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Had to go to the local FBO Saturday night for a Rutgers charter when the 787 taxied by me on its way to the runway down here in FLL. What an awesome looking plane. The engines are gigantic. It left on a 6 hour test flight over to Texas and back. Very quiet on takeoff. One of the Continental guys told me it's down here for hot and humid testing.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Had to go to the local FBO Saturday night for a Rutgers charter when the 787 taxied by me on its way to the runway down here in FLL. What an awesome looking plane. The engines are gigantic. It left on a 6 hour test flight over to Texas and back. Very quiet on takeoff. One of the Continental guys told me it's down here for hot and humid testing.
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blugu64 posted:That and the cricket pitch in the last photo. Is that what you guys call it? I've tried for years to figure out that sport, but no amount of beer and foreigners explaining it to me has ever worked. Are- are you kidding? There's hockey.
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Sitting here at Newcastle airport (in Australia) and the RAAF are gearing up for an air show tomorrow and over the weekend. I wish i knew about this, i would've stayed here and taken tomorrow off! Williamstown AFB shares the runway and this is where we keep our F/A-18s, so I'm being treated to a pre-flight entertainment of low-pass formation flying  Wish I had my camera!
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Heid the Ball posted:Well, a grand day out at RAF Leuchars. Great weather, great displays. Haven't looked at the video, but from past experience I can assure AI that the Vulcan is absolutely deafening. Deafening in quadraphonic surround sound.
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Saga posted:Deafening in quadraphonic surround sound. Not my video, but yeah, sit at the far end of the runway for the best experience, your not going to mistake it for anything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqA6bgFPGWI
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Sep 16, 2010 17:18
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How's this for aeronautical insanity? The Piasecki Helistat  Bonus crash video http://wn.com/Piasecki_PA97_Helistat_Accident_Crash__helicopter_helium-blimp_hybrid_heavy-lift_aircraft
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cloudstrife2993 posted:How's this for aeronautical insanity? That honestly looks like a bunch of engineers got drunk and decided to start some welding spare helicopters and a scaffolding together to see what would happen. On the topic of crashes and helicopters Why you shouldn't try and fly a helicopter without an instructor or license. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI4d5AeAi7g Apparently Charlie didn't see the hanger there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkeqQY3t174 A turboprop P-51 taxis into a helicopter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFbD5NUcJnM&feature=related
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cloudstrife2993 posted:How's this for aeronautical insanity? This is the thing that this thread was made for. That was almost exactly what I expected to happen. What the hell were they thinking? How do you not fire that thing up on the ground before actually trying to fly it for the first time? Goddrat.
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according to the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_Heli-Stat) it actually had completed the flight and was taxiing back to the hanger when a minor movement of the undercarriage caused the whole jungle-gym of aluminum to resonate badly, and the pilot tried to minimize it by taking off. Obviously it didn't work...
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A couple of weeks ago I flew 550 miles north of the Arctic coast of Alaska to check out a US and Canadian Ice Breaker. Someone on the US ship took these amazing shots of us flying around. It was a rare and awesome opportunity, especially since I was sitting on the open cargo ramp....with a three star admiral.... who is second in charge of the US Coast Guard.        again Yes T56's are smokey bastards. Oh god we are contributing to global warming 
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azflyboy posted:The big advantage to ballistic parachute system is that the aircraft comes down almost vertically, and at a controlled rate. That reminds me of one specific piece of aeronautical (sorta...) insanity, John Stapp's deceleration tests. He didn't want to endanger anyone else's life so he used himself as a test subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4tuvOer_GI
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N183CS posted:
Global warming? Looks cold as crap up there. Come further south if you want to talk about things that piss Al Gore off...  Oil Sands!!! But Alberta is also very beautiful  Bonus sunset with G1000 reflection 
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cyberbug posted:That reminds me of one specific piece of aeronautical (sorta...) insanity, John Stapp's deceleration tests. He didn't want to endanger anyone else's life so he used himself as a test subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4tuvOer_GI Holy poo poo the deceleration videos are amazing. It looks like stop-motion.
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N183CS posted:Yes T56's are smokey bastards. I love watching them take off from Stewart. It looks like a B-17 in terms of oil output, both from the exhaust and on the fuselage.
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Anyone else here at the Reno Air Races? I've not been taking many pics, but I'll post any that look OK when I get back on Monday.
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Simkin posted:The Vulcan is great. I also didn't know the British were so cold blooded: Wiki posted:Only the pilot and co-pilot were provided with ejection seats; that the rear crew were not provided ejection seats led to considerable criticism.[17] There were several instances of the pilot and co-pilot ejecting in an emergency and the rear crew being killed because there was not time for them to bail out Also, went to the Canadian Bomber Command museum in Nanton, Alberta earlier this week. Surprisingly good for a little museum in the middle of nowhere. Plan on posting pics later. http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/ Their main attraction is a Lancaster that, while not flight worthy, does have healthy and live Merlins in it that they fire up on a regular basis. Also, the museum commissioned this artwork for the 65th anniversary of a fellow being awarded the Victoria cross. When I first saw it in person hanging in the museum, I thought it was a photo. I might have to buy one.
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N183CS posted:Yes T56's are smokey bastards. Oh god we are contributing to global warming The B-52s are worse, the smoke is so bad it can actually choke out the engines of any aircraft behind them
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Simkin posted:so maybe that's what those oil workers saw in the north sea back in the late 80's 
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CommieGIR posted:The B-52s are worse, the smoke is so bad it can actually choke out the engines of any aircraft behind them I was on a jet whose engine was snuffed out by a JSTARS.
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More aeronautical insanity! During the 1950's, both sides of the Cold War began worrying about the possibility of a sneak attack disabling their airfields, so experiments began on "zero length launch" systems for fighters. Initially, the idea was to shoot fighters off a track (actually a modified cruise missile launcher) using a booster rocket to get them up to flying speed, and then have them land gear-up on an 80X800ft inflatable mat at the end of the flight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6QmjAlHT8 The USAF conducted tests using an F-84 fired from a modified cruise missile launcher (and using the rocket from the missile as well), and although the takeoffs went surprisingly well, the inflatable mat idea didn't really work. The first mat landing resulted in the arresting hook of the aircraft tearing up the mat, damaged the aircraft beyond repair, and gave the text pilot severe back injuries. Although later landings went a bit better (the aircraft could at least be used again), the idea was judged to be unworkable and scrapped. Since the launch part of the system worked pretty well, the USAF expanded to shooting F-100's from trailers, strapping the aircraft to a rocket that produced 130,000lbs of thrust and took it from 0-275MPH in about four seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDstVGAmI74 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oImq1glnOds&feature=related Somewhat surprisingly, the launch system worked almost flawlessly, and aside from an incident where the booster failed to detach from the aircraft (requiring the pilot to eject), there were no major accidents. Although shooting fighters off of trailers was clearly possible, the logistical and security concerns (like fitting through tunnels or under bridges) posed by the setup, combined with the increasing effectiveness of cruise missiles and work on other short takeoff systems meant the idea was never put into service in either the US or USSR, which had conducted similar experiments.
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N183CS posted:A couple of weeks ago I flew 550 miles north of the Arctic coast of Alaska to check out a US and Canadian Ice Breaker. Someone on the US ship took these amazing shots of us flying around. It was a rare and awesome opportunity, especially since I was sitting on the open cargo ramp....with a three star admiral.... who is second in charge of the US Coast Guard. On the Basis of this video I think a few coast guard pilots have balls of steel similar to SR-71 drivers.
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Southwest and AirTran! WN is buying FL for aprox $1.37 billion. What does this mean for the 717's? Route structure? Business Class? Midwest connect? MKE hub? DL ATL hub? So many questions! I dont know what to do! AAI is up over 60% today! wow!
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A spot of aeronautical virtual insanity, the upcoming Storm of War: Battle of Britain. Click here for the full 1920x1080 image.  Click here for the full 1920x1080 image.  Click here for the full 1920x1080 image.  Click here for the full 1920x1080 image. My graphics card is crying blood.
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Ola posted:
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cloudstrife2993 posted:How's this for aeronautical insanity? Just a little bit short of computational horsepower required: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBsJwapanWI&feature=player_embedded
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galliumscan posted:Just a little bit short of computational horsepower required: These just get more and more terrifying. It's bad enough that one of them sounds like a swarm of flies all on its own. Then we found out they could flip themselves through a moving window like a goddamn flying Wallenda. Now they can gang up on you and pick you up by your head?
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So last week we had three helicopters flying around Stewart, but I couldn't get pictures of them. I can give a basic description though. Way bigger than a Blackhawk, olive drab, refuel boom on the nose, cargo door in the rear, and two "pods" of some kind running the length of the fuselage. Am I correct in assuming these were Marine Corps Super Stallions?
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gigButt posted:What does this mean for the 717's?  They will hopefully be less hideous in Southwest colors. 
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Ola posted:A spot of aeronautical virtual insanity, the upcoming Storm of War: Battle of Britain. Oh my God I need this. CFS3 is so dated.
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monkeytennis posted:Oh my God I need this. CFS3 is so dated. Get yourself a copy of Il-2, then. It's the best WWII flight sim out there. There's a thread about it in Games. SoW is the sort-of-sequel to Il-2...too bad it's never going to come out.  Oh and whatever you do, do NOT go to the official forums. You'll want to kill yourself when you see the level of sperg in that community. "That Bf-110-E-4 has the pitot tube from a Bf-110-E-5!  " is completely normal and accepted, but you also get this kind of poo poo:quote:i see a windmill in the bottom of that picture . will blade sped change with wind speed quote:there are animals in the field! quote:The overall interface, it looks too techie for a ww2 sim, loosing immersion. Probably if the background look more like a sheet of an old flight manual, or something like that, IMHO would look more immersive. And don't even get them started on DRM; I have never seen a group of games so dramatically in FAVOR of DRM in their game. Why? Because they have a collective fangirl crush on the developer, who posts on the forums, and they get completely infuriated by the idea of someone not paying their idol for his work. quote:Take your time guys, don't rush it. Do it right and make sure you implement some copy protection that guaraties you get paid for every copy. It's a gorgeous-looking game and I can't wait for it to come out, assuming it ever does, but christ the community sucks.
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Do they exhibit realistic herding behavior? just enough so that they travel in packs around the field and scatter realistically when you fly over
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From CNN: Iran unveils squadrons of flying boats http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/iran-unveils-squadrons-of-flying-boats/?hpt=Mid Really?  Yep. I think this fits as "Aeronautical Insanity" Quote: "The craft, dubbed the Bavar 2, is armed with a machine gun and carries surveillance cameras, according to a report from the Iranian Student News Agency." A machine gun? Good luck with that. "Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the few countries which managed to design, build and use flying boats in a short time," - You're kiddin'! No way! These things look like lovely home-built experimental ultralights. Quote: "bloggers poked fun at Iran’s so-called stealth technology, saying the flying boat looked like something anyone could buy in kit form from mechanical magazine ads." Yep! AnimalChin fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Sep 29, 2010 |
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We must close the flying boat gap!
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Well the important thing is that Iran's fearsome fleet of amphibious attack kites justifies at least 3 or 4 carrier battle groups.
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AnimalChin posted:From CNN: Cutting edge 1989 technology! 
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