit was mildewed and the tyres had bleached white and dry-rotted
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s0nar posted:Of Balloons and Goons: A Sperg's Guide to Zeppelins I moused over that in the hope it was an Amazon preorder link 
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iyaayas01 posted:Since it also featured an Alphajet, and because this video should be posted in the thread at least once every 6 months: Bah. Wish i'd joined the RAF.
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This guy is bloody crackers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7ksfRVF70 Running a rescued RB211 from a TriStar. In his back garden. (without a FOD guard)
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Space Gopher posted:Wasn't one of the Euro ultra-budget carriers looking at strapping passengers into literal standing-room-only configurations? Either Easyjet or Ryanair, and they were probably doing it for column inches.
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Linedance posted:It is an industry accepted, universally and internationally understood word, and has been for nearly as long as there have been planes from which to deplane. I mean, hell, do you take issue with deicing too? When one deices, one removed the ice. When one deplanes, one removes... the plane?
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Ghost Farts posted:It's advertising for Berlin. Also, Germanwings just opened a new hub in Berlin-Schönefeld when they rolled out the plane. And Berlin-Schönefeld is supposed to be merged into the new international airport for Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburg International. But why does a DogBear advertise "Berlin"
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Does anyone remember that Airbus pilot that used to blog - he called aircraft Fifi, the Electric Jet. Who was it, and does he still post? edit: Ah, flightlevel390? meltie fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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e: I suspect that the CT and the CG simply won't be anywhere near in line if you point an Osprey's nose at the sky, unlike a "normal" heli-mode takeoff.
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Mortabis posted:Oh yeah, saw this flying out of LaGuardia yesterday: Everyone knows that in , "Trump" means "fart", right? Right?Just, y'know, checking...
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drunkill posted:example: Well I just spent a lazy sunday morning reading http://history.nasa.gov/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanual.pdf
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Wow, someone actually managed to make a 747 ugly 
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TheFluff posted:"Gustav 52" is still going strong - it's the only flying Viggen at the moment. Hang on, what? The Viggen is gorgeous - my favourite Airfix model from my youth. I can't believe it's not current
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monkeytennis posted:Is that where Iran got theirs from? Looks awfully familiar! I used to see the Guppies flying in to Manchester Airport (Ringway!) a lot in the 90s.
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Hadlock posted:View of the cockpit before it goes back up to the rafters for another 30 years I was there a day or two ago; how did you get that close?!
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Platystemon posted:Behold the world’s shortest commercial flight: Must be a bastard for building time
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Worthleast posted:Is only 3 hours worth it for Udvar-Hazy or am I going to regret it? It's worth it, so long as you're not taking the bus.
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slidebite posted:Absolutely worth it without question if you are slightly interested in aircraft and spacecraft. The shuttle alone is worth it let alone everything else. They have not. I went in late Nov when flying out of DC; the bus from the airport to UH just around the corner was unsignposted and difficult to find. Ridiculous.
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Hermsgervørden posted:Would having your super sonic transport break the sound barrier in a vertical climb mitigate the boom nuisance? It's not just passing the sound barrier that the nuisance noise is created, it is created continuously in mach+ flight.
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MrChips posted:My guess is that you saw a Sukhoi Su-30MKI - I mean, it's India's top front-line fighter aircraft, and the Indian Air Force C-17 only reinforces that.  Bloody hell that's low.
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I'm increasingly confused on which mid-body Boeings are meant for which roles - where do the 757 and 767 fit? I've only ever flown 737 and 777 here in euroland...
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Duke Chin posted:Singapore Air 777 cooked up one of its wings/engine pretty good this morning. Yeah, that's probably a write-off?
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slidebite posted:Holy loving bravo I heard that the E2 is constant-speed prop, so they just have to adjust blade angle to get instant max power only if they realise the wire has actually snapped.
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Fredrick posted:Alright, that's it, we need to get a Museum of Flight AI group visit going at some point. So many Seattle people in this thread! Mooecow posted:Speaking of Seattle, has anyone done the Boeing tour? I might be swinging up that way in September and am trying to figure out what is worth doing in addition to the museum of flight. I will also be visiting Seattle in mid-September to run around a park and eat cake. I'm planning on the factory tour and the museum at least 
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Groda posted:How would I find the accident report for the Heliostat crash? Helistat. (Heliostat is a sun-following device) http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001213X34293&key=1 - I found it linked from the Wikipedia page.
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